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]]> S10:E01 - "Made With Real Beef" S10:E01 - "Made With Real Beef" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/141 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/141 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 141 false Hi, I’m Lane Road.


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  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
    • https://www.graeters.com/skyline-spice-ice-cream?srsltid=AfmBOoqrbgPZQRiniNAnFiDQzeyneblxItZyBHuI1yKzYcwFmIFwjnUB
    • https://munchaddict.com/products/lays-potato-chips-pepper-chicken-flavor-china?srsltid=AfmBOoqhX3Ursh2yyUTX6PvrNHkc9dfGp4Hm7fjXF2WbjDxgwugxLjAl
    • https://munchaddict.com/products/doritos-american-hot-wing-taiwan
    • https://munchaddict.com/products/cheetos-bbq-flavor-japan
    • https://sporked.com/article/cheese-pizza-cheetos-puffs-review/

  • Tuxedo Society

    Over the weekend, a video went viral on X showing a bunch of 20 somethings dressed in black tie dining and dancing in what looks to be an old European villa with the caption “Casual parties at Lake Como.” The video amassed over 25.5 million views and sparked a day of discourse about whether the people in the video were actual old money or just cosplaying.

    Like most things on the internet, the video was staged. The people in the video are all part of an “Instagram club” where you pay to dress up and make “old money” content with a bunch of aspiring “old money” influencers. The club is called the TuxedoSociety and it bills itself as an exclusive members only club “dedicated to the finest experiences in the most iconic places of all time.”

    The website for TuxedoSociety, which costs 6,000 euros per year to join, promises that the group is “where legacy is crafted, and every encounter holds the promise of something greater, TuxedoSociety is your gateway to meaningful relationships and once in a lifetime moments.”

    There is no physical club, so members are just paying thousands of euros to get invited to “luxury adventures,” which they’ll have to pay extra for, and networking opportunities. They also promise to teach members, “The Gentleman’s Way: Learn the art of Everyday Elegance, apporach [sic] life with the charm of a gentleman.”

    TuxedoSociety’s website is riddled with spelling errors and features the generic Wordpress logo at the top of the tab. One co-founder, Gabriele Bonini, is an e-commerce hustler, and the other, Riccardo Capotosti, is an “old money” Instagram and TikTok internet personality. All the members listed on the website are men, though attractive women are featured prominently in their content. And though it bills itself as exclusive, the co-founders are promoting membership on Instagram.

    • Further proof that everything is a scam
]]> Trump Found Guilty On All Counts Trump Found Guilty On All Counts https://goodstuff.network/noidea/140 Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/140 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 140 false We’ll be back soon. Thanks for your patience.


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]]> S09:E14 - "I'm Sleeping With My Clothes On" S09:E14 - "I'm Sleeping With My Clothes On" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/139 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/139 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 139 false All for benefits that may be entirely speculative.


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  • A philosophical question
  • Princess Kate Updates
    • She’s actually with me now

  • Shaun King converted to Islam

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=IomTAhKT8DwNJNT7&v=ly2LOrlKYeE

  • Cholera on the rise

    The world has run out of cholera vaccines—just when the deadly disease is on a rampage not seen in many years. Fifteen countries are currently reporting active outbreaks, with more than 40,900 cases and 775 deaths reported in January alone. But all available doses of oral cholera vaccines in the global stockpile have been allocated until mid-March, Philippe Barboza, cholera team lead at the World Health Organization (WHO), said on 23 February. He said there is now “no buffer for unforeseen outbreaks or preventive campaigns.” The catastrophic shortage is a result not just of a surge in cases, but also of an overdependence on a single vaccine manufacturer, EuBiologics in Seoul, South Korea, whose production capacity is limited.

  • For sure, man
    • That’s… not what any of this means

    • r/Dogfree

    • Kris Kobach has some thoughts

      https://twitter.com/kriskobach1787/status/1765935595702919299?s=12

    • Do you think it’s weird???

      https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/1762531473230287171?s=12

    • SPEAK 👏 ON 👏 IT 👏

      https://x.com/sxsw/status/1767632974856470991?s=20

    • It’s true.

      https://twitter.com/isabellamoody_/status/1766530218267971761

    • Mueller, She Wrote is still around?

      https://twitter.com/muellershewrote/status/1766272423698292905

    • I don’t pay the IRS

      https://www.tiktok.com/@grantcardone/video/7324456732493810990

    • Everyone’s very normal about this

      https://twitter.com/daviddoel/status/1765472509552452094?s=46

  • Weirdkipedia
]]> S09:E13 - "Predominantly Pale and Ginger" S09:E13 - "Predominantly Pale and Ginger" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/138 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/138 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 138 false Folks, he’s running.


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  • He’s running

    https://x.com/aidan4progress/status/1760418655672930459?s=20

  • Excuse me?

    https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/woman-with-649-arrest-warrants-arrested-in-columbus/

  • surprised pikachu face

    https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231690415/plastic-recycling-waste-oil-fossil-fuels-climate-change

  • For sure, man

    • England never stops surprising me

      https://x.com/paulbennett76/status/1758569541099991416?s=20

    • New Air Force Ones

      https://x.com/ettingermentum/status/1760456591600488610?s=20

    • Imagine being this deranged

      https://x.com/keithedwards/status/1760360540235289074?s=20

    • Canada, you’re on notice

      https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1758613522634666295?s=12

    • Muhummad was Pale and Ginger

      https://twitter.com/ralfellis/status/1757842940301312433?s=12

    • AI Art is truly amazing

      https://twitter.com/ralfellis/status/1757320246170472692?s=12

    • [FRONTLINE NARRATOR VOICE] In Portland, Oregon geese are fed cyrstal meth in bread.

      https://twitter.com/greatscottford/status/1758137646973665680?s=12

]]> S09:E12 - "How Laws Works Without Government" S09:E12 - "How Laws Works Without Government" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/137 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/137 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 137 false They’re like adult dunkaroos.


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  • Attention listeners
    • You are failing at an important aspect of being a fan
    • You have not held up your end of the bargain
    • You are takers
    • Repent and begin setting us up
    • I’m so tired of the apps
    • Single people should get Valentine’s Day reparations

  • CONFIRMED: It’s actually two separate things

    https://ideas.lego.com/projects/06f68a0d-c474-4a9a-9243-03bb987b8a7a

  • Weirdkipedia
]]> S09:E11 - "Church Products Dot Com" S09:E11 - "Church Products Dot Com" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/136 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/136 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 136 false You looking for a single or double entry?


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  • It’s the beginning of a new era

  • Aaron-coded tweet

    https://twitter.com/canteverdie/status/1754881821395865851?s=12

  • This is a double-space-free zone. Quit doing that.
  • There’s cancer in the king, innit
  • Stop trying to make 2007 happen
    • chicken tender wraps are back
    • everyone is saying the economy is great
    • mass layoffs

    • also this

      https://twitter.com/nbcpolitics/status/1751596596712689716?s=12

    • Also SNL?

      https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1754003740560900247?s=12

  • For sure man

    • Cheeses Rice, man 🤦‍♂️

      https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/1754211480440868970?s=20

    • Wow, so brave, thank you

      https://x.com/PaperMissiles/status/1754187738662744494?s=20

    • Well.

      https://twitter.com/canteverdie/status/1755288765772251447?s=12

    • Bad news…

      https://twitter.com/endwokeness/status/1754623037738045874?s=12

    • Damn. If only there was an ACTUAL movie

      https://twitter.com/acknowledgeai/status/1754137580000473565?s=12

    • Freedom Bowls

      FREEDOM BOWLS - 27 Photos & 16 Reviews - 501 E Citrus Ave, Redlands, California - Acai Bowls - Phone Number - Yelp

    • Absolutely.

      https://twitter.com/harrisonhsmith/status/1752045964221702269?s=12

    • A Very Wrong Opinion

      sherry (@vodkafinger.bsky.social)

    • https://www.churchsupplywarehouse.com/furniture/furniture/baptismal-font.html
    • https://www.churchproducts.com/church-baptistries-portable-baptistries.html
]]> S09:E10 - "Plush, Crane and Amusement" S09:E10 - "Plush, Crane and Amusement" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/135 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/135 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 135 false Oh, these? These are my home use gumballs.


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  • We’re bringing back 90s music
  • A Question for Aaron
  • Apple Vision Pro now available
  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
    • Girl Scout Thin Mints™ Pretzels
  • Cupertino’s Neom

    • Billionaires plan utopian California city, collect signatures - Los Angeles Times

      The group, called California Forever, envisions a community with tens of thousands of new homes, along with crisp new parks, bike lanes, open space and a solar farm. The model city would be walkable, socioeconomically integrated and fueled by clean energy.

      But to get there, the backers will have to persuade Solano County voters to approve the sweeping endeavor. … The first stage of that campaign took place Wednesday, when Jan Sramek, chief executive of California Forever, took to a podium in the Veterans Hall in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta town of Rio Vista to pledge that the project would be a “great neighbor” to everyone in the county.

      Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader, has said his vision for the city coalesced while he was on a fishing trip in the nearby delta. He and other speakers listed a long series of benefits that they say would result from raising a new city on a rolling expanse now dedicated to ranching and wind farms.

      Hmmmm….what would tech billionaries want with a huge chunk of property along a river delta in California???? Hmmm, what could it possibly be???

    • The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted - The New York Times

      Whether it was paving over San Fernando Valley orange groves to build out Los Angeles or ripping out apricot farms in what is now Silicon Valley, California became the nation’s biggest state and economy largely by trading open and agricultural land for population and development.

      That shifted in the 1960s and 1970s, when a backlash against the growth-first regime and its penchant for destroying landscapes helped create modern environmentalism. In the half-century since, this turn has been codified in laws that aim to restrict development to existing cities and their edges. It has protected farms and open space, but also helped drive up the cost of living by making housing scarcer and more expensive to build.

      Mr. Sramek framed his proposal as a backlash to the backlash, part of an ideological project to revive Californians’ appetite for growth. If the state is serious about tackling its dire affordable housing problem, he argued, it doesn’t just have to build more housing in places like San Francisco and its suburbs — it also has to expand the urban footprint with new cities.

      …

      Mr. Sramek likes to fish. The way he tells it, around 2016 he and his girlfriend (now wife) started making the one-hour drive from San Francisco to Rio Vista to catch bass on the Sacramento River. One of those trips, driving past pastures and grazing sheep, sparked an idea.

      “What if you could start from scratch?” he said.

      In a state whose agricultural bounty has historically been a function of moving water great distances, the area is something of an anachronism. For generations, families like the Mahoneys have practiced “dryland farming,” which means they rely on rain, not irrigation.

  • Pretty sure the answer remains “climate change”

    It’s freezing outside, but winters are actually getting warmer - Vox

  • For Sure, Man

    • Sargon, are you okay? Are you okay, Sargon?

      https://twitter.com/UticaEric/status/1748727470474383382

    • Let’s check in on Bill Kristol

      https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1748924746010431882?s=20

    • Hey wait a minute, you aren’t supposed to say that

      https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1748045086812692757

    • Brits have opinions about football

      https://x.com/TigersJUK/status/1748833737218089044?s=20

    • BREAKING:

      https://twitter.com/generalmcnews/status/1746177782521188711?s=12

    • I’m Gonna Be a Millionaire Before I’m 20
    • How’s Anyone Supposed To Live On $400K??????
  • Weirdkipedia
]]> S09:E09 - "The Stanley Works" S09:E09 - "The Stanley Works" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/134 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/134 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 134 false Listening to Depaish Mode.


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  • #WEATHERCHECK
  • #BIRTHDAYREPORT
  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
    • Angela on Zombie Takis: “the Zombie Takis were like eating the desiccated remains of a cucumber that had somehow been used to kill a man. “Fresh and evil”
    • Pirate’s Booty
  • How do you pronounce “Depeche Mode”?
    • “I think I’m about to go depeche mode”

  • New King, Who Dis?

    “My hope is to become a unifying king of tomorrow,” Frederik said. “It is a task I have approached all my life.”

  • For sure, man

    • MeatballGate

      https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1746579813735776375?s=20

    • Imagining if Hitler had access to posting it could look something like this

      https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1746277892491727341?s=20

    • Don’t tell me how to feel, bro

      https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1745672179335807273?s=20

    • Barstool reply guys: please never change

      https://x.com/dhookstead/status/1746316300836598245?s=20

    • Elon Musk, Super Genius

      https://twitter.com/ryanmarino/status/1742929400050716976

    • Catholic discovers what his religion is actually about

      https://twitter.com/nelsonrangel/status/1746341452865511465?s=12

  • Horsehair Chair

]]> S09:E08 - "This Is The Face Of A Scumbag" S09:E08 - "This Is The Face Of A Scumbag" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/133 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/133 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 133 false Milk is milk - you know it when you see it.


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  • LA controller’s audit of LAPD helicopters questions their benefit, high costs – Daily News

    The Los Angeles Police Department’s helicopter program spends 61% of its flight time on low-priority incidents at cost of nearly $50 million per year to taxpayers, according to an audit released today by the City Controller’s Office. … The audit focused on LAPD’s use of helicopters from 2018 through 2022, and explored whether the department has “justified the need for the program’s current size and scope, which consists of 17 helicopters and more than 90 employees,” according to the controller’s office.

    The city operates its helicopter fleet on an almost “continuous basis” — usually there are two helicopters flying for 20 hours every day of the year. The helicopters logged an average of 16,000 hours of flight time each year at a cost of $2,916 per flight hour.

  • For sure, man

    • Dude is absolutely ON ONE about the movie “Return of The King”

      RocketPunches (@rocketpunches.bsky.social)

    • Toxic Anti-Biden Sentiment

      Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social)

    • Guys, stop saying that about daddy! I’m going to tell on you!

      Michael Paulauski (@mike10010100.bsky.social)

    • The face of a scumbag

      https://twitter.com/cliffmaloneyjr/status/1740438505929499103?s=12

    • Grimes

      https://twitter.com/grimezsz/status/1741465842896994799?s=12

    • Aaron, please describe this

      https://twitter.com/selontheweb/status/1735785671720345713

    • Milk harrassment

      https://twitter.com/jbkschlossberg/status/1735282345790386640

  • Sandwich Report™

    https://www.thebrownbaggv.com/menu-1

]]> S09:E07 - "Foods and Ingredients" S09:E07 - "Foods and Ingredients" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/132 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/132 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 132 false Show the curve.


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  • Is Aaron mourning?
  • How do you accept that you might actually be good at something?
  • A Queens man has made money off more than 3K noise complaints. The City Council hopes to stop him. - Gothamist
  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
    • No GSCC this week
  • For sure, man

    • Oh No, Noah Smith QT’ing Will Stancil

      https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1733573913131757656

    • Speaking of Noah Smith…

      https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1732949836088090905?s=12

    • And yet more from him

      https://bsky.app/profile/kilgoretrout.bsky.social/post/3kftdz4htsl23

    • Show The Curve

      https://twitter.com/flatearthzone/status/1733281323735789931?s=12

    • Christian Night Club

      https://twitter.com/dailygistz/status/1733082740721893696?s=12

    • Single guys…

      https://www.tiktok.com/@ntimmel/video/7306924373808549166

    • Tulsi Gabbard has her finger on the pulse…

      https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1732690475482755422?s=12

    • Big, if true

      https://twitter.com/insider__paper/status/1732766857130570090?s=12

    • nodding sagely

      https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1732481722627899671?s=12

  • Inside the American Redoubt - UnHerd

    North Idaho has long been home to those seeking to escape the looming collapse of America. … It is here, on rugged fringes stalked by mountain lions, bears and wolves, that the American Redoubt was born.

    The Redoubt is both a prophecy and a movement: a pre-emptive response to the anarchy on the horizon. Economic meltdown, nuclear war, the lawlessness that will follow the total defunding of the police — all, its followers warn, could bring an end to American civilisation. And so they have started to prepare. First, by relocating to easily defensible ranches in the wilderness; and second, by stocking up on food, firearms and fuel. While their country teeters on the brink of bedlam, they are building a fortress.

    • Society is going to collapse, so we better flee all society

    If the Redoubt has a Messiah, it is James Wesley, Rawles. (The comma is an affectation.) A former US Army intelligence officer, Rawles has spent decades preaching about America’s imminent implosion to thousands of Christian conservatives, and the importance of them retreating to the mountains. They first flocked to him in 1998, after his book Patriots, both a survivalist manifesto and a novel about the country’s descent into disorder, became a surprise bestseller. The Daily Beast called it “the most dangerous novel in America”; others claimed it “could one day mean the difference between life and death”. Such hyperbole only widened his appeal.

    Every Redoubter has read Rawles — yet few have ever seen him in person. He disguises himself when he needs to emerge from his secret ranch to get supplies. Otherwise, he communicates through his blog to 320,000 readers a week. It’s a peculiar assortment of survivalist tips and Christian precepts: recent posts consider the benefits of stun guns, the southern border crisis, and a recipe for potato soup. It was in 2011 that Rawles issued his definitive call to arms, informing his readers that America’s death spiral had reached its climax. Following a news report about a couple in Florida who were unable to pay for a road toll using cash, he decided the time had come for “good men to take action”— to “move to the mountains” and join the Redoubt.

    • A revolution for the type of guy who loves telling people, “it says on money it’s legal tender for all debts so companies HAVE to accept cash!”

    Brian, a devout Christian, describes himself as “a Redoubter before the Redoubt even started”, having escaped California with his family in 1993. He’s a God-fearing man whose life is centred on his ranch and family. “I’ve been married to the same woman for 40 years,” he says without me asking.

    His journey to Idaho started in the high desert above Los Angeles. “I used to have to drive across the San Andreas fault line every day,” he says, describing his commute to work. “If another earthquake happened [as one did the following year], I could have been cut off from my family completely.” Los Angeles, he explains, was already a tinderbox. When the Rodney King riots erupted, Brian was caught in the city and surrounded by a gang of looters who only backed off after he pulled out his gun. He put his house for sale and waited for a sign from God — it came six days later, when someone bought it straightaway.

    • To feel like you were in danger in the High Desert in 1993 is so funny to me. Also the riot story absolutely did not happen.

    And what of the Redoubt’s political and religious criteria? The flags and signs I saw on rural ranch paths — “Fuck Biden”; “Trump 2024: Fuck your feelings” — suggest it is little more than a sanctuary for disillusioned Christian nationalists, or a case of “Donald Trump voters building a new state”. Lily fiercely corrects me. While she voted for him in 2020, “Trump is now part of the whole system… Then there was the vaccine. He used to be against them, but now he’s not. He lied.”… But many Redoubters clearly are embittered Trump supporters. Twenty miles up the road, a giant sign — “Welcome to Trump County” — watches over the highway, while Radio Free Redoubt dedicates its show on Tuesdays to praising America’s true “commander-in-chief”. And then there are those such as Matt Shea, who called for people to prepare for “total war” after the 2020 election was “stolen”.

    But it’s impossible to shake it off completely: the oppressive sense of doom, and the pessimism that underscores his movement. On one level, the Redoubt appears to be little more than “political alienation with more forest and guns”. But its tragedy also runs deeper.

  • Weirdkipedia

]]> S09:E06 - "YOU COOK THE RICE We Bring The Stew" S09:E06 - "YOU COOK THE RICE We Bring The Stew" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/131 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/131 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 131 false Seahorses: Not Your Typical Fish


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  • Aaron saw a Cybertruck
  • Henry Kissinger Dead
  • Quiz: How to tell your real work age - Washington Post
  • For sure, man

    • The Donald Trump of The Left

      https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1730985631344386315?s=20

    • What are you complaining about—-you have a job don’t you?!

      https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1730690299033223188?s=20

]]> S09:E05 - "The Business Just Took Off" S09:E05 - "The Business Just Took Off" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/130 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/130 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 130 false Questioning the Responsibility of Podcast Listeners


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  • The only podcast brave enough to read the bin Laden letter in its entirety live on-air
  • Andrew’s New Podcast
  • Hot take: I’m tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.

  • BAYC Blinded Their Fans

    https://twitter.com/yallahhabibibtc/status/1721191120074428825

]]> S09:E04 - "Finnish Long Drink" S09:E04 - "Finnish Long Drink" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/129 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/129 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 129 false Advice: Don’t Go Near an Aqueduct


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  • Warning: this show may be hazardous to neurotypicals
  • Update on Aaron
    • I am sleep-pilled. I am doze-maxing. I have adopted the luxurious loafing lifestyle. The sleepytime bear wishes he could be me.

  • Used to be

    https://twitter.com/brainmage/status/1720046277671448754?s=12&t=DpUEhjClkiIM528B_u2ESw

  • Election 2024 Update

    https://twitter.com/ositanwanevu/status/1721161085527445595?s=12

  • Trunk or Treat: Vile, Must Be Banned

    https://www.delish.com/holiday-recipes/halloween/a44268/this-trend-is-changing-the-way-people-trick-or-treat/

  • For sure, man

    • In case you were wondering

      https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1720622666078474394?s=20

    • Matty Y, how do you keep doing it

      https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1721184773903630731?s=20

    • Gatekeeping genocide; a very normal thing to do on a Saturday

      https://x.com/brianros1/status/1720999549508997222?s=20

    • What’s the name of your act? “Liberalism!”

      https://x.com/lukeoneil47/status/1720941383538630720?s=20

    • I’m 40

      https://twitter.com/seanpk/status/1720048246066761900?s=12

    • 60 year old: “Some of y’all big mad”

      https://twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/1720518597812863460?s=12

]]> S09:E03 - "That Ain't It" S09:E03 - "That Ain't It" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/128 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/128 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 128 false Now with AI-generated chapter titles!


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  • Bosses are mad about sick days

    The bar for taking a sick day is getting lower, and some bosses say that’s a problem.

    For one, more workers are using up sick time often for reasons such as mental health. And unlike older workers, who might have been loath to call in sick **for fear of seeming weak or unreliable, younger workers feel more entitled to take full advantage of the benefits they’ve been given, executives and recruiters say. That confidence has only grown as record low unemployment persists.

    So far this year, 30% of white-collar **workers with access to paid leave have taken sick time, up from 21% in 2019, according to data from payroll and benefits software company Gusto. Employees between ages 25 and 34 are taking sick days most often, with their use rates jumping 45% from before the pandemic. Some employers, such as Stellantis, complain such worker absences are driving up costs. The Detroit carmaker has repeatedly brought up the issue as contract talks with the United Auto Workers proceed, saying it lost 10.9% of hourly worker time in 2022 because of unplanned absenteeism.

  • Weirdkipedia

  • For sure, man

    • Killers of the Flower Moon is Scorsese’s first political film

      https://twitter.com/3xchair/status/1715503235899765197?s=12

    • Cybertruck blasting away the competition

      https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1715781146061967579

    • What. Huh.

      https://twitter.com/leigh_phillips/status/1715843171354349726

    • Oh cool, we’re doing this again

      https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1715416831316361714

    • 👏 THANK YOU!

      https://twitter.com/adl/status/1715174152829579321

    • How to turn the news story of the moment into an argument for your pet cause

      https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/18/why-america-shouldnt-resettle-palestinians/

    • Shaun King being Shaun King

      https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/1714466669865930995

]]> S09:E02 - "The Three Vu's" S09:E02 - "The Three Vu's" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/127 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:45:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/127 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 127 false Feels like we’ve done this episode before.


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  • Happy World Standards Day
  • How was your eclipse?
    • Aaron is an eclipse truther
  • Out nation’s reserve of grass-touching now at record lows
]]> S09:E01 - "KRONCHIS" S09:E01 - "KRONCHIS" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/126 Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:45:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/126 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 126 false Aldi is a bodega.


