I Have No Idea What I'm Doing 63: S04:E14 – "The Chad Company"

Happy Infrastructure Week!

Happy Infrastructure Week!

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INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

Hyperloop Discourse

Virgin Hyperloop completes its first test with actual passengers - CNN
“The Chad Company”
S00:E02 - “High Speed Rail in the US”
S00:E03 - “Why High Speed Rail Has Failed”
The Biggest Challenges That Stand in the Way of Hyperloop
Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World’s Crappiest High-Speed Rail - Defector
The Hyperloop’s Only Destination is a Capitalist Hellscape - Discourse Blog
Semi-related video: Elon Musk’s “Loop” - It’s bad, folks - YouTube
Red Jawn feat. Well There’s Your Problem - Trashfuture on Patreon


Brent Spence Bridge

Brent Spence Bridge fire closure: I-75 traffic detours in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky
Barges and boats must stop: Ohio River closed at Brent Spence Bridge
Roebling Suspension Bridge reopens, but no trucks allowed

Orlando Unveils Plans for First Flying-Car Hub in U.S. - The New York Times

https://twitter.com/tom_on_here/status/1327660294999580676

Billhilly Elegy

News Brief - Review: Netflix’s Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ by Citations Needed Podcast
More like Dopus Dei
Hillbilly Elegy movie review: Netflix’s adaptation of J.D. Vance’s controversial book is bafflingly awful - Vox
You can just look them up


Chair Talk
It’s Soup Season

Pozole - Wikipedia
Putting a sandwich in a bowl
Is it true that “pozole” was invented by Aztecs and that the meat that was used was human? And that they would make it spicy to mask the flavor of human meat? reddit AskHistorians
Send me your soups


Remember Snapple?
Myth Busters

Ad: The Name Guys Emporium of Guy Names

Need a name for any type of guy? We gotchu.
An Icelandic baker? Sedgrid Jēaste
A British fancy lad? Willem Jarvis York-Weavingly III
A New Mexican terra cotta artist? Clay
A New Jersey mob boss? Vincenzo Cordalionni AKA Big Gabbagool
A leftist podcaster? Jonk Bundermann
A TikTok influencer? Chaz Fynx
A tweeter who talks about crystals and veganism? Elohim Finkelstein
That dude at the gym who grunts way too hard? Chuz Funks
A student athlete? Rod Gappel

Comrade Tim Allen

https://twitter.com/ofctimallen/status/1327362470868971520?s=20

https://twitter.com/ofctimallen/status/1327364021855522816?s=20

https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership2020?akid=s2559..Oe2j2C

More BIPOC imperialists, please

https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1327307622853337089

https://twitter.com/pliny_theelder/status/1327352458570510336

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War campaign gets a ‘non-binary’ gender option in response to early criticism - PC Gamer

I’m not going to subscribe to each of your individual substacks, sorry

Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox - The Atlantic

But his absence as a staffer (a Vox spokesperson noted that he will continue to host a podcast, The Weeds) will make the publication he co-founded less ideologically diverse at a moment when negative polarization makes that attribute important to the country.

He said he believes that certain voguish positions are substantively wrong—for instance, abolishing or defunding police—and that such arguments, as well as rhetorical fights over terms like Latinx, alienate many people from progressive politics and the Democratic Party.

One trend that exacerbated that challenge: colleagues in media treating the expression of allegedly problematic ideas as if they were a human-resources issue. Earlier this year, for instance, after Yglesias signed a group letter published in Harper’s magazine objecting to cancel culture, one of his colleagues, Emily VanDerWerff, told Vox editors that his signature made her feel “less safe at Vox.”

Yglesias had been personally kind and supportive of her work, she wrote, but as a trans woman, she felt the letter should not have been signed by anyone at Vox, because she believed that it contained “many dog whistles toward anti-trans positions,” and that several of its signatories are anti-trans. The letter’s authors reject those characterizations.

You’re not being canceled if you quit your job, sorry
As much as these people complain about being silenced, we sure do hear from them a lot 🤔

https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1327673521301053441

“Small” business is mostly a scam