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kind of   maybe like  a wild  goose chase  that   people theorizing  what did  we   not

know is  made   of glitter  but   it’s made  of   glitter and  apparently   the the  sellers

and the  manufacturers   of this  product   cannot do  not   want the  public   to know

that it’s  made   out of  glitter   what is  it   what could  be   made out  of   gift that 

would be  good   to have  if   we had  people   like to  pull   all the  nudists   could

chime in  yeah

that would  be   that would  be   a great  to   get like  a   pull of  nudists   and what  they   think

is made  out   of glitter  that   isn’t glitter  uh   now so   again because  thematically   of our

conversation i’m  thinking   the 11  herbs   of spices  in kfc  is   just glitter 

maybe it  is   but so  the   thing that  they   don’t want  us   to know  is   litter

glitter obviously  doesn’t   look like  glitter   in its  finished   form otherwise  it   we’d know 

um so  people   are thinking  is   it is   it phones  is   it is  it   plastic well  the   cars are  sparkly

um i  wouldn’t   be surprised  if   glitter goes  into   the paint  that   goes on  to   cars to  make   them sparkly 

uh there’s  actually   a trend  in   cars right  now   where they’ve  taken   that shininess  out   and you  have   these

like almost  dull   colored cars  now   that i’ve  said   you probably  haven’t   even thought  about   it but  now

that i’ve  said it  you’re   going to  go   out in  the   street and  see   like these  cars   that go  by   that are 

not shiny   okay and  they   look they  don’t   look like  cars   they look  like   big toys  almost   it’s weird  because

it looks  not like  we   imagine a  car   to be   but i  could   see that  the   sheer volume  of   cars produced 

that could  be   the number  one   source of  usage   of glitter  i   don’t think  it   is because  gay   pride

there’s

well whatever  the   number one  buyer   is it’s  absolutely   top secret  yeah   like to  the   point where 

it would  cause   not distress  maybe   just controversy  if   it was  found   out that  glitter   was in  this   product

um so  cars   being glittery  itself   it’s it’s  not   too obvious  yeah   it’s too  easy   almost because  yeah

because that  because   it’s shiny  it makes  me   glittery because  the   question then  is   because my  logic   was

the glitter  it   makes it  shiny   or sparkly  but   then is  it   something that  is   sparkly that  they don’t  want

you to  think   about or  is   it something  that’s   not sparkly  and   they don’t  but   then what  is   glitter is 

just tiny  flakes   of plastic  right   when i  yeah   when i  looked   at it  there’s   yeah it’s  like   plastic um 

there’s a  there’s   a more  than   you’d imagine  complicated   price and  making   it but  essentially

yeah uh  but   because of  the   secrecy and  the   hush hush  of   it all  and   the way   that the  the   representative

was talking  about   it as  if   her life  would   be on  my   mind um   like it’s  a   government thing  like it’s 

there’s something  is   it in  food   is it   in drink  is   it in  something   that we  shouldn’t   that it  shouldn’t

be in  yeah   like my  like   my microplastics  kind   of thing  well   no because  that   was i  thought   okay like 

microplastics but  then   my first  thought   when you  said   it like  something   that shouldn’t  be   in there  was

the microplastics  the   little beads  that   should have  that   are in  toothpaste   that they  i   think it’s 

illegal now  and   it was  it   was like  to   scrub your  teeth   or make  it   feel like  it   was being  scrubbed   but it 

was just  little   bits of  plastic   and so  that   got into  kind   of it  was   just for  texture   um i’m  pretty

sure most  countries   have made  it   illegal to  put   it in  toothpaste   now pooth  taste

toothpaste toothpaste  toothpaste   now uh  but   which just  means   but that’s  not   glitter because  it’s   little

balls i  imagine   it’s a   similar kind  of   thing in  face   scrubs that  you   yeah yeah  yeah   so that  a   lot of  that

was microplastics  and   a lot   of them   were like   don’t you  don’t   need it  it   was just  to   make it  feel

like something  was   happening even  if   maybe nothing  was   happening but  it   was completely  unnecessary

and that  was   when microplastics  but   that i  think   most of  those   things were  made   illegal because  it

wasn’t doing  anything   in the  first   place anyways  no   okay but  that   wouldn’t be  because   depending on  when

this thing  you   read was  the   tick tock  it   was still  going   on last  part   it was  at   the latter  end   of

it last  year   so it’s  quite   recently quite  recently   sorry yeah  no   no yeah  yeah   that it   makes sense 

no i  have   no idea  we we  would   love glass  is it  the   the only  question   you need  is   is it   still glittery 

like is   glitter the  substance   and it’s  glittery   or is  it   just like  filler   and a  product   of something  else

does glitter  have   a second  purpose   other than  being   glittery yeah  and   our brains  are   now like  i’m   stuck

on it  has   to be  sparkly   something sparkly  sparkly   sparkly sparkly  there   are no  stars   in the  sky

flat earth  is   correct and  they   use glitter  to   simulate stars 

cracked it  open   it’s all  flatter   theory do  you   know flat  earthers   think australia  doesn’t   exist

that makes  you   think that  there   are no  flow   of this  in   australia well  okay   anyone who  says   they’re

from australia  is   an actor  is   the first  thing   so i   okay flat   earth is  already a  hard   thing to  justify

i don’t  understand   why they  would   make it  another   level more  complicated   by saying 

the continent  doesn’t   exist like  you’re   just why  are   you adding  that   extra element  of   difficulty to  your

conspiracy theory  so   if you  fly   to australia  you   fly up  in   the air  you   fly around  in   a circle  and you  land

somewhere like  hawaii   or texas  and   then that’s  just   not real  it’s   all actors  all the  animals   are fake 

and it’s  just   australia isn’t  real   but i’m  like the  level of  complication   you’ve made  in   your conspiracy 

theory is  insane   yeah it’s  not   something easy  do   they think  the   same with  is   that with  new   zealand

yeah i  why   i’m assuming  australia   it was  very   the thing  i   read was  very   specifically about  australia

was about  australia   does not  exist   and the  and   the justifications  that   came up  like   well i’ve  been   to

australia no  you flew  to   texas and  all   those were  actors   but i  don’t   understand why  you   can but  you

can go  on   the coast  of   australia and  you   can see  that   it’s not  the   same as  any   american coast  yeah   it’s

the same  it’s the  coast   of texas   it’s that’s  i   think texas  is   landlocked actually  my   my my   sister

lives in  australia   well she  doesn’t   though she  doesn’t   she lives  in   texas yeah  lying   so and  so

yeah immigrants  actually   i didn’t  think   about the  element   like people  have   immigrated to  australia

and they’re  just   surrounded by  actors   again it’s  too   much to  keep   up it’s  not   worth keeping  up

or do  they   just become   an actor  just   get hired  you   said it  was   your sister  yeah   you should  be   asking some 

hard questions  i   i certainly  shall   next time  i   see her  if   i see  her   again if  you see  her   again

like um  we   in we   the british  uh   sent a  lot   of our  criminals   to australia  or   texas um  before   it was  texas

in in  in   the history  of   britain so  um i  wonder   if the  flat   earthers link  that   period of  british   history to 

their theory  of   flat earth  it   would be  interesting   to see  like   do they  believe   like okay  so   how do   you

explain away  the   history of  australia   because australia  yeah   so the  british   sent their  the

