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903 - Tuna Melt Moment feat. Alex Nichols (1/27/25) (Patreon)

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2025-01-28 07:38:06
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2026-06

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Alex is back on the pod to review the first full week of 2rump news, but first, we wish friend of the show Catturd a speedy recovery from his impacted bowel. Then, we look at Trumps barrage of executive orders, cabinet staffing, and denial of security clearances to a number of former NatSec ghouls. We also discuss the Democrats’ new Tuna-based appeals for viral attention, and consider how history will judge Joe Biden.

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jjmm

New tempo bro?

jjmm

Oh nvm accidentally hit the speed up button

Schwartz666

Why was the DEI tuna sad? . . . They got canned 😏

NYCM&AHole

Catturd going full Bolsonaro on the intestinal blockage

NYCM&AHole

Here all week, folks

NYCM&AHole

It’s not preloaded. Didn’t you fucks watch sixth day with the govenrnator?

Semine

Just show blew out my nut on my work laptop, who else is about to listen?

Mayor McCheese

Catturd has problematic fibre optics.

Schwartz666

The turd's outta the 🚬

Ant koz

This stuffs all great, but I just watched “juror #2” from last year a film that has a pretty good chance to be eastwoods last, and I feel pretty betrayed y’all didn’t cover it. It’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Had the most lifetime network dialogue ever like I’ve never seen a movie where the characters turn to the audience and explain the stakes or the legal process in ways that ham fisted does no justice… This film makes the avengers look like Kubrick. the message Eastwood tries to deliver too.. I could go on and on and on, but after Jewell and the analysis of Clint as the premiere reactionary film maker of our time, not covering this last one is deeply upsetting for me.

JD Nonce

Where can I get my bit wet lips on that big wet tuna sammy 🫦

Rory

Slop World 2025 oink oink

Dizzel McFizzel

Im tired of fighting, I'll wait for trump to come kill me

Schwartz666

Why was the insurrectionist tuna happy? . . . They were off the hook 😏

Matt

Kraftwerk! 👍

Last Years Man

"The unforgettable tuna melt moment." "I forgot it."

Whucko Jaang

I gotta get some of these vegetables

Last Years Man

The problem all these historians and media figures have is that they came up during a time when they had total control over the discourse and thus could make it about whatever THEY wanted to talk about. And now that their control is gone, they don't know to talk about anything else.

Last Years Man

I didn't think it was THAT bad, and some people seem to like it. The concept was interesting, but you're correct that the movie's understanding of how the justice system actually works is pre-school level. It's like they read about the concept of juries and then pulled the rest from imagination alone.

Dark Magicks

Cat turd taking a shit would sound like a hammer coming down on an anvil

ilkash

Does Alex laugh at anyone else’s jokes this time

Trees

Guy who voted for Trump because he wanted Pete Hegseth to quit drinking

Hot Rod

Miller High Life

Gubriel

Outro song? Anyone know it?

Keenan Fitzgerald

The conservative guy who wants the Obama clones to stay together is the voter base the Kamala campaign was going after

Matthew

Pedro stans Reggie Miller 👑

Podcast subscriber 78

My favourite black women are “Kelly Gene Pierre”, face of the holocaust, and SCOTUS justice “Ketanji Jackson Brown”.

Zac Thompson

It's Hot Tuna's "Water Song"

justdave

They had a high concentration of lead

K H

Skip to about 5:30 to avoid a very long discussion around fecal impaction.

K H

Obama fulfilling his ultimate desire of fucking the MOST generic White woman of the new millenium would be completing his arc for sure. Happy for him if true. Hopefully Michelle kills him and finally releases the pics of him getting his dick sucked by Brace in Peoria.

K H

Don't bring your politics around my kids.

K H

Not funny. Your warning found me too late.

George P

Did I miss it, or did I not hear a single historian even allude to the slaughter in Gaza?

Dick Waglin

Still waiting for someone to bring Gun-Kata to the ufc. I think itd be a game changer.

Alex

I actually do use AI for professional services. I used it for my tax questions last year. I’ve also used it to make maps of mining operations and I even rewrote a better constitution with it. Sure, capitalists abuse it for their means. But is using AI to create advertisements for services that can be replaced by the same AI sustainable? It’s lawyers, tax professionals, and white collar paper pushers that should be afraid of this technology IMO.