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  • Facebook Messenger AI Stickers are…fun
    • [Meta’s new AI-generated stickers are lewd, rude, and sometimes nude - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23902721/meta-ai-generated-stickers-tool-facebook-instagram-inappropriate-conten

  • Whimsical Porch Rocks

    https://bsky.app/profile/bolton69420.bsky.social/post/3k22gxpw36i2e

  • For sure, man

    • The Punk Arbiter has Logged On

      https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_3VTaJYoP/?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

    • This poster has kindly informed us that no war has ever been about wanting an occupying political state to go away, thanks professor doofus

    • Scab discourse

      https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1703074915417460970?s=12

    • Good and Bad Art

      https://twitter.com/oldbooksguy/status/1695775948569018481

    • No Longer Taped

      https://twitter.com/matthewsitman/status/1686750916198678529?s=12

    • They Took Gaddafi Out

      https://twitter.com/vanillaopinions/status/1686137620005371904?s=12

    • Uh I mean yeah I guess? That’s how ratings work

      https://twitter.com/nro/status/1679507590454059011?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Of course you can combine many conflicting and disparate ideals

      https://twitter.com/lion_politics/status/1678894323847290881?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

  • J.D. Vance: Actually, the UAW strike is electric cars’s fault

    https://www.newsweek.com/now-time-rescue-american-autoworkers-opinion-1832466

  • Big Pharma: It’s unfair to force us to follow the law

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/big-pharma-companies-agree-to-federal-price-negotiations-under-protest/

    https://twitter.com/phrma/status/1696504301726638561?s=12

  • This week in goofy astroturfing: Hands Off My Rewards

    https://handsoffmyrewards.com

  • Weirdkipedia
    • The astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel and had it replaced with a copper prosthetic. During a house party, his pet elk got so drunk it fell down the stairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
]]> S08:E14 - "I Said a Truth" S08:E14 - "I Said a Truth" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/125 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/125 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 125 false Terrible, but is a fact.


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  • Are Grimace and Barney Related?

  • The Career Advice Grindset Lady from TikTok

    https://www.tiktok.com/@allifromcorporate0/video/7249147435107421486

    https://www.tiktok.com/@allifromcorporate0/video/7250165503333764395

    https://www.tiktok.com/@allifromcorporate0/video/7250573986852195630

  • The Venmo founder guy who’s trying to cheat death

    https://twitter.com/profdaveandress/status/1677631313044549632?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

  • Patriot Act II - Parisian Boogaloo

    • France set to allow police to spy through phones

      French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday, July 5. Part of a wider justice reform bill, the spying provision has been attacked by both the left and rights defenders as an authoritarian snoopers’ charter, though Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti insists it would affect only “dozens of cases a year.”

      “We’re far away from the totalitarianism of 1984,” George Orwell’s novel about a society under total surveillance, Dupond-Moretti said. “People’s lives will be saved” by the law, he added.

  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
  • For Sure, Man

    • Replacement Putin

      https://twitter.com/nancy023922191/status/1677519788170706944?s=46&t=byirWsWjUldrmZpcrTCJWA

    • WWIII

      https://twitter.com/joeltor200119/status/1676630022524682241?s=46&t=byirWsWjUldrmZpcrTCJWA

    • Literally the greatest tragedy

      https://twitter.com/HandScales/status/1666766995407224835?s=20

    • Not Ensouled

      https://twitter.com/hum_dunkin/status/1677002600099479571?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • AI with a working uterus

      https://twitter.com/elonconomy/status/1677394263406174213?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Catholicism on the rise

      https://twitter.com/papalsupremacy/status/1676424626455412736?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Bourboncels coping and seething

      https://twitter.com/batrak_primus/status/1675784686738743296?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Nukes are fake

      https://twitter.com/owenbenjamin/status/1676079422489890816?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Climate change easily solved, don’t care, move on

      https://twitter.com/brianluidog/status/1675406745794129925?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

      https://twitter.com/brianluidog/status/1675439122926952452?s=20

  • Syphilis is making a comeback
    • Antibiotic Shortage Could Fuel Rise in Syphilis Rates - The New York Times

      • On the rise

        Syphilis has been on the rise in the United States since 2000, reaching 176,713 cases in 2021, which was an increase of nearly 75 percent since 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

        Congenital syphilis tripled during that four-year period, to 2,855 cases, including 220 stillbirths or infant deaths. Rates are highest among the infants of Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and Black mothers.

      • Shortage

        A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts[.]…The shortage, announced by the drugmaker Pfizer in a letter last month, involves Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injectable antibiotic also known as penicillin G benzathine. The company cited significant increases in demand because of the rising rate of syphilis infections, as well as Bicillin’s recent use as an alternative to amoxicillin, another antibiotic that has periodically been scarce and is prescribed for more general infections like strep throat.

      • Why’s it happening?

        David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of S.T.D. Directors, a trade association for public health associations, said rates of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea are all surging “in part due to a public health landscape that is stretched dangerously thin, resulting in a lack of S.T.I. prevention, testing, and treatment.” He and others criticized Pfizer for inadequate production of the drug given the decades-long rising trajectory of syphilis infections. …

        Mr. Harvey also denounced the Biden administration for agreeing in the debt ceiling deal to slash $400 million from the C.D.C.’s budget for S.T.I. prevention.

        we_did_it_joe.wav

        “Here’s a prime example of why leaving public health to the free market can be disastrous,” Tim Horn, director of medication access at the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, an advocacy group, said in an email.

        “Since 2013, the price of Bicillin L-A has increased an astonishing 275 percent,” Mr. Horn said.

    • Congenital syphilis rates are skyrocketing in the US - CNN

      Over the past decade, “there’s been about a 700% increase in the cases of congenital syphilis in the United States,” said Dr. Robert McDonald of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of STD Prevention, Surveillance and Data Management.

      “It really is upsetting, because this is something that is fully preventable if we have the right screening and treatment,” he said. “It’s out there; people just need to be connected with that.”

      Rates of congenital syphilis, meaning the number of cases for every 100,000 live births, are highest in the South and Southwest, in states such as Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, according to a CNN analysis of CDC data.

      This is a frustrating reversal for the US, where determined public health efforts and robust contact-tracing programs had driven congenital syphilis cases to almost historically low numbers just a decade ago.

      In 2012, 324 congenital syphilis cases were reported to the CDC. In 2021, that number had ballooned to 2,677.

  • Anti-Sunscreen Influencers Want To Fry Your Skin

    https://twitter.com/coachjamesclub/status/1665141506477309953?ref_src=twsrc^tfw twcamp^tweetembed twterm^1665141506477309953 twgr^6b06e102d83fd858777c9d2bc50d1286d3f1d737 twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-sunscreen-influencers-misinformation-1234782601/

    Yet the data is overwhelmed by a particular blend of internet-fueled ideologies known as “conspirituality.” This is where quack pseudoscience meets quasi-religious beliefs about how our bodies work, and suspicion of any chemical substance (whether in vaccines, pills, or lotions) is addressed by the pre-modern wisdom of the ages. Such influencers not only encourage you to think of the sun as exclusively nourishing and sustaining, like a benevolent god, but also tell you that sunblock inhibits your production of vitamin D, even though the evidence indicates a negligible effect on this process.

]]> S08:E13 - "Grimace Shake Fatwa" S08:E13 - "Grimace Shake Fatwa" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/124 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/124 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 124 false Why is no one talkin about this???


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  • Andrew’s Couch Concerns
  • Hall and Oates-pilled
  • Grimace shake FATWA
  • For Sure, Man

    • Don’t go to college

      https://twitter.com/danielgothits/status/1674550546311811072?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Sorkin Brain is a disease and we must find a cure

      https://twitter.com/BradleyWhitford/status/1674836412040871939?s=20

    • Would sure hate for that to happen

      https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1674513086584090629?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Is this a Dr. Strangelove reference

      https://twitter.com/tenomnft/status/1673858672865206272?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Why is no one talking about this???

      https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1675142071991017472?s=20

      https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1675156119541501954?s=20

  • Weirdkipedia
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning#Korea
]]> S08:E12 - "The Most Naïve Doofuses" S08:E12 - "The Most Naïve Doofuses" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/123 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/123 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 123 false This week, we’re bringing back straw boaters.


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  • Vacation
  • Submersible

  • The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI - MIT Technology Review

    Many companies pay gig workers on platforms like Mechanical Turk to complete tasks that are typically hard to automate, such as solving CAPTCHAs, labeling data and annotating text. This data is then fed into AI models to train them. The workers are poorly paid and are often expected to complete lots of tasks very quickly.

    Well there’s your problem, lol

    a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) hired 44 people on the gig work platform Amazon Mechanical Turk to summarize 16 extracts from medical research papers. Then they analyzed their responses using an AI model they’d trained themselves that looks for telltale signals of ChatGPT output, such as lack of variety in choice of words. They also extracted the workers’ keystrokes in a bid to work out whether they’d copied and pasted their answers, an indicator that they’d generated their responses elsewhere.

    They estimated that somewhere between 33% and 46% of the workers had used AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

    sickos dot meme

    “I don’t think everything will collapse,” says West. “But I think the AI community will have to investigate closely which tasks are most prone to being automated and to work on ways to prevent this.”

  • Bathhouse
  • For Sure, Man

    • If Feminism, Why no want to manual labor (don’t ask me why I don’t do manual labor tho)

      https://twitter.com/Sapiential_Sage/status/1672684823477878786?s=20

    • The big cheater (Tour de France and Sheryl Crow) is just asking questions about fairness in sports

      https://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/1672775272217849856?s=20

      https://twitter.com/badinfinity2/status/1672946075609513987

      https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1672946439045935105?s=20

      https://twitter.com/assignedmedia/status/1672905549606789121?s=20

      • This is just not normal-people behavior. Those obsessed with queer and trans people are actually weird and off-putting and they know they’re loosing social capital in this world and they’re lashing out
    • Alito’s Op-Ed in the WSJ

    • Ladies,

      https://twitter.com/savannahvicario/status/1670887143550382095?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

]]> S08:E11 - "Whatever Happened to Articles?" S08:E11 - "Whatever Happened to Articles?" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/122 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 06:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/122 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 122 false It’s like comparing apples and bean pizza.


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  • Whatever happened to articles?
  • Gas Station Comestibles Corner
  • For sure man
    • AITA For refusing to let my bridesmaid wear her dead mother’s favourite colour to my wedding?

    • Actually, the marginalized people are the real fascists

      https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1667870376037175303?s=20

    • Do Americans even really understand The Killers, the band from America?

      https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1667666252167258115?s=20

    • Listen, it’s just business

      All successful executives are sociopaths.

      https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1670057569367334914?s=46&t=byirWsWjUldrmZpcrTCJWA

    • Heterosexual marriages are now gay

      https://twitter.com/meghaverma_art/status/1669664667172499456?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Alcohol is woke

      https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1669381687237832710?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

    • Oh no I found a new guy and he’s basically an evangelical preacher, but for car dealership owners

      https://twitter.com/guaph/status/1668115019924488192?s=46&t=byirWsWjUldrmZpcrTCJWA

    • Toxic bike lane chemicals

      https://twitter.com/JessieSingerNYC/status/1668358476689555462

    • Glasses are like training wheels

      https://twitter.com/solbrah/status/1666159933107195905?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

  • Weirdkipedia

  • Bowl Supremacy

    https://twitter.com/_pem_pem/status/1667188509818462211?s=20

]]> S08:E10 - "Wienermobile at the BJ's" S08:E10 - "Wienermobile at the BJ's" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/121 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/121 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 121 false We use a purpose instead of a mission.


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  • Aaron in his Girl Vlog era

    • Simone Giertz

      https://youtu.be/g_38fsHe8Ws

    • Rachel Maksy

      https://youtu.be/ws2gtnEMz1k

    • junelikethemonth

      https://youtu.be/g9qSND3J7eI

    • Sally Darr Griffin

      https://youtu.be/iagsQHlFYpc

    • DancingBacons

      https://youtu.be/nnyh998UFnc

    • Rosa D’Aniello

      https://youtu.be/nTOpb3MOPng

    • Malini Angelica

      https://youtu.be/s4bbqUseSr4

    • Rosie Maio

      https://youtu.be/3fcYO-hWrPM

    • Tâm Mai

      https://youtu.be/K2FPGU-TqTU

  • Frankmobiles

    https://twitter.com/WOWK13News/status/1658833852670910465

  • Anti-Woke Products Suck and Are Overpriced

    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-woke-chocolate-razor-daily-wire-1234741151/

  • Walgreens continues to make things worse

    https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/06/02/at-new-chicago-walgreens-you-can-only-browse-two-aisles-the-rest-of-the-store-is-locked-away/

  • The Most Oreo

    https://twitter.com/toastydecline/status/1658651757268836352?s=12&t=aLVgBUzfFKBxjWIpQQMwcA

  • Inspire, Enable, Empower

    • We’re not looking for compliance, we’re looking for subjugation of the will

      Making remote workers want to come to the office is all about altering their balance of consequences. If you do this by punishing them for not coming to the office, the best you’ll ever get is compliance. Instead, inspire, enable and empower them to co-create a culture and office experience they want to be part of.

    • Leadership

      Cubas hires, develops and exits for leadership.

      I have no idea how to parse this sentence. It’s like, instead of words coming out of somebody’s mouth, it’s an opaque mist of beige.

      Everyone’s a leader.

      So they are paid like they are, right? Right?

      Our discussion took place at a Cornerstone International Group conference in Miami. Cornerstone is an alliance of independent firms engaged in the search, selection, evaluation and development of talent. They share information, leads and tools across their offices around the world. About fifty people attended the conference.

      There were TENS of people!

    • Purpose

      They use a purpose instead of a mission because Cubas thinks missions are a little too confining while a purpose, and their purpose in particular, is more transcendent. It’s not worth digging into that argument here because if that’s what Cubas and his team think, it’s the right choice for Cubas and his team.

      ‘I’m not going to explain this because that would be extremely disrespectful to the God-King Cubas’

    • Values

      Spending just a couple of days with the Cornerstone Peru leaders that came to the conference, listening to their presentations, watching them engage with each other and with others made it impossible not to be impressed and inspired. They say and really do define and live their values all the time to make their organization one in which they would like to work. They teach each other and others through their examples. They walk the talk. They openly celebrate their winning culture.

      Word salad. 82 words and I have no idea what was actually occurring here.

      Cubas himself leads with his presence. He shows up, physically getting on planes to spend good time with his people in Peru, Mexico, Panama and Miami. He says “The only way to generate trust is through face-to-face meetings.” He meets with his people in the offices. He works with them and their clients in their clients’ offices. They spend time together over meals after work.

      So brave.

    • Implications

      You can alter the balance of consequences by adjusting positive or negative consequences of desired or undesired behaviors.

    • Okay, but who is this writer?

]]> S08:E09 - "The Only Corners We Cut" S08:E09 - "The Only Corners We Cut" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/120 Sun, 14 May 2023 18:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/120 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 120 false This planet is a school for souls.


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  • A Co-Living Project in Brooklyn Named ‘The Neighborhood NYC’
  • Weirdkipedia
    • List of sexually active popes - Wikipedia
      • Adrian II (867-872)
        • Married to Stephania before he took holy orders, she was still living when he was elected pope and resided with him in the Lateran Palace
        • His wife and daughter both resided with him until they were murdered by Eleutherius, brother of Anastasius Bibliothecarius, the Church’s chief librarian.
      • Clement IV (1265-1268)
        • Married before taking holy orders
        • Both daughters entered a convent
        • Imagine: well, dad became pope so I guess we gotta’ be celebtate
      • Paul III (1534–1549)
        • Held off ordination in order to continue his lifestyle, fathering four illegitimate children (three sons and one daughter) by Silvia Ruffini after his appointment as cardinal-deacon of Santi Cosimo and Damiano. He broke his relations with her ca. 1513. He made his illegitimate son Pier Luigi Farnese the first duke of Parma.
      • John X (914-928)
        • Had romantic affairs with both Theodora and her daughter Marozia, according to Liutprand of Cremona in his Antapodosis.
      • John XII (955-964)
        • Accused by adversaries of adultery and incest. Benedict of Soracte noted that he had “a collection of women”. According to Liutprand of Cremona, “they testified about his adultery, which they did not see with their own eyes, but nonetheless knew with certainty: he had fornicated with the widow of Rainier, with Stephana his father’s concubine, with the widow Anna, and with his own niece, and he made the sacred palace into a whorehouse”. According to Chamberlin, John was “a Christian Caligula whose crimes were rendered particularly horrific by the office he held”. Some sources report that he died eight days after being stricken by paralysis while in the act of adultery, others that he was killed by the jealous husband while in the act of committing adultery.
]]> S08:E08 - "The Triangle" S08:E08 - "The Triangle" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/119 Tue, 09 May 2023 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/119 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 119 false Nordstrom has fallen. All is lost.


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  • We’re Back
  • Liquid Death, More Like Liquid Cash
  • Andrew Had To Update His Mic Firmware
  • Aaron has become a fashion influencer
    • Aaron wants to accessorize more but mens fashion blogs and articles are terrible and want him to become A Ring Guy and he is not going to become A Ring Guy

  • Here’s Me

    https://twitter.com/skinnytuna/status/1654392282601201664

  • Caffeine: A Neurotoxin?

    https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a43622878/caffeine-addiction/

    For years, Bivens had been consuming close to 1,000 milligrams of caffeine per day, two and a half times the daily recommended limit and the equivalent of more than ten cups of coffee. The habit had wreaked havoc on his central nervous system and in turn caused myriad physical and psychological problems.

    “People don’t understand that caffeine is an actual drug,” says Bivens. “It’s not Kool-Aid.”

    “More people need to know that caffeine is a neurotoxin and it’s hurting you,” Bivens says. “I would like people to treat caffeine the way we treat cigarettes. There should be a warning.”

]]> S08:E07 - "I'm Making an Intellectual Point" S08:E07 - "I'm Making an Intellectual Point" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/118 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/118 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 118 false Man, I got a lot going on lately


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]]> S08:E06 - "Wrong DeSuckass" S08:E06 - "Wrong DeSuckass" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/117 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/117 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 117 false If you don’t think that’s important, I can’t help you.


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]]> S08:E05 - "Angela Gum, DDS" S08:E05 - "Angela Gum, DDS" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/116 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/116 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 116 false HNY, folks.


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]]> S08:E04 - "Proof of Being Un-Woke" S08:E04 - "Proof of Being Un-Woke" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/115 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/115 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 115 false You can’t make this up.


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]]> S08:E03 - "Simply speeding up access to goods" S08:E03 - "Simply speeding up access to goods" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/114 Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/114 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 114 false You’re only a worker if you’re a guy who hits things with a hammer.


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  • We’re not sick but we’re not well

  • The Tailgates of San Bernardino County Returns
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  • Car Wash Vertical
  • Patreon reminder
]]> S08:E02 - "The Poster's Dole" S08:E02 - "The Poster's Dole" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/113 Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/113 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 113 false Not Left, not Right, but Forward.


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  • We are in the end times. But of what?
  • Vanlife vans are weird, why not just buy an RV
    • Have You Heard The Good News About our Lord and Saviour The Tent Trailer?
  • Film photography
    • Minolta x-370
]]> S08:E01 - "Nobody Owns Cows" S08:E01 - "Nobody Owns Cows" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/112 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/112 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 112 false Select all squares with a buses.


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]]> Pop Off Episode 7 - "Strong Wawa Culture" Pop Off Episode 7 - "Strong Wawa Culture" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/111 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/111 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 111 false Too much good stuff.


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]]> S07:E14 - "High-signal, Curiosity-inducing Content" S07:E14 - "High-signal, Curiosity-inducing Content" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/110 Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/110 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 110 false Ruffles have ridges.


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]]> S07:E13 - "Jesus Green" S07:E13 - "Jesus Green" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/109 Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/109 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 109 false Just trying to get to 100,000 LinkedIn followers


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]]> S07:E12 - "Aaron's Old Time Chewing Ice" S07:E12 - "Aaron's Old Time Chewing Ice" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/108 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/108 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 108 false Just one more fresh water canal. Just one more, bro. I promise that’s it.


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]]> S07:E11 - "Activate The Queen" S07:E11 - "Activate The Queen" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/107 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/107 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 107 false Guard your energy. Protect your spirit & emotional resources. Be strategic in who you engage and why.


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  • Andrew Tries Arnold Palmer
  • Pokémon Go-ing
  • Aaron goes to Barstow
    • Union Strong
    • Twerking
  • PM Corner
    • Oi Mate, Me PM’s Knackered Innit
    • Shinzo Oh No
      • Where’s Rahm Emanuel???
]]> S07:E10 - "Scromiting" S07:E10 - "Scromiting" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/106 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/106 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 106 false I WOULD UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAND


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  • Sorry, my chaos dial was turned up
  • Dealing with a Giuliani-style assault
    • (someone came within 10 feet of me)
  • Meet Mabel
  • Gas Station Comestible Corner
    • Mountain Dew Flamin’ Hot
  • Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

    Nuclear plants supplying electricity to California were online during the early 2000s energy crisis and in 2020. They did not prevent outages.

    • Oh, private ownership not investing in infrastructure so as to squeeze greater profits results in terrible energy grid? Capitalism is to blame? I’ve never seen anything like this before, must be fake /s

    The leading causes of most power outages are problems with transmission and distribution lines — a branch falling or a fried squirrel, for example. In California, customers suffer purposeful shutoffs of power to prevent faulty wires from starting wildfires. Even 100 nuclear power plants wouldn’t prevent these outages.

    Flaws in the independent system operator’s energy market also played a key role in the August 2020 power outages, just as they had 20 years earlier in the California energy crisis. Buried on page 113 of the Final Root Cause Analysis report, the grid operator admits that “Energy market practices contributed to the inability to obtain additional energy that could have alleviated the strained conditions on the CAISO grid on Aug. 14 and 15.” The report goes on to say that the independent system operator failed to properly forecast demand for the next day, and to schedule adequate power supply. The grid operator allowed the export of thousands of megawatts of power out of California, at the time it was most needed. This caused a scramble for power supplies, and for the independent system operator to call for a 1,000-megawatt outage on Aug. 14, and a 500-megawatt outage on Aug. 15.

    Flawed market operations created a supply-and-demand problem.

  • Americans Don’t Take Vacation or Sick Days and Apparently its Our Fault and a Moral Failing

    The United States is famously obsessed with productivity, from the Protestant work ethic of our Puritan ancestors to the Horatio Alger stories we continue to see as aspirational rather than as the fantasies they are. Our dog-eat-dog form of capitalism activates a constant, underlying fear of replacement — if we’re not visibly working, someone else might swoop in and steal our job. …

    We don’t want to be a burden to our colleagues. We don’t want to burn through whatever limited time off we do get (if we’re lucky). And even if we do feel sick, we’re surrounded by a pandemic — couldn’t it be so much worse? Here’s the thing. It could be, but we don’t have to personally make it so by neglecting to attend to our legitimate needs. Rather than pushing the limits further and further out, this could be a time to bring them in.

    At the very least, we need the space to heal and recover when sick. And we shouldn’t stop there — we need space and at least a few moments untethered from our jobs. In a moment when life and work have bled into one undifferentiated, weekendless morass, we have ever more need for a hard stop — some excuse to rest without the fear or guilt that have become our constant companions. But employers aren’t likely to suggest that we slow down. We’ll have to make the decision to do so ourselves.

  • Baby Boomer Advice to Millennials

    https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1536340513359470592

]]> S07:E09 - "The Hungarian Secret" S07:E09 - "The Hungarian Secret" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/105 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/105 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 105 false What A Morning.


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  • New Intro

    Welcome to 2 Guys 2 Questions, where two friends test the limits of propriety through the questions we ask.

    This week we are sponsored by: Iced Tea

    I am Aaron L. M. Goodwin And I’m joined, as always, by Andrew Huster, say hello Andrew. I’m also joined by … Slavoj Žižek

  • Andrew’s woodworking
    • A small little desk for my downstairs
  • T breaks suck yo
    • Why do bodies do this shit. Let that THC hit the same!
]]> S07:E08 - "Hallstatt Phenotype" S07:E08 - "Hallstatt Phenotype" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/104 Mon, 30 May 2022 13:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/104 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 104 false Marijuana is a drug of despair.


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]]> S07:E07 - "Few Understand This" S07:E07 - "Few Understand This" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/103 Mon, 23 May 2022 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/103 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 103 false I have the exact opposite of imposter syndrome.


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]]> S07:E06 - "I've always liked the idea of juicing" S07:E06 - "I've always liked the idea of juicing" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/102 Mon, 16 May 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/102 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 102 false Sorry Cowboy, I Was Staring At Your Truck


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]]> S07:E05 - "We threw out lady box" S07:E05 - "We threw out lady box" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/101 Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/101 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 101 false Awful. Not the same as use to be .


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  • Lil Baby Howard is Mad His Children Are Organizing Against Him

    Madison Hall, a 25-year-old barista and union organizer, says that the 68-year-old billionaire repeatedly bristled at and cut off their questions about Starbucks’ handling of the growing union movement within the company. “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Schultz told Hall, they recalled.

