Bribecoin feat. Zeke Faux
Bloomberg’s Zeke Faux joins us to discuss stablecoins - specifically Tether and World Liberty / USD1 - which function now as the parallel financial ecosystem for dealing with states captured by right wing cliques. But first, we brainstorm a post politics career for Keir and check in on the state of toys in Hertfordshire.
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I think the definitive way to construct an Eric Adams-like sentence is to say something in a vaguely tactical lingo about a ubiquitously common object or entity in a way that betrays an alien-like unfamiliarity with it. “Exposure to something like a chicken nugget” is something that would be said by a detective who has only encountered the concept of a McNugget through language learning telenovelas
National Service but for Supermarkets
This is based not on research but on my own experience as a picky child, but I can’t help but think the increased amount of scheduling and demands on children’s time contributes to pickiness as well. Trying a food at home, where you can see and smell it being cooked, is a whole different proposition to putting it in a jar/bag/lunchbox and letting it be jostled around at room temperature for 3 or 4 hours before you eat it.
Since that’s the conditions under which most kids eat breakfast/lunch Mon-Fri after the age of 6, it’s no wonder they develop a preference for hyper-processed foods that travel well and pack easily.
The tricky thing about Tether and crypto etc. is that it's really easy to make a story of how it is bad and stupid, but not really in a way that doesn't also include fiat money and the more mainstream banking and monetary system.
Aren't Pokémons and Bionicles also optimized to appeal to children? Tablets and youtube are another story of course, but what's worse for a child about playing with a little Tung Tung Tung Sahur vs a Pikachu? Either is much better than a G.I. Joe at least.
Razzlekhan is the raygun of hiphop
im really thinking trump has no intention of ever leaving office cas like the corruption machine only works when they have the levers of power, they give that up and the whole thing grinds to a halt. they put up with it through the biden admin cas they knew trump was gonna be a great 2024 run but my god we're just not going to have another presidential election
Its interesting that the media is still trying to defend itself through claims of press censorship and how they simply needed to kill that guy for the good of the public, while channel 4 has just revealed a year long investigation into reform UK accepting foreign donations to put out opinion polls that made them look good that weren't traceable to them, which was fully plastered on the front page of the telegraph with no further questions or sourcing. Like yeah really makes me believe In the goodness of the institution of journalism and doesn't make it clear they are scheming vizers
We can announce today that the fugitive 'Captain Underpants' has been caught and compromised to a permanent end.
Guys I need you to post more, my mental health can't handle the vøïd
"nobody was fucking the Bionicles" girl....
Tungtungtungsahoor!
As a non UK listener who mostly only followed the Jason Arday thing via this pod and hearing about it from a friend, does anyone have any resources on the lies the media told about him/the evidence he wasn’t a serial fabulist as they mentioned? It’s near impossible to find anything that isn’t one of the salacious articles about him from hacks
Duke on Bike hello you rang ma'am
Very strange riff postulating that sexualizing children's toys are children's franchises is in some way a new thing
I heard the name Milo and I have to ask, what happened to Milo?
He went on tour and they decided to not address his prolonged absence for reasons we can only speculate on. (Does make it a lot easier to continue to charge people money for Britainology.) ETA: Even Glue Factory is on hiatus so he's really on that grind.
The brouhaha over the Chester Cheeks toy seems a bit overblown when thinking that anything related to bums is the funniest thing imaginable has been the hallmark of being 8 years old since forever. The Captain Underpants guy must be kicking himself that he didn’t think of it
Another one of those bizarre internet fad toys were those squishy dumplings toys that were recalled over the summer, https://www.gov.uk/product-safety-alerts-reports-recalls/product-recall-squeezy-dumplings-2606-0196 “Hazard: The product presents a serious chemical risk because the outer layer contains an excess concentration of benzene” This is fine
I wish to honour Nova’s call for a more compassionate politics by wishing Nathan Cofnas only the best, and hope that one day he will be allowed to return to the subterranean mole people kingdom he was clearly exiled from
I think the idea that "picky eating" is caused by the food being too good is ridiculous. People have always have preferences for what they want they eat. The actual change is that now parents are less likely to respond to a kid being picky by just forcing them to eat their mom's shitty food anyway.