Kamran Husain

biden is the gil from the simpsons president

helvetica.hottie

I use LLMs to help me read ridiculously long academic articles for me for grad school. 🤣

Ant koz

Rewatch it and focus on the dialogue. It’s worse than a lifetime movie. The scene where they begin deliberation is amazing. Like how do you not use some form of filmmaking tool like a passage of time or literally anything to do that scene. The bailiff literally drops the evidence on the table to begin deliberation and I swear to god zero exaggeration, within TWO MINUTES, the 11 other jurors have all voted guilty (all archetypes, Asian woman, hot woman whose one line is “yeah it’s like choosing what shoes to wear”, stoner kid, old lady, angry black guy, angry tough bald guy, mean black woman, etc) and they’re FURIOUS he has the gall to waste their time and discuss the case. All with the assumption that there’s a mountain of evidence (an exact Toni collete line in the next scene where they literally cheers and say “to the justice system, it’s not perfect, but it’s the best system anyone’s ever come up with yet”) when in reality it is the thinnest case of all time and he would be acquitted almost as quickly as they’re ready to convict!! I’m sorry, I couldn’t disagree more and this reply is so long and full of quotes and parentheses, I know it’s absurd, but really if you just watch the dialogue it’s worse than lifetime movie

Genghis Cohen

Be nice to Sean Wilentz he's a good historian 🥺

Ant koz

I CANT STOP BY GOD. So the scene where they do a little press conference that’s 30 seconds long toni collete the prosecutor goes “the state has the truth on its side! He will pay for his crimes and I will get justice for this woman and every victim of domestic abuse!” Then one reporter turns to the camera and says “what do you think about polling that says the election will swing five points based on the results of this trial” … just straight up like “hi audience, this is a reminder that there are also political implications in the most ham fisted possible way”

Travis

wrong

Travis

Felix begins speaking at 55 seconds

Ant koz

Then later he buys his lawyer coffee and the Scene is just “so if I get a mistrial that’s it, he gets off right? Since I did the crime my conscience will be clear? No, they’ll demand a retrial. What’s that? New jurors and a new trial, they need a verdict. So I need to get all 12 jurors to vote not guilty to accomplish my goals for the plot? That’s right…. It’s astounding how stupid he assumes the audience is, which to be fair, it is America. I’m sorry for these posts. This just felt like the appropriate place to get this off my chest. Please watch this film people it is remarkable

kron

Tuna melts are better on an English muffin in my opinion. Or at the very least wheat bread

Oliver Elliott

Obviously it’s Miller from Repo Man

albrechto

marbled rye obvs

David Hughes

Lest we forget, a bacon sandwich defeated former Labour leader Ed Milliband

Nate Foust-Meyer

Sen MW of Virginia is an alcoholic. The tuna garbage makes sense

B b

Trump did not have a supreme court majority last time and has 270+ more federal judges he appointed last time. He’s going to be trying to go all out on all his worst ideas. The Democratic party is also rutterless and does not seem to have a party leadership voice. Pelosi was not great, but she does not even seem to have a real replacement. AOC has been the main one being vocal so far.

jepasc

I refuse

Kyle Cassidy

It sucks so bad, and I feel like I'm going insane hearing everyone (including reviewers I genuinely respect) describe it in glowing terms. It was genuinely amateurish to an extent I found shocking given the quality of the cast and director. Is it just pre-emptive eulogizing for Clint?

Chris T

If I were Obama, I’d go for Roz, from the “man’s show” “Frasier.”

Chris T

It’s google for idiots

Mark Schneider

State Media (& Miss Manners) feel that doing so is bad etiquette. "Silence is Golden" during the biggest genocide in 8 decades.

Zack Burke

Is this the 1st Led Zeppelin needle drop on Chapo?

nick

The election wasn’t a Mondale style rout but it was a strong win for Trump. Dems lost the popular vote, lost every swing state, lost ground with every minority demo they thought they could count on, and underperformed Biden 2020 in practically every county in the country. It wasn’t a blowout but it wasn’t close either. The Dems’ acquiescence is just because it’s the easier thing to do and they don’t have any will or plan on how to do anything moderately difficult.

Mark Schneider

Henry Miller! A bohemian in the 30s, before Kerouac et al. Not into drugs, big on alcohol, whores, astrology, Greece & Eastern mysticism.

Gabe Juniper

Noliwe Rooks’ piece in the politico article is worth reading despite the ridiculous headline, because in the second paragraph she mentions the alarmingly low literacy rates of American students which feels like a grim augur of our times that too few people are talking about.

Hemlock

You mean you use LLMs to imitate the practice of reading articles

Sam

I cant find this clip but someone once asked Al Michaels “what about like, french fries?” and he almost blew a fuse trying not to go apeshit at the question

Nathan

Fibercels seething over impactchads.

helvetica.hottie

Sure, whatever you say. It definitely saves me time of reading 100 pages a week of mind numbing academic writing.

