Ah, you must be an intelligent, literate person in disguise. I have to commend you chez - it's a very good disguise.

Can't fool you though.

It would actually be kinda funny if Rogan invented a racial slur for people from Atlantis.

Would not be hard for him to figure out a use of the word wet that appealed to his base. It could even be a word that was initially used generations ago officially in the US government as the name of an operation, so then it could be used in context of a historical debate with fellow scholars!

Entertainment and Educational. I much prefer long form discussions about things I find interesting than anything else. Same reason I listen to a bunch of other podcasts. I have no idea how anyone can sit down and watch a news program on TV, it's mind numbing.

Jordan Peterson and Joe discuss why some reasons why it might be so popular.

Before you edited in all the other stuff, I thought you meant a totally different use of "wet" and I was being original. But I wasn't, so I deleted my post.

Dude is uncomfortable going to a movie theater in Pittsburgh, why is he even interested in Atlantis?

It's odd to me that this is your perspective. I would rate the last 30 years as an unmitigated boom time for the promotion of fringe ideas, mainly because technology and social media has made it so easy for fringe types to disseminate their views to a sympathetic audience. I guess there has been some pullback in the last 5-6 years, but that's mainly because people like Alex Jones began to seem a little less amusing, and a little more dangerous, with someone like Trump in office.

No kidding, and with improved search engine profiling - people can find extra fringy stuff of their particular interest with no effort, so the randos nobody ever heard of before suddenly get an audience that would have not been possible years ago as easily. Look at some of the weird fringy stuff Twitter stuff that Harkin guy posts - that material is not easy to find without help that updated technology provides to those who wish to passively consume that information.

I listen to podcasts a decent amount. But it never would have occurred to me to to listen to Joe Rogan. I never watch news programs on TV.

Well you are probably more informed than 99% of his target audience. His audience likes him for a reason and that is he is often asking the questions they would ask which can be called 'babe in the woods' type questions.

The podcasts I listen to are mostly the ones that are complete greenfields for me on topics I have no baseline for and that i got used to his style so long ago, i don't really notice it, now.

But I think you likely would struggle with Joe's style regardless of topic, which is fine. Again he has a demographic for a reason.

Well then I struggle with the inconsistency.

Why not just print 'Nword' instead of using the real word in the dictionary when it is equally as easy to explain?

Why would the same people not take offense to seeing it, but they would if they had an audio book dictionary and heard it.

I assume that you would edit in the audio book dictionary, right? If not even more confusion as to your distinction that a scholarly debate = wrong to use but an audio book equals ok???


it seems your view is very arbitrary and 'you' focused to me.

He has some very interesting guests on his podcast.

I had a 7 hour drive and listened to Dr Gupta and Jewel . Both podcasts were great. Its not like legacy media were its scripted 5 minutes. Recently listened to Knees over Toes guy and founf=d that entertaining as well

Anyone that thinks sitting down for a 3 hour interview is easy lol. Larry King was very good at it and he did an hour

a) A dictionary is a source of information on words - the word is not being used.
b) You have to be able to find things in it by how they are spelt
c) it's used to check spellings.

Lots of nuance and vaguesness in PC. That is not the same as arbitary.

You think these alarms being sounded that I posted in a prior conversation thread are just my perspective?

I am frustrated, because like Monty says maybe i am the old man shouting into the heavens but I simply do not think anyone cares or reads this stuff and instead just has your perspective things are good and getting better despite there being reams of scholarly articles yelling Red Alert our systems are being coopted just as gov't has been and Big MSM has been.







I mean, I can cite 20 more saying versions of the same thing that Big Pharma is slowly taking full control, with both the carrot and stick. They provide most of the big money but also threaten groups who cannot afford it with expensive litigation. They are ghost writing what we get presented as settled science increasingly just as they are legislation and politicians responses.

They template is set and it works and the rewards make it worth the investment, since they have control of the gov't bodies that would usually be the police of this via a House or Senate hearing.

I thought it was Philly.

nothing I post above is 'fringy stuff'. Queens university is one the most respected in Canada.

it makes me sad you guys default to that belief each and every time in faovur of corporations and with a willingness to hand wave away the alarms of very credible groups within these industries with a default fringy and lack of credibility.

Why is the same person not offended though., Be very specific.

I have an audio book and i hear the word used in definition.

I listen to a history language professor use the word in context to define its historical use.


You say the latter OFFENSIVE, should not be done.

You say the former ok.

What is it that distinguishes it for the listener?

Lol people are constantly drawing a false equivalence between that statement and actual antivaxism. Trump was the only person saying there might be a vaccine available before the election. Given no actual doctors or health officials were saying it would be approved by then, her statement was completely reasonable.

What if Bigfoot is actually a derogatory term for Sasquatches?

Check with washoe, I understand that's his field of study.

Offense is used as a PC shorthand ifor harm to vulnerable groups caused by offensive language.

if you can persuade me (or more importantly the relevant group) that the existence of words in dictionaries causes harm to them then I would support getting rid of them wherever possible. Same with history lectures

Unfortuantely there is a racism in history and history departments (as most places) so a tiny bit of effort on language helps. I'm not sure the problem exists for dictionaries.

Cool? You asked why people do, I explained and posted a video of maybe some the reasons JRE is the most popular podcast. I couldn't care less what you listen to.

Yup very silly point by revots and echoed on the right.

lest we forget Trump was begging people to please just take Hydroxychloroquine as he was loading up the national stockpile, even as his CDC was saying not to.

Kamala's comment was solely about Trump advising, and that she would not trust Trump, until she heard the CDC take the position.

the second there was declared vaccine and Trump heard the behind the scenes chatter it looked good, he would have raced out to demand it be given immediately while demonizing the CDC process for approval, so he could then latter proclaim how if not for him they never would have allowed it.

He was actually quite good at managing, for his derps, the optics of necessary built in delays as something that was a negative that only he could clear away or no progress would ever be made.

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