Alien Ant Farms and Space Communists (Premium E315)

I'm also trying to talk my partner into 5 extra inches. You know what I mean ladies.

Randomly popping into an old thread cuz I didnt see anyone mention David Brins Uplift series, great scifi that this conspiracy lifts from

gaaaaaah North American Protestants always have to see everything as a heaven and hell allegory, when it’s really just Doctor Who type stuff

paused at 34:08 to say, this might be my favorite episode of anything, I’m choosing to fully believe this shit, Dr. Who is real, Star Trek is a documentary, Ants Delenda Est… STARCRAFT IS REAL LIFE AND MY CHILDHOOD PREPARED ME TO BE THE ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF FIGHTING ALIEN ANTS ON THEIR FARMS… holy shit, finally one where the conspiracy theory isn’t just coming from three Nuzzis in a trenchcoat

lmfao

It's been a long time, but this kind of made me think of the novel Spin

Jake you know you can make the text in video games larger right? It’s in a lot of accessibility settings

Liv having a Large Marge ride share experience is tickling my imagination.

Le Guin’s the dispossessed meets starship troopers

That cold open brought up my spirits. Much needed too. Thank you for the giggle.

The post they’re talking about is very similar to Ursula LeGuin’s novel The Dispossessed (if they hadn’t already known about the anarcho-communist planet). And for the record since you read the comments I love the Jake- driven episodes, it makes a good contrast to more serious topics being covered

I just want to throw out 3D house printing is in the works. I watched or read something on it creating sustainable housing. Maybe they really did give us the limited technology.

Can someone pleas relay to Jake that "Unc" is short for "Uncool" and not "uncle?" Thank you for your attention to this matter

We are NOT tired of Jake premium content!!! Please don’t deprive us of all of these excellent thoughts!!! 🙌

Jake episodes are a fun and wholesome break from the depressing (though excellent) regular content

I'm sorry, say 'plausible' again? "Plow-sible"? Is this legit?

Jake is firmly at the top tier of my QAA podcast hosts tier lists, people are just jealous of his overwhelming charisma

Liv's perfect HEEHEE laughs are so wholesome

Really fun episode! Fuck the haters.

Please tell me Jake is aware of the 1974 film Phase IV!!!

A) I like Jake’s Takes and B) there are so many funny asides in this episode, like Liv in a ride share talking to a guy who said he had a chip implanted in his brain and developed Thorium nuclear technology that he sold for billions of dollars

I like Jake’s episodes and think he’s doing a great job :)

Does anyone remember the episode they did the Sedona conference? Jake brings it up so much I gotta go back and relisten it was so good.

I like that they're saying to keep watch for phrases like "Our cousins among the stars" as an indicator that disclosure might be on the horizon as if that's something secret code you could covertly sneak into a sentence without everyone IMMEDIATELY going "Oh so aliens. You're talking about aliens."

34:45 "Shift phases" is a Borderlands reference, come on Jake! Phase shift! "Tech tree" and "phase shift" in the same sentence is even more confirmation of the LARP theory of course.

fwiw i didn't really like Jake content until i listened to enough QAA to develop parasocial relationships with the hosts. to the Jake Content Hater: stop touching so much grass, dingus

please do NOT stop the Jake content, i am loving it

Anyone complaining about Jake episodes does NOT speak for me

Haven't seen anyone mention it, so I'll be the one: the ant aliens reminded me of Ender's Game (please stop booing). The opposing side is called the Formics: the family name for ants is "Formicidae."

Truth is stranger than fiction Jake. You need to let that go. Also. India. Ignored. Most populous country in the world. Post is fake! lol.

Oceania and Africa - totally left out.