Dang

Re: "laying this at the feet of the left" in terms of blame for the Dem's loss... ... Isn't that the narrative that "the left" is pushing? That enabling Gaza & not offering a better status quo cost the Dems the election? Seems like there's *agreement* there

Demented Avenger

Low-carb tortillas, man. You get your whole allotment of fiber in one of them. Slather them with peanut butter.

Michael

All this talk about tuna has me remembering the Shocktober Felix did with Bryan Quimby and Chris James where they covered the Greaseman and the Greaseman’s tuna fish song.

Demented Avenger

Oh, and back in the 1990s, we absolutely drooled over Aniston on the cover of a-Rolling Stone. Playboy had an article about the vixens of Friends (and it might have been titled that as well). And there was Office Space. We didn't start drooling over Angelina Jolie in earnest until I think about 1997, 1998? I know it was before Girl, Interrupted. It might have been that TV movie Gia where she's starkers.

cashedtrapezoid

Miller high life….come on man. -joe biden

Jack Ross

Fuck this show has gotten really good again recently. I haven’t laughed this much at an ep in a while

Dee Rubes

That line about how some leftists imagine a roving gang of vegans scolding indigenous people was BARS.

Ant koz

I don’t know, but thank you so much for agreeing. I felt insane watching it too. Like Toni Collette, Chris Messina are both really good, the scene where they were going back and forth doing their closing arguments for the trial my mouth was open I couldn’t believe they weren’t just like, I fucking quit this is for babies. I keep equating lifetime because I enjoy watching shitty lifetime movies sometimes as brainless entertainment and this genuinely felt like one of the lower budget movies for that network… it’s astonishing I would love to hear the chapo take

Matelda

Did anyone on that list even mention Gaza? It's astonishing how blind and delusional they are, as fucking historians, just to recite a load of democrat talking points rather than notice the earthquake beneath their feet. Not a good reflection on the academy.

Matelda

Yes but the left is saying that the party lost (us) by going rightwing, where as the party is trying to say they lost because they weren't percieved as rightwing enough to a fictional group of voters.

Jack Ross

The fact that the outro music is Hot Tuna fucking rules

Yacobum

As a software dev, generative AI is very helpful. I use it daily to find tiny little syntax mistakes, or to get to the root cause of an error message. It can help debug code I have written or code I am customizing. It can also quickly spit out a great starting point for a code idea I am just getting started on.

John Culkin

Now that Nick Mullen left TAFS and John Bolton lost his security detail, they should reunite and start a new podcast.

C D

The guys from the Departed stole the microprocessors for the Chinese AI

drunk cig

I don't know what they are, you don't know what they are, who gives a fuck

BlackWolfSkinwalker

In the fashion of Martin Luther, an invective-slinging poster is obsessed with shit thanks to his inability to take one

Son of El Topo

Jennifer Anniston became a sex symbol when she said "I love Kung-Fu" on Office Space

ab

Just to be the “um akshually” guy for a second, DeepSeek is still based on OpenAI’s models. They didn’t create something from scratch. So you still need the chips and training to get to where DeepSeek got. Investors just have squirrel brains so they see “cheaper” and start panic selling. Also Google has become an unusable SEO-spammed shithole so LLMs that are tuned for search are honestly more useful these days.

Quadabyte

Hawk Tuna Wait... Cattuah2

Mike Bess

He probably meant Dennis Miller. He’s huge in Colombia.

Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin

They wouldn't have been asked for their input if they were openly anti-zionist. If they did mention Gaza, it probably didn't make it past the eeitors

Dee Rubes

Im interested in what full stack devs have to say, but based on my limited Python experience, AI will not replace programmers because it is full of mistakes and you can’t keep secret any of the code you ask it to write for you.

Davis G

My CIA handler told me that Gustavo Petro’s favorite TV show is Silicon Valley. Therefore, the Miller he was referring to was likely TJ Miller.