    …

    Hall says that when they mentioned the several federal complaints filed by the NLRB against the company for illegally harassing and firing pro-union workers, a number of other baristas began murmuring, seemingly unaware of the charges. Hall says they tried to explain the NLRB’s actions, but was again cut off by Schultz. A challenge over whether Starbucks offered the best benefits in the retail industry was also interrupted.

    “Then he went into a long rant about the history of Starbucks and how he used to be poor,” Hall reports. Hall says they pursued the line of questioning, only to encounter more hostility.

    “I said, ‘You say you’re not anti-union, but on July 1 2021, [Starbucks was] found guilty of retaliation in Philadelphia,’” Hall relays. “That was when he got super-defensive and cut me off, saying ‘We’re not talking about this.’

  • Oh, people actually care about their work

    https://youtu.be/T_iJatoWUrQ

    https://youtu.be/RbKLFEQf62I

  • Nick Fuentes in trouble for not being an incel

    Inceldom Is Critical to Nick Fuentes’ Grift (melmagazine.com)

]]> S07:E04 - "The Consequences of Video Essays" S07:E04 - "The Consequences of Video Essays" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/100 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/100 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 100 false It’s our hundredth episode! With special guest Jess!


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]]> S07:E03 - "For Sure, Man" S07:E03 - "For Sure, Man" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/99 Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/99 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 99 false A highly estrogenified environment.


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]]> S07:E02 - "Friend of Corvids" S07:E02 - "Friend of Corvids" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/98 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/98 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 98 false Mr. Putin sir, you have been canceled.


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  • Aaron’s Birthday
  • Hot nuts
  • Simply Pop
]]> S07:E01 - "The Jim Incident" S07:E01 - "The Jim Incident" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/97 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/97 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 97 false I became worse.


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  • We are pivoting to becoming a men’s lifestyle and relationship podcast
  • How I spent my Winter Vacation
    • Why is Aaron making tiktoks?
      • My rules is this: I absolutely will not put effort into it. I’m not being paid.
    • Andrew has become extremely normal
  • Coca-cola Starlight
]]> S06:E14 - "Hot Dog Meat" S06:E14 - "Hot Dog Meat" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/96 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/96 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 96 false When you take things out of bath water, the bath water decreases, does it not?


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]]> S06:E13 - "Bonk" S06:E13 - "Bonk" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/95 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/95 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 95 false Bonk.


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]]> S06:E12 - "The Dry Boys" S06:E12 - "The Dry Boys" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/94 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/94 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 94 false This is a Pro-Sumer podcast.


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  • This podcast is brought to you by generous financial support from viewers like you. Thank you.
  • We’re the dry boys.
  • This is the only tattoo Aaron would ever get (probably)
    • ISO 8601
  • Andrew is a prosumer
  • Andrew ordered a Framework
]]> S06:E11 - "Do You Eat The Peppers?" S06:E11 - "Do You Eat The Peppers?" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/93 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/93 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 93 false Some really sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently. Story time…


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  • NEVER FORGET
    • Patriot Day
    • Patriots be shopping
  • Kung Pao Chicken
    • Do you eat the peppers?
    • #EatThePeppers
]]> Pop Off Episode 6 - 9/11 Pop Off Episode 6 - 9/11 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/92 Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/92 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 92 false Never forget.


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]]> S06:E10 - "Big Chungus on Campus" S06:E10 - "Big Chungus on Campus" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/91 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/91 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 91 false This is not the PGA Golf Swing students are going to be learning from us.


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]]> S06:E09 - "The Barefoot People" S06:E09 - "The Barefoot People" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/90 Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/90 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 90 false We apologize in advance for this episode.


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  • Afghanistan
  • Oh no, The IPCC Report

    • I don’t like IPCC report day - by Emily Atkin - HEATED

      Wanna know a secret about the new IPCC report released yesterday? Most people who say they’ve read it have not actually read it.

      What they’ve read is the 42-page “Summary for Policymakers”—which, in theory, should be totally fine. The summary document is supposed to be the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative summary of the “current state of the climate, including how it is changing and the role of human influence,” according to the IPCC. There’s really no need for the average person to read a 1,300 page report.

      But here’s another secret: the term “fossil fuels” is not included in the IPCC’s 42-page summary document, or the IPCC’s press release. So if you only read the summary for policymakers, you won’t actually learn the full role of human influence on the climate. You’ll find out that human “activities” and “influence” are “unequivocally” causing climate disasters—but which activities and influences are the greatest will remain a mystery. You’ll find out what’s happening to the climate, but you won’t find out why it’s happening or who is responsible. It’s all just “Humans,” “emissions,” “activities,” and “influence.”

      You’ll learn the world is ending, and you will not know who to blame.

  • The Sheet Method
    • If you just make your bed with like five layers of sheets you can just tear off one layer as it gets dirty but not have to re-make your whole bed.
    • thefriedricemethod.com
]]> S06:E08 - "COUCH UPDATE 2K21" S06:E08 - "COUCH UPDATE 2K21" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/89 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/89 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 89 false Andrew makes his triumphant return to the podcast, to provide a couch update.


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  • Stop Putting Actors Like Jared Leto In a Fat Suit - Discourse Blog
    • As a fatmn, yes plz stop

    It’s messed up! And it’s wrong! Because there are plenty of fat (or just not thin) actors out there that could have been cast for this role, and we didn’t need to see Jared Leto in a goddamn fat suit to accomplish the job. Really, if they wanted to cast a fat person, they could have done that, instead of following the industry standard of casting a thin or straight size person to wear a suit that makes them look only a little bit like a fat person but mostly like a thin person wearing several layers of pillows around their arms and torso, with some bad prosthetic covering their neck and face. But no, the people needed their Leto in a fat suit that badly! I shouldn’t have to point this out, but it’s lazy, it’s insulting, and it often reinforces negative and harmful stereotypes about fat people. It’s especially insufferable that Leto of all people was put in a fat suit at all. Like, not this fucking guy!!

    https://twitter.com/30STMandmore/status/1421232546424180736?s=20

  • Next week: special guest episode with Jared Leto
]]> S06:E07 - "Brineophobes" S06:E07 - "Brineophobes" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/88 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/88 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 88 false Twenty thousand dollar trashcans.


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]]> S06:E06 - "Mancala Day" S06:E06 - "Mancala Day" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/87 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/87 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 87 false Special guest host Adam Rees Anderson Esq. III


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  • Mancala Effect
  • Reporting on F1 live from the Silverstone Circuit near the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury
  • Do you like your burgers sweet or sour?
    • This is my new way of thinking about burgers
    • Sweetmn and Sourboys

  • Libs are eugenicists with a hair trigger

    https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1415894843876909056?s=20

    • It’s just puritan/calvinist what-have-you applied to team-sport politics. If you’re successful, you must be a good person. If you’re a good person you must be on my team.
    • Things that seem like simply matters of taste or intelligence etc. which are actually just anti-poor-people or anti-working-class
      • Lots of fashion or lifestyle stuff
  • Anarchists are just sovereign citizens with better books
    • No I haven’t read any of them, but trust me.
  • We’re so normal, it’s not even funny. Normalest podcast ever. Normalest guys ever.
]]> S06:E05 - "Climate Supremacy" S06:E05 - "Climate Supremacy" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/86 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/86 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 86 false There is simply too much in this episode for me to summarize it in a humorous way.


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]]> S06:E04 - "My Sign is Dummy Thicc" S06:E04 - "My Sign is Dummy Thicc" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/85 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/85 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 85 false Just trying to survibe


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]]> S06:E03 - "Everything Is Shopping" S06:E03 - "Everything Is Shopping" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/84 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/84 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 84 false Podcasting is shopping


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  • New Del Taco Merch just dropped
  • Thought technology: Everything is shopping
    • Dating is shopping
    • Job-hunting is shopping
    • Education is shopping
    • Watching videos is shopping
  • Starlink Overheating
  • Inside Architecture’s Wildest Conspiracy Theory - Bloomberg

    • Basement windows!

      Despite their interest in architecture, most Tartaria theorists do not appear to have backgrounds in the building trades: Many of the more easily refuted arguments spring from very basic misunderstandings of how the built environment works, as well as broader confusion about how buildings function in the economy and culture. An abundance of posters appear convinced that below-grade basement windows in older buildings, for example, are evidence that the building had been “mud flooded,” and the rest of the structure is actually buried deep underground. Sometimes this will get some skeptical pushback (“I think they didn’t have lights in the cellar so they build in windows for them?” was how one poster responded), but that’s more of an exception than the rule.

    • Please, I’m begging, read a book

      They sneer at the wedding-cake-topper Second Empire buildings designed by Alfred Mullett after the Civil War, for example. “How many stamps did you sell to build yourself a post office like this?,” says popular Tartarian YouTuber JonLevi in one of his videos. “Absolutely ridiculous. The post office has always struggled.” (He has more than 100,000 subscribers.) Some of this confusion is unfamiliarity: Mullett’s U.S. Customs House and Post Office in St. Louis, for example, was a huge federal project, built to process the mail of 10 states and four U.S. territories, not a neighborhood letter depot. But beyond that, there’s a broader refusal to believe that public architecture could ever have been built in an atmosphere of generosity and abundance. This is echoed by their astonishment at the double-height grand lobbies and arched doorways of old buildings, which they see as artifacts not meant for us. (Some theorists surmise that ancient Tartarians were giants.) The Tartarian community seems to have internalized the current era’s predilection for public sector austerity and the resulting aesthetics, which they abhor, more than they realize.

    • So, so close

      This disregard for architecture’s “true” history moves into a wider rejection of how disposably cheap and commodified the culture at large seems to be. As such, one canonical belief of Tartarian aficionados is that the elaborate temporary pavilions built for late 19th century and early 20th century World’s Fairs were in fact Tartarian capital cities. It strikes them as improbably wasteful that anyone would erect these magnificent complexes, full of fluted columns, domes and pediments, out of plaster of Paris, hemp fiber, and straw, as was done for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. In Tartarian lore, these sites were ancient monuments that were co-opted to teach a falsified history of the world and make a few bucks selling popcorn and Ferris Wheel rides. Then they were demolished, to erase the handiwork of the real builders. … In pointing out the eradication of an ancient culture by an expanding imperial power, Tartarian believers again stumble on something real, but they scramble the protagonists.

      • All these conspiracy theories have a kernel of truth—-we have created an alienated, commodified world, but the “conspiracy” is capitalism, nothing more.

      The Tartaria commentariat is laced with economic discontent; they often decry the evaluation and disregard of buildings purely as salable commodities, untethered from broader notions of cultural legacy and achievement. There’s a reoccurring and implicit understanding that buildings, like the Singer Building, get torn down when they stop making money — the only thing that really matters — and that the world is a vast field of predation, where the rich and powerful consume the poor and weak.

    • Reactionary

      …the Tartaria theory is just an extreme form of aesthetic moralism, the idea that traditional architecture styles are inherently good and modern architecture is the product of a degenerate culture. The tastes of the community generally align with traditional architectural revival proponents (some of whom also embrace reactionary and white nationalist politics). This sort of aesthetic nativism flourished during the Trump era, and it appears to have fresh converts in Congress: Recently, representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar formed a new caucus dedicated to “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and infrastructure that “befits the progeny of European architecture.” The language is different, but the sentiment wouldn’t appear out of place in r/Tartaria.

]]> S06:E02 - "I'm Greek" S06:E02 - "I'm Greek" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/83 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/83 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 83 false This episode is covered in sea snot.


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]]> S06:E01 - "The Longocado" S06:E01 - "The Longocado" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/82 Mon, 24 May 2021 08:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/82 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 82 false You won’t GeoGuess what we have in this episode for you.


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]]> Pop Off Episode 5 - Precision Scheduled Railroading Pop Off Episode 5 - Precision Scheduled Railroading https://goodstuff.network/noidea/81 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/81 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 81 false Extremely Special Guest Justin Roczniak (Well There’s Your Problem, donoteat) joins Andrew and Special Guest Host Liz to talk about Precision Scheduled Railroading.


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‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe

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]]> S05:E14 - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" S05:E14 - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/80 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/80 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 80 false When you order, grill to we smash sear that fresh ball of beef on a hot-buttered the burger you can taste and delicious burger.


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]]> S05:E13 - "Low Dynamic Range" S05:E13 - "Low Dynamic Range" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/79 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/79 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 79 false Other than that, Happy Easter!


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]]> S05:E12 - "Hang Loose" S05:E12 - "Hang Loose" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/78 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/78 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 78 false 🤙🤙🤙


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  • Solar Canals

    • New study looks at covering California’s canals with solar panels — High Country News – Know the West

      Solar-paneling canals would not only produce renewable energy for use across the state, it would run the water system itself. “By covering canals with solar panels, we can reduce evaporation and avoid disturbing natural and working lands, while providing renewable energy and other co-benefits,” says environmental engineer Brandi McKuin of the University of California, Merced, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, lead author on the paper.

      Ironically enough, the performance of solar panels falls as temperatures rise. In a solar cell, photons from the sun knock electrons out of atoms, producing an electric current. When a panel gets too hot, that puts electrons into an already excited state, so they don’t create as much energy when dislodged by photons. Spanning panels over canals would, in a sense, make them water-cooled, boosting their efficiency. “And additionally,” McKuin adds, “shade from the panels mitigates aquatic weed growth, which is a major canal maintenance issue.”

]]> S05:E11 - "New Pasta Just Dropped" S05:E11 - "New Pasta Just Dropped" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/77 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/77 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 77 false This podcast is presented in 1x to preserve the creators’ original vision.


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  • Aaron has become 38
  • Andrew has become The Spoon-carver
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  • The Asia Vertical
    • Begun, The China Cold Wars have
    • POLITICO Playbook: We should have seen this coming - POLITICO
    • Andrew Sullivan doesn’t understand racism, to the surprise of nobody

      • When The Narrative Replaces The News - The Weekly Dish

        Here’s the truth: We don’t yet know why this man did these horrible things. It’s probably complicated, or, as my therapist used to say, “multi-determined.” That’s why we have thorough investigations and trials in America. We only have one solid piece of information as to motive, which is the confession by the mass killer to law enforcement: that he was a religious fundamentalist who was determined to live up to chastity and repeatedly failed, as is often the case. Like the 9/11 bombers or the mass murderer at the Pulse nightclub, he took out his angst on the source of what he saw as his temptation, and committed mass murder. This is evil in the classic fundamentalist sense: a perversion of religion and sexual repression into violence.

        We should not take the killer’s confession as definitive, of course. But we can probe it — and indeed, his story is backed up by acquaintances and friends and family. The New York Times originally ran one piece reporting this out. The Washington Post also followed up, with one piece citing contemporaneous evidence of the man’s “religious mania” and sexual compulsion. It appears that the man frequented at least two of the spas he attacked. He chose the spas, his ex roommates said, because he thought they were safer than other ways to get easy sex. Just this morning, the NYT ran a second piece which confirms that the killer had indeed been in rehab for sexual impulses, was a religious fanatic, and his next target was going to be “a business tied to the pornography industry.”

        We have yet to find any credible evidence of anti-Asian hatred or bigotry in this man’s history. Maybe we will. We can’t rule it out. But we do know that his roommates say they once asked him if he picked the spas for sex because the women were Asian. And they say he denied it, saying he thought those spas were just the safest way to have quick sex. That needs to be checked out more. But the only piece of evidence about possible anti-Asian bias points away, not toward it.

        And yet. Well, you know what’s coming. Accompanying one original piece on the known facts, the NYT ran nine — nine! — separate stories about the incident as part of the narrative that this was an anti-Asian hate crime, fueled by white supremacy and/or misogyny. Not to be outdone, the WaPo ran sixteen separate stories on the incident as an anti-Asian white supremacist hate crime. Sixteen! One story for the facts; sixteen stories on how critical race theory would interpret the event regardless of the facts.

        • My guy.
    • Side-eyeing all the people posting about anti-Asian racism who sat out during George Floyd 😒😒😒
]]> S05:E10 - "Mai WAIFU" S05:E10 - "Mai WAIFU" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/76 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/76 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 76 false We invented NFTs.


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    For example, a creator can use NewNew to post a poll asking which sweater they should wear today, or who they should hang out with and where they should go. Fans purchase voting power on NewNew’s platform to participate in the polls, and with enough voting power, they get to watch their favorite influencer live out their wishes, like a real life choose-your-own-adventure game.

    “Creators are burning out, but their fans want more and more,” said Jen Lee, 25, the founder of a popular creator economy community on Discord. “By monetizing each aspect of their life, they can extract value from everyday interactions.”

    Courtne Smith, the founder and chief executive of NewNew, said the company was “similar to the stock market” in that “you can buy shares, which are essentially votes, to be able to control a certain level of a person’s life.”

    “We’re building an economy of attention where you purchase moments in other people’s lives, and we take it a step further by allowing and enabling people to control those moments,” she said.

  • WAIFU Coin (kind of afraid to google it tbh)

    https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1370126360463745028

]]> S05:E09 - "Punished Dr. Seuss" S05:E09 - "Punished Dr. Seuss" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/75 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/75 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 75 false Stop trying to make us learn things. We absolutely won’t.


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]]> S05:E08 - "Financial Rōnin" S05:E08 - "Financial Rōnin" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/74 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/74 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 74 false Folks, you ever regret paying off a debt because it makes you lazy and slovenly? Show of hands.


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  • 1970s Was The Inflection Point

    https://theweek.com/articles/486362/where-americas-jobs-went

    • Profits

      https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/cmgseURLUM0ziiZaPv80Ns8SSLk=/filters:format(png)/media/img/posts/2015/02/labor_gap/original.png

    • Deregulation
      • Deregulation was big in the 70s, championed by Alfred Kahn, the Brookings Institution, and the AEI
        • Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976
        • Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
        • Staggers Rail Act of 1980
        • Motor Carrier Act of 1980
        • The telephone system was increasingly de-regulated throughout the 70s
    • Oil/Energy Crises
      • In 1973, the embargo imposed by OPEC led to oil prices rising 300%
    • Union Membership
      • Just read “A Collective Bargain” by Jane McAlevy, okay
      • 50 Years Of Shrinking Union Membership, In One Map - Planet Money - NPR
      • Private union membership numbers in US
      • Why did union decline take off in the 70’s?
        • Mostly, prosperity blinded workers and unions to businesses increased use of bad labor law issued in the late 40’s (ie., taft-hartly and NLRB decisions)

        Starting in the 1970s, employers began to shift this balance once again. They became much more politically active than they had been in the mid-century years, and they began to push to limit government regulation on multiple fronts such as the environment, consumer rights, and labor (Hacker and Pierson 2010). As part of this renewed conservative activism, employers ramped up their resistance to established unions and new union organizing. They did so, in part, because they faced a new economic paradigm created by a variety of emerging trends. First, financialization shifted the locus of economic power from manufacturing to banks and investment firms. Second, U.S. corporations, which were the world’s economic leaders in the years after World War II, faced more global competition as countries like Germany and Japan got back on their feet. Third, the rate of profit for private business fell by 29% between 1965 and 1973, and among manufacturers it fell by more than 40% (Brenner 2006). And finally, U.S. employers were more heavily saddled by social welfare costs, like health care and pensions, than were their global competitors because of the U.S.’s employer-based social welfare system (Hacker 2002).

        Explaining the erosion of private-sector unions: How corporate practices and legal changes have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain - Economic Policy Institute

        • Unfriendly courts
          • Between 1940 and 1969, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the unions’ position nearly 80% of the time.
          • After 1970, that percentage has dropped to only 50%
        • Percentage of labor force participating in NLRA elections each year declines
          • 1950’s - 1960’s: 1%
          • 1970’s: 0.78%
          • 1980’s: 0.28%
        • Percentage of NLRB elections won to form a union
          • 1940’s: 80%
          • 1977: 50%
        • Percentage of first contract wins for unions:
          • 1950’s: 86%
          • 1970’s: 70%
          • 1990’s: 56%
        • Increased charges of unfair labor practice (ULP) (rose 7x from 1950-1980)
        • Increase in captive audience sessions
        • Increase in anti-union consultant firms
        • Transition from majority private to majority public sector union membership
          • Civil Rights movement lead to legislation that got a huge quantity of women and POC into federal and state jobs, and thus union jobs
          • Sadly, if you reduce the state, as neoliberalism started to do, that means you’re losing a bunch of Union Jobs and there’s not much you can do to stop it.
          • Public unions inherently weaker
            • Can’t strike, subject to the whims of 50 states’ laws
    • Inflation
      • 1973 & 1979 food and energy shocks
      • Keynesian economics works if you have a solid welfare state, but if you don’t: oops
    • Outsourcing
      • The rise of information technology allowing instantaneous, cheap communication over very long distances helped encourage outsourcing and offshoring
      • Outsourcing allows reduction of labor costs and thus increased profits

      When did offshoring become so prevalent? The trend began in earnest in the late 1970s at large manufacturers such as General Electric. GE’s then CEO, Jack Welch, who was widely respected by other corporate chieftains, argued that public corporations owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, not employees. Therefore, Welch said, companies should seek to lower costs and maximize profits by moving operations wherever is cheapest. “Ideally,” Welch said, “you’d have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy.” Not only did GE offshore much of its manufacturing, so did its parts suppliers, which were instructed at GE-orchestrated “supplier migration seminars” to “migrate or be out of business.”

      • How’s GE doing now? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh not great.
    • Collapse of Bretton Woods

    • Shareholder Primacy

      “In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires…the key point is that, in his capacity as a corporate executive, the manager is the agent of the individuals who own the corporation…and his primary responsibility is to them.” — Milton Friedman. “A Friedman Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits”. The New York Times. September 13, 1970.

      • Shareholder primacy led to the rise of stock-based compensation for executives

      In 2019, Jerry Useem writing in The Atlantic and prominent Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders writing in The New York Times argued that shareholder theory, which promoted a rise in stock-based compensation, has led executives to enrich themselves by implementing stock buybacks—often to the detriment of the companies they work for. The critics argued this diverts company funds away from potentially more profitable or socially valuable avenues, like research and design, reduces productivity, and increases inequality by delivering money to higher-paid employees who receive stock-based compensation and not to lower-paid employees who do not.

]]> S05:E07 - "The Sex Episode" S05:E07 - "The Sex Episode" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/73 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/73 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 73 false It’s our 69th regular episode. You know what that means.


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]]> Pop Off Episode 4 - The Bell System Pop Off Episode 4 - The Bell System https://goodstuff.network/noidea/72 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/72 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 72 false People using technology to help keep down costs and improve service, keeping your phone system the best in the world.


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Returning Champion Liz joins Andrew to discuss… the Bell System. Was it good? Was it bad? It’s complicated.

]]> S05:E06 - "Proponent of Gravy" S05:E06 - "Proponent of Gravy" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/71 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/71 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 71 false Aaron has several proposals, and Andrew has several complaints.


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  • Sigma Male follow up

    ![https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/865/625/043.jpg(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/865/625/043.jpg)

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  • Aaron is possibly being opped/catfished by a man claiming to be from Gambia
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  • Bring Back Struttin’

    https://twitter.com/AaronLMGoodwin/status/1357483604654182400

  • They should serve gravy with more things
    • Blue apron needs more gravy/sauces
    • Proponent of Gravy
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  • Antidepressants Instead of Welfare

    • https://www.nber.org/papers/w28106

      We study the economic and psychological effects of a USD 1076 PPP unconditional cash transfer, a five-week psychotherapy program, and the combination of both interventions among 5,756 individuals in rural Kenya. One year after the interventions, cash transfer recipients had higher consumption, asset holdings, and revenue, as well as higher levels of psychological well-being than control households. In contrast, the psychotherapy program had no measurable effects on either psychological or economic outcomes, both for individuals with poor mental health at baseline and others. The effects of the combined treatment are similar to those of the cash transfer alone.

    • https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep124-mental-health-covid-how-us-media-spins-societal-failures-into-personal-self-help-journeys

    Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well‐adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities.

    But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good‐will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self‐defeating effects of physical violence…” (mlk, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7740610-modern-psychology-has-a-word-that-is-probably-used-more)

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]]> S05:E05 - "OnlyPans" S05:E05 - "OnlyPans" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/70 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/70 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 70 false Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time.


