176: Skepticrat176 - Doge-Eat-Doge Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Jan 6 Hearings recap: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104103404/new-revelations-and-other-takeaways-from-first-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104657476/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105513685/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing
Elon Musk getting sued for running Dogecoin "pyramid scheme": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-sued-lawsuit-dogecoin-b2102939.html
Lunatic claims Google AI is sentient, gets put on leave: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/technology/google-chatbot-ai-blake-lemoine.html
"How to Murder Your Husband" writer sentenced to life for killing husband: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/14/how-to-murder-your-husband-life-sentence/
Chinese telescope signal turns out not to be extraterrestrial: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/science/china-alien-signal.html
Mike Lindell has a meltdown after Walmart pulls MyPillow off their shelves: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-rages-walmart-over-mypillow-pull-youre-canceling-us-1716705
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, it's June 20th and the word of the day is Struthonian and I learned from |
| 0:18.1 | professional word expert Susie Dent on Twitter that it means a person like an ostrich |
| 0:24.2 | who buries their head in the sand and ignores facts and reality. |
| 0:28.2 | Just in a sentence, the definition of Struthonian is pretty Struthonian for ignoring the fact |
| 0:34.4 | that the ostrich doesn't actually do that. |
| 0:36.8 | No, sure it doesn't, and also minor Republicans have been begging to take over that analogy |
| 0:41.2 | for years anyway. |
| 0:42.2 | We have a volunteer. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Noah Luzon's. |
| 0:45.2 | Um, Heathen Wright and Broadcasting Delay from America's Far Center. |
| 0:49.0 | We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:50.7 | On this week's episode, the sane wing of Congress rejects the idea that insurrections |
| 0:54.6 | become legal if they're stupid enough. |
| 0:56.6 | Committed Dogecoin investors get trapped like the passenger of a flaming Tesla that |
| 1:00.7 | locks itself from the inside, and a Google AI does a better job mimicking human interaction |
| 1:06.0 | than the guy who claims it's sentient ever managed to waste. |
| 1:08.8 | He put first the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:14.4 | Joining me for headlines tonight is my fellow Skeptocrat No Luzons. |
| 1:21.1 | Noah? |
| 1:22.1 | I hear it's like 120 degrees in South Georgia right now, yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | We've been throwing fireballs at plasma. |
| 1:27.3 | James Inhoff again. |
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