convicts it  was   a penal  colony   uh there  were   aboriginals there  there   has the  like   they participated 

in world  war   ii i   don’t know  about   world war  one   but i  know   they had  a   big part  in   world war  ii

they had  that   war against  emus   emus yeah  they   lost so  yeah   there’s the  war   against the  australian

military and  the   emus and  very   technically they  lost   that war  because   there were  too   many emus  and

they were  like   coming in  and   destroying crops  they   called out  the   military and  they   couldn’t shoot  them

fast enough  i   would have  to   read up  on   this but  i   know there’s  been   a war  between   australia and 

emus and  australia   did not  win that  war   crikey yeah  i   know that  that’ll   be a  topic   next time  i’ll

write that  down   and see  if   i can  find   the the  words   emus i   thought you  were   just being  silly

no no   no everything  i   say is   factually accurate  um um  there’s   a speaking  of   history and  its   integrity or 

factuality uh  that   i read  something   really recently  coming   back to  me   there’s a  maybe   a pretty  sizable

group of  people   that think  that   about 300  years   worth of  history   probably maybe  european   english history 

is kind   of fabricated  or   um which  one   did it  say   maybe i  can’t   remember if  it   was made  up   or just  lost

because let  me   try and  fill   in the  blanks   okay yeah  it   was saying  something   like um  the   way we  recorded

history all  those   hundreds of  years ago  was   inaccurate and  there   was lots   of um  there   were times  when

history wasn’t  recorded   in the  same   manner as  it   had been  previously   or so   there were  lots   of kind  of

okay this  history   that we  recorded   in this   way is  up   to here  and   then it  gets   a bit  shaky   here and 

it’s just  they   kind of  squash   it down  and   pretend it  didn’t   exist or  there’s a  theory   that we’ve  lost

about 300  years   worth of  history   i mean  recording   history has  got   to be  like   how many  times   were

people just  like   oh yeah  you   know a  war   happened and  i   just didn’t  write   it down  like   and you’re  talking

like maybe  millions   of people  or   thousands of  people   and they’re  just   like yeah  but   i wasn’t  there   i

missed it  i   heard about  it   didn’t seem  that   big a  deal   like all  that that  was   huge there  must   be so   much

that we’ve  lost   knowledge of   i don’t   know why  okay   so i  watched   an episode  my   friend and  i   are

re -watching  um   star trek  enterprise   which is  one   of the  worst   star trek  shows   okay they  go to  a   planet

this is   supposed to  be   very early  in the  the star  trek days  they   go to  a   planet and  they   find humans 

and this  is   really shocking  because   humans hadn’t  traveled   out that  far   yet and  it’s   a pocket  of   600 humans 

uh that  had   been picked  up by  aliens   and they  were   going to  be   used as   slaves and  then   rebelled and 

killed their  captors   and so  this   is all  like a  commentary   on racism  and   stuff but  not   very well  done

but they  did a  very   classic star  trek   thing where  the   town was  1860s   western style  so   everyone’s got  like

cowboy hats  and   and pistols  and   stuff and   they’re all  walking   around and  they’re   using like  that   style of 

talking and  the   thing is  they’re   supposed to  have   been there  for   hundreds of  years   maybe 600  years

and i  was   like so  in   600 years  these   people have  not   evolved at  all   like their  language   hasn’t

changed they  haven’t   discovered anything  they   haven’t improved  they’re   still using   six shooters 

they’re still  talking   did these  aliens   pick up  the   600 dumbest  people   on the  planet

did they  do   something to  them   they could  have   done something  oh   they could  have   done something  to   them

but they  were   smart enough  to   like beat  off   aliens in  in   the not  one   way not  the   other i   mean maybe 

catch them  off   guard oh  we’re   ready for  that   yeah maybe  that’s   why they  were   taking his  slaves   so they 

could beat  them   off but  they   but i  was   like this  is a  problem   with science  fiction   writing

is that  they   they’re like  okay   we want  to   take we  want   to have  a   wild west  town   where they’re  oppressing

aliens so  we’ve   transferred that  but   they didn’t  take   into account  okay we  they’ve   been there  for

hundreds of  years   why have  they   not evolved  at   all like  in   any way   like they’re  still   using the  exact

same technology  they   haven’t discovered  the   internal combustion  engine   they haven’t  i’m   just like

like come  on   man like  they   would have  done   something even  something   that was  kind of  hybrid

of the  technology   they came  with   or knew  about   plus the  alien   stuff yes  a   hundred percent  the   only way  i

could make  it   work which  they   didn’t do  in   the show  is   if you  make   it a   religious thing  that   they can’t 

use the  technology   like um  amish   people like  okay   we’re we’re  doing   away with  technology   because the 

aliens did  this   and it’s  now   part of  our   religion that  we teach  children   that could  work   but they 

did kind  of   yours like  i’ve   already put  more   thought into  this   episode of  tv   than the  people   who wrote  it

um could  maybe   anything anything  we   come up  with   is obviously  if   it wasn’t  written   in the  show   we

have to  assume   that it’s  not   part of  the   episodes can  be   canon yeah  yeah   i was  going   to say  something

like it  maybe   um the  material   used in  the   alien stuff  is   toxic to  them   so they  can’t   even interact 

with it  i’d   be okay  with   that like  again   you could  you   could make  a   lot you  could   take five  minutes

and figure  out   why have  they   not evolved  let’s   explain it  away   in a   couple sentences  like   it doesn’t  have to  be

the premise  of   the episode  the   episode was  about   uh these  settlers   oppressing the  aliens   and then 

it had  been   a couple  hundred   years so  the   people who’d  grown up  even   the aliens  like   they weren’t 

the ones  who   oppressed you  so   why are  you   oppressing them  back   that kind  of stuff  right   but again  very

poorly done   in tables  and   then they  just left  oh   the people  on   the star  trek   people the  star   trek

people they’re  just   like well  we   kind of  helped   for a   couple minutes  we’ve   really interfered  with

the society  uh   let’s go  how   did they  leave   the situation  with   the aliens  and   uh they  had   basically

i i  watched   this a  little   while ago  they   had helped  there   was like  schools   were illegal  for   alien kids 

and they  were   like no  you’re   not going  to   do that   anymore and  they   killed a  couple   people

oh and  then   kind of  moved   on it  was   it was  very   bad there’s  a   reason that  show   didn’t

it was  right   i love  the   idea of  this   story though  this   is a  very   interesting plot  to   have obviously 

they didn’t  think   much about  it   i’m okay  with   like okay  we’ve   taken people  from   the wild  west   we’ve put 

them on  another   planet but  they’re   not just  going   to stay  in   the wild  west   that was   the only  that   was

the bit  my   sticking point  i   was like  once   you have  a   hundred years  or   two hundred  years   something

changes you  would   have some  guy   who invents  something   or they  live   on another  planet   so maybe  they   have to 

evolve to  do   things   differently yeah  they   have to  interact   with their  environment   differently   there’s

different   animals monsters  whatever   none of  that   they’re just  like   no still  in   the wild  west   for the 

next 500  years   like the  wild   west in  america   only lasted  for   about 50  years

um did  the   a wait  the   aliens took  the   humans but  they   must have  taken   technology and  artifacts   from

that time  as   well well  no   again so  i   think i  think   the implication  is   the aliens  took   just a  group   of