I think if the government discovered that ultra replicators lead to paradise (+ communism) their actual strategy would be to spread this along with the idea unfettered capitalism will lead to them faster in that classic "effective altruism" bullshit and make sure we view the uplifted humans as enemies. Also, as Julian points out, the only way "we" get as many treats as we do is via exploiting "invisible" people elsewhere. Maybe that's the second act twist, the Eridian replicators are secretly powered by other enslaved aliens and their civilization has to grapple with the choice between continuing exploitation or lowering their standard of living

Just came here for sci-fi fic recommendations. I LOVE Jake content. The haters can go elsewhere. We need the silliness now more than ever. I don't have the time or interest to seek this stuff out. Be a pal and go grab the good content and read it to me and comment on it. Love it. Nothing wrong with that. Worth every penny.

I gave this a second listen when driving to work and getting things set up this morning. It would have been a great 20 minute segment on a Jake’s takes episode but as a whole ep I felt like I was eating packing peanuts.

a quick thought before I listen: the title and synopsis have very strong Project Camelot/Sweary Kerry vibes

Go to an ophthalmologist Jake! Not lens crafters. What if you have some kind of degenerative eye disease? My parents were eye doctors. DOCTORS. if you’re going blind you should check. Because we haven’t figured out prosthetic eyes yet.

BUGONIA MOVIE NIGHT PLEASE

Biomechanical avatars? Like that movie, Avatar?

I’m okay being an Unc gamer now too.

This rules so fucking hard, it's like The Culture meets Stargate meets Starship Troopers. This is my new fandom.

If you like Jake's pitch check out the Trevor Moore pitches from the WKUK S1E2. (As an astronomy guy, yes you did pronounce Eridanus fine.)

Julian💔

Jake Takes No Prisoners episode: reads comments from the haters and responds

lil bit of the dispossessed in there

Laughed my ass off at Liv "5000 years is not that long" delivery was spot on. Great episode all round, so funny. Thank you!

Getting older and not being able to read video game text on a tv anymore hits too close to home

Travis is the ego, Julian the superego, and Jake is pure id.

Here I am with a Patreon membership and getting a Lens Crafters ad! The LC conspiracy has infiltrated even QAA! You have let these dark ads to twist your minds until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy! You were the chosen one, it was said that you would destroy the ads and conspiracies… not join them!

👁 ❤️ Liv! More of Jake's sci fi stories, please. 😁

Someone tell Jake that once he responds, it's no longer parasocial. It's just social 🤷‍♀️

So no one's gonna point out how this Rhea stole the pellet or capsule technology straight from capsule corporation in Dragon Ball z? Hahah thats not sci-fi thats anime core!

You're getting old, Jake! 🤣 It doesn't take that long to get used to progressives. Totally worth it!

Kind of of sounds like a human Rat Park experiment on an interstellar scale

Hey fuck that guy who said Jake episodes are too much.

Jake Supremacy ftw

Jake needs that extra 5 inches?!?! Wait, what...????

Best cold open ever

This person uses a lot of intelligence jargon in a way that seems plausible, but to anyone who's ever actually done that kind of work it's pretty obvious that she's making it all up, lol. Also, "SCIF" is pronounced like "skiff" :)

I'm a Destiny sicko and if you want assistance I can explain everything

It's stupid but the big red flag for that story, to me, is "electro optics". Pretty sure we call this photonics. Likewise, space domain awareness is just radar.

hey, council here! the ants actually cum all the time! hope this helps!

Also, as a huge Babylon 5 fan, JMS placed humans in the lower tiers of the interstellar species, but obviously still of vital importance.

as a person who cares too much about the ufo/uap topic this reminded me of some early episodes of the Saucer Life podcast discussing 50's ufo zine drama (interesting topic, I swear). iirc this involved speculations of communist infiltration into the ufo scene since many of the aliens encountered by contactees seemed vaguely collectivist & would warn about the dangers of nuclear weapons with the latter being an obvious ploy to disarm the US, etc. almost makes me wish for an episode where Aron Gulyas comes on to lecture Jake plus (whomever is the second most credulous person on the pod) about the rich history of ufo communism? though I believe he gave up on podcasting a while ago

I LOVE the Three Days of the Condor reference early on in the episode. Easily my favorite spy film. And I totally agree with the earlier comments about The Dispossed by Le Guin. I'm reading it now.