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]]> S05:E04 - "Procedural Radicalism" S05:E04 - "Procedural Radicalism" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/69 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/69 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 69 false Rustle up a soyrizo scramble for yourself and enjoy the episode.


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  • Terfs mad

    https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/1352251273991643137

    • This stuff mostly doesn’t play in the US, at least compared to how outrageously popular transphobia is in the UK.
    • This is not to say that there still aren’t incredible barriers and hurdles for trans people in the US.
    • We stan Gerald Stratford, the only unproblematic Brit, because he found a hobby instead of tweeting about gender.

  • The Daily Mess

    • Should we try our own version of the Mountain Eagle letters? Here’s some from the local rag

      • Critical thinking

        It appears that many of the people submitting letters to the editor seriously need to take a critical thinking class and use it. Critical thinking is an absolute necessity in this day and age.

        James Windhausen, Hesperia

      • It has started

        Big tech has violated our right to free speech. Not only the president’s, others too. It’s going to be a dark future for our country because Georgia sold out our country for a lousy, $2,000 check. Already the D.C. mayor is calling for statehood. This is the woman who allowed BLM to set fire to buildings and beat those who were guarding the White House until they were all bloody. I saw it, but some of you didn’t because the mainstream media edits it out just like they edit out Trump condemning all the white racists. It’s the video Biden used over and over to call Trump a racist, and it was all a lie!

        We need to take 230 protection away from these tech companies. The Senate was supposed to work on this but they are a bunch of cowards!

        Pelosi wants to impeach Trump (he has two weeks to go) because she wants to make sure he doesn’t run again. How sick is that? The New York governor is botching up vaccine distribution. It isn’t bad enough that he killed all the people in the nursing homes. He’s going to kill more by delaying the shots. It’s like having dumb and dumber in charge. I just hope our governor does a better job, but he has made too many mistakes or isn’t smart enough to do the job. Lets face it, these people have wasted billions and our country is trillions in debt, and our money will soon be worthless. There’s a good reason the American people are depressed. Our country has been going downhill since Obama was first elected president. He stated he could do a third term by proxy, so I guess he’s still lurking in the shadows.

        I don’t think that you will print this because our country has slid into an era of communism.

        Anita DeLeon, Barstow

      • African American

        Kamala Harris is referred to as “African-American.” I have always thought that the term “African-American” referred to someone who has a parent of African descent, and one of American ancestry. Harris has roots in India and Jamaica. “African-American” is a misnomer in this case. “Woman of Color” would seem more accurate.

        Ann Miner, Apple Valley

      • Goodbye, Marie Callender’s

        I’m really going to miss those delicious pies. My wife and I enjoyed dining at Marie Callender’s. Their pot roast and turkey meals were always great.

        Unfortunately, generational changes were its downfall. Younger generations viewed the restaurant chain as an “old person’s” eating place.

        It was a beautiful building. They don’t make them like that anymore. I’m sure the new Chick-fil-A replacing it will do just fine. Still going to miss those pies.

        John Martin, Victorville

      • State of Our Nation

        What does it say about the state of our nation today that we have to have thousands of National Guard troops in Washington to protect our incoming president from the followers of our outgoing president?

        Johnathan Haas, Apple Valley

      • Stinker Of The House

        We have had good, well-intentioned speakers of the House in the past, such as Democrat Tip O’Neill, who worked with President Ronald Reagan to accomplish legislative action. We now have Nancy “Pelousy,” who strived to undermine a conservative president from the day he entered office until his last day. She even tore up the state of the union speech paperwork, destroying government property.

        She is the seed of division and disunity, and will thwart any of Biden’s attempts for unity because of her disruptive management style that is so fickle. She doesn’t represent the people, just her own self interests. Hold onto your hats as she balks at Biden’s efforts only if Chuck Schumer “counsels” her.

        Irv Kettler, Victorville

  • South Africa Variant: We Got some Bad News
    • https://youtu.be/JlTxZ3shSzE
      • Takeaways:
        1. Spike protein now has two points of connection to the ACE in lung cells
        2. This new point of contact also has the ability to adapt and shape-shift on the fly to become basically immune to treatments
        3. The two points of connection effectively block antibodies
        4. They have observed re-infection of hospital workers and theorize this will be very common when this variant becomes widespread
        5. Even if you stop the spread of this particular variant, studies are showing that this mutation is an inevitable development in the evolution of covid-19 and has been replicated in multiple labs.
        6. Basically, this mutation makes the virus spread mega-fast and mega-easy and makes current treatments (regenerate etc) ineffective and those with antibodies from previous bouts of covid can become re-infected
      • What it’s going to take to stop this:
        • We have to vaccinate everyone in all countries to slow the spread down
    • ‘Mask free’ event scheduled for Saturday at Jess Ranch Marketplace prompts extra security
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]]> S05:E03 - "The Bread" S05:E03 - "The Bread" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/68 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/68 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 68 false I can’t stop looking at it.


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  • @jack on Trump’s Twitter Ban and uh also bitcoin

    https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510775426019328

  • Are we headed towards a society where everyone’s mad all the time?
    • Folks, you gotta give people grace.
    • You have to let them make mistakes.
    • You need to understand that not everyone thinks or understands the same things as you, and you need to be able to gracefully deal with that.
    • Kill the cop inside your mind.
    • Again, most of this comes back to thinking of things in terms of individuals, but no level of bullying or coercing individuals will change a societal issue— these things have to be tackled at the points of power and influence that empower bad shit.
    • Forgive me for getting religious here, but Jesus on the cross didn’t look at his executioners and say, “father, destroy them for they know exactly what they’re doing”. You have got to believe that people err because of ignorance and if they actually understood their behavior would change. Most people are not willfully malicious and bad. People have so many problems they face every day. No need to create more stumbling blocks.

    https://twitter.com/posadist_trapgd/status/1350137335149694977

]]> S05:E02 - "Pick Up A Football" S05:E02 - "Pick Up A Football" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/67 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/67 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 67 false As the coup last week demonstrates, more people need hobbies.


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  • Aaron’s Purchases
  • Aaron’s going hammertone army green
  • Exercising my ass
    • Are we exercising?
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]]> S05:E01 - "Crossing the Rubicon" S05:E01 - "Crossing the Rubicon" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/66 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/66 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 66 false Get steampilled with us.


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  • The Eatin’ Vertical
    • Cactus Coolers
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    • Huster’s Rice Habit
  • Objecting to the electoral college
    • I say, great. I object to it too. Glad we’re finally doing away with it touches earpiece what’s that?
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]]> S00:E10 - "Take-a-Palooza" S00:E10 - "Take-a-Palooza" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/65 Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/65 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 65 false It’s the end of the year. We round up all the takes.


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]]> Pop Off Episode 3 - "Milk Tubes" Pop Off Episode 3 - "Milk Tubes" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/64 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/64 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 64 false We bring you… the Mall of Food.


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Andrew brings on special guests Claire, Bryant, and Liz, to propose their exciting new concept in the casual dining space to Aaron and get his feedback. We bring you: the Mall of Food.

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MCDLT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac https://corporate.homedepot.com/newsroom/depot-dogs-come-hot

Um Bongo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYj5o4kQsXs https://www.7-eleven.com/big-gulp

Wendy’s Training Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXeFPpPJeI

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https://steernstein.com/

https://www.cracked.com/article_28014_the-crazy-story-fake-burger-king-in-pittsburgh.html

Steve’s 1989 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA

https://twitter.com/AliceAvizandum/status/1194782605658468352

]]> S04:E14 – "The Chad Company" S04:E14 – "The Chad Company" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/63 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/63 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 63 false Happy Infrastructure Week!


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]]> S04:E13 – "Oil Into Soil" S04:E13 – "Oil Into Soil" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/62 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/62 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 62 false It looks like you’re about to get ratioed. Would you like help with that?


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]]> S04:E12 – "Chart Alignment Chart" S04:E12 – "Chart Alignment Chart" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/61 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/61 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 61 false We preview the 2020 Election. Also, beans.


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]]> S04:E11 – "SBOOBS" S04:E11 – "SBOOBS" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/60 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/60 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 60 false Noshing on a smack barm pey wet, thinking about TaB.


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]]> Pop Off Episode 1 - Rail Freight Transport Pop Off Episode 1 - Rail Freight Transport https://goodstuff.network/noidea/59 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/59 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 59 false Only boxcars are good, all other freight sucks.


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Today Andrew is joined by Friend of the Show Liz to discuss rail freight transport, and other, lesser, forms of freight transport.

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Types of Freight

Containerized Freight

Allows for “intermodal” transport, but almost always requires trucks for the last mile (the drayage portion). Also requires cranes or other specialized lifting equipment.

Trailer-on-Flatcar

Also requires trucks for the last mile, and also requires cranes or other lifting equipment. Trailer-on-flatcar also wastes space relative to a roadrailer or containerized freight. The space between the trailer and flatcar is essentially unused. Double-stack intermodal container cars use this entire space. On roadrailers, this space is just the usual space under the railcar that is not typically used.

Roadrailer

Requires trucks for the last mile, but, crucially, requires minimal special equipment. Trailers can be driven right into the yard and connected to bogies.

However, roadrailer trailers are considerably heavier than conventional semi trailers because they must bear the weight of an entire train. This concept is dying out anyway.

Boxcars

Boxcars are the classic, and they kind of got it right. Can be delivered by rail to the end customer (assuming they have a spur). Doors on each side allow for easy loading and unloading. No need for specialized lifting equipment. Can be shuttled around easily with a railcar mover (which is comparable to a yard truck or some forklifts).

The Problem With Boxcars

Boxcars must be loaded and unloaded and are not really intermodal. This is a process called “break bulk” freight and it is out of fashion because of how inefficient it is considered versus loading an intermodal container from a ship directly onto a truck or train, which requires no unloading of any kind.

For some uses, especially of bulk cargo, containers remain unpopular, because they simply don’t make as much sense. It’s much easier to use tank cars to transport liquids or gas than containerized tanks (which exist, but are needlessly complex), and transporting bulk materials like rock or coal, etc., rarely requires containerization, and can go into specialized hopper or gondola cars.

Rail Freight Is A Land Of Contrasts

One of the great things about rail freight, though, is the variety of cars that can be used to transport goods. These include:

  • Boxcars
  • Refrigerator cars (“reefers”)
  • Hoppers
  • Covered hoppers
  • Gondolas
  • Centerbeam cars
  • Flatcars
  • Well cars

And all of these can be combined in any combination on a single train and hauled with only a few locomotives. Rail freight transport is often far more efficient than truck haulage. The longest train ever, an iron ore train ran by BHP Billton in Australia, had a weight of 99,734 metric tons, hauling 82,000 tonnes of ore in 682 cars along 7.3 km. It used 8 locomotives, with a total power of 35,200 hp. This would equivalently require 4,017 semi trucks with a required 2,048,670 hp. Imagine the fuel consumption difference.

Long trains in the US can reach about 2.29 miles across 180 cars, typically hauled by 4 locomotives.

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]]> S04:E10 – "Service Merchandise" S04:E10 – "Service Merchandise" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/58 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/58 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 58 false Just want to be curled up on the couch reading about camcorders.


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  • L.A. announces winner of new streetlight design competition - Los Angeles Times
    • What is that loop for?
  • “By 2050” Carbon Neutrality Pledges: Too Little, Too Late
    • https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/09/michigan-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2050-under-whitmer-climate-change-plan.html
    • California is ready to pull the plug on gas vehicles

    • Environmentalists plan lawsuit challenging Newsom over gas drilling - Los Angeles Times

      Newsom during his first year in office vowed to protect Californians against the hazards of oil and gas production, but environmental groups have grown increasingly frustrated with what they consider a lack of consequential action.

      Siegel and other environmental advocates also criticized Newsom for allowing the California Geologic Energy Management Division, known as CalGEM, to issue close to 50 new hydraulic fracturing permits to Chevron and Aera Energy, a partnership of Shell Oil and ExxonMobil, since April.

      The permits were issued after a November announcement by Newsom that he would temporarily block new hydraulic fracturing permits until those projects could be reviewed by an independent panel of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

    • California oil: Companies profit from illegal spills; the state lets them

      One Chevron spill has been running since 2003, and is bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker disaster. In the last three years alone, the crude collected from it has generated an estimated $11.6 million, according to an analysis of data provided by the state.

    • Clean Air for All (millionaires who can afford it)

      He had installed a state-of-the-art ventilation system for energy efficiency, but it also kept fresh filtered air moving through the building. Something clicked. “My late wife looked at me and said, ‘Truly, the greatest luxury in life is your health.’”

      The house sold for more than $13 million, and Malin began marketing air as a health-and-wellness amenity, the same way builders of yore pitched hot tubs or home gyms.

      Malin was early, but the world is catching up. Increasingly, the atmosphere is palpably dangerous. California is burning through the grand finale of its worst fire decade on record, with smoke clouds choking most of the state for much of the last month. The next decade is likely to be worse, as climate change steadily cooks the West Coast. A deadly pandemic is lingering in the air, keeping people cooped up at home, or anxiously thinking about aerosols and air flow whenever they venture outdoors.

      For buyers at the upper reaches of the real estate market, peace of mind can be purchased in the form of deluxe air filtration systems that keep the world at bay. (California has poor air quality. Now clean air is a luxury item - Los Angeles Times)

    • The Ponderosa Way
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  • Remember the glorious days of catalogs?
    • A good fall evening activity? Perusing the latest LL Bean collection
    • Baker Creek Whole Seed Catalog
    • Schwann’s
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    • Old Sears catalogs
    • Cabellas
    • Oriental Trading Co.
    • Gurney’s giant seed catalog
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    • Toys R Us
    • Electronic Gaming Monthly’s thicc holiday edition
    • Johnson Smith’s catalog of things you never knew existed
    • Hammacher Schlemmer
    • Lego catalog
    • Parts catalogs: Mouser, McMaster-Carr

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    • Service Merchandise
]]> S04:E09 – "Apple Season" S04:E09 – "Apple Season" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/57 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/57 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 57 false Absolutely destroying my teeth on a caramel apple.


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]]> S04:E08 – "It's Not Fascism" S04:E08 – "It's Not Fascism" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/56 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/56 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 56 false Don’t worry, there’s some good stuff in this episode too.


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  • What’s the worst twitter account?

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  • Stop Personifying The Year Challenge 2020

    • I’m going to taint punch the next person who says “I can’t wait for this year to be over”
    • The problems we’re experiencing are not momentary or novel—-they are systemic. Stop talking like they’re just some sort of natural outcome of astrological alignments or some shit I WILL KICK YOU IN THE ANKLE!!!!
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  • Thought technology: okay, but what have they done?
    • Leaders, pundits, posters and politicians get a large amount of credit for things they say without any examination of whether or not there’s any prior history to prove they’ll follow through with their Good Pronouncements ™
    • When presented with a fire hot take or a Very Brave Statement, temper it against the actual actions of the person.
  • Co-signed

    Smith’s main grievance against unions is that organized labor is, in itself, a political act, something that institutions like the Times avoid like the plague lest someone accuse them of “bias.” Smith in particular picks at recent support for unions (including the one he had such doubts about at BuzzFeed) by popular progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as the NewsGuild’s request for public stimulus funding for recession-plagued journalists. To drive this point home, he quotes Peter Baker, the Times’ White House Correspondent who is so psychotically horny for objectivity that he doesn’t even vote. The thing that Smith and his boss Dean Baquet obstinately refuse to recognize is that sustaining the illusion of objectivity people like Baker clearly yank it to on a nightly basis is really only possible for people like Baker who work at institutions like the Times. The rest of us work in the real world, where bad-faith critics will always assume you’re biased no matter how many Midwestern rest-stop diners you interview. The only way to combat this is not through both-sidesing and hedging, but by being open and honest about biases in reporting and striving above all for fairness, not balance.

  • Black Lives Matter on the Picket Line - Discourse Blog
    • “At the end of the day, them people get rich off our backbreaking.”
  • Fascism is an ideology; not a system
  • The Violence Discourse
    • The discourse on violence has become perverted and degenerate.
    • The discourse is governed by the elites and reflects their interests
    • Destruction of property = violence, but destruction of human bodies and minds = ??? “something else” every damn time
    • It’s the same conflict with “cancel culture” — criticism of the powerful is violence, but criticism of the lower classes is discourse????
    • Especially topical given the murder of two protestors by a right-wing vigilante in Kenosha
      • Defending a gas station
        • Excited to get my Speedway SuperAmerica Defense Campaign Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster
      • Extremely ridiculous argument that the shooter was acting in “self-defense”—from people who were trying to stop him from SHOOTING MORE PEOPLE
      • Right-wing media doing its best to write hagiographies of the shooter
  • Actually, protestors are the real lynchers
]]> S04:E07 – "Pasta Guide" S04:E07 – "Pasta Guide" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/55 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/55 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 55 false Hyped for Honbatz.


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]]> S04:E06 – "CornCar" S04:E06 – "CornCar" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/54 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/54 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 54 false It’s Keyboard Opening Time! Also, we joined the KHive.


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  • We goofed last week’s episode
  • Joining the KHive BayBEE
    • We’re getting Kamala tattoos
    • We’re gonna’ narc on every single weed-smoker we know
    • We actually know the truth: Kamala is a leftist op
      • She’s only pretending to be a shitlib in order to seize power
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]]> S04:E05 – "Importance of Breathing" S04:E05 – "Importance of Breathing" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/53 Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/53 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 53 false Thinking about the stupendous crisis that awaits us.


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  • Mayor Ghirardelli - Nothing’s my fault and I have no power

    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Sunday said L.A. opened too quickly and again warned that the city was close to imposing some type of new stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases continued to spike.

    Speaking on CNN, Garcetti was asked about a Los Angeles Times editorial that criticized the rapid reopening of California, which was followed by a major surge in both new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

    “I think a lot of people don’t understand, mayors often have no control what opens up and doesn’t — that’s either at a state or county level,” Garcetti said. “And I do agree that those things happened too quickly.”

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  • Joe Biden: be the train president and we’ll endorse you
]]> S04:E04 – "John 8:32" S04:E04 – "John 8:32" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/52 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/52 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 52 false Thinking about the stupendous crisis that awaits us.


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  • I would like to share with you the most amazing book

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    • They left it in an envelope in our tree
    • It had John 8:32 written on it, and nothing else
  • Turn in your homework
    • Huell Howser basset hound picnic
    • HuellCore.tumblr.com
  • Booch Talk
    • Gingerade?
    • Pink lady apple
    • GT Synergy Trilogy
  • Tinned Luncheon Meats
  • We do not need sporps right now. Maybe just cool it?
    • Cancel Sports - Discourse Blog

    • The National Pastime Is a National Disgrace - by Drew Magary

      This is a disgrace. But of course, I’m so inured to disgraces by now that I can hardly feel anything at all. What’s happening with baseball is a reflection of the rest of this broken nation’s response to the pandemic. Baseball, like America, believes its inherent specialness makes it exempt from the rules, even the ones governing human biology. It wants to be congratulated for putting in the absolute bare minimum of prevention measures and then for using those meager efforts as an excuse to justify all the horrible shit its negligence has wrought.

  • The demoralizing surrender of giving up hope for anything better
    • When presenting people with some insane decision by an institution—the state, an employer, etc—the new response, particularly by conservatives and moderates, is to simply shrug and utter, “well, what’re you gonna’ do?”
    • The fact we’ve given up arguing over the actual facts and just relinquished all hopes that anything better is possible is devastating.

  • Maybe we should just not?

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1288909403219996673

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Things That Suck:

]]> S04:E03 - "These People Are Not That Smart" S04:E03 - "These People Are Not That Smart" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/51 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/51 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 51 false Thinking about reopening schools and individualism.


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  • The School Reopening Discourse
    • Folks, it bad
    • Claim: distance learning isn’t very good
      • having a room covered in white foam isn’t good, but if the room is on fire and you use a fire extinguisher to put it out, that’s much better than just letting the fire continue
      • Distance learning may not be good, but it’s better than the alternative: mass-death
  • Failure of individualism
    • When consumerist mindset gets deployed to stop a pandemic

    “The window is closing,” Azar said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We have to act, and people as individuals have to act responsibly. We need to social-distance. We need to wear our face-coverings if we’re in settings where we can’t social-distance, particularly in these hot zones.” (Azar warns ‘window is closing’ on combating Covid spread - POLITICO)

    • You cannot solve this at the level of individuals.
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]]> S04:E02 - "Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition" S04:E02 - "Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/50 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/50 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 50 false Thinking about free speech and beans.


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    • Bring back the red roofs
    • Reject modernity, embrace tradition
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  • The Harper’s Letter
    • There are economic classes and social classes, but there are also intellectual/educational classes
      • Maybe this letter is an example of intellectual/educational class solidarity
    • Twitter has also enabled The Little Guy to voice resistance to which the powerful can’t really respond to or silence, and they find this irritating and unacceptable
    • Asymmetrical warfare
    • https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/its-come-to-this-we-must-defend-matt-yglesias/

    Free speech is often likened to a marketplace of ideas. … This “marketplace” metaphor was popularized in the United States in the early twentieth century by the Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who argued that truth could best be promoted by a “free trade in ideas.” … In fact, the “marketplace” metaphor perfectly describes the power dynamics of free speech in a capitalist society, though not in the way that its proponents intended. Multinational corporations aspiring toward monopolistic control of capital and information establish the general confines in which the vast majority of humanity sell their labor and articulate their speech. The market of commodities is inseparable from the market of ideas, since ideas are commodified along with everything else in capitalist society. All non-incarcerated citizens may have an equal right to literally speak, but the ability to make that speech heard and make it matter is highly stratified. (from “Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook” by Mark Bray)

  • The J.K. Rowling Situation
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]]> S04:E01 - "Grunches" S04:E01 - "Grunches" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/49 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/49 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 49 false Thinking about cash registers and TV streaming services.


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  • How’s your 4th of July?
    • Sparkling lemonade
    • We’re Grunches
  • Andrew has ordered a new chair
  • Live TV streaming services have basically failed
    • They’re just cable now
    • YouTube TV now $65/mo (started at $35/mo)
      • Sling TV is $30/mo, was $20
      • PS Vue was discontinued after going from $30 to $50
      • AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) went from $35 to $55
        • Has lost between over a million customers over the past year and a half
      • Hulu Live TV went from $40 to $55
    • A la carte media is not possible
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  • Coronavirus: it’s still happening
    • Mask it or casket
  • First they came for the police unions…
    • Police unions’ power wanes, but how about teachers? - CalMatters
    • First of all, the fact the police are a union is so far down on the list of their problems
    • The differences between a police union and a teachers union are important
      • Police are state agents to act against the citizens and for the state.
      • Teachers have no such enforcement role.
      • Police benefits and pay are astronomically better than teacher benefits and pay.
    • Wan Dalters’ example is how the teachers union fights against charter schools
      • This would be like police fighting against privatized security forces,,,, which, like would definitely NOT be an abuse of their union power and in the public interest.
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]]> S00:E05 - "Glossary" S00:E05 - "Glossary" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/48 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/48 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 48 false Thinking about terms and concepts.