Schwartz666

Joe "Radically Left Wing" Brandon 🙄

Mark Schneider

That coverage you did of the "professional" historians' take on Biden's presidency was beyond cringe, it was literally vomit-worthy. Oh, "tokenism" is a concrete benefit for everyone, right? You guys were correct on them using the likes of the contemptibly stupid Linda Thomas-Greenfield as a black face in favor of genocide, of course. Who were the 2 morons who claimed Biden was "the most pro-labor President in modern times?" I guess in their little ivory towers they somehow failed to notice when Biden broke the Railroad Workers' strike on behalf of the owners, assuring that a quarter of the way thru the 21st century those workers don't have a single day's sick leave. In Duluth, MN where I currently live, the free local weekly is Shit-Lib Central. Last summer they ran a shockingly moronic cover story claiming that professional historians were rating Biden the 8th greatest, and Trump was the 2nd worse (can't recall whether Nixon or Bush Jr. was bottom of that barrel.) Well, I recently saw a ranking by the public, & Biden was in the bottom 2 of 6 modern presidencies. His policies were directly the same as Bush Jr., lots of foreign wars, even worse than Shrub, sending billions to crooks & Nazis in Ukraine. Overall, the public poll I saw (think it was one of the big ones, can't recall) ranked Bidet at 32% positive and 68% negative when he left. Not as bad as Shrub's 22% popularity when he left, but over 2/3rds, speaks for itself. Oh, lastly since I brought up Ukraine-- who were those "fantastic morons" (quoting Norm Finklestein) braying about "Putin's savage invasion" of Banderist Nazis killing Russian speakers, banning their language, etc. to glorify WW II war criminals like 98-year old Yaroslav Hunka, who got 2 standing ovations in the Canadian Parliament for being Waffen-SS, and slaughtering 1,000s of Polish Jews. (Oops, they didn't know what "fighting the Russians between 1942-45" meant.) Somebody needs to read Scott Horton's new book "Provoked", but Upton Sinclair was right, you can't get someone to believe something that affects their bottom-line paycheck.

etienne

aren't the democrats punishing their base right now? it's like oh you didn't like our guys, so we did you a huge favor by putting in the lady as a crazy last minute stunt, and then you still gave us shit on israel and didn't really show up even if it was kinda tight, so, get fucked, we're going to normalize this now, this is what you wanted?

The City in Exile Podcast

Ha ha ha. When Alex said "Google" from my speaker it triggered the Google AI on my phone. Ha ha ha. Fucks sake.

Schwartz666

The Trump-bump, while unfortunate, is real.

TREAM

I missed Matt more than ever on this episode, bc that Biden fellating editorial needed a good "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP"

Craig

There's something really annoying to me about the current conventional wisdom on the left right now. While I agree that Biden/Kamala ran an awful campaign, that doesn't absolve the majority of voters for voting for Republicans. They didn't have to do that.

Craig

It just feels like y'all hate liberals more than you hate rightwingers

Alex

Sure, but most white collar professionals are just idiots Googling things

Joseph Mabrey

I'm legitimately bummed about the state of affairs right now. Feels pretty hopeless.

Kyle Palmer

Ding ding ding ding ding! Yes I hate the rational, closer-ideologically-aligned party failing more than I hate the insane, unreasonable demons for succeeding.

hamburglar

folks, they have no rutter

Matelda

I guess having been in grad school, it seems like somebody putting their name and credibility out there should want to at least gesture at how the wind blows? When something is this unfathomable, my brain goes "CIA until proven innocent"

Turlough Kelly

What do you mean absolve, though? What do you want to do, speak to the voters' managers?

Matelda

I think I do hate liberals more, the way people hate a traitor more than the enemy themself. Republicans make things easy by being indefensible, but Democrats stand in the way to guard them from us. They can stare directly into the camera and say so, and my family refuses to believe it. They are a full-blown enemy, nothing less, but it's impossible to get enough people to recognize them that way.

Mangomoosh

I love Alex. Fucking Cha Cha. My homie worked for them in Indianapolis and answered pop culture questions. Forgot all about that shit.

Khemith

Probably because liberals hate leftists more than they hate Nazis

MKatieUltra

The fiber causing constipation thing can be true in extreme situations, but there’s one idiopathic constipation case study all the carnivore diet perverts refer to. Overall it’s still the consensus that you very much need fiber from vegetables, it makes your colon release certain kinds of fatty acids that are good for it. Ppl who eat the widest variety of fiber have a healthy and diverse microbiome. I swear with all these carnivore guys, it’s all just residual hatred for their mommies that they don’t eat vegetables though lol.

Declan Kennedy

let's be honest, if the democrats decided to go all in on hours of food-gore videos it would be better than the current social media strategy which seems to consist of the leadership posting "jesus, take the wheel" on twitter

Tea for the Tillerman

Trump saved menthols because there’s a Salem Lights ad in the 1993 vanity fair he keeps on the tank of his gilded john

Craig

Turlough Kelly, no. I mean that voters are treated like they don't have any agency. Milquetoast Dems run a shitty campaign, so the people MUST vote for demons?

