FrogFractions [he/him, comrade/them]

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Citations Needed is the most “intellectual” of them all. Like, it’s still closer to entertainment than academia and that’s absolutely fine because it’s a podcast and not a peer reviewed journal but to set expectations.

They do go into history and they platform excellent guests, usually authors and academics so the quality is there.

I don’t know about any specific episode recommendations but I really enjoyed their most recent episode (188) which gave a good perspective on how substandard products are presented as innovation, eg they explored this recent wave of “mental health apps” that are really just a symptom of the complete failure of the health system but are presented as “providing access”. They then relate this to child labor debates in the past, and to the subtle shift in language from the Dems from “universal healthcare” to the profoundly more capitalist and pro-market “access to healthcare” position.

I wouldn’t say it’s one of their best, in fact I find their quality bar is very consistent so it’s hard to pick a best for me since there is a consistently high quality. But it’s an example of how they wind together a dive into history with media analysis with politics - and this combination is what makes them unique and powerful.

After a quick scan of their episodes I would also highlight ep 154 which describes how the American progressive left get conned and bamboozled into supporting American exceptionalism, and how their critique of liberalism gets disarmed.

Every single street name in the UK is actually a euphemism for some kind of sex act

Poland redemption arc let’s gooooo

Hexbear is a fan club for three podcasts

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To add to the irony, Canada is actually the global center of the illegal organ trade.

It’s mostly Indians selling their organs to rich westerners in Canada so of course the narrative the west perpetuates is exactly the opposite of reality.

“10,000 miles from tip to tip”

How can the Waffen SS be antisemitic when Zelenskyy applauded them?

Literally just “but what if he wasn’t a Nazi?”

In China they have rules that aggressively favor owner-occupiers.

Eg if you want to buy a second property you need to pay 60% cash up front and can only borrow 40%, and for a third or subsequent property you can’t get a mortgage and need to pay cash.

This means being a speculator in existing housing stock isn’t attractive since it locks up so much capital - and so speculators have instead invested in new builds which is why there has been a bubble in construction, but at least it means for the existing housing stock is largely an owner-occupier market.

There are also special funds specifically for saving for a house, kind of similar to a 401k, that you can put your money into as a savings account and your employer has to match your contributions.

Any civilization advanced enough to travel the cosmos must surely be communist so I’m rooting for the aliens

The peak of the internet was Friendster, Geocities, MySpace, and the chat with a random stranger button on ICQ

Yea a sense of socially superior status plays a role you’re right

The innate desire of a programmer to make a process more efficient and the satisfaction a programmer gets from the community recognizing the quality of their solution is proof that communism will work.

We all acknowledge what the CIA did exactly 25 years ago was bad.

But thank god the force of freedom and democracy put a stop to that 25 years ago.

Modern activities are classified for 25 years but you can trust us we stopped doing that stuff 25 years ago.

I’m a 20 year programming veteran and let me assure you that NOT ONCE has my work experience been verified.

Just lie. Fuck it.

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the horrific coup in Chile, we must make clear that we regret our involvement and commit to supporting Chilean democracy

Apologize for the coup in Pakistan last week or fuck off

I bought a monkey and the pros told me I had to put my monkey on a usb stick to make it safe but I didn’t know how to do that so I just saved my money to my computer and turned my computer off but then I needed to keep using my computer for things I was really worried whenever I visited a website that the website would steal my monkey.

inherited experience seems more valid than no experience at all or knowledge procured from period literature allowed by the censors

Let me just clarify something

Are you asking if feels you have because of genetic ancestry count more than documentary evidence?

Because that’s fucking nuts. Bonko crazy.

Or perhaps by “inherited experience” you mean second hand anecdotes? You know that documentary evidence is legally admissible and hearsay is not and for a good reason right?

It’s because “my grandma once told me when I was young” is an atrociously unreliable source of evidence whereas contemporary records are a profoundly reliable source of evidence.

This person leaves, the company is still $20m better off.

The moral of this story is that when you discover a way to save your company $20m, you first contact a the boss of your boss’s boss and say “if I can save you $10m will you pay me $500k?”

If they say no, contact the competition.