I’m Horseish On Humanity feat. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

your own personal shrimp Jesus!?

Moving to Florida to fat-shame horses to create a new market for equestrian Ozempic

"robotech" sir you mean Macross

I’m not even neccessarily saying any of the stuff around the 43 minute mark is wrong, all I’m saying is you *can not* tell me that boy isn’t literally saying the ”that guy sure did built some good highways though” bit. lmao

when I heard the name "Path of Exile 2" spoken aloud it completely knocked me out of whatever mental orbit I was in. I had totally forgotten that Musk had a brief bit where he pretended to be good at a game I have thousands of hours in, and immediately had a "keep politics out of my games!" moment except instead of pronouns (which are good) I just want to keep schmucks like Elon out

My new startup will just sell you a prescription pad. Go crazy with that shit!

I only recently watched Sorry to Bother You but I was not expecting ALL of it to become relevant so soon.

Important to note that the early government money for SpaceX actually came out of NASA as the shuttle program wound down and they needed a replacement for sending cargo and crew to the ISS, the DoD and USAF stepped in a few years later

Minnesota mentioned

The answer to Muskism, Mangionism?

There’s something fundamentally 20th century Liberalism about the idea that everything is computer, about the idea that normal people are NPCs or reactive animals or whatever. I see a through-line in the mid century obsession with behaviorism, studies on brainwashing, nudge theory, Kahneman’s Exxon-funded attacks on the rationality of juries, these seminal stories that inform the American liberal intellectual worldview (all of which turn out to either have been strongly shaped by the researchers, be outright fabrications, or lie about fundamental aspects of the story; I’m thinking of the Milgram experiments, Stanford Prison Experiment, When Prophecy Fails, and the Kitty Genovese case)

In the US, public urination would land you on the sex offender registry

I never thought I would someday buy a book before it gets talked about on the podcast, but there it is, on my nightstand. The cover is hideous.

The point of DOGE was not deficit reduction or spending cuts, the point of DOGE was data consolidation across government agencies and in that it was much, much more successful. Which is pretty funny, Musk took all the public flak and Karp is gonna get all the actual contracts to run the new surveillance state

let your lobsters be your doctors at your startup of success

Mark Andreessen saying he never introspects has me thinking that this is how we get the implied state of Earth at the end of Blindsight, where humans without consciousness drive those with one to extinction.

ULA and the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program needs to be looked more into; a total shitshow and why I'm not a fan of either the Space Shuttle (which is it's own thing, and holy hell was that a bad program; 2 total crew losses while never achieving it's stated aims).. Anyway ULA was created because the EELV was supposed to be a competition but there was so much backstabbing and skullduggery going on that it ended up not being much of a competition at all.. At the same time (1994) the US was still using 60's vintage Titan and Atlas (II-III) rockets (the Titan's were Hypergolic fueled for some ungodly reason despite the engines being descended from Kerolox engines). Cost Plus contracting and the manner in which (especially NASA programs) specs are written into law rather than something more flexible "just get this shit to [specific orbit] with [max G force allowed]" created an environment ripe for a company like SpaceX and to a lesser extent Blue Origin and the others in "newSpace" Kerolox = Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen; it's still "bad" in both emissions and probably has some carcinogenic properties if you're doing fueling work, but compared to the hypergolics it's quite a bit more tame, with the liquid oxygen being the most dangerous stuff..

"crony capitalism" 😭

there must be some semblance of beauty and order in this world because yeah, hussein should be the david byrne of podcasting. best of luck with the whimsical storybook-mouse type problems

25:30 are we claiming a prescription glp-1 "doesn't work"? The company is obviously a scam, but come on now. Edit, they do mention that they are pill-form semaglutides, with currently unproven effectiveness *for weight loss* However, there are already FDA approved glp-1 agonist pills like Rybelsus for diabetes.

You know, I can ignore my family and make up people in my head for way less money and be more environmentally sustainable by not using AI.

I'm a horse doctor, timeless, through and through

As to the final discussion on Fordism: dare I say it embodies the Hegelian Dialectic? I hate to be that dickhead, but it's almost beat for beat

They're automated Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock

When the HRT is Horse Replacement Therapy

Fake Casio is one of the most compelling things I've ever heard

Horse GLP1s, of course, because horse too thicc

He still manages to take credit for all the ideas and successes of the thousands and thousands of people who work at the companies he started or bought. Kim Jong Un would be proud.

Please please don't give him any credit for electric cars, so many others have done so much, especially manufacturing capacity in China.

They called their prescription company OpenLoop? As in a loop with a hole in it? They literally called it LoopHole!?

i mean no you don't have to hand it to musk he's not the one building the satellites is he it's the engineers many of whom probably are also wankers but they at least know and do things

my ai horse doctor proscribed me ketamine and radium pills from the 1950s. this will probably be fine

re: hussein being sold watches from a trenchcoat. I guess I never thought about how if you live in a huge population centre like London you probably encounter a lot more Tropes and Themes from the wonderful world of the televisual arts because the writers often live in those areas... people in megacities are probably constantly encountering a dozen people crammed into a tiny clown car, people being bonked by rubber hammers and having stars rotate above their heads, tongues rolling out of mouths at hot people etc etc

An entire gospel choir going to medical school together and merging together into one person isn’t really that unusual if you’re Tiffany Henyard. The FDA saying, “Neigh” to Medvii and horse Mounjaro.

I can’t just move past Sleeve Mick-Dykel (how I presume that’s spelled)

Calling it Robotech.... SMH.

25:09 “give me the weird 70’s drugs—“ BRING BACK THE QUAALUDES!!!

I'm reminded of Frankie Boyle's story: "The most Scottish thing I've seen was in Bathgate, where a drunk man was leaning against someone's front door to piss, then took out their keys to go inside"