Craig

Thank you, Matelda. That helps me understand where many of you are coming from

Craig

Honestly, Will should have gone further on Hanson's bit. Would have been funnier than the dumb lib historians

Eroq

Yeah. They stopped assigning full books in favor of chunking larger texts, whether out of time constraints or meeting student demand. Now most students don't have the capacity to follow a full novel from start to finish, the comprehension just isn't there.

Dee Rubes

Thank you! This is what I expected. I tried to get help in an intro to python course with it and it quickly started making errors that couldn’t be resolved without human intervention (a human who knows Python code). It sped up writing some functions and had clean documentation but it would be useless without a human coder.

Chris Hildreth

Any halfway house in this country is a microcosm OF this country. That was a perfect analogy and I can’t stop thinking about it

Dee Rubes

I don’t wanna get off on a rant here but you can’t have existential dread about the decay of America if you no longer have a soul and instead have a pile of conservative media money in its place.

Breakaway

That was my guess

mary catherine

Man I really hate the way this guy talks about women and women’s body’s it’s so gross and unfunny

Jim Storrie

can't stand all these bacteria eating my food

More Human than Human

Talking shit about Dragon Ball Z WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Respect your patrons

Ceeg

Which part of perpetuating the genocide in Gaza unabated was ‘rational’ to you?

Ceeg

Companies will get private containerized models trained on their specific business/use case that will use a fraction of a fraction of the compute power of something like chat gpt and all data will be private (assuming your IT team isn’t shit).

Kinetics Video

Catturd blocked you, but just because you blocked him first

Mark

Liberals and centrists are literally incapable of punching right. They would be burned on a cross rather than even think about national healthcare or not subsidizing Israel.

M

It was the 6th closest election ever, Trump won by less than 1.5%

Vivi

Surprised you guys didn't mention the EO attacks on trans people, especially the one about passports that is causing a lot of problems for people right now or the one about trans inmates that will get a lot of trans women in prison killed and tortured...

justdave

If I start to feel down, I like to think about a half naked Haitian man hunting shih tzus n' such at the park with like a machete or bow and arrow or the like.

Andrew Cross

so Biden is like uh Ornstein from dark souls, but more like the old dragonslayer version from dark souls 2: scholar of the first sin where there’s a dragon right outside his room that he’s not doing anything about

Eli

For the spry 42 year olds who are new to this podcast, this is what every episode used to be like

Mortimer Clue

Gustavo Petro was talking about Henry Miller

justdave

🎶 there go's my hero 🎶

ts_babyjane

Chapo is great anti-doomers of our time, like i was freaking out about all the trans bans currently happening, but to hear them remind me how stupid the right is and that they will fuck it all up is like, ya, true.

ElverG

Tf is Alex going on about, me when I see Jennifer Aniston

THEKILLERWHALE

They are very accurate critiques that can only come from a place of love. Anyone who has watched Frieza and Goku power up for five straght episodes knows.

THEKILLERWHALE

Yes, I am in an adjacent industry and do a ton of machine learning. To the degree that this stuff works, it is as a Google replacement, not as an authentic creator of real code. You can plug stuff in but you will not get a self contained script that does what you want it to do. This is because it is an LLM trained on the internet and not on code itself. That means, it is not treating a programming language as a language to predict. It is predicting what the internet will say in response to your question. This does not mean it is useless but it is somehow less impressive that we just recreated Google at enormous cost with very unreliable results.

Kollie123

Well it’s easy for them to be anti-doomer when nothing that happens will ultimately affect them

Leyland

Anus tuna melt.

Doug Cartel

We also cant go back to 2016 because the pizza gate guy got killed by tje cops How many freaks and weirdos who made 2016 uniquely insane are dead now?

lars

The new zone of Obamiston. Drone strike or fuck?

king_von_diesel

Goddamn- i started listening during the Biden years, which was just so depressing. This slaps

ab

@Kollie123 yup

Laura

If we're redoing 2016, I demand cold opens from James Adomian

sophie

i suppose it could refer to the biblical eve but i can only assume evie refers to eva braun

Mark

Right wingers don’t lie about who they are. We know they’re regressive, flat-Earth evangelicals who think America’s peak was just before the Civil War. Liberals pose as progressives while demonizing their left flank and begging for 3-5% of the conservative vote. What did Republicans do with the Tea Party? Did they marginalize them as lunatics? No, they embraced them and now we have folks like MTG and Gaetz and Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. What did Democrats do with Bernie’s movement? “Sexist, racist, Bernie Bros,” and all the rest. Yeah, Democrats and liberals deserve all the scorn. Republicans will stab you in the belly. Democrats will stab you in the back.

