The Honourables feat. Gareth Dennis
Added 2025-03-01 16:15:04 +0000 UTCNOTE: There's a slight issue with some echoes in this recording. We're trying to get it all fixed and will update if we can, but we don't want to delay the episode! Thank you for your patience, as ever..
Gareth Dennis returns to discuss infrastructure, growth, and the new airport runways that are about to festoon this island with promises of imaginary growth. But first, we present to you one of the Guys Of All Time.
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This guy is getting in trouble for chequing in on his mates.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-03-08 16:16:28 +0000 UTC"a card for an unrelated thing that im doing is Riley actually making Shadow Doge?
Martin Clarkson
2025-03-07 09:59:29 +0000 UTCThat website has broken my brain. An excerpt from the blog: "Health support and supply critical to make the world go round. With further tremendous insult to our NHS by the government’s offer to increase wages 1% timber has increased cost up to 180% worldwide. Something is clearly wrong. The USA in a position to pay far more for timber leaving the UK to pick up the scraps." What does this mean??
Claire Gilchrist
2025-03-04 10:35:10 +0000 UTCMy grandfather was the town planner that designed Bracknell and apparently the post-war obsession with endless roundabouts was because they thought we’d all be travelling by helicopter and would need lots of helipads
Josh L
2025-03-04 07:27:19 +0000 UTCOne milf. Several milves.
Pilfering Kibble
2025-03-03 23:46:43 +0000 UTCThe big incongruous "R" slowly heaves into view almost coquettishly. What perfect idiot has wrought this perfect web design.
burgerw
2025-03-03 19:33:02 +0000 UTCRiley do I have a startup for you: https://thronelabs.co Its failure mode is to just open the door on you while flashing the lights.
Erik Rehnberg
2025-03-03 19:27:03 +0000 UTCholy fucking shit, tears in my eyes laughing this is incredible
Julia Martin
2025-03-03 19:23:20 +0000 UTCThe pocket slop universe
MCL
2025-03-03 19:06:04 +0000 UTCSie könnten theoretisch der Linken beitreten, wir können die Art von Leuten die Podcasts wie diesen hören, sobald erstmal die Aushandlung des zukünftigen Parteikurses mit all den neuen Mitgliedern losgeht, gut gebrauchen.
Anggg
2025-03-03 15:52:21 +0000 UTCA private political party is such a strange idea to me
Donovan Burns
2025-03-03 15:48:48 +0000 UTCI think what is also overlooked is how much the BSW eating shit had to do with them trying to do Querfront to quickly. Up until the Migration bill at end of January Die Linke was expected to eat shit and the BSW was expected to squeeze in. Then they cosied up to the AfD and it crystallized a lot of people. I had entertain maybe voting BSW before I had grudgingly, fatalistically, settled on the Die Linke and BSW playing footsie with the AfD just bolstered that but for a lot of people that seems to have been the point where they came over. It also does not help that the BSW does not accept new members, like, at all.
Jan Meyer
2025-03-03 15:34:21 +0000 UTCBlindsight heaven but for nazis
FBH
2025-03-03 14:40:45 +0000 UTCWhat Nova describes is basically how The Culture deals with antisocial amd violent people. Just plop them down into VR so they get to live out their violent fantasies safely away from society.
Nick Roy
2025-03-03 14:16:06 +0000 UTCHow the hell did Milo pull out an Oceania reference
Kieran SN
2025-03-03 13:33:44 +0000 UTCCtrl-X Meta-Д Ctrl-ऒ enlightenment
Ijon Tichy
2025-03-03 13:18:49 +0000 UTCMore runways? What did you do with all those bomber bases from the 40s? If you get those up and running then surely the Americans will return with crates of Coca-Cola and Lucky Strikes.
BarFly
2025-03-03 12:36:32 +0000 UTCDrop everything you are doing and look up "seven drunk cigarettes" in YouTube
Inconspicuous old man and mime
2025-03-03 09:14:20 +0000 UTCSuper important update about hontheweb.co.uk When I go there on my phone the three photos on the home page carousel get progressively smaller by a certain percentage every time they come around. The same three photos just getting asymptotically smaller.
burgerw
2025-03-03 00:17:48 +0000 UTCThe year is 2057 since the development of the ai goon camps life has been peaceful. That was until grintler the came.
