214: Skepticrat214 - Sealed With a Kissinger Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Trump says he's "seriously looking" at Obamacare alternatives: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/26/trump-obamacare-affordable-care-act
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/us/politics/trump-biden-obamacare.html
Trump "aces" another cognitive exam: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-obama-aced-cognitive-test_n_6564a795e4b0f35896f6c583
Henry Kissinger Was A War Criminal, But Presidents And Celebrities Smiled With Him: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dead-leaders_n_5d10ef86e4b0aa375f50baf0
Police Departments get in on weird hysteria over Apple’s “Namedrop” system: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/27/namedrop-iphone-ios17-safety/
The sound of crunching chips is annoying, so Doritos made a silencer:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/27/doritos-silent-gaming-crunch-cancellation/
Trump tries to embrace Black Lives Matter, a group he previously said ‘hates our country’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/29/trump-blm-endorsement-dispute/
Airplane crosses the Atlantic using sugar and fat as fuel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/28/virgin-atlantic-sustainable-flight-lands-saf
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| 0:00.0 | Sure, this is Peloton. This is a 15 minute low impact ride. But so is this. |
| 0:07.1 | We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation. |
| 0:10.4 | And even this. We get here in with a 20 minute hip-hop shadow boxes session. |
| 0:16.5 | Ah what more could you ask for? Well with thousands of classes on our bike treading |
| 0:20.9 | app there's more to Peloton that you might have thought. |
| 0:23.8 | This is Peloton. |
| 0:25.8 | Internet connection and Peloton all acts as membership required. C1 Peloton. |
| 0:29.2 | Go. UK. It's Monday. |
| 0:33.0 | Monday. |
| 0:35.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:38.0 | It's Monday. It's Monday. |
| 0:44.0 | December 4th. |
| 0:45.7 | And the word of the day is puppacock, a Dutch word that means the excrement of a doll. |
| 0:51.8 | Used in a sentence, puppacock is the etymology of a use sentence |
| 0:53.0 | pop a cock is the etymological root that gave us |
| 0:56.0 | cacophony, |
| 0:57.0 | cockography, bad handwriting, |
| 0:59.0 | and cucking stool, |
| 1:01.0 | a torture device used to punish women for being too scoldy. |
| 1:05.0 | Terrifying. Yeah and that is certainly the only cucking I'm aware of. |
| 1:08.5 | You should use that word more. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm sorry, we're just gonna breeze by the fact that the Dutch dolls used to shit so much they needed a name for it. |
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