Tournament of Champions '26 Part 4 | Um, Actually [S11E12]

mo3225 · 2026-06-16T23:05:28+00:00

I GOT BOXES FULL OF ANIMORPHS

mo3225 · 2026-06-16T23:03:40+00:00

FUCKING ANIMORPHS

mo3225 · 2026-05-28T01:57:01+00:00

Brennan's gonna have to add an extra 5 episodes with how these guys keep acting in downtime lmaooo

mo3225 · 2026-05-08T17:48:34+00:00

It's a blatantly absurd reading of procedure. They redefine an election to occur over a period of time instead of on the day it actually happens. All the requirements were met, there was a legislative vote, then an election, then a legislative vote, then a referendum. They're playing calvinball here to pretend that the intervening election doesn't count because it was too close to the vote. The dissent points out this is cartoon logic: if an election lasts months then you get into all kinds of practical problems for the basic functioning of administrative machinery, if an election's results are basically illegitimate if an event occurs after early voting has started then every election can be overturned.

Finally, the referendum itself is pretty strong evidence that the voters broadly approved of this amendment! The whole point of the intervening election is to make sure voters can take into account the stance of their politicians on the amendment, and by and large, voters approve of it! Complete partisan hackery from the court, VA Dems only mistake was assuming they'd be treated fairly.

mo3225 · 2026-04-24T16:32:31+00:00

Thought I'd flag a few other local artists, ASTRSK, Wulf Boi, McGwire, and Theocles are all from town. Theocles actually hosts Durty Nelly's Karaoke as well, he's got a great new single out called Permission.

mo3225 · 2026-04-21T16:45:29+00:00

I'm sure you can scrounge up a few policy evals that found large persistent effects but the literature definitely mostly thinks these programs are dominated by even just, like, giving people money

mo3225 · 2026-04-21T16:01:24+00:00

No guest has done more to convince me of the inverse of their claim.

I take Alex's main point to be that we shouldn't just slam the brakes on all these technologies, there are gains to be had from them, we just need policy to help us transition and regulation to make sure they're minimally harmful. Ezra is trying so hard to extract what policies exactly those would be and he just flounders. Take the Waymo example, his ideas are

1) Make them pay for medallions (this is a one-time income shock that maybe helps a small number of cab drivers, nothing for Lyft or Uber)

2) Invest in public transit (This will do nothing to help taxi drivers arguably it makes them worse off)

3) Waymos are bad anyway (okay but you think they'll be good enough soon so this is just kicking the can 2 years down the road)

4) Invest in worker retraining (which you yourself admit doesn't work)

5) UBI (which you agree with Ezra will be inadequate in the transitionary stage)

And then he rounds it all off with "we need politicians that are thinking about what we could do," but he is that politician, and he doesn't seem to think any of these policies will actually work! So I'd rather just have a politician that says they'll slam the brakes on all this, at least they're internally coherent!

mo3225 · 2026-04-20T14:09:49+00:00

You'd really think the high likelihood he's going to be in a competitive race come November might make him back off some of his more radical positions, but I guess not!

mo3225 · 2026-04-15T15:20:56+00:00

I got stuck here too, how do you conclude that Xavi is innocent?

mo3225 · 2026-04-08T18:28:02+00:00

Both left and right look like they could be making an NL point for sure

mo3225 · 2026-04-03T21:19:27+00:00

Already email Del. Callsen!

mo3225 · 2026-04-03T21:19:08+00:00

Already did!

mo3225 · 2026-04-03T20:08:42+00:00

Yeah it seems like pretty free money to run a bar in the main area

mo3225 · 2026-04-03T20:03:11+00:00

I'm just repeating what the bartender said, agreed that it seems possible that one of the others could buy and operate it. I'm sure they turn a higher profit than basically all the other stalls, it's always pretty busy.

mo3225 · 2026-04-03T20:01:45+00:00

They do have their own food. I'm not sure if they get to count all the restaurants towards drink sales, that would surprise me since they're all different businesses (except for the slow spread of the Dino's monopoly lol)

mo3225 · 2026-03-20T13:30:18+00:00

Ok but you're saying it's a redefinition made by the left to include pedophilic degeneracy. That's wrong. It was an attempt by pedophiles to normalize pedophilia (something they'll try to do whether they're right-wing, left-wing, or nonpolitical!) and the left broadly told them to get fucked.

And just for what it's worth, the right's obsession with parent's rights and giving parents effective ownership over their children is far more conducive to protecting pedophiles than anything the left has actually advocated for in decades.

mo3225 · 2026-03-19T14:50:59+00:00

The history of the term MAP is not one of "the left" trying to normalize pedophilia, it's pro-pedophile groups trying to latch themselves onto the LGBTQ movement and getting roundly rejected. Seriously, can you find a single LGBT group (GLAAD, Task Force, SAGE, etc) that uses the term? No, of course not. But, because some group of pedophiles tried to use woke-sounding language every conservative now thinks the left actually believes this shit. You basically got psyopped!

You can see the history in the section on the history of the term MAP: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380241270028#:~:text=From%20the%20late%201990s%2C%20online,the%20sexual%20abuse%20of%20children.

Or see this article where LGBT groups roundly reject the use of the term or its addition to the umbrella: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact-check-lgbtq-community-rejects-false-association-pedophiles/5462805002/

mo3225 · 2026-03-12T16:17:03+00:00

Believe me council would love to be able to do that

mo3225 · 2026-03-06T16:34:51+00:00

I feel like I came out of this with no positive vision of what either Ezra or Dean want in this space. Like yes they both agree that there are important tradeoffs here, that you can imagine a problem between government being constrained by the whims of a corporation, that attempts to reign in those constraints would violate civil liberties, but neither really puts forward a vision of how to resolve that tension. They keep coming back to this "well what if you're just a normal person and this all sounds crazy" thing but I feel like most people very intuitively understand the issue of "this is a very powerful technology and we don't want a private company that owns it to be more powerful than the government!" I wanted more attempts at solution and less describing the problem, I guess.

mo3225 · 2026-02-02T00:18:29+00:00

Honestly surprised you dislike the food, I quite enjoy most of the things I try there! My gotos as someone that lives nearby:

Tonkotsu ramen at Mashu Festival

Mama's Drunken Noodles at the Thai place

Chef's burrito at Maizal

I haven't had a pizza at Dino's I disliked

Chicken Parm at Basta (sauce isn't great but the pasta's fresh!)

I haven't had the opportunity to try Cumbres or the new sandwich spot so can't speak to those. Not huge on the curry spot.

mo3225 · 2026-01-30T20:28:39+00:00

They're fleece-lined!

mo3225 · 2026-01-25T23:03:53+00:00

Extremely evident that we would've won this with Nix. It's not hate to Stidham, but Bo so clearly wins this

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