Drew

Can't believe none of the Biden Historians mentioned the Luggage Thief

Thomas

Can you guys shout out the Homo Thug HQ community on X

rudedog

That sandwich is genuinely heinous. If I saw someone making that, especially in the work place, I would be upset with them.

Saxon Baird

give it a few years. these comments describe its current state, but billions of dollars are going into developing AGI and while predictions are suss, the last 20 years of AI development has been ahead of most predictions. The idea that this won’t continue to develop is like saying the internet won’t be that big of a deal in 1999

Special Adeline

i would rather eat a json meal than that sickening sandwich tbh, it made me want to avoid seeing the thumbnail for this episode as much as possible because looking at it triggers my gag reflex. not saying it in a cutesy fake argumentative way, i would genuinely distance myself from a friend if they ate that, i would feel sick being around them

Special Adeline

Tbf i do find tuna gross in the first place so that's part of the issue but man that is a repulsive looking sandwich

Kinetics Video

Looking forward to the grumpy lanyard guy Decembrist Movement

Kinetics Video

Something very unsatisfying about this casual assumption that some Democrat will just do Obama again basically. I think it's possible Obama was historically unique. Maybe the US would have to go do a Jakarta again to create another vessel so thoroughly empty as him.

Mangomoosh

Damn, they didn’t have to @ my boy tube socks like that at the end.

tabbyswipe

Day 1 of trump 2 chapo said you could say retarded again. It is a resounding victory. Chapo for the first time in years talked aboht h1b. You look like a joke denying the cultural and poltiical impact. It's a narrow win by count but a big win by impact and meaning.

James Proulx

Regarding the sense that people have given up, I don’t know how else to respond to this. All of this is dumb and crazy and cruel and weird. I wish everyone the best when it comes to dealing with the repercussions but I don’t have it in me to care about any of it anymore. We’re barreling towards a few decades of climate disasters and the country is being run by psychopaths who have been elected by morons and just plain old greedy assholes. It’s not going to get any better ever again. Go Birds.

More Human than Human

You’ve simply failed to grasp the pure genius of watching Goku in the tank for 18 hours for runtime. Please reflect and come back.

Paul Adam

Gotta be Reggie Miller, right?

Patrick Allen

The boys are just plain wrong that Trump is enjoying a honeymoon period, unless they’re thinking of an underwater honeymoon. The Reuters/Ipsos poll on Sunday showed that only 45% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance; his disapproval rate is 46%. (The poll had a margin of error of about 4 percentage points.) Trump’s highest-ever approval rating was 49% after he began his first term but fell to 34% after J6. For U.S. voters, this is not a love match, it’s a Boston marriage without a honeymoon.

C. Andrew

"they'll just think it's a tampon, and not say anything." Starting off strong, the smile factory delivering the good stuff today. Obama getting into the celebrity fuck circuit was always part of his plan, he's gonna be so annoying as a single guy.

I was saying boo-lania

Sadly Rwanda remains the largest genocide in 8 decades but at least we didn't arm and fund that one

Mike Bess

Totes agree. Being “black pilled” is the reserve of a privileged bourgeois. We have to channel that sense of existential dread into helpful ways, educating, volunteering, what have you. We’re in this 💩 but we’re in it together.

justdave

Damn, he might lose the election.

Patrick Allen

Maybe progressives could stop punching left, too?

John Mitchell

sorry, everytime alex is on the jokes just suck. It always devolves into the most shock jock disgusting garbage and you guys laugh track it like morons. Been supporting the channel for 8 years now and when I see alex on as a guest I am gonna just pass from now on.

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

If you had a tiny clone of Obama, would you torture him?

etienne

^ paid russian disinfortzkaya peddler

Jesse Svetlich

I would send him gift wrapped to Larry Sinclair

David

^ can't stand dissenting opinions in their podcast safe space

Mangomoosh

Cooking poop is fucking hilarious

William Hubel

My uncle is a liberal history prof and was a Joe Biden apologist. I had to tell him I really think Biden is F-tier, and deserves most of the blame for where we are now.

William Hubel

Alex has had some of the show’s best ever riffs and one liners

Khemith

Things can change so quickly. All the comfortable homeowners and college kids need is another person who fills that fantasy.

justdave

IMPORTANT!: It is usually safe to eat your own poop but not someone else's. In some cases however, it can be extremely beneficial to eat a person's poop who has a healthy intestinal biome.