Elek Tolman
2025-03-03 00:06:39 +0000 UTCOmg! I've been saying the put the bad people in the computer simulation for years now! That's all they seem to want anyway. My solution to Trump II was to let him go on a few rallies, then tell him he's won and send him to a Oval Office replica in Mar-a-Lago. Sure it would cost a few million for that and to install some shiny buttons that do nothing, and to create a replacement fox news, but we have AI now to make fox news for him in real time. Still better than the democrats no plan-plan I'd wager.
jamin
2025-03-02 23:32:47 +0000 UTCEvery time you talk about Richard Evans all I can picture is Rich Evans of Red Letter Media
Joel Drayer
2025-03-02 19:10:35 +0000 UTCYou must archive the website
Jermy
2025-03-02 18:02:09 +0000 UTCTaking 52 years to get your life started, like I did, is normal and fine. Taking 56 years to get your life going is just pathetic
Jermy
2025-03-02 17:53:27 +0000 UTCBuddha nature via exclusive use of Emacs
Penis Charles
2025-03-02 17:32:23 +0000 UTCWith all respect sir, AI country music is pretty damn funny
Penis Charles
2025-03-02 17:31:07 +0000 UTCrenamed #railnatter to hontherailway already
Gareth Dennis
2025-03-02 17:24:10 +0000 UTCWarhammer guys catching strays smh
Agripinaa
2025-03-02 15:04:58 +0000 UTCI have no idea what I was expecting for the website but it definitely wasn’t that. Beyond my wildest imagination.
Ruby
2025-03-02 12:05:11 +0000 UTCIncidentally, Israel-Palestine is, indeed, roughly the size of New Jersey. (New Jersey is the US state closest in size to Israel-Palestine.) Gaza is more comparable to Staten Island (or even Brooklyn) than it is to Atlantic City, though. Atlantic City is tiny!
Elsie Hupp
2025-03-02 10:43:08 +0000 UTCMore specifically than The Matrix, the idea of sequestering the weird freaks into a metaverse where they can have all their libidinal pleasures fulfilled without bothering the rest of humanity is basically the world of Margaret Killjoy's excellent short story Beyond Sapphire Glass, and I'm saying that in full support of the idea. Well really I'm saying that because I immediately associated to that story from Nova's description and wanted to share it with anyone who hasn't yet read it: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/beyond-sapphire-glass/
Elaine Åhlfeldt
2025-03-02 10:31:01 +0000 UTCGlad to be a subscriber on patrehon.
Nickthekiwi
2025-03-02 07:17:08 +0000 UTCI actually have a little spark of hope here in Germany, we as Die Linke are finally United after BSW left, we almost doubled in numbers since than, and unlike other parties we are now to large parts made up of highly motivated young people instead of the pensioners in the great Volksparteien. Now after the election we have to rewrite our program, but I am pretty sure that we will be able to keep a democratic socialist course, without falling to social democracy. Even though at the same time as this is happening the AFD is growing terryfyingly powerful
Anggg
2025-03-02 07:13:08 +0000 UTCObviously the way to get paid silly money as a software engineer is to learn something ancient and cursed, like FORTRAN or COBOL. Or you could try and resurrect some quixotic language that never caught on, like Lisp.
Elsie Hupp
2025-03-02 05:30:49 +0000 UTCHaving an actual computer science degree means you’ll be able to get a job doing the remaining well-compensated software engineering, though. To be fair, I do think most people should learn some basic Python scripting, just so they understand how computers work, but merely knowing a little JavaScript or Python was never going to be a job market panacea in the first place.
Elsie Hupp
2025-03-02 05:27:03 +0000 UTCI bet Leona Helmsley would have been able to pull it off.
Elsie Hupp
2025-03-02 05:23:01 +0000 UTCIn all fairness to the Trump Gaza Atlantic City plan, Trump New Jersey Atlantic City was utterly unworkable, too, so perhaps the unique thing with Gaza is that it’s one of the few remaining places on earth where a Trump hotel hasn’t gone bankrupt yet. Or maybe Fred Trump will come back from the dead and save Gaza. Which would probably have a higher likelihood of success.
Elsie Hupp
2025-03-02 05:20:18 +0000 UTCa man in his 50's posting like a 15yo on a forum, gold.
SpookyPenguin
2025-03-02 04:40:02 +0000 UTCfwiw i'm still skeptical that LLMs can actually replace programming in general - but that won't stop our overlords from trying and what they are able to do will almost certainly make the job a lot worse for the people doing it
TheArcanist
2025-03-02 04:36:53 +0000 UTCOn the plus side, when society collapses when you're in middle age you'll be able to participate in a Warhammer tech priest kind of thing.
Andrew Davis
2025-03-02 02:48:03 +0000 UTCThere's a Misfits shirt on this website. Perfection.
Andrew Davis
2025-03-02 02:00:13 +0000 UTCIn my personal experience having a family connection to the Lithuanian expat community in Detroit, I think quality construction lithuanian supplies would be smoked, pig's ears, basketballs, and potatoes.
BluetoothThePirate
2025-03-02 01:55:16 +0000 UTCThe whole AI is the only way to get libinal pleasure makes me think about how the only goals of AI I could imagine fulfilling are all porn related and so much of AI boosterism just feels like terminal porn brain trying to justify itself
John Leavitt
2025-03-02 01:34:39 +0000 UTCman, i always get The Anxiety whenever i keep hearing about how programming work is being replaced by the big plagiarism machine when i'm currently in school right now for a computer science degree
TheArcanist
2025-03-02 00:37:36 +0000 UTCI get all tingly listening to you guys mocking Rhodesia II. please keep up the great work 🙏
Cormac
2025-03-02 00:27:22 +0000 UTCHail wall!