humans from  the   wild west  because   they would  be   easy to  pick   up flew  them   to another  planet   and then 

the the  there   was an  uprising   and they  killed   the aliens  or   most of  them   and then  just   built the  wild

west again  because   that’s what  they   knew but  again   that would  have   been a  couple   generations   previous so 

yeah   architecture   would change  like   oh you  know   what these  stupid   saloon doors  that   don’t close  i

don’t really  like   those let’s  get   rid of  those   like yeah  uh   you know  cowboy   hats are  really   hard to 

make on  this   alien planet  i   think maybe  we   should make  a   different kind  of   hat do  you   need a  cowboy   hat

with the  environment   anyway they  did   make it  again   it’s really  annoying   it was  like   a dusty  village

very wild  westy   okay yeah  i’m   trying to  like   i watch  a   lot of  science   fiction and  stuff   so i  get   really

into it  but   then it’s  if   i stop  and   think about  it   i’m like  i   immediately get  angry   because they 

clearly didn’t  think   about some  aspects   of it  saying   that all  the   ideas that  we’ve   thrown around  here

will probably  enrich   the story  of   that episode  a   bit more  wouldn’t   it but  even   my bit  like   okay change 

a couple  things   in the  in   the town  have   them explain  what   you know  this   came about  because

of this  okay   so they  have   evolved they  have   changed but  it’s   like nah  star   trek is  so   like low  level

they just  like   no a  to   b b  stays   exactly the  same   like nah  man   that’s not  how   that works 

that’s   frustrating did  you   do you  have   any things  that   bug you  about   the alien  series

oh my  gosh   oh my  gosh   movies so  the   first alien  movie   is really  really   good

it pisses  me   off how  big   the alien  gets   how quickly  it   gets so  big   so it  starts   out as  the   face hugger 

it implants  an   egg the  egg   comes out  as   a worm  uh   it turns  into   the alien  about   seven feet  tall   20 minutes 

later like  yeah   the only  thing   it should  do   is if  like   i’m okay  with   something growing  super   fast

because it’s  an   alien thing  and   we don’t  understand   its physiology  it   should eat  a   ton of  food   to get 

that big  that   quickly though  it   eats a  person   maybe two  people   and that  then   it’s like  eight   feet tall 

but they’re  kind   of biologically  engineered   so which  is   which is  revealed   in later  movies   sorry spoilers 

oh we’re  going   to be  spoiling   this movie  from   1978 yeah  they   fill in  a   lot of  those   details in 

other movies  after   where you  find   out the  origins   of the  aliens   and stuff  so   and they’re  made

they’re made  they’re   made by  the   the architects  yeah   that’s right  trying   to clean  off   a planet  before

they like  seed   it for  life   now wait  yep   prometheus the  the   architects yes  they   they destroy  the   alien aliens 

so in  in   prometheus it’s  black   goo yeah  that   black goo  becomes   an alien  -esque   thing but  the   the whole 

point is  it’s   supposed to  basically   kill everything  and   then they  can   start a  new   planet yeah  but   the

aliens that  that   are seen  in   the very  first   movie that  form   of alien  that’s   like the  the   details are 

tweaked by  the   the android  guy   aren’t they  is   it david  so   in prometheus  no   so in  prometheus   it’s tweaked 

by the  android   because he’s  trying   to like  communicate   or commune  with   it in  the   first one  we   don’t know  how

many evolutions  this   alien has  gone   through so  the   alien takes  on   attributes of  its   host so  the   alien

in the  movie   alien walks  upright   because it  was   in a  human   in the  third   movie there’s  an   alien that  runs

on all  fours   because it  was   in a  cow   so that  the   bull alien  so   we don’t  know   how many  things   it’s gone 

through to  get   to this  evolution   that it’s  at   now which  is   good because  then   again that  maintains   like okay 

a lot   of weird  stuff   is happening  that’s   why it  has   two mouths  we   don’t know  why   it has  that

serves no  purpose   as far  as   we can  see   but the  only   thing the  only   thing that  bugs   me about  the   first

movie is  it   should take  a   lot of  energy   to grow  that   big so  i   feel like  you   should have  to   eat four  or   five

people to  be   able to  grow   that fast  i   don’t think  i   would like  it   eating to  get   energy because 

that in  that   if it  if   that was  the   case it  would   feel a  little   more familiar  to   something i  understand

yeah and  i   don’t want  to   understand the  aliens   however i  do   think that  the   the speed  in   which it  does

grow is  ridiculous   because when  i   think i  watched   the movies  first   when i  was   really young  so   i don’t 

actually   remember how  quickly   it was  i   assumed that  it   was over  a   few weeks  it   was just  running   around in  the   ship no  that’s   how i  remember   it when  i   watched it  recently   i realized  it   was in  the   same day 

yeah but  um   in my  memory   having this  alien   kind of  not   knowing where  it   is for  at   least days  that’s   a

better movie  yeah   yeah because  the   knowing it’s  on   the ship  and   then like  i   got if  i   was gonna  rewrite

one part  of   it it  would   be like  yes   that takes  a   couple weeks  or   months and  then   a couple  people   disappear

all the  food   disappears like  he   eats all  the   food stores  so   then the  people   now don’t  have   enough food 

like you  could   actually create  more   tension with  like   oh shit  all   our food’s  gone   like it  ate   all our  food

and now  it’s   eating us  and   it’s just  trying   to eat  as   much as  possible   the other  thing   is the  alien   in the  first   movie is  smart   in every  subsequent   movie the  alien   itself gets  dumber   and that  really   bugs me 

because as  soon   as they  introduce   the queen  so   the second  movie   is an  action   movie and  it’s   hundreds of  aliens   and they  just   act like  ants

and they  explain   that away  like   the queen  is   kind of  controlling   them but  they’re   dumb like  they’re   just dumb 

maybe she’s  a   dumb queen  this   well because  they   they have  the   robotic machine  guns

and the  way   they solve  that   problem is  just   have so  many   aliens run  towards   it it  runs   out of  bullets

but i  was   like the  first   alien would  have   like oh  i’m   gonna crawl  around   behind it  and   smash it  and   turn

it off  like   it would  yeah   figure that  out   so you  have   a few  die   and then  have   it stop  but   they were  just

like oh   no they’re  just   gonna throw  it   until they  all   run out  of   bullets which  was   just it  was   a cool  scene

it didn’t  match   with how  smart   the first  alien   was i’d  always   take a  creepy   scene over  an   action scene 

they’re that  much   more   entertaining yeah  yeah   tension is  good   yeah i  agree   with that  maybe   um while 

a group  of   aliens together  are   acting as  kind   of a  hive   mind or  just   following   orders from  a   from a  queen

maybe maybe  being   isolated um  activates   a more  a   survival instinct  survival   or smarter  way   of thinking 

because in  the   third movie  maybe   the fourth  movie   they have  aliens   in a  pod   that the  humans   are

experimenting with  the   two aliens  attack   a third  alien   so that  it   will bleed  on   the floor  so   they

can get  out   yeah yeah  that   was good  i   remember that’s  intelligence   though and  that’s   the bit  that

pissed me  off   because i’m  like   why they’re  smart   when they  need   to be  smart   and then  super   dumb

when they  need   to be  dumb   and i  that   i can’t  get   over that  because   you just  have   to decide  is   it

