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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The lizard brains always existed. Inbred, maladjusted, loud angry hateful fucks. We used to be able to suppress them. We ceded the helm of this nation to a bunch of corporations and their puppets in congress. We’ve been trying like hell to fight this multi front battle and are just taking Ls across the board.

    We are burning books. Banning knowledge.

    We are entering an environment where many do not have the luxury of having an opinion.

    Speaking for all of those who were still trying: We’re sorry. We’re still here. We still care. But we’re fighting a losing battle.

    Speaking for myself… I’m fucking tired man. I’m not the only one. People I’ve spoken to all are effectively the same: resigned to what comes next. There isn’t enough unity in this mess to right the ship. That unity will come with desperation… and we’re not there yet. 4-6 years. Maybe then. It’s got to get a lot worse before we unify over the collective mess we’re all stuck in.







  • If it’s not, maybe you can tell me what a podcast is, and how it’s different from a YouTube video?

    If I can listen to the YouTube video without needing it for visual aid… that’s just it: they’re the same thing. This wraps nicely into the video podcast thing you were whinging about earlier.

    …why would I do that?

    Considering your stance on this topic… why wouldn’t you? It’d be on brand.

    This is not “language adaptation”, this is a complete erosion of the meaning of the word.

    I really was hoping you’d say this. Semantics. Again. Language isn’t some dead unchanging thing. It morphs and adjusts with culture and technological changes.

    By your logic you must surely lament the death of ancient ‘proper’ English circa 5th century before all those awful changes came about.

    We have words for videos, they’re called “videos”, which are fundamentally different from a “podcast”.

    Synonyms exist. Whether or not you choose to acknowledge them might be your business… however the fact you understood the medium being spoken about suggests quite plainly that language has succeeded here.

    Podcast are not necessarily offline. You can stream them.

    Ah, but initially - one name was for a live stream and the other for a recording. Streaming is ambiguous: are you streaming live or a recording? Thankfully: we do not make such a differentiation any more. I find it somewhat interesting your stance allows for such a difference to be ignored, though. Perhaps, given time, you will moderate on the remainder of this terminology. After all it’s a rather silly hill to die upon.


  • Again semantics. You are attempting to split hairs based on distribution opposed to type. This is like being a pedant over someone referring to tissues as a Kleenex despite it not being that particular brand. Podcasts were ambiguous back when they were still new, too.

    Shoutcast servers were/hosted digital broadcasts. Podcasts were containerized (aka offline) recordings of these. You could argue that calling a live show a podcast is technically incorrect: but thanks to language continuing to adapt to its environment… You’d actually just be out of date or misinformed.