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Einstein, Aliens and the Mystery of Existence.
A complete space nerd fest of an episode with @PaulMattSutter from the Ask A Spaceman Podcast.
We also discuss Space-Time, Black Holes, Simulation Theory, Quantum Entanglement, Time Travel and much more.
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The economy would look very different if bad theory collapsed like bad bridges. Instead, as @ProfSteveKeen points out, economists get to be wrong forever and still advise governments.
In 1929, margin debt hit 9% of GDP with 10:1 leverage, fantasy wealth built on a matchstick tower. Hearing @ProfSteveKeen compare that to today is genuinely unsettling.
Letting banks lend “as much as they like” into housing turned a basic human need into a leveraged casino, and @ProfSteveKeen argues that’s why the dream became a nightmare.
The NHS won’t amputate healthy limbs for body integrity disorder, won’t offer liposuction for anorexia… yet somehow irreversible surgery is fine here? @JamesEsses asks the question everyone avoids.
When @JamesEsses says victimhood has become a form of currency, he’s not exaggerating. We’re rewarding weakness instead of building resilience, and it’s destroying an entire generation.
When therapists are terrified to question anything, children get hurt. @JamesEsses stood his ground and the system tried to erase him for it. That should alarm everyone.
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The idea that Trump could win over Bitcoiners with three words never even crossed his team’s mind, until @RealAngelaMc laid it out. “Free Ross Ulbricht.” The rest is history.
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The choice is getting starker by the day: high tax or low tax, big government or small, dependency or dignity — exactly the contrast @RealAngelaMc is warning about.
Hearing @PeterBleksley describe policing being “in the grip of academia” explains so much about why leadership feels utterly detached from the frontline.
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The term “low-level crime” collapses the moment @PeterBleksley explains how theft wrecks someone’s day, job, finances and security.
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Hearing @ShankerASingham from @TheGrowthComm say Mississippi now has higher GDP per capita than the UK should terrify every policymaker in this country.
Young activists think they’re fighting capitalism, but as @ShankerASingham from @TheGrowthComm explains, they’re actually fighting cronyism, the same force holding the UK back.
When @ShankerASingham from @TheGrowthComm says China distorted its market to gain global advantage, it’s impossible to ignore how quickly our industries collapsed.
It’s striking how @PaulMattSutter explains the difference between wondering about aliens and pretending every rock in space might be one.
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If someone told you a species of primates could model the cosmos, you’d laugh. @PaulMattSutter explains how we actually do it.
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According to @PaulMattSutter, every failed Mars dream pays off, in new materials, medical advances, and technologies that make life better on Earth.