smart or  not   smart i’m  okay   with either  because   big zombies  are   dumb they  just   lumber forward  they   can

be scary  but   if i  think   aliens being  smart   is more  scary   definitely more  scary   maybe they’re  treating   like

humans not  all   humans are  smart   yeah volume  again   i don’t  know   yeah because  then   you get  into   alien

predator versus  so   this is  the   problem how  far   do you  want   to go  because   in the  alien   versus

predator movies  the   aliens are  just   dumb as  bricks   they’re just  animals   i don’t  like   the

the crossfire  predators   no they  were   not they  were   not good  um   the those  movies   were pretty  poor

yeah because  they   obviously   hadn’t been  thought   about again  and   they didn’t  take   any time  to   be like 

how do  we   come like  okay   so these  aliens   are coming  down   they’re going  to   attack   something town  village

whenever uh  the   predators are  going   to come  they’re   doing cleanup  i’m   like logically  that   makes

sense but  then   why are  the   aliens so  dumb   is it  i   could believe  that   the aliens  were   dumber in  this

movie franchise  movies   because isn’t  it   where the  the   predators create  some   kind of  repeated   ritual

where it’s  like   a blood  spot   for them  they   get human  sacrifices   to create  the   opportunity for  them   to

kill a  bunch   of things  maybe   that is  that   is like  a   coming of  age   ceremony so  the   predators in 

alien versus  predator   2 there’s  like   three or  four   of them  and   they get  wiped   out pretty  quick

by the  aliens   but it’s  because   they’re   supposed to  be   like teenagers  they   don’t explain  that   very well 

no they’re  supposed   to be  like   this is  essentially   like a  coming   of age  ritual   ceremony and  they’re

supposed to  go   in there  and   do their  first   hunt under  controlled   circumstances yeah  but   yeah pretty  garbage

right so  that   we should  find   a movie  and   watch it  and   discuss the  movie   that actually  would   be not  a

bad thing  i   watched him  with   jason statham  movie   it was  really   really poor  i   can’t remember  the   name

even um  but   there was  one   scene and  i   can’t imagine  how   it was  directed   because it  was   him and  the   bad

guy across  from   him and  they’re   running out  of   ways for  jason   statham to  be   tough so  the   guy was  eating

his breakfast  he   had pancakes  and   coffee and  then   jason statham  picks   up syrup  and   he he  goes   and i  i

imagine the  direction   in the  script   was   aggressively   pours the  syrup   on the  pancakes

because he  just   poured way  too   much syrup  on   the other  guy’s   pancakes and  i’m   like

that was  not   intimidating at  all   like yeah 

sometimes   things don’t  need   to be  intimidating   they were  trying   to i  mean   in this  situation

have a  conversation   say some  tough   stuff get  up   and walk  away   fine you  don’t   need to  ruin   the other 

guy’s breakfast  yeah   that’s not  going   to do  you   any good  at   all it  seems   a bit 

yeah no  it   just it  ruined   and like  there   was a  little   bit of  tension   and then  i   was like  when

he aggressively  poured   syrup i  was   like no  you   kind of  really   did this  there   it’s like  the   difference

between just  being   a big  tough   guy or  trying   to make  someone   see you  as   a big  tough   guy well  i

so being  having   spent my  whole   life doing  judo   and stuff  like   i know  really   really tough  dudes

and i  know   the people  who   are trying  to   be really  tough   dudes the  really   really tough  dudes   super calm 

super gentle  and   never lose  their   shit and  i’m   like because  they   know they  don’t   have to  prove   it

they know  that   they’re like  any   situation i’ve  seen   them in  they   were like  super   chill i  was   in a 

bar with  this   guy he  was   just like  super   super high  level   he was  just   like incredible  guy   came over 

tried to  pick   a fight  with   him because  it   was the  other   biggest guy  in   the bar  and   he just  looked

at me  he’s   like dude  whatever   man like  he   just no  hint   that he  was   intimidated at  all   because

he and  i   was like  that’s   actually the  calm   relaxed guy  is   the scariest  guy   because he  knows   he’s fine 

yeah they’re  in   control yeah  everything   else just  seems   really   performative and 

the average  person   could just  see   right through  it   yeah i  think   so like  there’s   a feeling  and   so

like when  someone   gets up  in   your face  and   you’re just  like   okay i  mean   if that’s  what   you want  to   do

i guess  that’s   what we’re  gonna   do just  zero   zero like  fear   in this  thing   about   performative   macho -ness 

uh something  that   makes me  laugh   okay um  any   any scene  in   a movie  where   the guy  drags   a chair  to   a

table and  sits   on it  backwards   so he’s  leaning   on the  back   of the  chair   that grinds  my   gears because 

no no  one   does that  the   person who  wrote   that that  that   direction is  not   a tough  guy

otherwise they’d  know   that that’s  gonna   just be  a   weird mood  killer   because when  i   see that  i   think

of the  high   school teacher  who’s   trying to  be   cool yeah  they   do that  they   do that  in   high school  movies

a lot  where   they like  turn   the chair  around   like hey  guys   let’s talk  like   we’re equals  hey   fellow   teenagers

yeah yeah  yeah   it’s that’s  it   no so  you’re   right so  like   i was  trying   to write  a   story this  was   back when  i   was

younger and  it   was the  main   character   supposed to  be   a genius  and   then i  realized   really quickly 

i’m not  a   genius there’s  no   way i  can   write what  a   genius would  think   and i  think   that’s a  problem

like you  can’t   write someone  smarter   than you  and   so you’re  saying   right now  you   can’t really  write

someone tougher  than   you without  it   being performative  immediately   because i  could   write real  tough   guys because  i   know

them as  people   so i  would   just write  that   guy yeah  i   came up  i   because again  i   went through  the   whole

gambit of  insecure   male to  overconfident   overcompensating   male to  now   i’m comfortable 

to now  i’m   actually making  fun   of what  i   was when  i   was a  teenager   like i  think   i’ve gone  full   circle

where i’ll  do   stuff that  i   did as  a   teen because  it’s   funny not  because   i think  it’s   actually tough  but

have you  ever   what is  your   most performative  male   moment oh  um

it’s such  a   weird question  yeah   i’d say  um   performative   male moment  um   to be  completely   honest

i’ve never  been   under the  illusion   that i’m  a   tough male  so   i’ve never  felt   like i  had   to perform  as   one

however   something that  i   do to  this   day sometimes  do   um if  i   feel a  little   bit   uncomfortable   is um 

i’ll lower  my   voice if  i’m   talking to  strangers   and there’s  something   about the  situation   or them 

or my  perception   of what’s  going   on that’s  making   me a  little   uncomfortable

okay so  for   example when  i   would um  it   rarely happens  now   because you’re  okay   but yeah  because

i don’t  care   so much  but   it’s not  the   zero percent  um   but when  i   was a  teenager   or a  young   20s

something um  i   would come  back   to the  family   house and  my   brother who  isn’t   a tough  tough   guy but  he’s

typically tough  he   goes to  the   gym a  lot   and yeah  things   like that  he   would be  sat   in the  kitchen

with his  friends   and his  friends   knowing me  as   like the  nerdy   younger brother  they   liked me  but

there was  definitely   a lot  of   kind of  bravado   and mickey  taking   and so  i   couldn’t help  the   the jordan 