I love Jake content who’s talking shit 🤺

Podcasts...they're aging...things are changing...Mt. View sleeps...

I also cannot read anything on games in recent years... You're definitely correct about the text getting smaller and smaller. Though I am unc so take that for what it's worth

Sounds a lot like Ernest Clienes Armada book

Jake content rocks. Did you guys ever get a radio play I sent savaging the fourth meme wars, Billiam Mitchel IV and Libs of TikTok?

Absolutely do not stop Jake content. That content got me through a conflict zone. Love y’all

I need to know Corey’s takes

The TV and video text is absolutely hitting me too. I need to put on glasses I use for driving to game. 🥲 I already have a 55” but really want a 65”. LOL

Less serious episodes are common this time of the year. One of the hosts was off when this was recorded. Also, Q drops are dead and Q pilled people are in political office, which they cover. I'm not really sure why people are complaining.

This episode reminded me of X-COM... a game series too eerie for me to play. Don't let the haters bring you down; this was a fun episode!

Brought to you by r/lips, haha😅. This one was fun. Thanks Jake. I hope that you and your sweetie are enjoying the next level TV (even if it’s not 5,000 years ahead of your last one).

Could someone link the Reddit thread somewhere convenient? So hard to find anything these days

Sorry I'm still listening to the bonus episodes on Patreon. I'm not good at computers and I hate supporting Apple, but conglomerating websites are easy. Sucks that Apple gets a big cut of my payment. Look up the word "suicide net" if you want to know why I hate Apple.

Getting my hot cocoa, my cashmere throw, and fluffy socks for some Cozy Disclosure.

You read all the comments? And you haven't apologized for the Hatsune Miku slander?

Ngl if Jake had a solo podcast I'd listen regularly

Jake dear: cache sounds like “cash”. Cash-ay is a different word that means prestige.

Would beta-read this if I was a book tbh

BBBBbanger intro!

Liv talking about Posadism reminds of an earlier QSS premium EP where they interviewed a guy who wrote a book about Posadas which was fascinating! It feels as if we're all circling a drain of delusion where more unhinged forms of political takes us further from reality in order to find utopia. The complexity of the multiple crises we're experiencing gives credence to the most bizarre forms of politics because of the simplicity of either the method to achieve it or the outcome it can produce. Whilst most people who aren't permanently online won't read or understand the most extreme of either ideology - whether Qanon or Posadism - it's basic principles can infect regular folk collectively moving us further away from reality.

Ken MacLeod does good communist space opera sci fi. Though he kind of did the reverse of this story in one novella.

Jake needs a lightsaber that you can wreck everything with. Hit me up Jake I’ll help you get it in 10 minutes(because I have a light saber that wrecks everything🤣🤣)

I love that liv mentioned how aliens practicing communism/ant mob would make a great pulpy science fiction novel. It reminded me almost exactly of Yargo by Jacqueline Susann!

"Oh-led" not "oh el ee dee" lmao

Fuck yes.

Who is the loser ragging on Jake?

Anyone who doesn't like QAA needs to be in a higher tax bracket

I trust the QAA staff will issue a formal apology after President Trump’s “Victory Over the Woke Alien Ant Mob” parade in late 2027!?😂

why are you in my head!! I got progressives this past year and it took a long time to adjust. made me nauseous for a while but pushed through it

Don't normally comment, but wanted to say the Jake episodes are always awesome and a breath of fresh air. We all already track so much craziness in the real world, it's nice to take a wild ride / break from time to time. Each host has their niche, that's what keeps the show interesting year after year. Keep em' coming :)