William Hubel

Yeah it’s really the voters fault that Biden lost, great point

William Hubel

Doctors With Borders was the hardest I’ve lolled in a long while

Journe

Alex is my fav guest

J P 3

Relatively speaking 47% approval (last week) is a honeymoon for Trump.

Jon

He’s like another Felix, but the show needs a Matt

interzoa

Who are in the pool of voters in this depraved antisocial political carnival? Who do you expect at this point to inhabit the ecosystem of the established parties but the most short term, incoherent, apathetic, and/or silver spoon naives. Liberals deserve the criticism because they are historically themselves an arm of the right wing. The notion that Dems and liberalism has ever been a higher moral ground has only been able to exist in the juxtaposition of the uglier friend Republican. But friends they are. The notion of liberalism being an opponent to Republicans is a schizo definition set by reactionaries themselves which liberals eat up. If reps were not such mouth breathing husks they would realize how much they synergize. Criticism of liberalism is a criticism of slavery, of creating homelessness, of the invasion of the middle east, of deregulations across industries and banks, of Obama era deportations/drone strikes, of Biden approved trump boarder policy, of religious servitude to capital, of US hegemony, of funding genocide. I don't care if they use their indoor voice to do violence and the other hollers it through the rooftops. It is all inhuman. In fact, the misery is a more efficient machine when this back and forth is the dynamic. It creates perspectives as misguided a thing as to blame the voters. This isn't a functional democracy we're talking about

Steeeeve

Which podcast did you think this was?

bobbyboy32059

I will say this much about AI assisted search type tasks like they're discussing at the half hour mark, it's good for neiche questions. If you have a topic like exercise science where the stakes of being wrong are relatively low, but you still want to be in touch with the consensus... honestly it ain't bad. I've spent the past year and a half heavily customizing my routine to include some rehab and "prehab" type material thanks to some dumb training decisions. And as a jujitsu autist I've never done cardio in dedicated sessions in my goddamn life. So being able to ask the dumb little specific questions one mught have in a situation like that is kinda nice. ...I still look at it like it's gonna tell me the deadlift is actually a spine day classic or a rotational exercise, but if you go in not retarded I think you'll leave not crippled.

Matelda

If it's easy for someone to have courage, then it's their responsibility to have courage and help everyone stay strong as possible

Isabel Low

Did you all see the email that went out to most federal employees yesterday inviting them to resign? It's verbatim the email Musk sent to Twitter employees when he took over. So my friend's brother-in-law, who's a surgeon at the VA, got an email telling him he could resign immediately with 6mo pay and warning him that they would be prioritizing a return to in-person work going forward. Wondering if Trump is emulating Musk's approach to Twitter intentionally to reduce the federal govt to a husk of its former self.

jammer

Just finished this ep, Alex was on fire goddamn

TimBob RN

Chuck Roast 🔥💩

Nathan

Right, I think he’ll be at 40% by end of the year. Even some conservatives aren’t going to love his policies.

I was saying boo-lania

You people are the people who were telling us in back to the future we'd have self lacing shoes 10 years ago.

etienne

to me it's the not toasted slice bread WITH mayo. heineous texture combo

Fel

QAnon + chapo interpretation = infinity pool

Fel

Alex is always on fire. That’s why he’s not allowed in California

Matelda

Obama precluded the possibility of future Obamas by disillusioning us so dramatically. Loyal Democrats don't even remember what they liked about him in 2008 and 2012.

@ByTheBaeram

OMG CHACHA MENTION!! I’m so old lmao

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward

Can anyone recommend a competent non douchey guest they can have on to educate them about Ai? The consumer applications of Ai may not be interesting to U yet but being flippant about it is just stupid. It is a reminder of how little most people think about what makes the world and everyday utilities around them “go,” it makes you sound like guys who don’t know how to install a light fixture complaining about LED bulbs being sus or useless. You’re smarter than this. The applications in terms of data analysis, surveillance, and rapid iteration of new technologies that aren’t on the public’s mind yet… are real. Have to be happy about the American profiteers being beaten out by the CCP … anyway the way that you interact with government from the DMV to filing taxes, to police & military to TSA — bioengineering, medical research. That’s what’s interesting. You’re already using Ai likely in your podcasting software.

Jesse Svetlich

Their take is correct. It’s not that people don’t see the scope of its intent to replace jobs and shift the moral weight of an administrative state onto an algorithm, it’s that it offers nothing valuable in the context of current political economy. Trash future had a great episode with the same guest. They are more savvy and have the same take. They are watching our future happen in real time in Britain .