inside of  me   would be  saying   what are  you   lowering your  voice   about stupid  but   i couldn’t  stop   myself from 

doing it  yeah   um and  it   wasn’t like  hello   guys how  are   we doing  today   but it  would   i i  guess   that it 

was it  would   be something  that   at least  my   brother would  be   wondering about  you   would notice  what   what’s

he doing  because   he lives  with   me so  yeah   um maybe  his   friends   wouldn’t catch  on   so much  but   i don’t  know

i think   i think  the   most not  even   matter the  most   i don’t  know   the strongest  version   of human  that   you

are is  one   that doesn’t  care   what people  thinks   yeah in  the   way that  it   it would  kind   of inhibit  them

or make  them   act in  a   way that  they   wouldn’t   actually do  i   think being  yourself   being yourself  is   the

strongest oh  there’s   a mess 

oh

enter the  mind   of the  academy   shock my  big   chest where  the   best is  a   philosophy

drinking at  lunch   brings verbal  skills   like a  sucker   punch woke  up   to see  a   mock beat 

yeah yeah  uh   see a  mock   beat yeah  yeah   uh see  a   mock beat  yeah   yeah uh 

The Enshitification of Capitalism

This is the smartest
shit you’ll hear today.

Generally because you
only talk to dumb people.

I’m Chuck with Beef Chest.
This is Seamick Bee.

I don’t think that’s the
tittest tagline that’s ever

been invented. But you
know, I was just trying stuff.

So recently, Reddit had
some issues. Reddit’s

a big big website
if you don’t know it.

I have been on Reddit for 12 years. I don’t
consider myself a significant Redditor.

I don’t have a particular amount of
Karma that would be impressive to anyone.

But it is a very useful site for someone
like me who likes to intake a lot of

information from a lot of sources,
serious, all the way down to ridiculous.

It’s all there. And that’s
a like about it. That’s

what I like about it. I like
that it’s user submitted.

It’s user run. And of course, that ends up
being the problem for the company that is

Reddit. Reddit, they had a basically a
protest recently and all the big sub-redits.

So they went private, which meant you couldn’t just
go and surf them and look at them yourself. You

couldn’t just drop in and see what was going on.
You couldn’t just read stuff from that sub-redit.

Because it was now private. This
was in retaliation to Reddit saying they

wanted to basically take away the ability
for third party apps to use their API.

What does that mean? I, when I look at Reddit on my
phone, don’t use the official Reddit app. I use a

thing called Reddit is fun. I use it because I like
it better. The official Reddit app is kind of dick.

Excuse me. I just ate so much
food. It’s ridiculous. It’s like an

emotional issue that I’m having.
I just struggling with food lately.

So I use this alternative app. It uses stuff. Again, I
don’t want to get into the technical issues, A, because I

don’t understand it. It gets into stuff and pulls that
magic Internet stuff to pull content from Reddit to the app.

The thing is, the advertising
on that app doesn’t go

back to Reddit. It goes back
to the creator of the app.

Reddit said either you pay a ridiculous
amount of money. This is all about

money. This is what companies do. This
is actually called the in-shitification.

This is actually a real thing. You go
online, you can search for in-shitification.

You’ll actually get a wired article. I think
it was one of the first places I saw it.

It goes through the steps of how a
company grows and then becomes more shitty.

They call it
in-shitification, which I really

enjoy. It’s the kind
of word I remember.

If they used more language like this, more
creative language that suited my parlons,

I would remember a lot more words.

But just to sum up what’s happened
on Reddit, Reddit’s like they want

to make this change, basically want
to shut down any third party apps.

You have to use their app and all these people are like,
“Why the fuck are you doing that? That’s just shitty in me.

You’re just taking money away from other people who are
actually working really hard to make your website better.”

They did a blackout. Reddit comes
in and says, “You can’t do blackouts.

You got to open up your subreddit
or we’re going to be nasty.”

A lot of the subreddit said, “What we’ll do is we’ll change it
from regular to not safe for work because you can’t advertise or

monetize not safe for work websites because Disney doesn’t want
to add showing up next to someone getting like hardcore bone.”

Then, Reddit’s like, “You can’t do that.
We’re going to force you back into it.”

So the protest kind of failed there.

It’s the hypocrisy of this more than
anything else that bugs me. It’s your website

running the way you want, but Reddit as a
website is based off the free labor of people.

Primarily, people submitting content.
That content comes from another source.

Let’s say I make this podcast. Someone else
takes the podcast and puts it on Reddit as like,

“Here’s a stupid podcast I like or I saw and
they talk about Reddit aren’t you interested?

I’ve done the work to create the content that
user has done the work of making it public

on Reddit. Moderators unpaid. Make sure
people don’t get out of hand in the comments.”

So there are three sources of unpaid labor that make
Reddit work and then Reddit is being greedy about

ad stuff because Reddit, if my post, so okay, I got
to do a piece by piece, the mods don’t get paid.

So any ad revenue
that Reddit makes, a cut

doesn’t go to the mods.
That’s an unpaid source.

The person who posts
the content, if it gets

really popular, there’s
no payback for that.

So if you find the best
content and you post on Reddit,

you get Karma, but Karma
doesn’t translate into anything.

And then I is the person
who’s a creator of content. It’s

completely alien to my
platform. So I get views and stuff.

So maybe if I monetize through a secondary
source like, I post this on YouTube, it gets

monetized on YouTube, but the Reddit element of
the advertising, that doesn’t come back to me.

So Reddit as a platform
is based on taking the

work of other people
and utilizing it for growth.

So they were threatening to remove mods and I actually wish the
mods had gone with it and just said, “Fine, replace us. Replace the

hundreds of thousands of people who moderate sub-redits. I would have
loved to see that because then the site would collapse into anarchy.

And it’s what Reddit actually deserves.
I have been looking for an alternative.

This is not the first time a blackout
has happened because at Reddit.

And I have looked for alternatives multiple times. Right now, let
me dot world, l-e-m-m-y dot world, seems like an up-and-coming

growing mastodon driven alternative. Still needs to be
worked on, but it seems better conceptually. How about that?

But if all the mods had left, and this is kind of like I’ve done
stuff in the past where what we need is everyone, users, customers,

whatever, to actually work in uniform, in unison, if they do that,
the protests will be successful because the company will collapse.

So the adjudification, but of course, you’re a mod because of a
certain amount. You’re not doing unpaid work because you love to not

be paid. You’re doing unpaid work because there’s prestige or
something you’d love you want to take care of. It’s one of the other.

There’s a lot of jokes about Reddit mods, they’re
just mods in general. But at the end of the day,

these are people who’ve dedicated their time to
something and they don’t want to just give it up.

So I understand the reluctance, but I
think if all the mods at Reddit were like,

“hands up, we don’t like what you’re doing,
we’re not going to moderate anymore.”.

It would just be all like Nazis
and porn in comments from that

point on, making this site
unusable for that point forward.

It would just be essentially for a chance,
something like that. But something where

advertisers would just be like, “We’re
not putting any money into this anymore.”

So if you just did that. So if just the
moderators just said, “We give up on Reddit,

we’re going to wait until another website
comes up that does things the way we like it.”.

They could actually
collapse Reddit in a week.

The social model worked. So what
they said is we want people to submit,

we’ll vote on the content, we’ll
have moderation. That’s all unpaid.