Ratchet and Clank…gone but never forgotten

Tsk tsk, author. You’d already be in a scif. Rookie mistake

The cold open was so cute I love this shit

Me chanting koyaanisqatsi in my deepest voice over the AutoQ

Also, on a kinda more serious note, I think Jake’s bonkers interests are important because the Seer once got rabbit holed in a fringe post from a fake millitary intelligence count and even though most everyone thought QAnon to be too stupid to take root like it did, our special boy was riding the wave of the future. Who knows, just like how lots of main stream opinions have some flavor of Q nonsense woven into the fabric now, the next 5 years could see everyone becoming slowly more disclosure-pilled (not even saying its real, just like QAnon wasn’t real but it turns out there was like a massive …well, you know)—or whatever other flavor of interest pops up…

Requesting Jake mouth-noise imitations of the theme song after all five minute cold open Jake-i-sodes

Jake episodes are a bright light in the darkness and we need them

Every episode i come to the comments, like all the comments saying positive things about whoever the host or driver of the ep is, and leave. I like the variety of types of eps. It keeps it fresh.

You get the TV, but it comes in pieces starting on the 14th. You get a piece everyday for eight days and have it build it until you get to play it on the 22nd. Happy Early Hanukkah to all Jewish QAAers 🕯️📺🎮

You can get banned from posting on Reddit for even vague threats of violence. I know someone who wrote that people who torture animals shouldn’t be allowed to live. The person can look at posts but cannot make a comment or a post.

Alien Ant Farm is OK but give Alien Knife Fight a listen, they have the sax player from Morphine and an amazing vocalist.

JAKE BABE you need bifocals not a TV

Seems like an unethical experiment. I’m not sure how this got past the IRB.

Jake stories are the best, don't listen to the haters ❤️ also; Julian hope you're doing well, miss you!

LLMs are famous for writing with too many lists... sorry guys

So the council gives these weapons to specific groups/nations of humans to fight the ants, but give no weapons to anyone in Africa or Oceania? Are they cool with the ants taking those regions? Is the council, racist?

If there’s space communism, is there space aids? Its Aids but worse, because its from space.

as soon as she said “uplift” I knew she read a lot of David Brin 😂

Jake you gotta ignore the haters, we the people NEED to know about the ants.

Don’t listen to the haters Jake. Lotta bean soup theory out there

Jake, you should check out the Bobiverse book series. You'd probably get a kick out of it. Theres a space battle at 82 Eridani and more.

FWIW re Jake’s eyesight, I just got varifocals and I expected it to be awful, but I got over the initial weirdness within a couple of days, and got fully used to them in a couple of weeks. Can’t say how good it is not to have to take off my glasses and hold things two inches from my face to read them.

Im suprised nobody brought up Ian Banks Culture series. Space communist pan galactic union with field weapons (also biomods to let you change your gender at will!)

Rhea is KHive Disclosure

On the advanced communist scientist planet where everyone gets rations from alien dispensers, and there's presumably no related animal life or fossils, you're telling me that they JUST discovered that aliens put them on that planet?

This is almost exactly the plot of the book "Neptunation" by Dietmar Dath. In the book, the GDR launches a spaceship right beforr its collapse and a couple hundred years later, mutated space communists. And a lot of other stuff, I highly recommend his books - he's a very astute political thinker and his books are full of interesting ideas. He comes at politics from a deeply humanistic and communistic perspective.

Love the podcast,love the Jake premiums and love storytime with Uncle Jake .🥰 Great episode again ! Looking forward to the "Age of Disclosure" episode.🤗

Which one of you bastards is sick of Jake episodes? Madness. Jake episodes for-eh-vah!

This is very reminiscent of Ursula K Le Guin’s premise for The Dispossessed - heavy recommend

My theory: this is the brainchild of a bunch of galaxy-brain communist theorists who’ve decided that the best way to address the problem of false consciousness in the 21st century is to meet the proletariat on their own turf. That is, forget trying to talk them out of the delusion that they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires; instead, bring the B-movie plots and the conspiracy theories and the cover-ups and all the other accoutrements of modern discourse

More merch soon please!!!