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Recurring Characters

  • (S01:E01) The Soundboards
  • (S01:E08) Butt Stevens
  • (S01:E08) Huell Howser
  • (S01:E09) Big Dogs
  • (S01:E11) CICPS
    • Council at the Institute of the Center for Politics and Society
      • Aaron is CEO, Andrew is president
      • Both have large salaries and no responsibilities
      • Slogan: “We disambiguate complexifiers for the good of humanity.”
      • Also announcing our new PAC, BackPAC. A return to normalcy for all!
  • (S03:E13) Ben Shapiro

Thought Technologies & Args

  • (S01:E05) Thought Technology: “…for who?”
    • A thought technology to avoid the trap of tactical framing: append any assertions that are made like, “this will be too drastic”, or “this is too expensive”with the question: “for who?” Or, “to who?”
  • (S01:E07) Thought Technology: posting as unpaid labor
  • (S01:E11) Thought Technology: Maybe They’re just Poor
    • The idea is to stop when you see a meme which is based on mocking a person (maybe for their style or weird behavior) and ask yourself: is this really about them being a bad person, or could this simply be the result of them being in a very bad spot?
  • (S01:E14) Thought Technology: De-contemptify
    • Any time I bristle at somebody “having it easy” or being “spoiled” I stop and ask myself, “is this actually just a decent and good thing for them that I’m only upset about because I’ve internalized a rationalization of late capitalisms awfulness by telling myself it was, basically, vitamins for character that was good for me?”
  • (S02:E02) Thought Technology: efficiency vs. efficacy
    • When you double efficiency your halve efficacy.
      • Efficiency masks other failings because it gets adopted as the supreme metric. Once you pull back the curtain, you can see that making efficiency your god usually distracts you from more mundane but crucial areas of focus.
      • EX:// Infrastructure
        • Algorithmic systems which predict the most efficient areas for road improvements cause people to stop paying attention to the maintenance of less efficient areas, which become degraded and require_more_ work than if they had simply been maintained.
  • (S03:E03) Thought Technology: You’ve seen it, or you’ve been shown it?
    • Remember that the media, whether consciously or unconsciously, is providing you a biased narrative.
    • They show you things that drive engagement and attention. Usually, this involves the most extreme examples (see nutpicking, S03:E02)
    • “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“ - George Orwell, 1984
  • (S03:E08) Arg: Small Business Owners
    • New Arg for “what about small business owners?”
      • “What about small business workers?”
  • (S03:E09) Thought Technology: Disney-brain
    • Disney completely short-circuits otherwise normal brains somehow
  • (S03:E09) Thought Technology: Just Unfollow
  • (S03:E10) Arg: Revolutionary Disruption
    • There is much opposition to radical or revolutionary societal/national changes for fear of the likely disruptions to everyday life.
    • If everyday life is already being disrupted, why not make radical changes?
    • This is particularly true when the possibly painful changes we’re avoiding would likely solve the underlying thing disrupting our lives.
    • With this in mind, we have even more opportunity to do big and radical changes during disruptive and chaotic times.
  • (S03:E11) Thought Technology: Better ≠ Good
    • Just because something is “not as bad” as something else doesn’t make it acceptable.
  • It’s Not That Hard
  • Whatever They Accuse You Of Doing Is What They’re Doing

Terms

  • (S01:E02) Workism
  • (S01:E09) Strivers
    • A Striver is someone who fully buys into the Capitalist American Dream
    • They’re always going somewhere, never happy with where they are, always comparing themselves to everyone else
    • They have a tendency to make you feel bad, sometimes passively, because they need to know they’re better than someone
  • (S01:E13) Nequal
    • Neither, nor, etc.
  • (S03:E02) Dummy Chum
    • events, propaganda, memes, or messages that activate the stupidest ranks within any given group/movement/fanbase
  • (S03:E02) Nut-picking
    • using a whacky outlier position as if it represents a whole group. (basically weak-man fallacy)
    • Ex:// sharing a post of a fringe BLM activist who states that it’s racist to speak to white people and holding it up as representative of the views of the entire movement.

Concepts

]]> S00:E04 - "Permaculture" S00:E04 - "Permaculture" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/47 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/47 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 47 false Thinking about the three ethics.


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  • Scope of this episode
    • I want to explain the value of permaculture
    • I will try to avoid jargon
      • It can be alienating
      • Also, I am dummy and have lots to learn
  • What is Permaculture?
    • Permaculture is hard to define
      • Permaculture, as an idea, is sprawling and all-encompassing. It can be difficult to easily define because it is almost like a whole ideology or culture.
      • It is a system
        • The thing about it is, it’s not sectarian
          • This is why you’re just as likely to find it practiced by anarchists or free market chuds
        • Though there are prominent and foundational figures, there’s no czar of permaculture and there’s no codified creed.
      • There is a “founder”, but it sort of acretes concepts and practices like a sort of katamari damacy
      • Perhaps the best way to define it is to begin by explaining its origins.
    • Origins
      • What is it’s root? Where did it come from and why was it created?
      • Tasmania, 1978
        • The term permaculture was coined by David Holmgren, then a graduate student at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education’s Department of Environmental Design, and Bill Mollison, senior lecturer in Environmental Psychology at University of Tasmania, in 1978.
      • 1979–1983 Eastern Australian drought - Wikipedia
    • Ethics, Principles Methods, Developments
  • Why is it important?
    • Water loss
      • Runoff
      • Pumping more ground water than is absorbed
      • Floods
    • Soil loss and fertility

      • Traditional agriculture treats topsoil as a consumable resource

        Every second, North America’s largest river carries another dump truck’s load of topsoil to the Caribbean. Each year, America’s farms shed enough soil to fill a pickup truck for every family in the country. This is a phenomenal amount of dirt. But the United States is not the biggest waster of this critical ical resource. An estimated twenty-four billion tons of soil are lost annually ally around the world-several tons for each person on the planet. Despite such global losses, soil erodes slowly enough to go largely unnoticed in anyone’s lifetime. (David R. Montgomery. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Kindle Locations 61-64). Kindle Edition.)

      • It takes time to naturally build topsoil

        The United States Department partment of Agriculture estimates that it takes five hundred years to produce duce an inch of topsoil. Darwin thought English worms did a little better, making an inch of topsoil in a century or two. While soil formation rates vary in different regions, accelerated soil erosion can remove many centuries turies of accumulated soil in less than a decade. Earth’s thin soil mantle is essential to the health of life on this planet, yet we are gradually stripping it off-literally skinning our planet. (David R. Montgomery. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Kindle Locations 296-298). Kindle Edition.)

      • Example: Rome

        • Rome had flourishing agriculture that fed the city, but soil-loss and fertility loss became a major factor in the ‘fall of rome’

          In 1916 Columbia University professor Vladimir Simkhovitch argued that lack of dirt caused the decline of the Roman Empire. Soil exhaustion and erosion had depopulated the Roman countryside in the empire’s late days; he pointed out that the amount of land needed to support a Roman farmer had increased from the small allotment given to each citizen at the founding of Rome to ten times as much land by the time of Julius Caesar. (David R. Montgomery. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Kindle Locations 794-797). Kindle Edition.)

        • The economics of empire pushed for more and more slave-labor high-value crops
        • This lead to worse and worse agricultural practices with tremendous erosion
        • Rome relied more and more on expanding their empire and turning formerly mixed-use land into intensive cereal or olive production
        • Much of the desertification of Northern Africa can be attributed to Roman imperial agriculture
    • Inevitable contraction of globalism
    • Carbon sequestration
    • Resilient and diverse food systems
    • Regenerative
  • What are examples of it in practice?
  • What comes next?
]]> S00:E03 - "Why High Speed Rail Has Failed" S00:E03 - "Why High Speed Rail Has Failed" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/46 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/46 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 46 false Thinking about a how it’s just too hard to do anything with rail in this country.


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]]> S00:E02 - "High Speed Rail in the US" S00:E02 - "High Speed Rail in the US" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/45 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/45 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 45 false Thinking about a history of repeated near successes.


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  • Aaron is eating noodles on-air because he was busy farming

Beginnings

  • Passenger rail service started pretty much along with the first railroads in the 1830s, and grew to become the primary method of intercity travel
  • By 1916, 98% of all intercity travel was by rail, and passengers traveled 42 billion miles that year
  • “High speed” rail first emerged in the 1930s, with the first diesel streamlined stainless steel trains, built by the Budd Company
    • Burlington Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr, California Zephyr
  • Service averaged around 80mph, and was fairly popular, but eventually suffered due to the Great Depression
  • However, passenger numbers recovered during WWII, when gas rationing made automobile travel less feasible

The 79 mph rule

  • In 1946, two passenger trains collided, resulting in the death of 45 people
  • One train collide with another, stopped train
  • The colliding train had passed a red stop signal, which the engineer said he had not seen
  • As a result of this disaster, the regulator of the railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission, set up new regulations in response:
    • Nationwide rail speed limits were imposed for the first time
    • Automatic signalling was required on many lines
    • Signals inside the cab (cab signalling) was required on any line that exceeded 79mph
  • Many railroads, already struggling with infrastructure costs, did not want to pay to upgrade their equipment
  • As a result, they all ran their trains at less than 79 mph to avoid needing to install new equipment
  • This greatly reduced the competitiveness of passenger rail at a time when car ownership was skyrocketing

Enter Shinkansen

  • In 1964, Japan Railways began service on the Shinkansen (new trunk line) from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka
  • This was the first system for dedicated high speed rail service in the world
  • Trains ran at speed of 130mph (210 km/h)
  • The US responded to Shinkansen by deciding to spur HSR development
  • The HSGTA was passed in 1965

Metroliner

  • The HSGTA provided for the development of high speed service along the existing Northwest Corridor line of the Pennsylvania Railroad from NYC to DC
  • This line had been electrified in the 1930s and was still a busy passenger line
  • Eastern Air Line had also began an air shuttle service between the two cities in 1961, which became very popular*
  • This service was named after the rolling stock that would be built for it: Metroliners
  • Metroliners were a project between the PRR, USDOT, and Budd
  • Metroliners were advanced electric multiple unit trains designed for speeds of up to 150 mph (240 km/h)
  • However, they were plagued with electrical issues, and despite deliveries beginning in 1967, they did not enter service until 1969
  • By 1969, the PRR had merged with the NYC to form Penn Central, which operated the Metroliner service
  • Metroliners continued to experience various problems throughout their service life and were limited to 120 mph, then 110, then 100 mph, never fully living up to the design promise
  • However, the Metroliner design was very popular and inspired new designs of passenger coaches that would eventually be used by Amtrak and many commuter rail services

UAC TurboTrain

  • At the same time, the UAC was working on its own high speed train system, based on gas turbines derived from jet engines
  • This would allow high speed operation on non-electrified lines, with the non-electrified portion of the NEC from New Haven to Boston in mind, as well as journeys from Chicago to points west
  • They were also some of the first tilting trains created
  • However, they were considered very noisy and rough, and were withdrawn from service in 1976 in the US, though they continued to be used in Canadian National’s Quebec-Toronto Corridor service from 1968 to 1982.

Black Beetle

  • The New York Central also experimented with high speed trains in 1966
  • They strapped two jet engines taken from a B-36 bomber to one of their Budd Rail Diesel Cars, number M-497, to create the Black Beetle, a jet-powered train
  • This train set the current American rail speed record of 183 mph
  • The train was not considered economically feasible and was dismantled shortly after

Failure of Private Passenger Service

  • Compared to the 1918 high of 98% of all intercity travel, by 1957 only 32% of intercity travel was by rail
  • Passenger miles decreased from the 1916 high of 42 billion to just 49,000 in 1970
  • There were many causes for the decline, but it was primarily due to the rise of automobile travel due to the creation of the interstate highway, and the declining cost of air travel
  • Railroads had always been responsible for constructing and maintaining their own infrastructure
  • By contrast, federal and state governments funded the construction of roads and highways, essentially subsidizing both private car travel and trucking
  • By the late 1960s, much of the railroads’ infrastructure was old and worn out, but funds were scarce for replacement
  • Railroads also followed routes originally laid out in the 19th century, which were not chosen or selected with high speed service in mind
  • Though passenger rail travel had surged during WWII, it crashed immediately afterwards, as soon as gas rationing was discontinued

Collapse and Rescue

  • In 1967, the USPS diverted mail service from passenger trains to trucks, planes, and freight trains, eliminating a previously-reliable source of revenue*
  • Soon after, the ATSF, one of the larger railroads, filed with the ICC to discontinue 33 of its 39 passenger routes
  • Things really came to a head after the Penn Central, which had been created in 1968 with the merger of the PRR, NYC, and eventually the bankrupt New Haven, entered into the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history in 1970, filing to discontinue the majority of its passenger routes
  • The PC was the largest passenger railroad at the time
  • In response, Congress passed the Rail Passenger Service Act in 1970, which created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to take over passenger service from the private railroads
  • NRPC was first named Railpax, then Amtrak
  • 26 railroads were eligible to turn their passenger service over to Amtrak, and 21 did so
  • Amtrak began service on May 1, 1971, immediately trimming half of the previously existing passenger rail routes

Amtrak’s Problems

  • Amtrak was not expected to survive very long
  • It inherited a plethora of problems from the railroads
    • Deferred maintenance
    • Redundant facilities
  • Amtrak was also not provided any actual trackage of its own; instead, it had to contract with the railroads to run service on their tracks
  • This continues to be an issue
  • In the end, passenger rail service was expected to go extinct within a few years, with Amtrak slowly winding down over that time

Finding a Footing

  • Amtrak survived, though
  • Now a nationwide service, Amtrak was able to offer routes that were previously impossible
    • e.g. LA to Seattle Coast Starlight, previously three separate routes
  • After Penn Central’s bankruptcy, it went through an extended bankruptcy process
  • In 1972, Hurricane Agnes damaged the northeast’s rail networks, further harming PC as well as other railroads like the Erie Lackawanna
  • In 1973, PC officials threatened to shut the company down and liquidate if it did not receive government aid by October 1
  • Congress passed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to nationalize the failing railroads
  • However, Nixon threatened to veto it
  • A court ordered the PC to operate into 1974, and the RRR Act was signed on January 2
  • On Feburary 1, the United States Railway Association was established, with a mandate to create a “Final System Plan” to decide which failing railroads would be included in a new government-owned railroad: the Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail)
  • The final plan included:
    • The PC (PRR, NYC, NY,NH&H)
    • Erie Lackawanna
    • Ann Arbor Railroad
    • Lehigh Valley Railroad
    • Reading Company
    • Central of New Jersey
    • Lehigh & Hudson River
  • ConRail was officially created from these railroads by the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976
  • This act also included provisions allowing Amtrak to acquire the Northeast Corridor track, equipment and stations, and provided it the funding to do so
  • From that point onward, the NEC would become the focus of Amtrak’s efforts, being by far its busiest lines

The Rainbow Era

  • Amtrak assumed operation of the Metroliner and TurboTrain upon its inception
  • Rainbow era
  • 1975 Phase I
  • TurboTrain withdrawn in 1976
  • In 1972, Amtrak started rebuilding Metroliners, though this rebuilding was largely unsuccessful and the trains remained unreliable
  • As a result, Amtrak began exploring alternatives
  • In 1980, they selected the EMD AEM-7, based on a Swedish locomotive, to replace the Metroliners on the Metroliner Service. This was a traditional locomotive hauling passenger cars
  • They proved very reliable and bested the average speed of the Metroliners in service
  • The rebuilt Metroliners that remained were moved to the Keystone Service until their retirement in 1980, though some remain in service, rebuilt into cab cars
  • The Metroliner Service (run by the AEM-7s) remained very popular, especially as the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle’s popularity waned and it was sold in 1988 to Donald Trump, who ended its “no-frills” operation and ran it into the ground in 1992, selling it to USAir
  • It continues today as the American Airlines Shuttle but hardly resembles the original service

Turboliners

  • Outside the NEC, Amtrak tried to update its fleet with the RTG Turboliners
  • French design, gas turbine powered, plied the midwest starting in 1973
  • Too popular for their own good: they were a fixed consist, so new cars could not be added on to meet the demand
  • Never got above 79mph due to track conditions, despite being designed for 125mph
  • Second generation Turboliners, the RTL Turboliners, provided the Empire Corridor service in 1976
  • Designed for 125mph operation, they never reached it, though there was an attempt in 1998 to upgrade the Empire Corridor to allow this speed; it was abandoned in 2003

All Talk, No Action

  • Federal and state governments continued to discuss HSR after the original HSGTA of 1965
  • In 1980, the Passenger Railroad Rebuilding Act specified some corridors and appropriated some funds but nothing happened
  • Private consortia have published various white papers
  • Maglev trains were developed in the 1970s
  • Congress passed the ISTEA act in 1991, naming five high speed corridors but offering little funding for them
  • Also mentioned again in the 1998 TEA
  • HSR languished in the US until 1993

Enter Acela

  • As a result of the 1991 ISTEA, Amtrak sought bids for new high speed equipment for the proposed corridors
  • In 1992, a leased Swedish X2000 HSR train provided test service on the NEC for several months, this was followed by similar tests of a German ICE 1 in 1993 and 1994
  • Having built interest in high speed service, Amtrak put forth a proper tender in 1994 for new, high speed equipment for the NEC
  • In 1995 Amtrak undertook to electrify the rest of the NEC from New Haven to Boston, allowing full high speed service from DC to Boston
  • In 1999, the plan was unveiled: a new trainset called the Acela Express
  • It was a tilting trainset designed to reach 150mph (240km/h)
  • Service began in 2000, and, despite some early hiccups, it overtook the Metroliner Service in popularity in 2005, resulting in the end of Metroliner Service in 2006
  • Acela is one of Amtrak’s most popular routes
  • It generates a profit, and accounts for 25% of Amtrak’s total revenue
  • Paradoxically, because of increased rail traffic on the NEC for the past 50 years, the Acela actually travels the distance from NYC to DC in more time than the Metroliners (2h53m vs 2h30m)
  • Acela remains hampered by the lack of a dedicated high speed line, and is only able to reach its full 150mph for 33 miles of track in RI and Massachusetts

JetTrain

  • Capitalizing on the popularity of Acela, Bombardier developed a high speed gas turbine demonstrator train: the JetTrain
  • It toured North American in the early 2000s to drum up interest in HSR projects along unelectrified lines
  • It could operate at speeds up to 165mph
  • The only such project that was started as a result of the JetTrain was the Florida High Speed Corridor
  • In 2000 Florida voters voted to establish a 120mph rail system between five major cities
  • Jeb Bush constantly thwarted any progress, and the original referendum establishing the system was repealed by voters in 2004, killing the project

More Recent Efforts

  • ARRA provided funds for several HSR corridors as part of the TIGER program
  • Florida initially tried to take advantage, reviving its HSR project, but Gov. Rick Scott rejected federal funds
  • Similarly, Gov. Kasich in Ohio rejected federal funds for the 3C rail there
  • Gov. Walker also canceled a similar plan and rejected federal funding for HSR in Wisconsin
  • Some “higher-speed” (~110mph) rail projects are in progress or completed, in Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri, mostly for routes going to or from Chicago.

  • Amtrak is replacing the Acela trainsets with the New Acela (fka Avelia Liberty), which should allow for new max speeds of 160mph, possibly increasing to 186mph with track and signal upgrades

    https://twitter.com/InterurbanE/status/1263938585369051137

California High Speed Rail

  • The only true high speed rail system ever attempted in the US is CalHSR
  • Calls for dedicated, grade-separated lines from SJ to Burbank at up to 220 mph (350 km/h)
  • Unfortunately, has faced many setbacks from cancellation of federal grants, and only central segment (Bakersfield-Merced) is under construction
  • The rest is indefinitely postponed

Brightline

  • Resurrected a portion of the FL HSR idea, providing service from West Palm Beach to Miami at up to 80 mph. Currently working on building expansion to Orlando that will run at 110mph
  • Planning includes service to Tampa at 125mph

New Private Ventures

  • XpressWest - Las Vegas to Victorville service on an electrified dedicated line (eventually expanding to Palmdale), construction expected to begin this year
  • Speeds of up to 180 mph
  • Texas Central Railway - Shinkansen-like system to connect Dallas and Houston at speeds of 205mph

Seth Moulton’s Proposal

Challenges of HSR

  • Old infrastructure: bridges and tunnels that limit sizes, old track, signals, and overhead lines that limit max speed
  • Outdated alignments: tight turns, too many grade crossings, and bad locations in now-populated areas
  • Not funded by the federal government like highways and airports
  • Crashworthiness requirements: FRA’s excessive requirements were not reformed until 2018, and no one has yet updated their proposals to take advantage
    • Previously, the test required excessive weight to be added to meet strength tests for crashes
  • No dedicated lines as yet
  • Freight interference - freight railroads do not often give priority to passenger trains like they are supposed to
    • One reason for this: freight trains are increasingly long (>2 miles or more), and there are relatively few passing sidings that these long trains can fit into on single-track mainlines to allow passenger trains to pass
    • So, the passenger trains get put in the sidings instead

Benefits of HSR

  • Good mid-range option - journeys under 400 miles
  • Reduced security headaches
  • Centrally-located stations
  • Lowest emissions of any form of passenger transport
  • Higher passenger density than cars, buses, or planes
]]> S00:E01 - "Huellpilled" S00:E01 - "Huellpilled" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/44 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/44 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 44 false Thinking about burning it all down so we can dig through the ashes with childlike wonder.


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  • Movement Co-option
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    • Doing the awkward and uncomfortable parts of being a manager or boss for them
]]> S03:E14 - "L4A" S03:E14 - "L4A" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/43 Mon, 11 May 2020 03:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/43 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 43 false Starting to think maybe there is such a thing as society.


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  • The Kimchi Rice Lover has Logged On
  • The Fried Rice Secret
    1. Ghee w/ aromatics
    2. Season with powdered chicken bouillon
    3. HOT Skillet
    4. Move that rice!
  • On reopening
  • NYC Landlords Unite
  • Normalize not thinking you “had it”
    • All these people who seem to feel an instinctual need to posit, about coronavirus, “I actually think I had it” may be some sign of a weird mass-dellusion
    • Why do they do it?
      • Want to comfort themselves with a hope they can’t get it and are safe?
      • Want to latch on to the drama and fold themselves into the whole thing?
      • Just paranoid?
      • TBQC—I have engaged in this
    • We need to stop it. For our sanity.
  • Kim Stanley Robinson on coronavirus

    • https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-coronavirus-and-our-future

      Margaret Thatcher said that “there is no such thing as society,” and Ronald Reagan said that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These stupid slogans marked the turn away from the postwar period of reconstruction and underpin much of the bullshit of the past forty years. We are individuals first, yes, just as bees are, but we exist in a larger social body. Society is not only real; it’s fundamental. We can’t live without it. And now we’re beginning to understand that this “we” includes many other creatures and societies in our biosphere and even in ourselves.

      Right now we’re hearing two statements being made. One, from the President and his circle: we have to save money even if it costs lives. The other, from the Centers for Disease Control and similar organizations: we have to save lives even if it costs money. Which is more important, money or lives? Money, of course! says capital and its spokespersons. Really? people reply, uncertainly. Seems like that’s maybe going too far? Even if it’s the common wisdom? Or was.

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]]> S03:E13 - "Keith Truthers" S03:E13 - "Keith Truthers" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/42 Mon, 04 May 2020 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/42 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 42 false Fast-talking pundits of the world: we’re coming for you!


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  • Aaron is “soaking” his “beans”
  • Andrew has set himself up with too many things to do in the evenings and has now added stress to his life
    • Mood
  • Fair and Equal Michigan
  • Bougie facemasks
  • Boomer irrationality is going to get us killed
    • They have no idea how to wear a mask
    • They have no idea what 6 feet looks like
    • They must touch everything, like a toddler
    • They are like a promethean creation of consumerist neoliberalism
  • Goodwin’s Third Law: non confidunt in eo qui utitur quam qui in sententia ne unam quidem sententiam Latine
    • never trust a person who uses more than one latin phrase in a single sentence
  • Does Ben Shapiro Only Sound Smart Because He Talks Fast? An Investigation
    • Keith Truthers

  • Gonna need a fact check on this one

    https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1255255227663597571

  • Stater Brothers
    • Stater Bros. History
    • Stater Bros. bumps workers’ hourly rate $2 for four weeks – Press Enterprise
    • Not Enough Brown

    • Stater Bros. leader Jack Brown remembered as friend, fighter in grocery industry – San Bernardino Sun

      “During the devastating [2003] strike/lockout that brought Safeway-Vons to their knees, organized (unions) never struck a Jack Brown store. Not the butchers, not the bakers, not the service workers — because the rank-and-file blue collar could always count on Jack Brown to do the right thing,” grocery analyst Burt P. Flickinger said. Brown, who began work as a box boy at age 13, worked in the grocery industry his entire life. He was one of the food retail industry’s greatest visionaries, Flickinger said.

      “He opened stores in food deserts to support low-income families, supported family-run suppliers and championed employees,” said Flickinger, managing director of retail consulting firm Strategic Resource Group in New York.

      “He was uniquely focused on raising the standards of living for shoppers everywhere. Jack always had the lowest prices on the highest quality product.

  • Chocolate Power Rankings 2
    1. Lindt 72%
    2. Lindt Touch of Sea Salt
    3. Whole Foods Dark Chocolate
    4. Lindt 78%
    5. Godiva Dark Chocolate
    6. Lindt 85%
    7. Cadbury Royal Dark (disqualified)
]]> S03:E12 - "Glitchified" S03:E12 - "Glitchified" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/41 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/41 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 41 false Let the great brain smoothening begin!