Tom Joad

I have a friend who works for feds that got it. Total bullshit rug pull. No way they do if they even can. It reads like someone in middle school wrote it, so elon might have actually wrote.

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward

Silly, no. Whether or not you consider it “valuable,” it is happening. Their “take,” is just that they don’t understand. Ai and human brain science were at one time being developed side by side; there are also themes to explore around who holds the reins— it is super interesting global human development and not something to be brushed off in a “take,” no matter how savvy you think your guys are.

Last Years Man

FFS, a large language model is not AI. As a translator, anyone who thinks LLM's even remotely resemble the way language works should have their tongue cut out and hands cut off so they're never able to access words again.

Ryan

Speaking of, one of my interests was starting a translation business in the future. Do you think that human translation will still be desired in a few years? I was dreading the thought of LLMs replacing real translators.

Cole Azevedo

I expected a Nibbler from Futurama or South Park poo record episode reference about Cat Turd smh

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward

WTF do I know but since you asked: Depends on your specialty. My baby cousin has been spending her college years learning Ancient Greek and Aramaic, and translating ancient texts. She will likely work in academia pouring over old original documents. Possibly using the help of translation tools outside of the books she has been using during her studies. Currently human editors are still required for most live CC translation because the software just isn’t there yet especially for complex names and niche sports. Everyone is focused on humans supervising software at the moment. You could be the pet secretary of a wealthy Luddite with international dealings to manage. There’s art to translation so there will always be authors/ publishers who believe a human will grasp the nuance of the work better but yeah… also we all may loose access to majority of the Internet for our peasantish needs so like who knows you could end up with a boatload of underground/ shadow economy translation work. Nobody can really predict. As the douche bags say “parallel path it,” plan for both becoming obsolete and just a technical administrator of an automated system (like a tax preparer who uses a SaAS program to file for people) and for setting up a storefront where people can bring in their documents for assistance.

Patrick Allen

Can we stop acquiescing in advance to Trump in every possible way? Trump does not set the curve by which we judge early presidencies, his presidency is judged the way all presidencies are judged and his 47% approval rating immediately after his inauguration is abysmal.

æmbər

lol I used to "work for" ChaCha

M

That would require actually acknowledging the cruelty of the regime rather than just bashing Democrats (who are completely out of power but more fun as a target I guess than the ones actually hurting people)

M

Sir this is a Wendy's

justdave

Ya, well I already knew that!

Last Years Man

Ryan: I'm going to do that annoying thing where someone says, it depends on how you define the question. Will they be "desired?" Probably not. Will they be "necessary?" Yes. Will people recognize that necessity? Probably not. I think we are moving into an age where everything is "translated" and nothing makes sense. As for me, I do media and I work in a high context language, so right now, the demand is still there. I have no illusions about how much capitalism will fuck with things in the future though.

Last Years Man

Studio Novaya: For what it's worth -- translating ancient languages and translating "living" languages are two totally different things. A living language is used for communication. An ancient language serves as historical record. It's a lot easier to stick with a strictly literal translation of something when you don't have to worry about how it comes across. It's more of an academic exercise of trying to decipher the source as "accurately" as possible. Take a look at early modern translations of the bible. They can sometimes be gibberish for this very reason. Or even Oppenheimer's famous "I am become death" line is really just the act of mistaking "accuracy" for "equivalency". I am become death sounds odd (and even kind of cool) in English precisely because our grammar is different. There is not a one on one equivalence between the two languages. A modern translator (not that Indian languages are my thing, mind you,) would simply translate it as "Now I have become death". That's the difference between "accuracy" and "equivalency". Equivalency is equivalency of meaning, whereas "accuracy" is a precise reproduction. Large language models and deep AI learning are not capable of equivalency. They can reproduce a facsimile of equivalency based on statistical probability, but there is no interpretation involved in what they do. THe problem is that translating a living language is 75% interpretation if not more. Without interpretation, there is no meaning. So what we will end up with is automated translation systems that reproduce text in different languages, all of which will reflect the uncanny valley, and people will mistake the uncanny valley for cultural differences. In other words, our ability to communicate will deteriorate more and more. That's the BEST CASE SCENARIO for LLMs. Pure functionality, no utility or significance. If you want to live in that world, or say that anyone who criticizes it is "clueless," I honestly don't think you're going to like the end results. But what do I know. "As a..."

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward

Idk that seems like the kind of mundane thought exercise that Ai can do for me so I can be free to think about things that are more fun

Sarah S

Interesting

cashedtrapezoid

I just got a cramp from laughing so hard five minutes in