No, but hyper-palatability and food manufactured to hit all the brain pleasure centres with fats, sugars, salt, etc is a relatively recent phenomenon within the past 80 years or so. Of course, we've always had preferences, but this is a bit different.
"The Bionicles are a noble race, they've fought many wars," says Victorian Hussein.
doesn't inland revenue have something to say about personal gifts of that magnitude?
Some of you have what I would call a "noble savage" view of the Bionicles.
https://swindledpodcast.com/podcast/89-the-crocodile/ RazzleCon the hacker you mentioned has the most annoying personality of any human being I’ve ever heard. If you can make it through this episode you’re a tier above. Wild name drop I was not expecting to hear about her ever again after the swindled episode I linked above. Razzle dazzle bitches
the Quiddiya Formula 1 "mario kart rainbow road" track *appears* to still be going ahead on the other hand!
Haven’t heart the name Razzle Khan in years what a trip. Was she a topic on old Chapo years back? I remember her story from some podcast or another…. Along with the raps. I kept confusing her name with Frazzle Drip.
She was a running bit on Patrick Boyle’s YouTube channel a few years ago, if you watch that
The only thing I can say in regards to the part about British media is DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!
Hassan Pikir. A social democrat who does nothing.
[Simpsons Rod Serling voice] Left on Read, Canada tour, Milo, Riley's engagement. These are the mysteries of Trashfuture.
Why are all the Chester Cheeks dolls white?
so this means that the saudis are on track for Arabian Keir Starmer within the next decades??
I welcome Sir Keir Starmer's Cameo account, but would encourage him to go further- There are many video content sharing and social media platforms that the former Prime Minister could avail himself of and make content for- TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, even OnlyFans.
keir starmer asmr stream
Inching closer to the headline "Blackrock investment sought for black stone."
OK just once more, for old times sake. I've heard a recent letter from Keir Starmer to the King contained these lines: Rain striking the roof Fills the autumn loneliness My labour is done; All that remains is sweet sleep Under the pale harvest moon
Bill White has been annoying the Belgian government ever since he arrived, condemning internal policies that are not rabidly Zionist, reactionary and Pro-US. The centre right is thoroughly in control of this government and even that is not enough for someone as crazed as White. Conservatives here and in other places are openly saying that the us is no longer an ally and seeks only to reduce Europe’s sovereignty. Every time White interferes a lot of ordinary people become more vocally anti-American, and the left is finally starting to notice.
Do I need to remind the panel of the bronies? People are absolutely able to sexualize any hand drawn children's cartoon character and have for ages. llm slop has only made it easier.
If I had kids and they were into AI slop instead of good ol' fashioned SFM schizophrenia and YouTube poops, I would be disappointed beyond words
How many vast piles of stone standing in the desert are out there? Look there are only so many works I can look upon and despair, I have a lot on my calendar these days.
You joke about Farage talking to Andrew Bailey but I keep getting adverts on mobile games that's like a fake BBC news article saying that Farage dragged Andrew Bailey off a private jet
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You joke about Farage talking to Andrew Bailey but I keep getting adverts on mobile games that's like a fake BBC news article saying that Farage dragged Andrew Bailey off a private jet
Huh, I was not aware the "brainrot soda" for sale in Swedish supermarkets has "lore". Disturbing.
And fuck you for putting the words "cappucino ballerina rule 34" in my head.
Comrade Kelly, I regret to inform you that people were definitely fucking the Bionicles. There's a subreddit and it's fucking horrifying.
What a horrible day to be literate.
It’s the famous TF Wednesday episode.
