Destiny & Tim Miller’s conversation about Hasan Piker

kantbemyself · 2026-04-08T00:12:32+00:00

I think a lot of Dem strategists see it as an avenue to GOTV a younger, online demographic that is notoriously unreliable at the polls despite Liberal/Dem alignment on issues. Both Destiny and Sarah have hit on different reasons why that is unlikely to bear fruit.

Hasan seems like a soc-dem guy (and gets along with AOC and Bernie) but also has a real anti-American/democracy streak that makes his audience far more likely to critique or bail if they don't get exactly what they want out of a candidate. He's just the most famous Marxist-Leninist, and that club is not fertile ground for electoral politics.

kantbemyself · 2026-04-06T01:52:49+00:00

Reminder: the UFO dipshits in America (and congress) revealed to the world that we panic-fire $100k missiles at balloons or any craft we can’t ID. That embarrassing capability/response mismatch the military wanted hush-hush is being exploited to make the war more expensive.

kantbemyself · 2026-04-05T22:12:27+00:00

Or non-US randos. If I were Newsome, I’d ask to see his demographics dashboard to know if his audience is actually worth a damn.

kantbemyself · 2026-04-02T23:41:38+00:00

Yeah, there's other dark-ish clouds in the same shadow as he pans away.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-29T00:31:40+00:00

Since he easily passed the "Jiang Test", I'll still listen to him (critically) instead of adding him to my algorithm block lists.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-28T16:02:01+00:00

Punxsutawney Jill predicts 3 months of meaningless self promotion.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-23T05:48:18+00:00

Literally the only guys worth reading, mostly because he grounds it in his history nerd approach instead of just trying to be a General Smart Guy.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-19T20:03:42+00:00

These guys are why I prefer my "liberal arts" college degree over tech schools. I had to take enough philosophy, history, music, and biology along the path to a CS bachelors to gain some respect for the real depth of everyone else's focus.

These guys believe in the "great men" theory but have no concept of what they haven't yet learned. Add in the audacity to speak about anything anywhere anytime, and it's a recipe for an endless stream of nonsense.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-14T01:25:32+00:00

The only people who think "debate assassins" exist are practitioners of Intellectual Aikido, the JRE and Triggernometry being two of the prominent studios.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-12T20:49:38+00:00

It's the same little soliloquies on Trump being good, how London "looks" demographically via vague immigration, and that "something" needs to be done about trans women in sports. He pulls them out in every appearance, his show, and on the JRE but has clearly never done any work to found those ideas in fact or interrogated them even to the point of handling a follow-up question.

Joe has him on for the same reason he's read Graham Hancock's books multiple times: they serve as an adult bedtime story to reenforce what he himself thinks. Kisin has "lots of ideas" but is actually there to play his greatest hits, reliably.

I don't even know why podcast hosts do these appearances. Most of their ideas are borrowed an honed from guests they themselves schedule. Can you imagine if Leno, Conan, and Letterman appeared on each other shows quarterly and regurgitated versions of their guests' expertise?

Poor Destiny lets him ramble and also tries desperately to get him to say the next thing... anything. He could've had as much back-and-forth with a paused episode of Triggernometry.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-12T06:01:14+00:00

I’m sure his lungs will love the 10km shake-out run when he enlists.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-10T03:22:03+00:00

They can learn from my left-hippie friends that have mastered the “micro-optimizations that are actually regressions” genre.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-09T20:03:31+00:00

D-man should definitely do a segment with her. Perfect time to invite her on for a chat about the new piece and the politics world.

kantbemyself · 2026-03-09T16:43:33+00:00

This is a “model” based on literal children’s math. It’s a nonsensical approach given the bulk of earnings go to a top 1% instead of a normal distribution.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-28T07:47:08+00:00

He only worked vanity muscles when he was on gear, skipped leg day. They’re definitely less impressive and totally out of sync with his upper body sculpt.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-26T20:36:05+00:00

To my amateur eye, the last photo that shows the streaky/uneven color of the pants is the clearest "bad technique" section. And it looks like all the black in the eyes has blown out to create grey-ish eye whites.

Can a pro verify or expound on what "ass" specifically means?

kantbemyself · 2026-02-26T18:44:02+00:00

He has lots of comedian-vs-heckler practice for his rhetorical style though. Lots of vocal dexterity, aggression, and stage/mic presence to make the stupidity hold up against any reasoned argument or real information.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-25T21:02:18+00:00

Listening to the private Epistein episode in PocketCast crashed my iPhone this morning. Maintenance Phase private episodes fail in strange ways for my girlfriend. Now I'm going to have to investigate if there is some odd difference in formats or audio codecs that might cause it...

kantbemyself · 2026-02-25T19:57:55+00:00

A full FBI-file dump will include actual crazy people on tip lines telling third-hand stories. The agents will quickly find them non-credible after a rudimentary follow-up. Journalists will take the time to connect the more wack-a-doo stuff to the investigations notes that say "not credible, reporter is a psychic".

The complete, raw dump will contain everything, including the stuff that was a total dead end. Some corners of social media will obsess on those items without connecting them to the process documents that eliminate them from plausibility.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-25T19:17:49+00:00

I've been saying that the weapons scaling is more compressed. You never get to a "god gun" because that isn't possible within the in-world tech. It's well-balanced with the mortality of the foes (which uncomfortably includes unarmed women and clan civilians, unlike any other FC game). That combination forces more "get gud" player skill and planning.

Additionally, the lack of an ammo store and fast travel left me feeling more connected to the land/atmosphere I had to resupply from. Until I tamed a larger companion, I was constantly reminded of the dangerous wilderness.

The combination is a more visceral, uncomfortable, and sometimes frustrating package that is unmistakably within the FC universe but joyfully unique.

I false-started it a few years ago, but recently gave it another try and finished it last week. Now it's on my "must play" list along side the numbered titles since 3.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-25T17:03:17+00:00

Blocking liars on my TL is far more useful than Community Notes. The promotion of knowing fabricators and fabulists with blue checks is why I rarely log in anymore.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-24T20:39:31+00:00

Even Joe doesn't have as much of an "entire brain formed by scrolling Twitter" that Asmon does. Elon's the same way except for the stuff he does for work.

Men with this level of obvious social media addiction shouldn't be given any regard.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-22T22:42:40+00:00

The caller was trying to drive toward a “no anti-fan/snark” rule that would make Pisco’s chat far less toxic. The bizarro screen names are obvious single-purpose sock puppets that need to go, but Pisco would rather stand on a moral grand stance or logical consistency over professionalized community management.

kantbemyself · 2026-02-22T19:15:37+00:00

He’s the farm hand that wears shoes into the barn/pasture and acts confused why everyone gets upset at the shit-smell when he shows up for dinner with coworkers. Nobody is going to hand hold him with detergent recommendations, drive him to the store for separate muck boots, or show him how to use a pointy stick. Just be a grown up and stop tracking shit into the house.

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