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Milo is right we need a Burger King in Mecca

Cowards for not coming to Perth!

When you finally do another clog head song I want Milo's Colonel character to do an Cool-hand Luke style intro like GnRs civil war.

Also, I will say, having a "superapp" is honestly kinda convenient if you live in a cyberpunk police state. In order for the Chinese government to know your exact name and location if you ever decide to post anything spicy online, you have to verify your identity via a convoluted process for basically every major app (I literally had to send 3 months of my bank records to some black box to be allowed to use the Chinese equivalent of Slack). So any time I can have one of these apps be linked to a centrally-located "superapp" where I've already verified my identity, it does genuinely save me time. Side note, not mentioned in the episode (I think) is the insane security risk a "superapp" poses. I don't just mean "they are going to sell your data", I mean "if someone steals my phone I am completely fucked because my entire life is linked to a single app that has no additional layers of security other than 'are you currently holding this phone?'".

As someone who's lived in China for half his life and has seen the evolution of its digital payment industry, it's hard for me to imagine how Facebook/Musk/whoever's foray into digital payments will pan out in the US. I think one of the main reasons for the success of WeChat Pay and Alipay is the Chinese zeal when it comes to technology adoption. I don't think they would have succeeded like they did had they not so quickly and completely replaced traditional forms of payment. Anecdotally, it feels like the entire landscape transformed in the space of a year. Since then, every single business, from a gas station in bumfuck nowhere to a guy selling baozi from the back of his bike uses digital payment. I literally can't remember where my wallet is because I haven't taken it outside in years. Meanwhile, last time I was in the States (like 2018) there were still stores in major cities that didn't have chip card readers and even Apple Pay felt almost nonexistent outside of cities like San Francisco. I think if a company wants to acquire a genuine monopoly on digital payments in the US, they'll have to constantly shovel money into a pit for the 10+ years it takes for even a plurality of people to adopt the technology. Also, Grab started as a taxi service, not food delivery. I actually interviewed to work at their food delivery business back in 2019, and at the time they were pretty much just getting started with the service. Sorry, long comment, I don't often get to talk about the cursed Sinosphere tech industry (in English).

The shard is gonna get 911d and it's Milo's fault

Riley writes the episode descriptions like a review of a restaurant he quite liked.

the Tories will be bringing back smoking in pubs by this time next year, won't they?

Makes me think of a similar analogue with The Sun. As a paper, it makes fuck all money, but has managed to keep alive long enough to turn your grandparents and your aunts & uncles into mouth foaming reactionaries. That's the value here. Though with Twitter, it's hard to see because they don't have the infinity money that Murdoch has. At least Murdoch's money is real.

Am still weirded ou when I think in elementary school most of the kids in my class had cathéchism or some weird religious shit. Was in the late 90s

With the tactical and regular summoning of Colonel Acaster I'm starting to suspect Hussein is the Michael VIII Palaiologos of the show, or he's quit winding up British dads on Twitter so he can wind up the show's dad when he's trying to talk about Twitter.