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Book author and Blog writer. My book is called A lot of Questions, With no Answers? published by Atmosphere Press, and my Blog is on my website jordanneben.com/blog/
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I'm still flabbergasted that people with way more knowledge and experience of the global economy can't or won't admit that a fundamental and irreversible shift has already taken place. Even if this process takes decades the US's position of global hegemony is gone, that trust can't be won back.
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I don't know how these headlines manage to be so consistently funny and depressingly plausible at the same time.
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Yeah I don't get how all of these news publications don't realize that trying to figure out which of these people are or were criminals validates the right. It implies that some people deserve to be deported to gulags. The entire concept is reprehensible, this shouldn't be hard.
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All of the creativity has been really fun to see in the sign design from all the protests.
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I just listened to an episode that was released in February talking about Werner and the new protocols and how people might cripple a system they know nothing about and leave it as a shell of its former self in the name of "efficiency." A disturbing blend of fiction and reality.
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I liked the story of the parent who finally backed out of the biomedical industry. It's alarming though how few parents who have children with autism ever think: "Maybe I should talk to an adult with autism to get some advice and learn about their experiences."
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If anyone wants to read that Blog post and my ongoing series they can find it on my website at jordanneben.com/blog/
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I'd almost like to hear some of the other takes of the episode. This is definitely one of those times when anger and incredulity are the correct responses to current events. Also my favorite line of the episode was Dan saying he'd been disappointed and confused by US voters forever.
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I think Robert mentioned this in a post after Trump's address to Congress as well but you'd think Dems would want to be getting noticed for stuff like this. It's one of those times where it would be good for themselves politically to get noticed and it would be good for the rest of us to hear it.
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Was anyone else's pulse elevated for this entire episode because everything they talked about was unsettling and scary?
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Hopefully we don't see celebrity politicians of the 21st century repeating what Caesar did to earn so much fame (or infamy) in Gaul.
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It's so bizarre to look back and see what a huge scandal teapot dome was at the time. Now we get stuff like that five times a day and no one has the time to even process it all.
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I thought Robert's assessment that we'll likely see nuclear proliferation in Europe was scary but probably accurate. The security guarantees Ukraine got in the 1990s for giving up its nuclear arsenal turned out to be worthless.
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Yeah the Forbidden West plot line of rich people causing the apocalypse and then trying to escape it by building their own underground bunkers has way too many real life parallels.
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I overall enjoyed this segment but I disagree with the assertion that Zelensky should have been more subservient and stroked Trump's ego. How long would he have to "pretend" in the vain hope Ukraine wasn't sold out to Russia? If you play a subservient puppet long enough you might become one.
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I thought this was a really interesting episode and well worth bringing up. Although it's really depressing paying attention to eastern Congo, I've lost count of the number of times Bukavu and Goma have been taken and retaken.
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I really like this episode and I'm glad Science Vs tackled this topic and I hope they cover it more in the future. Although sometimes I think scientists need to study the humanities more, so many are asking "what's the logic here," the answer is there doesn't need to be a logic for it to happen.
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I knew this year was going to be bad but I didn't guess tech bro Jim Jones would be one of those bad things.
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Update, I listened to the episode and it was as sad as I expected. I'd heard about the Scottsdale diversity office being closed, but I didn't realize how many came out in support of it to stay, and how the decision was foreordained.
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What I've found baffling is other people's bafflement. Have you met people? When did they need to do things that make sense, even to themselves. Being in power doesn't automatically make you logical and calculating, or any less petty or vindictive.
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Is anybody else almost a little afraid to listen to this episode because it will be too depressing? But really it goes to show why people paying attention to fringe extremist movements are always important, especially when the "fringe" movement secures total power.
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It's like we're going back to a pre-enlightenment understanding of disease and empirical science.
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This is one of these episodes that reaffirms to me how shortsighted people in the intelligence community are. Maybe you protect some secret projects by stoking this guy in the UFO community into thinking he's communicating with aliens, but you help create the conspiracy ecosystem that got us here.
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This is one of those episodes that is very important to listen to precisely because it's so bleak and upsetting. Which is an odd endorsement but it's one I've been making a lot lately.
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This is one of those headlines that if I didn't see "The Onion" banner I would believe that it's real. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happens in the future.
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I thought this was a really interesting episode overall. I forgot who said this but the best line of the episode for me was even if you don't like or care about sports this is ground that can't be given up without a fight.
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It is a weird position to find yourself in when you're rooting for other countries to fuck up the country you're living in.
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Cruelty is certainly expensive. I think this is something I need to remind myself of too, this kind of injustice not only doesn't make sense, it can't.
To me that's what makes humanity so dangerous, we'll go out of our way and inconvenience ourselves to make others lives worse.
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This is something I feel like I shouldn't be surprised by but I am. Normally you'd think people would viciously guard whatever powers they have, and try to get more of them. It's strange to see authoritarians committed enough that they will voluntarily give their power to someone else.
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I've always found playing fallout 3 that it has a particular charm that I can't quite describe but makes me love the way the game feels. Maybe all the elements of the game come together that makes it feel immersive.
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I am so glad I waited to plan a vacation until after I saw the results of the election, and from that decided I am not flying anywhere for a long time.
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Does anyone else know all about this because of Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast? I felt smug for a second but then I remembered I learned it all from someone else relaying it to me.
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That's about the only solace any of us will get from this nightmare we're currently stuck in.
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I find this hilarious while being stuck in a Republican State. My only worry is that Republican voters will still never see the obvious connection and instead blame everyone else for the choices they made and all the information they ignored.