Alistair SM J
2025-03-01 23:08:05 +0000 UTC“Get your Groks off” should’ve been the title
Ben Yardley
2025-03-01 21:53:23 +0000 UTCthe original Glades Matrix was a paradise, but your brains couldn't accept it
Nemo
2025-03-01 21:28:03 +0000 UTCHorseless Steel Rail Carriages will Save the World buy the book
etienne
2025-03-01 21:06:52 +0000 UTCOh wait that’s been beaten by the Worzel Gummidge screenshot. This is like looking at my dad’s Facebook page.
Sarah Dyer
2025-03-01 20:47:56 +0000 UTCWent to the gallery and the Facebook app screenshot??!!?!?!?
Sarah Dyer
2025-03-01 20:46:18 +0000 UTCSo how long do you think it would take to poison Grok with Ao3 toxic yuri until she becomes woke? For a friend.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-03-01 20:06:02 +0000 UTCApartheid swimming pool for annoying kids extrapolated to sexy grok matrix for chuds. Huh. Do you lot have a Kickstarter yet?
James Rule
2025-03-01 19:15:21 +0000 UTCTo Gareth's point about AI being thrust on people in industries that don't want it as someone in a phone manning customer care role it's trying to be pushed there and no one wants it there either customers already hate the fucking automated call handling machine they'll hate it more when it's spouting made up crap at them
Alfie Hall
2025-03-01 19:04:44 +0000 UTCI made a DnD character based off Gareth Dennis, he's an artificer that constantly has prophetic visions of steel railed horseless carriages
Calvin Garbacik
2025-03-01 18:32:35 +0000 UTCEvans is talking about how he needs to build relationships or whatever and suddenly he goes 'and of course I'm doing it on the beach with this murderous sun' suddenly my attitude has become less 'lol look at these idiots' and more 'robespierre was right'
marilyn
2025-03-01 18:19:40 +0000 UTCMade exactly the same Avalanches joke to myself just before November said it, very proud of myself
Liam Kirby
2025-03-01 18:09:26 +0000 UTCPositions of patronage is actually the sequel to kinds of kindness
Lily W
2025-03-01 18:00:11 +0000 UTCOMG THEY BROUGHT ON A SECOND GUEST WHO LOOKS AND SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE SOMEBODY WHO'D GET CAUGHT WALKING ABOUT NAKED AND DRUNK IN BIG TESCO
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:56:17 +0000 UTCEvans is explaining how he got invited into Lithuania by the Lithuanian government and met people in timber and construction from all round the world. In doing so, he uses the phrase '[we were] hoping we could, uh, conquer'. Cooper is smiling wide-eyed at him. Evans is doing his trademark sleazy smirk. This is fucking art.
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:54:11 +0000 UTCEvans: 'I was born in United Kingdom [sic], in a very fine county called Hartfordshire, my backround was in printing, I dipped into radio at the time, as well, simultaneously'
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:50:01 +0000 UTCCooper: 'Why don't you tell us a little about yourself, in fact we want to know EVERYTHING about you from the moment you were born until this very point in time, and DO NOT leave out any of the good stuff from the hospitals or we will call your mother' WHAT IS HAPPENING
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:43:37 +0000 UTCRichard Evans already comes off as INCREDIBLY sleazy literally seconds into his appearance on screen
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:41:25 +0000 UTCThe podcast's name is literally 'DaveCooper.Live', its slogan is 'Connect Grow Deliver', and there appear to be audio syncing errors that combine with the bluescreen background, his odd, inhuman gestures and facial movements, and his weirdly plastic-looking face to make him seem almost AI-generated
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:39:56 +0000 UTCThe interviewer is called Dave Cooper and looks like a cross between a 1990s televangelist, a mid-level corporate executive, and a guy in a stock image used to illustrate an Onion article
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:33:54 +0000 UTCOMFG the videos page for the website has a video of a podcast interview of him, the interviewer is an American guy and he's already knocked it out the park with his opening line 'and today we're heading across the pond to the UK, or is it Lithuania, or is it Barbados?'
marilyn
2025-03-01 17:31:56 +0000 UTChogs railed 🚂🐖🚂
Tristan Ryan
2025-03-01 17:31:17 +0000 UTCit's incredible
Gareth Dennis
2025-03-01 17:24:05 +0000 UTCWhy is November proposing ideological directed evolution for the melted brains club in the AI slop Metaverse? When that inevitably breaks containment we'll witness depravity previously unimagined
John Her
2025-03-01 17:15:54 +0000 UTCThe website is so good omg
Erin Taylor
2025-03-01 16:48:40 +0000 UTCwonder if Gareth thinks the Toronto-Quebec TGV is going to actually happen
etienne
2025-03-01 16:27:23 +0000 UTCOh how dick the birthday boy has fallen...
kiwi
2025-03-01 16:25:16 +0000 UTC