And the site group, that’s
again, it’s been around for

12 years more plus because
I’ve been on it for 12 years.

So what has changed? So in
shitification is a concept. It’s a real

thing and it does happen to
companies. So we have some examples.

So I want to talk about that.
Number one, step one, the

website or the service is
created. It’s good to users.

One of the examples is Amazon, Amazon used to
be all about getting customers, their books

and they actually used to sell things at a
loss to make sure that people had the money.

To make sure that people had the
best experience they possibly could.

Reddit, good to users, it was all about
the users. And then there’s growth.

Number two, step two is abuse the users
to make money generally on advertising.

So the ads start to come in. We’re
talking Facebook. We’re talking like Amazon

has other companies sort of come in.
That becomes their business partners.

The business partners are how the company makes money. This spurs
growth, but then they have to make it a little shittier for the

user because the priority has changed. The priority is no longer
a good user experience. It’s a good business partner experience.

Then that grows to a degree. And
then step three is abuse the business

partners to claw back value for
yourself so that the company can grow.

So now you are no longer concerned with
the users. You’re no longer concerned with

the business partners. You are solely
concerned with your own growth and profits.

This was the example that I
saw was Facebook. Facebook had

advertisers in business partners
and they were talking about content.

And then people would go to Facebook to read
news articles and then Facebook closed off the

news articles if the company that produced the
news articles didn’t pay to boost their posts.

The people who subscribed to that post to that service wouldn’t
see it. So they forced business partners to pay to get subscribers

to see those things. YouTube has a similar thing. You can
subscribe to stuff and it never seems to show up on your feed.

Why is that? It’s because they want
those people, those business partners,

those things to pay for the service
they’re supposed to be providing.

Because really all of this is content
creator provides content that goes

direct to user. It’s supposed to be
the model for like YouTube and stuff.

This is to me the appeal of
podcasts so far because I run

my own website. So SeeminkBiz
on the ChuggaBeafchest.com.

It’s hosted there. I own it.
There is no middle step between

me and the user. So I
make it. I post it. You get it.

You probably are picking your
own podcast app player to do

like a podcast catcher to listen
to the podcast. But that’s it.

That is. And then if the one you have doesn’t
work, there’s going to be a million others

that do. You can just go to the website and
listen to it. All this stuff is available.

Because I am in complete control. It
doesn’t mean that I don’t get sort of the

view. The expanded view of like powerful
algorithms and advertising and stuff.

But it means that this will remain for the user. Now the
insutification of this podcast could absolutely happen. I

start getting advertisers. The advertisers get to a point
where they’re like telling me what I can and cannot say.

We grow to the Joe Rogan experience level of fame where a
company gives me a hundred million dollars. And now I no longer

give a shit about selling other people’s products. I lock
them into like 10, 15 year contracts that they have to pay.

And I give them really bad ads and stuff. And
all I care about is calling back my own. It is

the demise of me as a person, which would be great
because I would end up being rich in the way.

That is kind of where we’re
ending up with this whole

talk is being rich is
actually bad for everything.

So step three, abuse your
business partners to create

value for themselves and
then step four is slowly die.

The bigger the company gets before it hits on
that final sort of downward spiral, the longer it

takes to die. Facebook being an example. It was
so big. It’s still around. It hasn’t died yet.

But I don’t think anyone
considers Facebook a

viable platform for any
sort of serious endeavor.

If you are going to start, you want to be famous, you want to create
content, you want to do a new business. You wouldn’t be like Facebook

is where it’s at. Unless you are like targeting, I can honestly
older people who just never understood that you can leave Facebook.

I am a 12 year Reddit user. I am actively
looking for an alternative. I would enjoy.

That’s not a common attitude. Someone who’s
invested sort of the time investment fallacy.

The idea is that like when you go to buy a car,
they try to keep you there for as long as possible

because the longer you spend doing something,
the more you actually want it to be valuable.

They will give you a shitty deal. You have been
there for three hours. You will take that deal

so you don’t feel like you waste your time. You
should always get up and walk out at least once.

If you are going to buy a car, take
the deal and be like, “Oh, there is the

tricks.” I don’t know why I am talking
about car dealerships all of them.

The guy gives you a deal. He says,
“I am going to go talk to my manager. I

am sorry I only have five minutes.”
He goes, “Yeah, only take five minutes.”

It is giving three minutes to get up and just start
walking away. See how quickly he comes back. If he

loses the paperwork and has to do it again, I don’t
want to buy a car from someone who loses the paperwork.

See how quickly he finds that
paperwork. It is all tricks to get

you invested in a bad deal so
you are less willing to examine it.

I have been at Reddit for 12
years. It would be so easy to just

maintain the status quo. Stay
ahead Reddit for another 12 years.

Despite how bad it gets, just make excuses
to myself. But I value my time. So the

instant that starts to happen, I start looking
for alternatives. Not everyone does that.

You might be like,
“Well, Facebook, Reddit,

they are so big. They
are never going to die.”

Do you remember Dig? The IGG. Dig was a competitor to
Reddit back in the day. It was in the exact same position.

It was actually in the dominant position for a while.
Barely anyone remembers Dig anymore. It was a long time ago.

If you were young, you would never
have heard of it. It is sort of along the

same lines as 9G. There used to be basically
the 3 websites, 9G. Dig and Reddit.

They were actually all
competing against each other

to be the dominant one.
Reddit kind of came out ahead.

My space, similar trajectory.
It got bought. It became

big, advertising stuff.
Then it collapsed in on itself.

Like I said, Facebook is
still around only because it

is going to take longer for
an entity that large to die.

When I think about
Facebook, what are they doing

recently? They were in
competition with Instagram.

Zuckerberg actually said it
is better to buy than compete.

They bought Instagram and
they just try to make that.

Now, Instagram is struggling
to compete against its

main competitors, which
is TikTok and other stuff.

They are all mimicking each other
instead of competing. Meta is coming

out with VR stuff. If it comes out
from meta, I don’t even pay attention.

That is meta, Facebook has
become such a secondary entity in the

world of technology that I’m
going to take it seriously anymore.

I have a Facebook account. I
don’t check it. People have sent me

messages. It has been months before
I have actually responded to messages.

I have a Facebook account for
an international campaign. I hate

using it. This absolutely despises
everything about Facebook.

I never really wanted to join the first
place. My friends were all like, everyone

has a Facebook account. You join so
we can talk and stuff. Never got into it.

Now, in a situation where we
have Instagram versus TikTok versus

YouTube, they are all trying to
find the edge and mimic each other.

TikTok is starting extending its play
times to compete with YouTube. It has just

offered me, I think, the 20 minute Mark,
which is a full podcast most of the time.

YouTube created shorts, which is
just TikTok, Instagram created reels,

which is just TikTok. They are all
trying to compete with each other.

They are all trying to compete
for the advertising that comes with

those things, but they are all
going through a similar process.

This is the inshidification of all of them. Instead of being
true to themselves and their identity and what they do and

what they brought to the people who are their initial users,
they are now like we need to compete for advertising dollars.

I actually think if YouTube, TikTok had
stuck to what it was originally, short form

30 second, one minute videos or whatever,
it would have maintained what it was.

It would actually again be delivering stuff
to users. I am noticing there is more ads

when I go on Instagram reels and stuff, there
is more ads, and then the YouTube algorithm.