  • Thoughts And Prayers For Aaron In This Difficult Time
    • Flexing my finger
  • AARON IS A SOCIALIST CONFIRMED
  • Rationalizing Ethical Consumption
  • “Democrats Should Abandon The Working Class”
    • https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-presidential-campaign/

    • https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/10/21214970/bernie-sanders-2020-lost-class-socialism

      “The future of [Bernie’s] agenda lies with young people, but college-educated and suburban voters are increasingly interested in the progressive agenda,” Sean McElwee, co-founder of the left-wing polling outfit Data for Progress, tells me. “Sadly, we [progressives] are about four years behind in reaching out to those voters because people don’t read enough fucking polling data.”

      In other words, don’t worry about the working class. Focus on the professional class.

    • This is a silly analysis—working class folks stand to benefit a lot more from the policies that Bernie supported than the professional class, which is why the media was constantly trying to muddy the waters about all these policy issues to make them seem infeasible or unrealistic.
    • What we have now is two parties essentially fighting over the same demographic slice of wealthy, privileged voters, while the underprivileged, poor, and underrepresented go completely ignored. Is this a politics you want to support?
    • Sean McElwee’s creatively-named new project
      • Honestly, this seems like something we’d come up with.
    • Probably don’t put too much stock in people who are constantly creating new orgs—it’s really just a kind of grift.
      1. Create an org that donors can donate to for tax incentives on their part
      2. Do minimal work of any kind of advocacy (tweet, maybe write an op-ed)
      3. Accrue most of the donations to yourself
      4. Move on to found a new org about the next Pressing Issue
    • Data for Progress is beholden to its donors, just like every other think tank and polling firm.

  • We’re Going To Lose With This Kind Of Nonsense

    https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1251136661397868544?s=20

    https://twitter.com/apagliar/status/1251486702855733250

    • Attacking Trump with Republican talking points isn’t going to work. His voters don’t care about hypocrisy, plus also we don’t really need any of their votes to win! Focus on other demographics.
  • FaceID in these troubling times
    • I miss the button

    https://twitter.com/UltraNurd/status/1251309645542481920

    • Alternately: add Touch ID back in and let me use either Face ID or Touch ID.
  • FOURTEEN INCHES IS THE CORRECT SIZE
    • Of laptops, that is.
    • It’s the Goldilocks Size.
    • I will not be taking further questions at this time.
]]> S03:E11 - "LilUziUSPS" S03:E11 - "LilUziUSPS" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/40 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/40 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 40 false Thinking maybe universal services are good and we should keep them.


  • Andrew’s Binge Watching

    • Strong Bad Emails

  • Aaron’s Binge Watching

    • Kim’s Convenience
    • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Shoutout to Century of Self by Adam Curtis

  • Dark Chocolate Power Rankings

    1. Lindt 72%
    2. Whole Foods Dark Chocolate
    3. Godiva Dark Chocolate
    4. Cadbury Royal Dark (disqualified)

    • Reqs to try:

      • Ghiasrfsrfvijefe
      • Green & Black 85%
      • Lindt w/ sea salt
]]> S03:E10 - "The Very Smallest of Bags" S03:E10 - "The Very Smallest of Bags" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/39 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/39 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 39 false There’s no time like the present catastrophe.


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]]> S03:E09 - "Thique" S03:E09 - "Thique" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/38 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:20:51 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/38 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 38 false The takes are really marinating.


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  • Poo poo problems
  • Rise and Grind Your Way Out of COVID-19

  • tfw your landlord is an LLC

    “It reminds me of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union: oligarchs running wild, stashing their gains in buildings,” James Wright, an attorney and former Treasury Department bank examiner, told me. He now helps foreign governments combat money laundering. “Back then, you’d walk down the street, and people would say, ‘That building is a washing machine.’ Everyone knew it. Today, America is not that different.”

    The Census Bureau reports that nearly 3 million U.S. homes and 13 million apartment units are owned by LLC, LLP, LP or shell companies – levels of anonymous ownership not seen in American history. The proportion of residential rental properties owned by individuals and families has fallen from 92% in 1991 to 74% in 2015.

    Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America - Reveal

    • Who are these people behind the LLC’s? Well, one is Mr. Hawn Shanity

    With anonymity comes impunity, and, for vulnerable tenants, skyrocketing numbers of evictions. It wasn’t until reporters from The Guardian and The Washington Post began to investigate, for example, that residents living in hundreds of properties across the South learned that they shared a secret landlord, hiding behind names such as SPMK X GA LLC: Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

    “Among the tenants Hannity’s property managers sought to evict,” The Post reported, were “a double amputee who had lived in an apartment with her daughter for five years but did not pay on time after being hospitalized; and a single mother of three whose $980 rent check was rejected because she could not come up with a $1,050 cleaning fee for a bedbug infestation.”

    Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America - Reveal

  • You can just unfollow
]]> S03:E08 - "Aspirational Beans" S03:E08 - "Aspirational Beans" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/37 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:00:15 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/37 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 37 false Our Covid-19 action plan


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  • DECLARING A PODCAST EMERGENCY
  • How’s your pandemic?
  • Half foods
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Extremely pointless coronavirus emails
  • Aaron is actually a stoic now
    • Seneca? Marcus Aurelius? Amateurs!
    • I am in a permanent superposition between hopeful and despairing. I am perfectly balanced.
    • You can no longer hurt me and nothing can surprise me.
    • Memento Moris etc etc.
  • Delete your parent’s cable news
    • This would be one of the best forms of direct action
    • OUTFOXED
  • Posit: most of the things cited as the glorious result of capitalism are actually not that great and only necessitated by the crap world capitalism has built
    • The Cuba Tweet
    • Ex:// fast food/convenience food
      • We only need it because our lives are so busy
      • It’s not good or healthy or enjoyable
      • We would rather have the time to eat well
    • Ex:// abundance of brand-choice for the same product
    • Ex:// technology
      • How much of it is necessitated by the demands of increased productivity and workload? Would we need GTD if we weren’t stressed to an insane degree?
    • Also: all the things we loathe about modernity are also the result of capitalism
]]> S03:E07 - "Cap'n Trade" S03:E07 - "Cap'n Trade" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/36 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 09:00:14 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/36 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 36 false Not doing grievance progressivism today, sorry folks.


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  • Chlimate Clange
    • Escape To The Country (from impending eco facism or socialist revolution)
      • Don’t bother to solve any problems, just run away!
      • Homesteading: there are problems, folks

      Cheap housing, deep unease and intense resilience - all forces that are driving a clutch of Americans to swap city life for a fresh start off grid and far from civilisation. Some are survivalists, among them high fliers who fear a looming, urban catastrophe and the mayhem that might follow. Others want a greener, gentler life untainted by the malign forces of capitalism and uncertainty of mainstream politics.

      Whichever camp, realtors say the new dropouts are not “crackpots” and often include affluent professionals whose run for the hills has boosted rural land values and started to change their property market.

      “I’ve had hedge-fund managers and billionaires that have made purchases, and they all have concerns about the direction of the economy and social stability,” said John E. Haynes, president of Retreat Realty in North Carolina.

      “We’re on that upward trend,” he said. “Inventory of that land on the market is tighter.”

      Haynes has worked in real estate for decades.

      About four years ago, he rebranded his company to pitch property to a new and growing breed of buyer - those motivated by “concerns about social stability”.

      He had a record year in 2019, and was busy in the run-up to the 2016 election, when Donald Trump came to power.

      “I’m sensing that again,” he said. “People get uncertain, and they start making decisions on the political environment and what they anticipate.

      “So I think 2020 will be a good year for my business.”

      Homesteaders, catastrophists run for the hills to flee U.S. …

    • This Cigarette Machine Now Sells Nicorette Patches: A Parable of Decarbonization
      • Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine

      • Democracy is actually the problem, not capitalism /s

        “We think democracy is better,” said the jet-fuel salesperson. “But is it? In terms of outcomes?”

        In a conference room overlooking the gray Thames, a group of young corporate types tried to imagine how the world could save itself, how the international community could balance the need for growth with our precarious ecological situation. For the purposes of our speculative scenarios, everything except for carbon was supposed to be up in the air, and democracy’s track record is mixed.

        A graph from Chinese social media showing how many trees the country is planting — a patriotic retort to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg — had a real effect on the room. Combine that with the Chinese state-led investment in clean-energy technology and infrastructure and everyone admired how the world’s largest source of fossil-fuel emissions was going about transition. That’s what the salesperson meant by “outcomes”: decarbonization.

        Regional experts from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East–North Africa also entertained the democracy question, pointing to Iraqi disillusionment with voting and economic growth in Rwanda under Paul Kagame (“He’s technically a dictator, but it’s working”). The China expert said the average regional Communist Party official is probably more accountable for his or her performance than the average U.K. member of Parliament, a claim no one in the room full of Brits seemed to find objectionable. The moderator didn’t pose the question to me, the American expert, presumably because our national sense of democratic entitlement is inviolable.

        (Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine)

      • Folks, there’s no way these fossil fuel companies stop without being MADE to, because their whole model is based on keeping going

        There’s little doubt that fossil-fuels are, culturally speaking, on the wrong side of history. But there is still a lot more money to extract from those wells, and the fossil-fuel businesses are intent on extracting as much as they can. It’s not necessarily such a bad time to be an oil and gas company, in other words, but it is a bad time to look like one. These companies aren’t planning for a future without oil and gas, at least not anytime soon, but they want the public to think of them as part of a climate solution. In reality, they’re a problem trying to avoid being solved.

        (Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine)

      • Without addressing the issue of power (and the money that makes it possible) fossil fuels will just co-opt all movements that don’t directly challenge them in an existential way. They will absorb all green initiatives as just an additional revenue source while continuing to drill and pump.

        … the first step they imagined was a co-optation of the youth environmental movement by older generations and their institutions. Co-opt was the word they used, but they meant it in the positive sense: the end point of being influenced. Liberated from the dour marchers, the Establishment will tweak the messaging from XR-style fear for the immediate future of the species to classic Obama hope and change. There will be “youth innovation hubs” and millennial investors bringing their values to the market, eager to provide capital for clean-energy start-ups. The night before, I had learned Shell was moving into new sectors in part by buying up small firms like Greenlots (electric-vehicle-charging infrastructure) and Sonnen (smart batteries). Some of the younger Shell employees I spoke to had found themselves acquired into jobs they wouldn’t necessarily have applied for. That’s one way around a recruiting problem.

        (Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine)

      • Capital Is A Hydra. Starting to think Capitalism is actually the problem here.

        If you tax oil, capital will sell it elsewhere. If you increase demand for raw materials, capital will bid up the prices of commodities and rush materials to market in the most wasteful, energy-intensive way. If you require millions of square miles for solar panels, wind farms, and biofuel crops, capital will bid up the price of real estate. If you slap tariffs on necessary imports, capital will leave for better markets. If you try to set a maximum price that doesn’t allow profit, capital will simply stop investing. Lop off one head of the hydra, face another.

        (“Between the Devil and the Green New Deal” by Jasper Bernes - Commune)

      • Capitalism posits that greed can be productive, but it seems like it always is not, ultimately.

        Shell’s concern, deeper than its fossil-fuel identity and more urgent than the climate crisis, is Shell. I don’t believe it’s going to lead us to the Paris climate goals, and Shell probably doesn’t believe it will either. But in order to survive and keep the bottom line growing, I am convinced the company will do whatever needs to be done, whether that’s networking solar panels, systematic human-rights violations, or both. Maybe it’ll even make some incidental progress along the way, depending on where the subsidies are, but there’s no comprehensive vision for a livable future here, no ethical imagination, no morality to speak of. It is unfit to lead.

        (Shell Has a Plan to Profit From Climate Change - NY Magazine)

    • Cap’n Trade
    • Zen And The Art of Banning Straws
]]> S03:E06 - "The Bloomberg Method" S03:E06 - "The Bloomberg Method" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/35 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:50:43 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/35 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 35 false Mike Bloomberg Is The Only Democrat


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  • Choose Your Own Caucus Adventure
    • Recording contingencies for each potential caucus outcome
]]> S03:E05 - "Meet Depressed" S03:E05 - "Meet Depressed" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/34 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:00:40 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/34 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 34 false Welcome to Escabeche Talk


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  • Dalentines Vay
  • “Raising awareness”

  • Slumlords As A Service

    To squeeze every penny out of these inner-city goldmines, scammers have started outsourcing property management to ill-equipped call centres in the Philippines. The scammers call it “systemising”, a process of grabbing as many apartments as possible, filling them with identikit furniture, taking professional-looking photographs and then using every trick in the book to turn them into lucrative investments. Some of these tricks, though morally dubious, are perfectly legal. But others breach both Airbnb’s policies and local planning laws, while also putting the safety of guests at risk. As Vice found in October 2019, Airbnb is littered with fake and downright dodgy listings. But in London, where Airbnb enforces an annual 90-day limit on all “entire homes” listed on its platform, scammers have made a mockery of lax enforcement both by regulators and Airbnb itself, by turning entire new-build apartment blocks into de facto hotels designed for the short-term rental market.

    (I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London - WIRED UK)

  • The Bernard Discourse

  • Escabeche? More like Escabech-bae
    • Zanahoria
  • Andrew’s Powders
  • Residential Mio Expert
  • Apple-A-Day
  • Striver Theory applied: Municipal Peter & Hall-monitor Liz
    • S01:E09 “Big Dog and The Strivers”
    • Andrew’s theory of Strivers
      • A Striver is someone who fully buys into the Capitalist American Dream
      • They’re always going somewhere, never happy with where they are, always comparing themselves to everyone else
      • They have a tendency to make you feel bad, sometimes passively, because they need to know they’re better than someone
      • We love it

    • https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-progressive-millennials-cant-stand-pete-buttigieg

      But the truth is, the youthful, progressive left has long despised the man that TikTok teens ridicule as “Mayo Pete.” And while Gen Z has made a social media sport of seizing his bland centrism for meme fodder, the millennials closest in age to the 38-year-old presidential hopeful are wracked by a more visceral contempt, informed by both their experience of American adulthood and the memory of growing up with peers who embody Pete’s brand of white-collar smarm. He’s the ruthless climber who wants a promotion at any cost, the rat who will sell you out the second you stop being useful to him. He’s the guy with opinions that shift according to the room he’s in. He did well in debate club, because he had the knack for disingenuous rhetoric. For some reason, he prefers to rip up a cinnamon roll and gnaw on the pieces. What the fuck is his deal?

      https://twitter.com/adult_witch/status/1224841321191329793

      https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21129665/pete-buttigieg-2020-democratic-primary-millennials

    • The Lisa Simpson candidate
    • If I excel at the system, maybe I can change the system from within
    • We love it, folks.
  • A Just Transition for Spreadsheet Workers
    • We cannot simply abandon all of the consultant-class. We will retrain them to do janitorial work.
]]> S03:E04 - "Potato Challenge Coins" S03:E04 - "Potato Challenge Coins" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/33 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 09:00:50 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/33 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 33 false Thinking about maybe not voting blue no matter who.


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  • The Bedates
    • The sweet one vs the flat one
  • Aaron’s Dream
    • Dreamt I was meeting a candidate for congress in my district, Chris Bubser
    • She asked if she could have my vote and all the sudden I had an epiphany. I said, “No. I only vote for people who have a working class background, or who have proved over a long period of time they have class consciousness and put working class and the poor first.”
    • She’s a carpet-bagger wealthy person. Would it be good to have a democrat flip our district blue? Yes. Does she have better resources than our previous dem candidates? Yes. But what’s the point?
  • Vote Blue No Matter Who
  • Smiley Potatoes and other shaped potato products
  • Google Maps as Gen-Z Tumblr
    • This is hilarious

    The Google Maps listing for Effingham County High School in Springfield, Georgia, has some relevant information, like the main office phone number and the link to the school website. But the photo gallery section is a little off-topic. Instead of showing photos of the school, which Google Maps would normally display, there are nonsensical photos, like the Nintendo character Kirby drawn with legs and feet, a Joker meme, a Sad Kermit meme, a Minecraft screenshot, and erotic fan art showing characters from the education website BrainPop.

    People searching for Effingham County High School will find zero photos of the high school’s exterior. However, they’ll be able to glimpse the school’s interior life. (High Schoolers Are Adding Memes To Google Maps - Buzzfeed News)

]]> S03:E03 - "Bernard Brethren" S03:E03 - "Bernard Brethren" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/32 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:38:09 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/32 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 32 false This episode of I Have No Idea What I'm Doing is sponsored by:

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  • How was your brexit?
  • Uber, but for poops
  • Please stop writing longreads. I do not have the time to read them. Thank’s
  • It’s very simple, which is why I’ve made a 20-tweet thread to explain it
  • Pundits vs. BernieBros, or, Party Unity Only Goes One Way
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/sanders-bernie-bros.html
    • Remember that this is the guy who recently got a photo of Goebbels published in the NYT because he got called a bedbug.`
    • Extremely “I’m not mad, you’re mad!” energy.
    • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/bernie-sanders-electable-trump-2020-nomination-popular-socialism.html
    • Pundits depend upon you trusting them, and this trust is usually based on some sense that they know something about what they’re talking about.
    • But they don’t.
    • Lack of self-awareness is rampant on Twitter, etc., and people take it entirely too seriously.
      • This is a class thing, I think
    • Difference between public & private
    • Demanding “civility” is just a way to stifle dissent, in the same way that the right calls for “law and order”.
    • Also, stop portraying Bernie’s support base as solely white and male. That tells more about you than it does about them.
  • You’ve seen it, or you’ve been shown it?
    • Remember that the media, whether consciously or unconsciously, is providing you a biased narrative.
    • They show you things that drive engagement and attention. Usually, this involves the most extreme examples (see nutpicking, S03:E02)
    • “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“ - George Orwell, 1984
  • https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/1223577742618300417
  • Identity v. Class
    • Fred Hampton on Race & Class

    • You know a lot of people have hang-ups with the Party because the Party talks about a class struggle. And the people that have those hang-ups are opportunists, and cowards, and individualists and everything that’s anything but revolutionary. And they use these things as an excuse to justify and to alibi and to bonify their lack of participation in the real revolutionary struggle. So they say, “Well, I can’t dig the Panther Party because the Panthers they are engrossed with dealing with oppressor country radicals, or white people, or hunkies, or what have you. They said these are some of the excuses that I use to negate really why I am not in the struggle.”

      We got a lot of answers for those people. First of all, we say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. … It was one class–the oppressed–those other class–the oppressor. And it’s got to be a universal fact. Those that don’t admit to that are those that don’t want to get involved in a revolution, because they know that as long as they’re dealing with a race thing, they’ll never be involved in a revolution. …

      When the Party started to talk about class struggle, we found that we had to start talking about some guns. If we never negated the fact that there was racism in America, but we said that when you, the by-product, what comes off of racism, that capitalism comes first and next is racism. That when they brought slaves over here, it was to take money. So first the idea came that we want to make money, then the slaves came in order to make that money. That means that capitalism had to, through historical fact, racism had to come from capitalism. It had to be capitalism first and racism was a by-product of that.

      Anybody that doesn’t admit that is showing through their non-admittance and their non-participation in the struggle that all they are, are people who fail to make a commitment; and the only thing that they have going for them is the education that they receive in these institutions—education enough to teach them some alibis[.] ..

      We’re talking about destroying the system, and they have hang-ups doing that because they’re constantly buying property within the system. And it’s kind of hard to burn up on Tuesday what you bought last Monday. Because they’re a bunch of unrepentant capitalists. They’ll never repent. And they know better. We try to make excuses for them—“Maybe they’ll have to go through stages, Fred.”

      No, that’s not it. Because they’re much older than we are—I’m 21. We’re all young. So stages, they don went through them. Ron Karenga has more degrees than a thermometer. That’s right, he has more degrees than a thermometer and he continues to do what he’s doin’. And how do they fool you? Because they pick the leaders they want. And they put those people up there and portray them as being your leaders when, in fact, they’re leaders of nobody.

    • Fred Hampton, “It’s A Class Struggle Goddammit!”, November, 1969
  • Lingua Franca and the Rise of the Resistance Socialite - The Cut
  • Patreon Me Daddy
  • We love the petroleum, folks
]]> S03:E02 - "Just Build Train" S03:E02 - "Just Build Train" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/31 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:00:53 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/31 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 31 false Strap in: we’re going to explain Dummy Chum and Nutpicking.


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  • Dummy Chum and Nut-picking
    • Dummy Chum: events, propaganda, memes, or messages that activate the stupidest ranks within any given group/movement/fanbase
    • Nut-picking: using a whacky outlier position as if it represents a whole group. (basically weak-man fallacy)
      • Ex:// sharing a post of a fringe BLM activist who states that it’s racist to speak to white people and holding it up as representative of the views of the entire movement.
  • What is baby yoda’s name?
    • Fenton Jeff
]]> S03:E01 - "Bongs, Pads, Bens, and Levs" S03:E01 - "Bongs, Pads, Bens, and Levs" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/30 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:05:24 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/30 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 30 false We regret to inform you that season 3 has begun.


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  • RIP MARIANNE & CORY
  • Pev Larnas
  • Andrew has obtained a professional internet pad
]]> 2019 Holiday Special 2019 Holiday Special https://goodstuff.network/noidea/29 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:00:58 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/29 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 29 false Yes, we released our 2019 special in 2020.


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]]> S02:E14 - "Rich Computer Man" S02:E14 - "Rich Computer Man" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/28 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:00:27 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/28 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 28 false Announcement: you’re not crazy and it’s not your fault.


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]]> S02:E13 - "Berlin Wall Special" S02:E13 - "Berlin Wall Special" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/27 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:00:29 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/27 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 27 false Andrew tells us all about the Berlin Wall.


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]]> S02:E12 - "Okay Boomer" S02:E12 - "Okay Boomer" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/26 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/26 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 26 false California is cancelled, apparently.


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  • Panda Express chow mein: a take
    • Fam, it’s bad. The noodles are too short so you can’t eat them w/ chopsticks without them falling all over.
    • I think they were designed specifically for forks, which is just wrong
]]> S02:E11 - "Serotonin Fast" S02:E11 - "Serotonin Fast" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/25 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/25 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 25 false Introducing our direct-to-consumer humidity-as-a-service!


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]]> S02:E10 - "Use of Onion" S02:E10 - "Use of Onion" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/24 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/24 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 24 false Just harpin’ some boont


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  • Weird Dialect, but okay
  • Hillary v. Tulsi

    • Hillary accuses Tulsi of being a Russian asset

      “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said, speaking on a podcast with former Obama adviser David Plouffe. “She’s the favorite of the Russians.”

      Clinton never names Gabbard, but there are only five women running for President – Gabbard, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and author Marianne Williamson – and none of the other woman have been accused of being boosted by Russia.

      (Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are ‘grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run - CNNPolitics)

    • Actually, she’s part of a weird cult

      When Tulsi talks about her girlhood, it is with a profound vagueness, a visible discomfort. In Iowa, there is awkward silence when I ask about her three brothers (“They’re kind of separate,” her sister eventually says) and silence when I ask about being homeschooled (“The schools in Hawaii weren’t very good,” Davan offers). Tulsi calls herself Hindu, the first Hindu member of Congress, in fact, though the group in which she appears to have grown up does not identify as Hindu. She says she was raised by “an eccentric Catholic father.”

      In 1970, the Honolulu Advertiser published a piece called “One Man Rules Haiku Krishnaites,” with the subhead “Absolute power of devotees.” In the photo beside the piece, Butler is seated shirtless and smoking, hair skimming his shoulders and a sarong around his waist, staring alluringly into the distance, a mischievous smile on his face. It is the expression of less a guru than a playboy, and this is how Advertiser reporter Janice Wolf depicts him, a handsome dictator with the ability to hypnotize the two dozen 18-to-22-year-olds who live with him in his Quonset hut. One of the girls, an 18-year-old who also happened to have the Sanskrit name Tulsi, says he arranged her marriage to another member of the group. She and another girl, who say they would kill for him, describe his teachings. Among them: “Flowers scream when they’re picked. So do trees when they’re trimmed.” (“Tulsi and Boni were sitting on the lawn chewing blades of grass when they said this,” notes Wolf.)

