Kinds of Keirness
Added 2024-10-04 21:06:18 +0000 UTCAs the Labour-taking-bribes scandal runs on into its second month (out of god knows how many), we look at how it’s actually intimately connected to the private sector bonanza we saw at party conference. We also take a look at Rachel Reeves rewriting UK borrowing rules to take investment into account as something other than a cost (good), and how this is likely to be used to fund further private sector giveaways (bad). Also under discussion: Meta’s drive to put its glasses on everyone (bad if it works) and OpenAI’s gargantuan new funding round (funny).
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I could never respect any US politician or political entity that took advice from the Brits
I made a Patreon for Get Cynical
2024-10-08 15:32:46 +0000 UTCI was watching pro wrestling the other day and I got an ad for something called "Trumpy Trout"
Marjorie Zeager
2024-10-08 11:48:12 +0000 UTCThere's no way you all haven't seen this but: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/britons-urged-to-dig-out-unwanted-electricals-to-tackle-copper-shortage
Sam Greenlee
2024-10-08 07:50:55 +0000 UTCI read a book a long time ago about a smuggler in the 70s who didn't carry a gun but instead just carried a single hand grenade which in a sticky situation he would kind of just pull the pin and drop it and see what happens; I think of it often in these situations
Jack
2024-10-07 19:33:16 +0000 UTCWere you in the Nauld Nova? Vietnauld, Cumbernam, Cumbabwe?
Justin Kase
2024-10-07 16:58:18 +0000 UTCyeah that's what I was thinking, I have no idea how it would actually work in bank accounting but they're probably like shitcoin holders after the rug, either this stock is genuinely worth nothing at liquidation or there's a casino chance it bounces back
etienne
2024-10-07 15:55:16 +0000 UTCI think another reason why Musk won't get called on his Twitter debt is the banks know he'll sell his Tesla stock to make the payment, which will crash the price and probably cause some other financial implosions.
Hot dog day No 69
2024-10-07 14:20:55 +0000 UTClove too hear about a place that's implementing extreme ideological austerity and sliding into developing country status lmao absolutely unlike my canada-inhabiting ass who's going to get inflicted exactly that over the next few years when the Conservatives come into power again
etienne
2024-10-07 14:01:19 +0000 UTCI heard an assessment of AI about a year ago that referenced Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" that essentially argued as art becomes more automated it has to become louder to actually say anything and becomes more utilitarian, which ultimately just lead to its use as fascist propaganda. The last year really has been a total validation of that
Matthew Norton
2024-10-07 12:39:23 +0000 UTCIf however that same dog bullies you because you’re not able to do pivot tables, they deserve the title of XL Excel Bully
Freshprince_of_rualis
2024-10-07 11:06:42 +0000 UTCThat and the Patrick O'Brien novels
Eric Murphy
2024-10-07 09:32:55 +0000 UTCWhen people ask me why I listen to a British technology/political podcast though I live in central Massachusetts. It's for the same reason people love watching trashy reality tv. It's nice to know that the U.S. at least has competition in degradation and inhumanity.
Eric Murphy
2024-10-07 09:31:52 +0000 UTCI really hope a shady billionare gives the Labour government cars as bribes so you can do a Top Keir bit
Insom
2024-10-07 09:06:30 +0000 UTCIf a dog can do pivot tables they deserve the title of Excell Bully
Josep C.
2024-10-06 17:43:11 +0000 UTC"Joe Biden is never gonna know what it's like to depend on a russian oligarch to buy tickets for him" common now didn't he get a Ukraine gas guy to get his son a no-show job?
etienne
2024-10-06 12:43:07 +0000 UTCPlease do an episode on the new carbon capture and storage subsidy with an expert :) there's so much in there about trying to give back fossil fuel companies social license, how it's spun as sustainable etc
John
2024-10-06 12:05:47 +0000 UTCI’ve always heard Excel Bully and it only started dawning on me now that it might be XL 🫠
Freshprince_of_rualis
2024-10-06 09:47:08 +0000 UTCCool cheers
Ded1000
2024-10-05 20:15:45 +0000 UTCBandcamp audio series with Phoebe and Patrick Wyman
Josh L
2024-10-05 19:36:56 +0000 UTCYou guys across the pond are lucky to get hentai ads. I shit you not in the united states every other ad is for some dipshit Donald Trump coin or t-shirt or political action committee, or some anti-woke grift
YungCereza
2024-10-05 17:30:24 +0000 UTCthames water should be rolliing out the smart pipe any day now https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ?si=HMcpOpmMpZrbxuZ0
boo
2024-10-05 17:05:23 +0000 UTCWhat's the Rome (Roam?) Cast season 2 mentioned at the end??
Ded1000
2024-10-05 16:07:03 +0000 UTCDrawing green dotted lines on the Golan Heights
Carley They/Themsen
2024-10-05 14:39:48 +0000 UTCThe terfs doing transvestigation on Israel
Carley They/Themsen
2024-10-05 14:39:34 +0000 UTCabsolutely adore them repeatedly calling diddy „puffy“
shrimpressed
2024-10-05 12:57:19 +0000 UTCHe’s here, he’s Keir, we’re getting used to it
Shivvy
2024-10-05 11:56:11 +0000 UTCHearing Cumbernauld talked about by non-Scots is strangely upsetting
Toasty Waffles
2024-10-05 11:26:41 +0000 UTC"Lord Alli is not my sugar daddy. That would be completely inappropriate. A sugar-free or diet daddy would set a far better example for Britain's youth."
Nemo
2024-10-05 10:11:02 +0000 UTCThis episode feels like an epic convergence of many TF terrible things. It’s like the season recap we never needed but absolutely deserve on this cursed island.
Tera
2024-10-05 08:59:24 +0000 UTCTop Tier titling 🤌
Lilli Jaye
2024-10-05 06:30:11 +0000 UTCThe joke about "Euston station, brought to you by Leon", is actually how trains work in Japan. Japanese rail companies get to rent out the super valuable space around train stations, and it's massively profitable.
NotGagarin
2024-10-05 03:36:43 +0000 UTCwhy does the tech industry hate schizophrenics so much
Lain of the Wired
2024-10-05 00:42:48 +0000 UTCGetting in the money blower machine but it's full of pound coins instead of bills
Man2quilla
2024-10-04 22:17:18 +0000 UTC“Turning your house into a bird with a cloaca” most disturbing sentence out of Milo’s mouth in a while
James
2024-10-04 21:54:54 +0000 UTCimagine if you will a fascist state as wonder woman, pulchritudinous and powerful, yet innately in need
MI
2024-10-04 21:33:54 +0000 UTCThank you for coding each section with how I'm supposed to feel about it. I know this reads as sarcastic but I am being sincere (unless that's sarcastic too)
John Her
2024-10-04 21:28:04 +0000 UTCKeir as folk
pelicans123
2024-10-04 21:08:06 +0000 UTC
