Ep. 37 Premium - Can you ban social media? [AUDIO]
Added 2025-12-19 20:30:05 +0000 UTCRecorded on: December 16th, 2025
Rob Reiner - 00:00:00
Is Trump actually losing support? - 00:02:42
Gas Prices, Nord Stream 3, Biden vs. Putin - 00:19:46
Banning Social Media Ban - 00:27:41
Scale of the internet and lack of ability to regulate - 00:58:18
Comments
I think you could create a ban on the public use of smart devices for minors under 16 but you shouldn't have to worry about the use in home or private places.
Scornful Egotist
2026-01-15 18:15:05 +0000 UTCTheir ads will be coming from vox now.
Lucas Moran McNamee
2026-01-08 18:12:12 +0000 UTCFuck TurboTax advertisement. Why did you need to accept that one. Atrioc has talked ad nauseam about how it’s bad. Wtf
Matyas Krizsan
2026-01-08 14:03:53 +0000 UTCI think this would’ve been more convincing if it was longer
Sudo
2026-01-01 02:41:35 +0000 UTCHello you three and everyone else, this is the first message from my side, as I consider it important to give you three a few words before the book club on the Communist Manifesto. I hope you are still reading through your messages or comments, so that these words were not written in vain. I am a convinced communist. What does that mean? I believe that the foundations of communism as written down by Marx and Engels apply to a large part of all capitalist economies and, within them, to the majority of companies. Accordingly, the following points still apply (presented in a very simplified way, but correct in substance): Work should be a form of self-expression, but instead it is merely a compulsion to generate enough money for the worker to survive. That the worker does not own what they produce, no matter how long they produce it, is a concept that creates an internal contradiction. Workers live in a systemically intended dependency on their employer, from which it is almost impossible to break free, since the employer holds the longer lever. This is because the employer has an interest in maximizing profits and constantly growing and expanding. In order to do this, they must appropriate more and more of the performed labor for themselves and pass on as little as possible to the employee (extract surplus value). This leads to a concentration of wealth, impoverishment of the majority, and the formation of monopolies. Furthermore, this prevents people from pursuing their talents, as they are systematically forced to accept the job that allows them to live. Because of this interest in growth, every company tries to generate as much profit as possible regardless of actual demand, since demand can be manipulated at will through advertising. Growth itself ensures that all companies permanently use all means to achieve their goals and thereby continuously drive the economic system into crises. Since both sides, workers and employers, have opposing interests, they fight against each other. Because companies/employers benefit from the current system and could not benefit from another one—or would benefit less—they attempt to systematically suppress other systems and worker organizations. States are a force with their own interests, whose highest priority is to enforce their own power as effectively as possible. Since less power can be exercised over more people with more resources, states tend to support employers in their struggle until enough workers protest so strongly that the power of the state is threatened. From that point on, states briefly support the workers in order to calm them, only to then gradually dismantle the rights that were fought for. (Sources: The Communist Manifesto / Capital) We communists therefore conclude that it is not possible to sustainably and permanently reform the current system in order to enable all workers to have at least an equivalent quality of life and the free exercise of their abilities. We further conclude that the concept of states leads to conflicts between them, since each state defends its own interests. Our solution is therefore to dissolve the struggle between employer and employee by depriving the minority (employers) of their means of production (everything with which products are created) and having these democratically managed by the workers. Furthermore, due to the conflicts between states, we seek to abolish the concept of multiple states and create a stateless society. And finally, we want to create a system in which every person is provided with the minimum necessities of life without having to work for them. How do we want to achieve this? By organizing a majority of workers and, in an orderly manner, laying down our work in general strikes until the demands are met. Because without workers, a system without full automation in every area does not function—and even then only until human intervention is required. Why do we consider this the only solution? In short, because time is running out—the time that a reform of the current system would require, if it would even work at all and not simply be dismantled again. Global conflicts between nations, advancing automation, and climate change are setting a clock for which it has been scientifically calculated that, without changes, around 1 billion people will die in the next 100 years, because at least one of these factors—if not all—will make life on parts of this planet impossible. (Source: United Nations climate report) Permanent production for the purpose of profit generation leads to a permanent increase in global warming. This could be significantly slowed, and in combination with other measures stopped, through production based on actual need. Automation in itself is desirable to us, since the model of communism is only applicable in a modern society. However, automation for the purpose of profit maximization leads to a downward spiral of poverty, as there will be fewer jobs than people and they will have no opportunity to earn an income. Therefore, full automation can only function in a system without compulsory labor. Global conflicts are the most difficult problem to address, but even in this case, in our view, they can be tackled by exemplifying better ways of living, thereby giving people in those states an incentive to also demand a communist order. I am aware that all of this is very condensed and shortened; however, I am already approaching 6,000 characters and therefore want to come to an end. Many of the alleged misrepresentations and misunderstandings about communist systems, such as laziness in the absence of compulsory labor, are refutable and can gladly be discussed in detail if there is interest. However, I hope that I have at least provided some insight into the communist worldview. I do not expect anyone to fully adopt this worldview. If certain points are seen as desirable or problems are recognized as such, I would be pleased about an open discourse on solutions and how they could be achieved. With that, I take my leave and am already looking forward to the new episode. Kind regards, Daniel (This post was translated from German into English using AI. I apologize for any ambiguities.)
DamnOrange
2025-12-24 23:41:21 +0000 UTCJust add artificial literacy to social media. That will solve it because it worked before.
Mike Pearce
2025-12-24 07:23:47 +0000 UTCMy favorite Minnesotan pastime is getting really excited that someone even mentions our state
Benjamin B
2025-12-22 20:29:41 +0000 UTCMinnesota mentioned let’s goo. Hearing the gas prices conversation was funny to me because I saw gas for $2.55 out here in MN this weekend. I wasn’t driving at the time but I need to fill up now and I’m kicking myself that I’m probably going to have to pay closer to $3 because that’s what all the stations near my house and work are charging. The idea of paying $5+ on the regular for gas is just incomprehensible to me.
Mitch
2025-12-22 14:37:22 +0000 UTCI feel like Aiden is vastly overestimating how tech-savvy the average person is. I feel like a software level restriction is enough to make the problem of internet induced brainrot way less severe (but idk, I got brainrot)
Mia Christensen
2025-12-22 12:42:03 +0000 UTCThe daily scroll is honestly a really good app idea… You could load content from that day using an rss feed and only let people use the app from 5-7 pm. Could market it as a way to kill phone addiction and you could do sell ads where they have to watch 5 minutes of ads to unlock the second hour of scroll time.
Matthew Labuzzetta
2025-12-20 05:24:32 +0000 UTCJordan cold cock listens too??
dj spinoff
2025-12-19 21:17:58 +0000 UTC“the daily scroll” sounds like a great premise for a movie yo!
Chris
2025-12-19 20:56:51 +0000 UTC