      (Profile: Tulsi Gabbard and Her 2020 Presidential Campaign)

  • Why I’m Quitting Paying Any Attention To Things With This Title Format
    • That you’re stopping doing something is, usually, one of the least interesting facts
    • I’m not a hypocrite for podcasting about leaving facebook shut up
]]> S02:E09 - "#SendUsYourSoups" S02:E09 - "#SendUsYourSoups" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/23 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/23 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 23 false You can pry our undershirts from our cold, dead hands!


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  • Is it Soup Season?

    • Please share your recipes

      #Send Us Your Soups

  • The Grilled Egg-Cheese
    • Some say, “that’s just an fried egg sandwich”
      • They are wrong
    • Ingredients
  • Democrats will always lose: a theory
    • Democrats will always aim to defeat trump on a technicality
      • They want an outside arbiter to enforce a rule that dismisses Trump instead of leveraging power to displace him.
      • This is because democrats understand that their only efficacious power is derived from populism.
      • But in order to embrace and use Populist energy they must also confront the divide between working and upper classes
      • Party leadership understand they have more in common with Brett Kavanaugh than AOC. They understand that populist power will likely displace their own, and so they are unwilling to use the only real tool in their arsenal.
  • File under “No Thanks, I’m Good”
    • [Sorry, Guys, It’s Time to Ditch Your Undershirt MEL Magazine](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/should-guys-wear-undershirts-mens-fashion)
    • Bad take.
]]> S02:E08 - "Sneaking Vegetables" S02:E08 - "Sneaking Vegetables" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/22 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:50:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/22 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 22 false Deciding to maybe show solidarity with the rich


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  • IMPEACHMENT
    • In Peach Mint ™

  • FOLLOW UP: MLS Comes To Its Senses

    https://deadspin.com/mls-caves-to-fan-pressure-lifts-its-ban-on-the-iron-fr-1838441929

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    • It is important to understand that these are not rules
      • But there WILL be consequences
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  • Our Economic System Also Sucks for Rich People

    The elite should not—they have no right to—expect sympathy from those who remain excluded from the privileges and benefits of high caste. But ignoring how oppressive meritocracy is for the rich is a mistake. The rich now dominate society not idly but effortfully. The familiar arguments that once defeated aristocratic inequality do not apply to an economic system based on rewarding effort and skill. The relentless work of the hundred-hour-a-week banker inoculates her against charges of unearned advantage. Better, then, to convince the rich that all their work isn’t actually paying off.

    They may need less convincing than you might think. As the meritocracy trap closes in around elites, the rich themselves are turning against the prevailing system. Plaintive calls for work/life balance ring ever louder. Roughly two-thirds of elite workers say that they would decline a promotion if the new job demanded yet more of their energy. When he was the dean of Stanford Law School, Larry Kramer warned graduates that lawyers at top firms are caught in a seemingly endless cycle: Higher salaries require more billable hours to support them, and longer hours require yet higher salaries to justify them. Whose interests, he lamented, does this system serve? Does anyone really want it?

    Meritocracy Harms Everyone - The Atlantic

    • Kind of a galaxy-brain take that’s laughable at first, but there’s a good nugget here, I think
    • Part of what drives inequality and greed is an intuitive understanding that this economy is built on a zero-sum premise
    • The rich understand the risks that come with reduced wealth or social status, and they feel disempowered from confronting it because they’re only an individual
    • Most rich people are paupers in comparison with the true elites, so they don’t really see themselves as the ones with power
    • Pals, being rich sucks and it doesn’t fulfill you—the constant fear of losing it all or being caught or getting murked by karma are not great headspaces
    • What if there was another way? What if you didn’t have to view everybody below you as your enemy? What if we all decided to have solidarity against the exhausting and stupid culture we’ve created?
    • Maybe if we exercise empathy and show solidarity to those better-off, but still suffering under this oppressive system, we can get more done
    • Where do we set the boundary, though, as far as income goes? Appealing to billionaires seems a waste, but what about families bringing in 250k? How do we define who’s worth the solidarity and who de-facto has to be an enemy?
]]> S02:E07 - "Grosperity Pospel" S02:E07 - "Grosperity Pospel" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/21 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/21 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 21 false We need private jets,,,for our work!


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Shrimp-tastrophy

Starting in the early 1960s, California and Nevada’s departments of Fish and Game (now the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Nevada Department of Wildlife) released mysis shrimp into Lake Tahoe in hopes that they would be a new and abundant food source for the lake’s fish.

“The idea was, if you introduce something that fish could eat, fish would get bigger and fishermen would be happier,” said Tahoe Environmental Research Center Director Geoff Schladow. “So what could possibly go wrong with that?”

A lot, it turns out.

“This is something everybody may have missed,” Schladow said. “I think for a long time.” …

Before the shrimp were introduced into Tahoe, zooplankton in the lake ate algae and sediment, clearing the water by doing so. Some fish also ate the zooplankton. Then the states introduced the shrimp, and everything changed. The shrimp hate light, and because Lake Tahoe is so clear, they have to retreat to the depths of the lake during the day to avoid it. Then, each night, they undertake a round-trip migration as long as 2,000 feet to the top of the water to feed. Once the sun rises again, they swim back down.

While officials put the shrimp in the lake in the hopes of fish eating them, that hasn’t been the case because of this nightly vertical migration. …

Not only did the shrimp not fulfill their intended role, but they also brought a devastating and unintended consequence.

After the shrimp migrate each night, they’re starving from the long journey. Because of this, they’ve managed to decimate their main food source in Lake Tahoe: native zooplankton.

These zooplankton were an important food source for the kokanee, and the size of those fish in Lake Tahoe has dropped dramatically since the shrimp were introduced. But these tiny creatures that the shrimp were devouring, called Daphnia, were also keeping the lake clean, researchers found out.

“As far as zooplankton in Lake Tahoe go, Daphnia is responsible for removing about 85% of the particles and algae from the water column,” said Katie Senft, one of the researchers on Allen’s team.

TahoeLand: Trillions Of Tiny Invasive Shrimp Are Degrading Lake Tahoe’s Clarity. Now Researchers Are Trying To Stop Them. - Capital Public Radio

The YOUTHS are tracking each other?

Which brings us to the more curious kind of location-sharing: the ambient, always-on kind. At baseline, your friends’ location is just another piece of information about them, another point of connection, or an excuse to talk to them. You can see whether they happen to be nearby, and have a happy chance meeting. This is a particularly common scenario in college, where people are likely to be within a small, bounded area.

It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Friends Are? - CityLab

Spice Rankings

Ranking Spices by How Healthy They Are - MEL Magazine

Weird Way to do Public Housing, But Okay

  • San Mateo cops have been sleeping in their cars to avoid an hours-long commute at the end of a 12-hour shift. The city plans to convert a portion of an old fire station into a sleeping barracks for far-flung officers who can’t afford the extremely expensive housing in the area.

For San Mateo police Officer Jeff Brinton, the 85-mile commute from Oakley was so punishing that he decided to pursue the only reasonably affordable solution he could think of: He now sleeps in a van.

Rather than slog back and forth from eastern Contra Costa County between shifts — a trip that can take 2½ hours during rush hour — he crashes in his Roadtrek van, which he parks in the employee lot at the San Mateo police headquarters.

Brinton said he is hardly the only member of the force who slumbers in a vehicle rather than drive several hours after a 12-hour workday.

“A lot of (officers) are sleeping in their cars if they get too tired — it’s dangerous to drive home,” said Brinton.

But Brinton may soon get some relief from his commuting nightmare. On Monday, the San Mateo City Council unanimously approved a plan to convert a portion of an old fire station into a sleeping barracks for far-flung officers who can’t afford the average $1.4 million Peninsula home.

The $520,000 project will provide bunks and showers for up to 12 officers at a time at Fire Station 26 at 1812 S. Norfolk St. In addition to the barracks, the building will be a police substation and vehicle storage site.

While Brinton’s commute may be particularly egregious, it’s not that unusual. Of San Mateo’s 125 officers, 68% live outside of San Mateo County, many as far as Tracy or Mountain House in San Joaquin County or Gilroy in south Santa Clara County.

The cops who sleep in their cars — and what San Mateo is doing about it - SFChronicle.com

Hi, would you like to live in a parking garage?

The Parking Garages of the Future - Governing

Conservatives don’t like colleges because they expose you to the others you’re supposed to be afraid of

  • Hatred/fear of The Other rarely survives actual contact and experience with them

https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1164649782490435585

Grosperity Pospel

Like payday lenders, prosperity gospel ministers see the broke and struggling as a consumer market. Their target demographic is those who suffer from lack, and their product is the promise of abundance, or at least relief. Financially, the prosperity gospel is nothing but a swindle, prying money from people who by definition have very little and desperately wish they had more.

Ideologically, the prosperity gospel dovetails perfectly with right-wing ideology, which views poverty as a consequence of individual failure rather than rigged economic and political structures. … When times are hard, it’s because you didn’t think positively enough, pray hard enough, or tithe enough. It’s a spiritual spin on meritocracy, the ideological handmaiden to neoliberal capitalism. The prosperity gospel is one of America’s greatest grifts.

(A Grift from God - Jacobin)

Trump IS a prosperity gospel preacher:

Trump’s spiritual adviser is a prosperity minister. Her name is Paula White. In April of this year, she promised believers that if they sent her money they would receive one of several blessings: God would bring harm to their enemies, assign them a special angel, enhance their prosperity, or increase their inheritance. …

In the relationship between Paula White and Donald Trump, the nature of the prosperity gospel is laid bare. White got famous telling working-class people that their economic insecurity was a personal failing, and in a way, so did Trump. The Apprentice is a show about people dreaming of riches, desperate to prove themselves worthy of success. Most are not, and are punished for their weakness with unemployment. What’s obscured in both instances is that people are poor because people like White and Trump are rich — that they are each beneficiaries of a system that takes from the needy and gives to themselves.
(A Grift from God - Jacobin)

Full Interview: Preacher Kenneth Copeland Defends Lavish Lifestyle - YouTube

]]> S02:E06 - "Hard Workers" S02:E06 - "Hard Workers" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/20 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/20 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 20 false As hard workers, we…


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CICPS Followup

  • Slogan of the Council at the Intitute of the Center for Politics and Society: “We disambiguate complexifiers for the good of humanity.”!
  • Also announcing our new PAC, BackPAC. A return to normalcy for all!

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Happy Telephone Ordering Day

  • 5am
  • White noise
  • jiggabits

Is Salted Licorice Any Good?

  • Aaron tries it

Chocolate Milk Is SO 1995

The Impulsive Buy on Twitter: “SPOTTED: Borden Limited Edition State Fair Inspirations Flavored Milk” - Twitter

Elizabeth Warren: Doin’ It for The ‘Gram

At Ms. Warren’s campaign stops, her speech to the crowd is only the first half of a two-act production. What comes next, and can last just as long, is the Warren selfie line, a campaign-trail innovation for the age of Instagram.

Ms. Warren’s campaign estimates that she has spent about 107 hours taking pictures in selfie lines since entering the race — the equivalent of working 9-to-5 for 13 days. At one event in Iowa, she continued posing for pictures in the midst of a tornado warning.

How to Get a Selfie With Elizabeth Warren in 8 Steps - NY Times

DEBATE RECAP

  • Joseph R. Biden Jr: firecracker
  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Bernie Sanders
  • Kamala Harris
  • Pete Buttigieg
  • Andrew Yang
  • Cory Booker
  • Amy Klobuchar
  • Beto O’Rourke
  • Julián Castro

It Turns Out Everyone Involved Was Lying

Ariel Edwards-Levy’s thread recapping a survey from 1971

Repeal and Replace 2: 2 Repeal 2 Replace

Will Republicans Win Back the House? Their Playbook Is Familiar - Bloomberg

Folks: Keep it Grounded in Fact

Fact or Folly? — Keep It Grounded in Fact

Hard Work: What Even Is It?

I Have No Idea What “Hard Work” Means - Current Affairs

]]> S02:E05 - "#RebrandMen" S02:E05 - "#RebrandMen" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/19 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/19 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 19 false The #99rules for #NewMans


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Some Personal News: Andrew Got An Ottoman.

That is all.

Scent Shopping

Bedbug Stephens Was On One This Week

Innovation in Censorship

Idea: browser extension / twitter extension that muted or blocks all op-ed links and sections and authors

These Are The 99 Rules For Manhood. This Is All You Need.

Clint Pressley on Twitter: “In honor of ⁦@9Marks⁩ and ⁦@MarkDever⁩’s Birthday. Here are 99 steps to Christian manhood. https://t.co/geZKXpTE5Z” / Twitter

ContraPoints’ new video on men

  • As with women, the traditional gender role of men is also shifting
  • Protector-provider role is increasingly irrelevant
  • We teach men that the male role models society holds up for them are problematic, and denounce toxic masculinity, both of which are good, BUT:
  • We haven’t replaced those role models with anything
  • What does a twenty first century man look like?
  • #99rules #NewMans
  • #RebrandMen

Plastic

The oil and gas industry is ramping up petrochemicals — building blocks of plastics —right as the global outcry intensifies over plastic waste. … Domestic demand for ethane has grown rapidly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects it will reach 1.7 million barrels per day by year’s end, an 83% increase over 2012. … Exports of ethane have grown from nothing in 2013 to more than 250,000 barrels a day. EIA projects these exports to increase by another 50% this year. … Petrochemicals, which accounted for half of the growth in global oil demand last year, are projected to rise to 70% share of growth by 2040, according to BP.

Oil companies double down on plastics as public outcry grows - AXIOS

Californians generated about 77.2 million tons of waste in 2017, according to the most recent calculations from CalRecycle, California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Of that, about 44.4 million tons ended up in landfills in 2017. CalRecycle estimates that the other 32.8 million tons, about 42 percent, was sent to recycling or composting, or was just never tossed in the first place. The numbers are a problem because they mean the state is far from reaching a statewide goal to reduce, recycle, or compost 75 percent of waste by the year 2020. And the outlook isn’t good. That’s in part because cheap natural gas is spurring investments in manufacturing of virgin plastics, which a CalRecycle report said could “undermine source reduction efforts, undercut prices for recovered plastics, and exacerbate plastic litter and marine pollution issues.”

Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like - CalMatters

The Idiotic Reason That Egg Companies Are Turning to Plastic Packaging

Rich People Be Crazy

Barking dogs at Chevy Chase dog park divide rich and powerful - The Washington Post

Important News: We Are Baby

]]> S02:E04 - "That's A Big Bowl of Pasta" S02:E04 - "That's A Big Bowl of Pasta" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/18 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/18 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 18 false It’s The Official Podcast Day because Conan hath declared it


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Folks, the only Amazon Fire I want is the one plugged into my TV. Amirite? Up here.

Amazon rainforest fires: Here’s what we know - CNN

Thin dalmation line

https://www.aspiregear.com/blogs/news/what-do-the-thin-line-colors-mean

Thicc Orange Line

Baby please don’t leave me, I swear I’ll be better

Calendar Capitalism

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared ice cream a “nutritious and wholesome food” to help the dairy industry, since he was already trying to find a way to get rid of a surplus of 500 million pounds of cheese. In the years since, sales of ice cream have spiked on this day. Dippin’ Dots, Cold Stone Creamery, and Baskin-Robbins ran promotions and in-store giveaways on National Ice Cream Day 2019, as did PetSmart and Williams Sonoma. Halo Top gave out vouchers in a promotional collaboration with Bumble. Yes, some Americans are likely now using a dating app because Ronald Reagan had too much cheese .

Why Every Day Is Suddenly ‘National Something Day’ - The Atlantic

The Chicken Sandwich Wars, They Have Begun

A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and a Tactic to Set Off a Twitter Roar - The New York Times

  • Hot take: fried chicken is already a sandwich.
    • It’s literally meat between bread, folks.

We love it!

Idea: start making fake trump catchphrases and say them in his voice in order to spread them

pigs and chickens

zima zima zima

a big bowel of pasta

Ketamine for the Troops

The president wants to make a controversial new nasal spray available to depressed veterans. The agency says it will consider incorporating the drug after it has more data.
Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans - The Atlantic

Conan invents podcasting

Inside the Podcast Boom: How Conan O’Brien and More Cash in – Variety

Doing some podcast growth hacking

  • 2% of our downloads are from France
  • 2% of our downloads are from Spain

Actually, We Can’t: The Humiliating Weakness of Neoliberal Policy Worship

  • Posit: policies are great, but without power they’re meaningless.

  • All political movements which prioritize policy at the expense of, or without commensurate focus on obtaining the power necessary to enact an agenda will always fail.
  • Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care - The Ezra Klein Show
  • One of the argument Ezra makes against pure, unadulterated M4A appears to be as follows:
    • We cannot afford to risk failed attempts at bold policy because it results in disillusioned voters
      • As if failing to try is not equally or more discouraging and disillusioning
      • Voters want representatives that fight for them
      • The incentive is a fear of losing power when it should be a fear of wasting power.
      • The policy is secondary to the movement behind it.
      • There’s just always this underlying but unspoken assumption that the status-quo is tolerable while we wait. And it’s curiously always coming from people for whom the status quo is, like, not killing them and their family.
]]> S02:E03 - "NULL" S02:E03 - "NULL" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/17 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/17 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 17 false Realizing it’s our fault for the problems we are dealing with, and not Amazon’s


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Taco Talk (or, Let’s Taco Bout Tacos)

  • You’re welcome.
  • Jack’s tacos
  • THE Ohio State

New E-people Have Arrived

  • E-aboo
  • E-wooloo
  • E-kin
  • Furr-E

Who Hacks The Hackers?

Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets

MLS Blowing It On Anti-Fascism

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/08/12/26956470/the-timbers-army-is-right-mls-must-rescind-its-ban-on-the-iron-front-symbol

https://twitter.com/visionofclarity/status/1161025052550336512?s=21

What the hell, MLS?

_Seinfeld Voice_What is the DEAL with the METAL BISTRO CHAIRS?????

https://jezebel.com/i-hate-these-chairs-1837309166

Swear Police Mad At Trump

https://splinternews.com/the-swear-police-are-mad-as-heck-and-coming-for-trump-1837167468

Clearly this is the only bad thing he’s done, though. Everything else is fine.

Space Watch

  • Aaron is pregaming Picard

Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Ambassadors Are Basically The Borg

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/8/16/20808029/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-fulfillment-center-disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/style/amazon-fc-ambassadors.html

https://twitter.com/PierreMenard/status/1162025558978510848

Reply Guys-as-a-Service

The Slow Destruction of Gizmodo Media Group by Private Equiteers

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at-new-ceos-insane-direction

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadspin-editor-quits-rails-against-bosses-ive-been-repeatedly-lied-to-and-gaslit

Give Me Your Moneyed, Your Rich, Your Financially-Independent Masses

https://splinternews.com/trumps-immigration-chief-pretty-sure-the-statue-of-libe-1837200109

These bozos know there’s no moral justification for what they’re doing so they have to make stuff up.

Coming soon: all immigrants must be FIRE adherents or otherwise enrolled in a Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman course to be allowed in.

We will be checking your bank transaction history at customs. If you spend too much on coffee, DENIED.

]]> S02:E02 - "E-People" S02:E02 - "E-People" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/16 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/16 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 16 false Turns out the “E” stands for electronics, not efficiency.


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Effry Jepstein

LIFEHACK: Laundry balls

  • Amazon really wants me to buy these
  • Reduced Lumpage
  • Heat bacteria

Custom trail mix

  • Aaron has ordered a custom blende from nuts dot com

Gdub Mix at nuts.com

Homocidal Family Members

Ask Polly: My In-Laws Are Careless About My Food Allergy!

I have a very severe allergy to mushrooms. I carry an EpiPen, and I have been hospitalized multiple times because of exposure to this food. One time, I began convulsing in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. My husband politely explained this to his parents when we started dating, and I was invited to family meals.

Since then, most meals we have shared at my in-laws’ house have had very limited options for me. Somehow, they manage to find a way to add mushrooms to almost everything. One time, they made a point to make a special plate of mushrooms and pass it around. My mother-in-law said, very rudely, “I would’ve liked to add mushrooms directly to the salad, but SOMEBODY has problems with it!” They even added mushroom powder to the mashed potatoes at one holiday dinner. My mother-in-law claimed it was a new recipe she’d found.

Coffee Shaming

Buying Coffee Won’t Make You Poor - The Atlantic

E-Folks

If this is all new to you, here’s an e-boy primer, starting with how they look: their hair is styled like Leonardo DiCaprio’s as Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo, via Michael Pitt in The Dreamers. They smoke cigarettes, sometimes, for the aesthetic, but they’re as sober as an AA counsellor. They’ve been raised on Mac Demarco, The 1975 and lo-fi terrorcore-era Tyler, the Creator, but also Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Their vibe is the climax of all those faintly related spheres, filtered through Brockhampton’s brightly-coloured, post-One Direction world.

Clothes-wise: loads of chains. Bicycle chains, jean chains, wallet chains, coke can ring chains. They put padlocks around their necks. You could describe them as classic Camden Lock goth, were it not for the fact they seem like remarkably well-kept, happy – if a little performatively sad – young men, many of them seemingly being readied for a future in which their college tuition will be paid in full. (What Is an E-Boy? - Vice)

That’s another trait of the e-boy: being generally gross. It’s something they’ve cribbed from Billie Eilish, queen of the e-boys (and their female counterparts, e-girls, who i-D wrote about here). But alongside that grossness, they also rival 2007 Myspace kids in the pouting stakes. It’s a fine line, really: a load of posturing to show everyone how beautiful they are, with just enough purposefully manky stuff to remind their audience they really don’t care about looks. (What Is an E-Boy? - Vice)

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/1/20748707/egirl-definition-what-is-an-eboy

Amperage Talk

Fast Charging my Internet Telephone

Why You Should Switch to USB-C Fast Charging Now: Reviews by Wirecutter - A New York Times Company

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GWQ2GJC

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Lightning-Certified-Powerline-Supports/dp/B07H27J698/ref=pd_bxgy_107_3/144-7068630-2119032

DYSTOPIA WATCH: Headphones as a Service

Nuraphone

The Quillette Situation

Quillette Duped by Left-Wing Hoaxer Posing as Communist Construction Worker

https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1159626427450437632

https://twitter.com/justin_yang/status/1159629365161934848a

Logo Talk

Campaign Logos and their meanings

Minimalism: overrated?

Yes.

An Efficiency Thought Technology

  • When you double efficiency your halve efficacy.
    • Efficiency masks other failings because it gets adopted as the supreme metric. Once you pull back the curtain, you can see that making efficiency your god usually distracts you from more mundane but crucial areas of focus.
    • EX:// Infrastructure
      • Algorithmic systems which predict the most efficient areas for road improvements cause people to stop paying attention to the maintenance of less efficient areas, which become degraded and require_more_ work than if they had simply been maintained.
]]> S02:E01 - "Ketchup EDC" S02:E01 - "Ketchup EDC" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/15 Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/15 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 15 false Starting to think “disruption” is an excuse for not treating people great, tbqh


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There are more than 4,500 colleges and universities in the United States, and each year they host thousands of speakers of all political stripes. According to FIRE, a watchdog group that focuses on civil liberties in academia, only 11 speakers were disinvited from addressing college audiences in 2018. This is a minuscule fraction of the universe of speakers who express their views annually on American campuses.

  • The notion that fighting over controversial speech is somehow new is really dumb

When students express concern and discomfort about speech that is hateful, racist, or noxious in other ways, they are doing nothing unreasonable or historically unprecedented. A number of other democracies take a less absolute view on this topic—yet remain democracies. Moreover, the prevailing American conception of free speech and press rights is a relatively recent development when located in the sweep of time and the history of our nation. The challenge of resolving the tensions inherent in a tolerant society is still very much with us and is likely to remain so.

“Recently, I have noticed some team members working as if Mic were just another 9-6 job, not giving it their all everyday [sic],” Altchek wrote to his staff that month. “I’ve challenged every leader to fix any instances immediately. I’ve asked every leader at Mic to set really ambitious goals going into [Objectives and Key Results] and not accept anything less than total effort from their teams everyday.””

Employees had other frustrations with the financial side of startup life. When Mic passed out the custom-made Nikes in 2015, the company had already raised more than $30 million but had yet to set up a 401(k) system, multiple employees said.

“I was just like, ‘This is so dumb. I don’t need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k),’” said one of them. “They just seemed like they were wasting money left and right.”

When the company eventually set up a 401(k) at the end of 2015, according to the person familiar with the company, it did not match contributions. The adviser who worked for the company said it was “fairly standard” in startups that a “401(k) match is not a high priority for employees.”