I know writing is hard, but, you have a coolish idea, you clearly like to type lots. Turn it into a book, internet person. I'd read it Inna book.

Jake episodes are quintessential.

I think I'm unc-ing out of UFO shit now. Like, I used to love a good coverup or encounter like a ghost story, or like woah wouldn't it be crazy if it was real. But now I'm a jaded, late thirties, if aliens were real, I'm not sure I'd care all that much. Recent disclosure stuff is so fucking basic these days. And How fast is this communism coming, because let's be real, I definitely still going to have to work through any resulting global existential crisis anyway. Also, if there was some kind of intergalactic consortium playing around and watching us, I would just be constantly flipping off the sky. Like who are these fucking weirdos, quit the voyeurism and go annoy some other planet

So this story seems so absurd, and I'm just getting Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy vibes

Very reminiscent of Juan Posadas, the 60s Trotskyist, who argued that any species capable of interstellar travel would inevitably invent communism. He thought that humans should actively try to contact aliens to get their assistance in ending poverty on Earth.

sounds a LOT like books by scifi legend Octavia Butler and the TV show Moonhaven

Oh I actually adore this episode. It's so hot in my country rn and everyone is going Christmas feral and I really cbf with gloomy doomy American drama at the moment. An excellent palate cleanser sirs and madame 🧐

Damn, I was just thinking of picking up the new Star Wars/Destiny, too.

I would genuinely play this as a cool ttrpg

This is mass effect!!! The ant aliens are the rachni, the council is the council, and in this analogy the council (Salarian Union) is uplifting the humans (the krogan) to fight the ants (the rachni)

Liv: you were a crossword solution today. Thanks for the help

Jake Premium Content is the best, don't listen to the haters

Can y'all do qanon News updates again?

This is all very like an Ian M Banks Culture story

liv agar

Totally needing an episode like this! That said, quick tangent: Does anyone remember- in recent years- when a space capsule splashed down somewhere and was encircled by dolphins? Me: 100% HHGttG moment...

I paid money for this…

I want more of both Story time with Jake and Jake Stories

Never stop Jake.

Can confirm getting banned on Reddit is actually super easy (unless you’re a Nazi, then feel free to say whatever you want I guess). I got a temporary site wide ban for threatening violence because I commented that Dems who still say things like “our friends on the right” ought to be tarred and feathered. Clearly a very serious threat. 🙄 Obviously, though, the UFO whistleblower was a LARPer who may have enjoyed reading the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks recently and become inspired by aliens living in a post-scarcity civilization.

Who could ever be tired of Jake premium content?

No Julian? How am I supposed to jerk it to this?

Yoo remember Dead Rising and how friggin teeny tiny that text was on screen?? Impossible to read at 480 which was most tvs at the time

Oh yeah you bet bud

What a title, I'm so in after this week fuck yes

Star trek is not stateless and classless.... 🤓

I think the idea of an isolated planet of communal economy is ripped directly from The Dispossed by Le Guin. Mixed it with more modern ancient alien ideas to get people off earth instead of a revolutionary compromise

I usually like this podcast, but there have been a few episodes like this recently. This kind of reminds me someone talking about their dream. Who cares?

Jake, for the record I love you and all the Jake episodes.

I am so NOT tired of Jake premium content. I would love story time with Jake as much as possible without driving him crazy. Honestly I love as much content from everyone on this pod as all of you can handle 💜 y'all are my favorite parasocial friends Also Bugonia movie night please! Goes along with alien pilledness

Saving this for my bike ride tomorrow. This might be the thing to finally get my ass to the trail!

Liv is wrong: there is literally a 60,000 person secret army, run by the Pentagon, that puts people in boring office jobs. Newsweek reported on it like 4 years ago lol

No one is tired of the free Jake adds or your beautiful stories Jakey!

I read the title and haven't listened yet, but I hope this doesn't involve one of my favorite 2000's bands.

Liv Uncgar

Just yesterday my eye doctor recommended I get two different glasses

Liv's Agario

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