It is just the real is not interesting to
me. The biggest problem they have is

they can’t roll back. First of all, you
would have to admit you made a mistake.

Reddit would have to say it
was a mistake for us to take

away the API. We are just
going to leave it the way it is.

We are going to roll things back
with less advertising and make

it better for users, which are
deliver a better user experience.

That would lose the money. The
admitting a mistake is almost impossible

for these corporations to do. You
can never admit you made a mistake.

Then secondary is money
is now the primary focus. It is

not serving the users of the
platform. That is capitalism.

I said Facebook instead of competing against Instagram,
just bought Instagram. That is not competition. Capitalism

as a philosophy is based on competition. It says the
market will balance itself. New competitors will come in.

It is just the modern version
of capitalism is almost based on

behemoths becoming monopolies
in everything but actual existence.

There are other companies that
will compete against Amazon but

they are not competition. There
are telecommms in North America.

There is like two. One for
East Coast, one for West

Coast. They don’t actually
compete with each other.

These companies want a monopoly.
They claim to be capitalists but they

actually want a monopoly. They don’t
want to compete with other companies.

They will just buy out other companies.
Right now we have the EA. It is Microsoft.

I think the EA is the
only game in video game,

technology and games and
exclusives and stuff like that.

Which is anti-capitalist. But it is
because they want to get all the

money. The only way to get all the
money is to be the only game in town.

But then you are now not
actually talking about capitalism

anymore. That is part of
the adjudification process.

Billionaires espouse the glory of
capitalism because they become billionaires

but then do everything they can to not
actually partake or compete in capitalism.

That is something that
people need to think about.

Mark Zuckerberg and
Elon Musk recently. This

is just getting into
the secondary issue.

They started a beef.

So basically Facebook has announced
it is going to make a Twitter clone.

So again, we are not going to
do something original and not our

idea. Twitter is in trouble
because Elon Musk has taken over.

We are going to make our
own Twitter and everyone

is going to love it. I
barely even pay attention.

I didn’t find out about the meta-tutor
clone until this morning when I was

actually checking that I got all my
information about Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk obviously heard
about this. Started doing what he

does on Twitter. So it is
childish insults. That kind of stuff.

He said, “I will take you all fight
you because he is five years old.”

Zuckerberg, who has been studying
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, said like location.

He put a big stupid picture on
the Internet. He is a tough guy.

And then Musk agreed.

So I feel like society
or civilizations come

full circle because we
used to fight to survive.

We used to fight other tribes
and stuff to survive. It was

very important for men to
be strong and fight each other.

For survival. Then we had civilization
and we tried to pull it back a notch.

And now we have gone so far the other way. We have actually
come all around full circle where the upper strata of

society, the billionaires of this world, now feel like it is
perfectly acceptable to fight each other to prove something.

I guess to prove their men. I actually have
a secondary thought that once you become in

sort of the billionaire class, you actually
get this idea that nothing can ever hurt you.

So saying I will fight you. Part of your
brain goes, but I will never get hurt, nothing

bad will ever happen to me because you are
so insulated from the rest of the world.

I did actually want to look into
the seriousness, the nature of this

match. What would it look like? So
Musk is 51 years old, same age as me.

He’s had no training that I
know of. He’s 6’1″, so he’s 1″

taller than me, and he weighs
200 pounds, weighs about the same.

He is essentially a cruiserweight.
He’s a big boy. So being a

big boy means you come with a
certain amount of inherent power.

Zuckerberg, he’s 39, so he’s got used,
he’s got a little… but again, I think

once we get to 41, the differences are
there, but it’s not going to be significant.

He has been studying
B.J. Jane, he’s actually

pretty good. He did a
Silicon Valley tournament.

He got gold and silver in two categories.
He was fighting featherweight.

Featherweight is 126 pounds, it’s like
56 kilos maybe. So you have Musk who is

90 kilos plus fighting a guy who is
57 kilos, basically two thirds his mass.

Cage matches are going to
start standing. So again, I was

trying to take this seriously.
Who would actually win?

Because everyone’s like
Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg,

because he’s actually training,
he’s actually doing this stuff.

But he’s a tiny, tiny man,
and he might be good, but

if you’re good in B.J. Jane,
you’re good on the ground.

Now I’m thinking Musk’s only chances don’t go to the
ground. So when Zuckerberg rushes up to him, he’s going

to go for like a leg, like a tackle basically, and try
to get him to the ground so he can’t actually wrestle.

If that is successful, Zuckerberg
wins. If Elon Musk throws big

haymakers, because you got to
remember, Zuckerberg is trained in B.J.

He’s not trained in boxing.
He has no defense. It’s like

I’ve been doing Judo for 40
years. I have never done boxing.

You put me in a boxing ring.
I’m done in seconds. Like an

actual boxer would take me
down so fast it would be ridiculous.

You put a boxer into a Judo suit.
I would take him down in seconds.

It’s not like diminishing the
value of any of the martial arts.

But what you have is the fight
start standing up. You have two

untrained fighters in standing
fighting. It’s going to look ridiculous.

Zuckerberg has one
opportunity, and that’s get

Elon Musk on his ass
as quickly as possible.

Now, because Elon Musk,
I’m assuming, is out of shape in

all aspects, because I’ve
seen his body without a shirt on.

I bet it would actually be pretty good. I bet
Zuckerberg could run around the back, just

grab him and kick his ankles, or kick him
in the back knees, or push him really hard.

And he would fall down. But Musk would have
one chance. If he could hit Zuckerberg once

with it with just a wild shot, I bet he would
put Zuckerberg down right there and then.

So it’s very hard. If I was a betting
man, I would still put my money

on Zuckerberg, but not as
confidently as everyone else was talking.

Because BJJ has a very good reputation now.
And again, I think that is earned.

But I think people misunderstand
how BJJ starts standing to groundwork.

And there’s every sport has rules.
And once you work outside those rules,

you are essentially untrained again
until you relearn what you’re doing.

They would have a training
period. My understanding is that Elon

Musk’s mother has been
posting online that the fight is off.

That she’s convinced Musk not to
do it, something like that. There’s been

a lot of jokes about Elon Musk’s
mommy. He says he’s not allowed to fight.

He’s not allowed to play rough
with the other billionaires. Dana

White is, I think, president if you
have to see something like that.

He says, okay, it was so offensive
to me. He said, this would be

a massive fight. It would be one
of the biggest fights in history.

It would be an amazing
thing we could do.

Imagine the money we
would make for charity.

Now, if you took out the
four charity part, I think

he’s being honest. Imagine
the money we would make.

How much? What percentage
of that’s going to go to

charity? Nothing. I did
see someone else posted.

We’re in a society where the
Roth child or something took

their vast fortune to build
libraries and schools and stuff.

Now, we have two of the richest men
in the world want to do a cage match.

They’ve taken their vast fortunes and
they’re fighting like basically children.

Which is ridiculous. Now, I, of
course, wanted to see them beat

the crap out of each other and I
would love to see them get hurt.

Which takes me to the
final point of this weird, weird

podcast topic, the
inshidification of all of society.

Why is there no empathy for these men?
These billionaires specifically.

Because last week, we
had the submarine that

imploded with a group
of billionaires on board.

And the Internet went wild
with incredibly cruel jokes.