…self-interested “disruptors” have been around since forever. What’s new over the past couple of decades is the passion, the self-confidence, the ideological commitment. (Not to mention the shamelessness.) … The tech monopolies leaned into this idea, appealing to and flattering our selfishness and solipsism. … As if your moral responsibility could stop at the metaphorical front door, where food, cars, packages magically arrive for your use.

We are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like. It ain’t magical. … Because, let’s face it, Silicon Valley technology in nearly all cases isn’t so transformative that it would simply replace the existing systems on its merits. Uber isn’t better than a good mass-transit system; Facebook isn’t better than actual friendship; YouTube videos aren’t better than quality entertainment; a neighborhood littered with Airbnbs isn’t better than a community-oriented one; a computerized learning plan isn’t better than a great teacher. They may be more efficient or easier to use or less expensive, but better? Not even close. …

[The]… truth is that having so much of life occur at the front door, as opposed to on the town square or the market street, is simply sad. Pathetic even. Who but a small minority would want to organize life around a siege mentality?

Change soaps

]]> S01:E14 "De-contemptification" S01:E14 "De-contemptification" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/14 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/14 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 14 false Thinking maybe we should stop being jealous of other people having it easy.


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Scooter Talk

  • Lyft, Bird, Lime, Spin, Jump, Veoride

Cold Take

  • Coldplay is a fine band and a lot of their songs are Good and Meaningful
    • Yellow
    • Fix You
    • The Scientist
    • Talk
  • Why do people hate Coldplay?
    • SOmethign something recent coldplay

Contempt vs. Solidarity

  • “What I’ve Learned From People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News” NY Mag
  • Q:// How do you effectively pull loved ones away from this kind of thing?
  • Q:// Is there a way to counteract this using similar tactics?
  • Q:// How might we see similar things taking place among our generation? How can we recognize it and avoid it before it becomes a similar behemoth?
  • Q:// Latent racism does explain why certain groups were so vulnerable to fox’s graft, but do any other factors explain it? What about financial instability? What about widespread corruption? Could addressing those issues have mitigated fox’s power?
  • Refuse to do to Zoomers what Boomers did to Millennials

If you’re in debt, you don’t deserve a vacation

De-contemptifying

  • Any time I bristle at somebody “having it easy” or being “spoiled” I stop and ask myself, “is this actually just a decent and good thing for them that I’m only upset about because I’ve internalized a rationalization of late capitalisms awfulness by telling myself it was, basically, vitamins for character that was good for me?”
  • The One Collar Movement

Anyone following the labor movement today could be forgiven for thinking it’s one-dimensional. The museums are unionizing. The academics are unionizing. The media is unionizing. The political workers and nonprofit workers and tech workers are unionizing. Has organized labor become white collar? Not at all. We all wear the same collar. It’s called CAPITALISM.

]]> S01:E13 "Young Grandpa" S01:E13 "Young Grandpa" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/13 Mon, 01 Jul 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/13 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 13 false Okay, fine, we’ll talk about the debates.


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A very important announcement

  • THIS IS THE PENULTIMATE EPISODE OF SEASON ONE
    • We’ll be back after a short break to collect our senses.
    • The next episode was recorded in April, so GTFO about outdated references and stuff.

Iced Cremes Consumption Methods

  • Ice cream sandwiches: why?
  • Drumsticks are a better technology, honestly
  • Klondike Bars is baby

The “Debates”

  • Quick takes on each candidate
    • Night 1
    • Night 2
      • Marianne Williamson
      • John Hickenlooper
      • Andrew Yang
      • Pete Buttigieg
      • Joe Biden
      • Bernie Sanders
      • Kamala Harris
      • Kirsten Gillibrand
      • Michael Bennet
      • Eric Swalwell

Please, won’t somebody think of the conservative, white, upper-class men?!

Neither, Nor, and now:

  • Nequal

Everything is Politics: Corporate Donations Edition

These corps are too big to escape. Not as easy as “ILL BE GETTING MY HAMMERS FROM LOEWES FROM NOW ON!” I’m sure they donate to pro-lgbtq politicians (whoever can help their profits). But 193 anti-lgbtq politicians is 193 people passing harmful laws and I like knowing about it? @ColeEscola, 26 Jun 2019

Not even tactical framing

A real survey from the president’s official web site. Comin’ in awfully hot. @oneunderscore__, 28 Jun 2019

Honestly, Summer is Problematic

]]> S01:E12 "Put Noodles In Your Salad" S01:E12 "Put Noodles In Your Salad" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/12 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/12 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 12 false As of publishing this we are not at war with Iran, but who knows 🤷‍♂️


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Crisis Averted?

Vader Mask Followup

  • Aaron has adapted for space travel
  • Nasal pillow

If Everything’s Socialism, Nothing’s Socialism

  • Chernobyl happened because of Socialism
    • Shot

    It’s impossible to watch HBO’s CHERNOBYL without thinking of Donald Trump; like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he’s a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power–economic, global–that he does not understand. @StephenKing, 30 May 2019

    • Chaser

    Why do Hollywood elitists continue to publicly humiliate themselves on twitter? Chernobyl was a failure of socialism (where the govt controls the means of production), the exact opposite of the Trump deregulation and tax cut agenda. @DanBoingoBoingoBongoDummy, 30 May 2019

    • “Stephen King Likens ‘Chernobyl’ to Trump, Ignores Socialism”
    • “HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Indicts Soviet Socialism. Reviews Downplay It”
    • “HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Gives Voice To Ordinary Soviets’ Horror Of Socialism”
    • “Conservatives Love HBO’s ‘Chernobyl,’ But Socialists Don’t Want To Talk About It”
  • The Boy Who Cried Socialism
    • Posit: if your political strategy is based on avoiding being called “socialist” you’re doing it wrong
    • Also l posit: millenials and zoomers have had the bad guys calling everything socialism for so long we just learned to dismiss that bullschwa McConnel calls granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, "full bore socialism"

Munch Minute

Influencers

The C-Word

File Under: Things You Don’t Understand Aren’t Necessarily Bad

https://twitter.com/toomuchnick/status/1142060540824629248

So Much for ‘Hope And Change’

  • Biden Tells Elite Donors He Doesn’t Want to ‘Demonize’ the Rich

    “Truth of the matter is, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done,” Biden said. “We can disagree in the margins. But the truth of the matter is, it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living would change. Nothing would fundamentally change,” he said.

    • Insert foot DIRECTLY into mouth

Cryptocurrency Announcement

  • WoolooCoin has been acquired by Facebook
    • It will be sunset effective immediately
    • All WoolooCoins are now worthless

    • Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet - VentureBeat

      Trust is vital, Carlson said, because you will have to not only trust Facebook to keep your social data safe, you’re going to have to trust it to be hack-free. If someone hacks your account, they could steal your cryptocurrency. That’s a somewhat common occurrence these days, so Facebook will have to be extremely disciplined to make sure it doesn’t happen.

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wife Guys

Andrew’s Sofa Followup

]]> S01:E11 "Maybe They're Just Poor" S01:E11 "Maybe They're Just Poor" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/11 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/11 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 11 false Behold! The great squaring is upon us! Repent and cease your worship of The Consumerist Mindset and learn to live, laugh, and love.


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Aaron’s Great Squaring

US Women’s National Soccer

  • The U.S. women’s national team is an American treasure. Pay them a bounty. - Washington Post

    Just imagine how that record-setting 13-0 victory over Thailand will play at a jury trial. It’s going to be a lot of fun watching lawyers for the soccer federation try to justify why the U.S. women’s national team, with their air rifles for legs, are paid 38 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts and had to sue for fair wages. It’s going to be pure entertainment listening to federation president Carlos Cordeiro stammer out an explanation on the witness stand of why this team, which is nothing short of an American damn treasure, isn’t worth equal coin to a men’s squad that can’t beat Jamaica.

    You think Nike committed $120 million to USA soccer back in 1997 because of a men’s team that finished 10th in the Atlanta Olympics with a 1-1-1 record? Or do you think the company’s interest had something to do, just maybe, with Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy and Michelle Akers commanding an audience of 90,000 at the Rose Bowl and 40 million on TV?

    Every dime of largesse that the American soccer federation now enjoys can, in some way, be traced to the apple-seeding done by the women’s team.

  • The U.S. women’s unreal 13-goal World Cup win, by the numbers - Washington Post

Cease Praying to the Consumerist Gods

2019 is the year all brands war with each other till capitalism implodes @TaylorLorenz, June 14, 2019

  • Folks…. this is bad
  • Who is this for?
  • THE CONSUMERIST MINDSET: A Capitalism Brain Worm
    • We ought to get way more cynical about any movement based mostly on individual actions
    • Ex:// green lifestyle changes, boycots, etc.
      • These all take the spotlight off the powerful interests whose systems are what, ultimately, need defeating.
      • It puts the onus on average people who are already stressed from daily concerns
      • If Capital can blame and make examples out of individuals (“why do environmentalists take planes then? Hypocrites much?!”) then they can get people tied up in fruitless debates.
    • BUT: Don’t use this as an excuse to make bad choices.

John Stewart Is Not The Messiah: An Opinion

  • Jon Stewart Blasts Members Of Congress During 9/11 First Responders Hearing
  • Q:// Is there some takeaway from the liberal reaction to Jon Stewart’s testimony?
  • Q:// What are the limits of A Really Good Speech™?
  • Q:// Do we put too much faith in rhetoric at the expense of action?
  • Q:// Does the fact that Aaron was cloistered from media during the buildup to Iraq preclude him from understanding the adoration for Stewart?

I’m not a regular cop, I’m a COOL cop!

An Ohio police officer who went viral in 2015 after dancing with kids was caught on video this weekend punching an unarmed man in the face who was standing and shouting at another officer, prompting outrage and a police investigation.

Live Laugh Love, or: the banal nature of commoditized decor/Pinterest culture

  • Live. Laugh. Love. Why? - The Outline

    Following the 2007 recession, DIY decoration became increasingly enticing, propelled in part by the growing number of affordable home supply and home furnishing options. Millions lost their jobs and could no longer afford to spend big on extraneous home goods; stores became more conservative with stocking inventory. A “word art” trend — inclusive of prints, posters, and cutesy signs with textural platitudes, phrases, and sometimes just single adjectives or verbs (“blessed,” “dream”) — resulted in décor that was both cost-friendly and attainable. Consumers got inventive; word art, in particular, combined individual tastes with easily marketable inspirational catchphrases.

  • Some kind of tenuous connection to Striving?
  • See also: fast fashion
  • Aaron literally has an ongoing thing were a he and his friend text each-other pictures anytime they spot a LLL in the wild.
  • Q:// What is it about LLL that’s so obnoxious?
  • Q:// Am I bad for finding it so stupid?

Confederate flags are just “live laugh love” signs for white trash dudes @Aimee_B_Loved, 10 Jun 2019

Thought Technology: Maybe They’re just Poor

  • Alternatively, “Maybe they’re just suffering a mental health crisis”
  • The idea is to stop when you see a meme which is based on mocking a person (maybe for their style or weird behavior) and ask yourself: is this really about them being a bad person, or could this simply be the result of them being in a very bad spot?

  • Rutger Bregman: ‘Poverty is not a personality defect. We need a basic income’ - The Big Issue

    There is an entrenched idea on the right and left that poverty is just a personality defect. As Margaret Thatcher once put it – a lack of character. And what I am trying to prove with this book is that it’s actually just about a lack of money. There is an extraordinary amount of research to back this up. The left usually says, “We’ve got to help these people – we’ve got to give them the right advice.” While the right say, “No, we simply have to teach them some responsibility.”

    The assumption there is the same – they both assume that there is something wrong with the poor themselves. There is now some really exciting new evidence that shows poverty is really just about the context. Yes, it’s true that if you’re poor you are more likely to make poor decisions – you smoke more, drink more, raise your kids worse, take out more loans you can’t afford. But the evidence shows that we would all make the same decisions if we were living without money. If you lift people out of poverty then they start making much smarter decisions.

  • The Cost of Financial Precarity

    We consistently find that financial precarity undermines people’s ability to perform across a variety of tasks and contexts. When people are worried about their personal finances, it hinders their ability to be productive and perform. …

    What is to blame for the status quo, in which workers experience persistent worry about paying the bills? … The underlying assumption is that if people only knew better, they would not be so prone to financial precarity. …

    The assumption that deficiencies in individual prudence are the primary driver of financial precarity negates the unique economic context of the United States. … In the United States, the design of the social system depends largely upon employers’ discretion to provide critical social safety nets such as health insurance and retirement savings, as well as other welfare-enhancing benefits such as paid sick days and parental leave.

  • No Money More Problems: The Relationship Between Poverty & Black Mental Health - Ourselves Black

    It is obvious that poverty limits access to mental healthcare, but what is overlooked is that all too often poverty creates the need for that care in the first place. Mental illness, like many health problems, typically strikes when biological vulnerability is coupled with exposure to a stressor. Poverty, simply defined, is when a household has insufficient resources to reliably meet its basic needs. This constant threat to one’s very survival most certainly qualifies. Poverty in and of itself is traumatic, especially during periods of brain and identity development. It also creates vulnerability to additional traumas – both inside and outside of the home. For example, families with limited resources can get stuck in neighborhoods with high rates of community violence and disproportionate contact with the criminal justice and foster care systems. Additionally, financially dependent poor women and their children are especially vulnerable to perpetrators of domestic violence and child abuse. Staying means ongoing abuse. Leaving means risk of hunger and/or homelessness.

    **
    When poverty creates the need for mental health care and then limits access to it, untreated mental illness shapes lives.** … Poverty threatens mental well-being and as such, black people are exceptionally threatened. Per the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2016 22 percent of black people and 30 percent of black children lived below the poverty line.

  • Why Is It Still OK To ‘Trash’ Poor White People? - NPR

    Like other slurs, there has been some reclamation of “white trash” — songs and cookbooks and T-shirts that celebrate white-trash culture. And plenty of people unabashedly refer to themselves as white trash.

    But no matter who uses it, the phrase itself reinforces some pretty insidious ideas about the meaning of whiteness (and, by reflection, blackness — we’ll get to that in a minute). By accepting the idea that white trash exists, people are tacitly accepting that there is another, different kind of whiteness. Normal white people — the ones who aren’t white trash — embody all the things white trash can’t: They’re hardworking, educated, classy, kind and good.

    Anyone who doesn’t conform to those values can’t ever really be fully white. Hence, white trash.

  • Growing Up in Poverty Doubles Risk of Psychosis Disorder Later - Futurity

    Researchers, who followed nearly 4,000 families for more than three decades, say the results suggest that intervention through social policies and investment in neighborhood improvements, as well as identifying those most in need of help by observing certain child behaviors, could prevent future debilitating illnesses and the societal and personal costs associated with them.

    “One important message to take from this study is that the stresses and chronic day-to-day challenges of living in under-resourced or impoverished communities can undermine the well-being of individuals whether they seem to have a vulnerability or not,” says lead author Paul D. Hastings, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis.

  • Why don’t they pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, HUH?
  • Q:// Who benefits from this culture?
  • Q:// How do we oppose it?
    • Empathy?
    • Solidarity?
    • Pointing the attacks in the right direction?

Power Talk

A Very Important Announcement

  • Expanding the IHNIWID Apparatus: we’re starting a think tank
    • Name brainstorming
      • Council at the Institute of the Center for Politics and Society
      • IDEA: The International Delegation for Energizing Action-stepsn
      • The Wooloo Institute at Old Town Road
      • The American Center for America and Planet Earth
    • Aaron is CEO, Andrew is president
      • Both have large salaries and no responsibilities
]]> S01:E10 "Wooloo Coin" S01:E10 "Wooloo Coin" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/10 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/10 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 10 false This world is traumatizing, including coins (of which Q is a part). Good thing there’s Wooloo.


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Ahoy Ladybugs

Andrew deactivated his Facebook

  • I’M OUT, DOOFUSES
  • Thought about making some post about where to contact, but no one contacts him through facebook anyway, so…

Currency Corner

  • FOLLOW UP: I have taken my horse to Old Town Road. Now what?

Trauma Town

  • Newsletter? Yes? Interested?
]]> S01:E09 "Big Dog and The Strivers" S01:E09 "Big Dog and The Strivers" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/9 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/9 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 9 false Sorry if it offends you, but BIG DOGS don’t get jealous of others’ success!


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Big Dogs definition: 1. has no master. 2. knows attitude is everything. 3. absolutely no leashes

]]> S01:E08 "Butt Stevens" S01:E08 "Butt Stevens" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/8 Mon, 20 May 2019 10:30:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/8 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 8 false Boy, Chet Beefums sure has lots of opinions about Kids These Days.


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]]> S01:E07 "Sci-Fi Fraternity" S01:E07 "Sci-Fi Fraternity" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/7 Mon, 13 May 2019 09:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/7 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 7 false Before leaving social media for real, please #GiveAaronTheVaderMask


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  • IMPORTANT FOLLOW-UP: Andrew received his couchsofa.
  • Buckwheat Neck Pillow
  • Aaron’s Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea
  • Soundboard Support
  • #GiveAaronTheVaderMask
  • We’re already in the rationing
  • Bernie Sanders seems to have collected many Trekkies among his supporters and campaign staff and that’s pretty great, TBH
  • Social media as uncompensated labor

Free speech is often likened to a marketplace of ideas. … This “marketplace” metaphor was popularized in the United States in the early twentieth century by the Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who argued that truth could best be promoted by a “free trade in ideas.” … In fact, the “marketplace” metaphor perfectly describes the power dynamics of free speech in a capitalist society, though not in the way that its proponents intended. Multinational corporations aspiring toward monopolistic control of capital and information establish the general confines in which the vast majority of humanity sell their labor and articulate their speech. The market of commodities is inseparable from the market of ideas, since ideas are commodified along with everything else in capitalist society. All non-incarcerated citizens may have an equal right to literally speak, but the ability to make that speech heard and make it matter is highly stratified. Support for campaign finance reform and opposition to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court show how many American liberals agree about the conflicts between free speech and big money.

(from “Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook” by Mark Bray)

]]> S01:E06 "This Book is Good" S01:E06 "This Book is Good" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/6 Mon, 06 May 2019 14:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/6 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 6 false Pals, we talk about an essential tool for interpreting the world, and also wonder how much groveling is the right amount of groveling.


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Worst Distracted Driving Ever

  • Aaron’s not an ableist, but

Defray our Costs

I Hereby Pledge Fealty to You, Potential Employer

  • Why is a job candidate supposed to thank an interviewer, rather than the other way around?
    • https://theoutline.com/post/7304/business-insider-is-wrong-about-thank-you-notes?zd=1&zi=6ojxqz7m
      • Response to https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-write-thank-you-email-after-job-interview-2019-4
        • “As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one.
        • Why?
        • The thank-you email reflects two important things:
          1. It signals that the person wants the job — or rather, no thank-you email signals the person probably doesn’t want the job. The handful of times we’ve moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we’ve been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected. A few times, the offer is accepted, but the person pulls out before their start date or leaves after a few months.
          2. How someone presents in interviews might not translate to effectiveness in the role. While sending a thank-you note doesn’t necessarily guarantee the person will be a good hire, it gives you the tiniest bit more data: The candidate is eager, organized, and well mannered enough to send the note. It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them. At Insider Inc., we look to hire “good eggs.” The thank-you email is a mark for the good-egg column.”

Literary Criticism

  • a basic understanding of literary criticism is an invaluable tool for engaging with the world
    • Q:// What is literary criticism?
      • A method and practice of (a) interpreting and (b) evaluating a work of art
        • traditionally, this means a written work, such as a novel, poem, essay, or short story.
        • However, it can also apply to all works of art such as films, music, paintings, sculpture, speeches, quilts, whatever
    • Q:// How does it work?
      • In Literary Criticism the critic takes on a careful and close reading of the text and then interprets or examines it through a particular lens.
      • For instance, one may read Les Miserables though
        • a historical lens, asking questions such as,
          • “what does this say about the time period?”
          • “how does the historical era explain the decisions of any given character?”
          • “is this work drawing on any historical precedent? What can we learn from that?”
        • a gender lens, asking questions such as,
          • “what ideas about gender appear in this work?”
          • “how does gender explain the decisions of a character?”
        • a marxist lens, asking questions such as,
          • “what ideas about class appear in this work?”
          • “how does this work depict the conflict between the workers and wealthy”?
        • a queer lens, asking questions such as,
          • “what relationships or decisions in this book can be explained or understood in terms of a same-sex or queer characters?”
          • “what does this work say about queerness?”
        • a psychological lens, asking questions such as,
          • “what does this work say about human psychology?”
          • “how might mental health or psychological disorders explain the behavior of any given character?”
        • Etc.
    • Q:// Why is it helpful?
      • Just like scientists can gain a clearer picture by examining an object through various lenses and tools, we gain a better understanding of the world when we examine it through different points of view.
      • An understanding of literary criticism leads to more constructive arguments.
        • Instead of, “is this good or bad”, we can draw out more meaning and more understanding of something.
        • Ex:// instead of seeing a Trump campaign ad and asking, “is this good or bad?” we can ask questions like,
          • How might this ad attempt to promote patriarchal gender norms? (feminist lens)
          • What messages about class is this ad attempting to share? (marxist lens)
          • What positions about ethnicity and race is this ad promoting? How does this ad value homogeneity over diversity? (multicultural lens)
]]> S01:E05 "...for who?" S01:E05 "...for who?" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/5 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/5 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 5 false Tactical framing is making us stupider, even if some of us are Masters of Science.


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Science Master v. Science Bachelor

  • Do you display your degree?
  • We don’t.

Monty Don

Spice Mix Talk

Tactical Framing Is Making Us Dumber

  • Why you still don’t understand the Green New Deal - VOX on YouTube
  • “Just let the bomb explode, it’s too difficult to diffuse” is a helluva position to be considered moderate.
  • A thought technology to avoid the trap of tactical framing: append any assertions that are made like, “this will be too drastic”, or “this is too expensive”with the question: “for who?” Or, “to who?”
  • [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez SXSW 2019 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/JU-SE5eNt04)
  • “The idea that political will is our greatest obstacle should be the most embarrassing thing to us.”
  • “I think one of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality…What does that mean? It means the rejection outright of the logic that says that someone else’s gain necessitates my loss—and that my gain must necessitate someone else’s loss.”
]]> S01:E04 "SWEAT Pledge" S01:E04 "SWEAT Pledge" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/4 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/4 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 4 false Look—just because we drink fizzy water doesn’t mean our work isn’t valuable and shouldn’t provide a decent living.


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Fizzy Water Debacles

The “Real” Workers

Cool And Positive Story About Healthcare

]]> S01:E03 "Tech Bro President" S01:E03 "Tech Bro President" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/3 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/3 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 3 false I mean, we talk about salad and IKEA— but mostly this is about Mayor Pete.


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IKEA is a very stressful place

  • Andrew is Aaron’s anthony Bourdain, but for furniture stores

The Salad Days

THE PETE THING

]]> S01:E02 "Lying Is The Point" S01:E02 "Lying Is The Point" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/2 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/2 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 2 false You’re not crazy— the world is truly “having a moment”. In this episode we suss out how to avoid the pitfalls of workism, Russia delirium (three kinds), & conferences of conservative political action varietals.


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Tisane Talk

How Was Your CPAC?

How Dare You Disparage My Large Adult Russia

  • Question: What do the leftist skeptics of Trump-Russia have to gain from doubting that it happened?
  • Watergate Gate
  • A third idiocy

Workism

]]> S01:E01 "Jackbooted Tots" S01:E01 "Jackbooted Tots" https://goodstuff.network/noidea/1 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 02:00:00 -0600 https://goodstuff.network/noidea/1 Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin 1 false We really explore the space— shop for sofas and learn about kitchen gadgets, then discuss how the finance world and hegemonic leaders are gonna’ get away with letting the earth burn because, “woah, turns out the unedited version of this video changes everything!”


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A psychedelic vision of youths in Dianne Feinstein's office trying to convince her to stop the earth from swallowing them whole, but she's like "children, you're dumb". A graph of the productivity/compensation gap is superimposed.

Andrew is Sofa King

Cooking Gadget Talk

The Stock Market versus Everyone Else

The Take, The Countertake, and the Take on the Countertake

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