Now, I laughed along with
everyone else about how awful it was.

I saw some of the videos about inside
and there was like, it’s carbon fiber.

And again, I don’t know enough
about material sciences. I know

enough about carbon fire
that you don’t drill a hole in it.

To mount some of the
screens. So, if you drill a hole into

carbon fiber, you’re basically
weakening the entire structure.

Now, I know that’s not probably what crushed
the whole thing. But it’s irrelevant.

I know if I, as a complete
amateur, can recognize a mistake.

Then anyone else with
actual study or knowledge

should have seen how
that was going to be.

And then we heard about the guy saying,
oh, you know, this is an unsafe craft.

We can’t sail it in the
ocean. People are going to die.

The president of that submarine
company says, you’re fired.

And then a week later, it implodes with him
on board. Again, no sympathy and empathy.

Why is that a thing? And
I was looking around to

actually see why do
people not feel any empathy?

Because this is a human being
died. Everyone had a moment

when they found out there
was a 19 year old kid on board.

Now, he is the son of a
billionaire. But a 19 year

old kid hasn’t technically
done that much wrong.

Of course, he maybe
has. But we’re like, he’s not

the problem. The
billionaires are the problem.

And we feel no empathy for them. So I
actually looked into empathy a little bit.

And the thing that I found
out is that empathy is not a

function of an individual,
which I was very surprised by.

I’ve always thought that empathy would
have been like, it’s something I feel.

Empathy is a function of society and
community. So it’s about relationships.

So when I’m online, I’m trying to
think of things that make me cry.

Dogs. So we got Dave in the corner.
And I see these dogs being rescued.

And I will feel myself tear up.
I have a great amount of empathy.

But it’s because of my deep connection
that stupid looking dog in the corner.

As a society, as a
community, as a group, you

have empathy for
people you can relate to.

So I relate to those Facebook
videos of dogs being rescued.

And it makes me almost cry because I have
this deep connection to the dogs I had when

I was a kid, to the dog I have now that I
spent a huge amount of time taking care of.

I mean, you can see we spend all
our time together when I’m at home.

And that extends to my
coworkers, my friends.

There are people I
understand and I care about.

That is where empathy
comes from. The nature of a

billionaire is that they
immediately create stratification.

And they try to separate themselves
from society, community at large.

So the empathy, society
at large has for people

who separated themselves,
goes down dramatically.

And this was very kind of
revealing to once you separated

yourself from society,
knowing that people are not

a society, no one
gives a shit if you die. I

bet other billionaires
were very upset by this.

But of course, their voice isn’t as big
as a billion people making jokes on Reddit.

So that disconnect they create
by trying to say I’m rich, so

I’m a higher class person,
you’re poor, so you’re lower class.

Is why no one feels any empathy
for these billionaires dying.

Now, for me, I think the primary problem
was actually he wasn’t listening to anyone.

So this billionaire,
there’s another problem

with billionaires as sort
of a class or a group.

They’ve gotten so used to being right.
It’s almost like pop star syndrome where

everyone tells you you’re great, you’re
amazing, you’re great, you’re amazing.

That’s really bad for you because
then you start to think you’re

really great and amazing and
really smart and you know everything.

Where you may have specific knowledge, you don’t know
everything. So you see pop stars and they’ll give political

commentary and it’s just so confused and weird and it’s
because they know pop music, they don’t know politics.

They know A, they know B. So it’s like I, what do I know about well,
I could talk quite in depth about the cage match they were doing,

but because no one has spent the entirety of my life telling me I’m
really good, I’m really smart, I’m really good, I’m really smart.

I don’t think I know everything. Anyways, billionaires are shit.
I think that might be the conclusion. It’s the separation and then

because everyone around them is sort of yes men, they get into pop
star syndrome where they think they know everything, but they don’t.

So they won’t admit they’ve made a mistake very much like I’m
talking about Reddit at the beginning of the podcast. They

can’t admit they’ve made a mistake, they can’t roll anything
back, they have to forge forward with what they’re doing.

There was a set of emails I saw released about the submarine thing and
the set of emails basically said look I’m not 100% confident in this

and the guys like I actually find that offensive that you think this
isn’t safe and the guys like I did some research this doesn’t seem safe.

Therefore I don’t want to ride your crazy death trap and the guys like I find that offensive not factually
argumentative I don’t have anything I can say to you personally to change your mind. I’m personally offended and that

was supposed to mean something. You should risk your life in this thing you think may or may not kill you because
you don’t want me to be offended because that’s more important than your life and that is the underlying message.

So this in billionaires and
the stratification of society

is primarily to me the in
certification of all things.

So it’s how do we get back from that well there is no simple
answer because now society is set up to keep this going in the

people the billionaires who do have a great deal of power they
want to keep a boy going because that’s how they stay billionaires.

So honestly I don’t have an answer but when you see a service like
Reddit and it goes through a blackout everyone should quit Reddit and it

would collapse and everyone should quit Twitter and it would collapse
and then the Internet could go back to being sort of a freer entity.

Yes, we would have to find things it would be harder
search engines might not be better. We won’t use

Google anymore will have to use a new search engine
that’s actually better and working towards users.

But if you’re aware of and shitification
and the reality of the user actually

has all the power because as soon as
you stop using it all that power goes away.

My space is basically gone because no one
uses anymore if everyone would just drop

Facebook it would be gone tomorrow if everyone
dropped Reddit it would be gone tomorrow.

And then something else two or three services
would spring up and try to take their place and

then we would be back to actual capitalism actual
competition and things might actually improve.

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So that was a little experiment I have been
struggling to come up with original ideas.

Don’t say sorry I want people
to do stuff I again this isn’t me

complaining about you this is
me complaining about my inability.

The mistake they made was
making an end date in the protest.

Ah this is it the end date was people are saying
that I actually disagree I think that’s irrelevant if

what they needed was when they said we’re going to
remove the mods all the mods on mass should have quit.

Should be like fine go ahead a completely
unmoderated Reddit would collapse in hours.

I mean honestly hours there
would be an influx of all really gross

shit there would be an influx of
all these kind of things happening.

They would have no control over it they wouldn’t have the staff
to keep the website under control because of the nature of

Reddit if there is no modification exactly what I said though for
John is what it would become and no advertiser would touch it.

They’re already running it a deficit
they already run it dead so if they’re

already running it dead that would
collapse as soon as all the users left.

A long time ago I did the same thing I was talking about
the monopolies and stuff of Internet users in America and

like there’s basically you move to an area there’s really
only one Internet provider and it’s always stupid expensive.

If you could organize the people in that region to all quit on
the same day and I mean actually quit on the same day and you

would have to go two weeks without Internet let’s say I bet those
prices would get super fucking reasonable super fucking quick.

The problem is the organization never happens and like
these mods they’re committed to what they’re doing

so that doesn’t happen and that’s that’s to me where
the problems arise is because people are disorganized.

But if the mods of Reddit would all quit today you would either have
no Reddit or a way better Reddit tomorrow. It was a bit messier than I

wanted but that was essentially three or four points from the news media
that I put together into kind of a structure and try to talk about it.

It’s not a bad idea I think I
can smooth it out essentially

was three ideas it was
the insitification of Reddit.

The cage match in billionaires
and then why no one had empathy

so those are my three concepts
that I wanted to put in there.