493: Poverty Mode
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to paradise; Bye, Loon; Instacart layoffs; pay for pardons; India proposes banning Bitcoin; Apple & Facebook face-off on privacy; revisiting Covid corner; Facebook Oversight Board makes first rulings; Robin Hood, Game Stop & the stock market; Night Stalker; Tiger; Ten Little Things; Tenet; Mulan; Alto's Adventure; Apple magnets, facemask unlocking & privacy labels; Microsoft's new, improved, less racist chatbot patent; Thousand Bike Helmets; the Stand; Ministry for the Future; Ring cameras in my window; Lyft's poverty mode; Let It Go; feedback.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo. Man, I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome back Brian to the United States. Hi, I'm back in Paradise, we're crazy alt-right |
| 0:25.7 | wing in anti-vaxxers, stopped all the vaccinations at Dodger Stadium. You wanted to come home man. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, not really. But all my stuff is here and I've got to work on that. Yeah, it's um, |
| 0:38.4 | what a difference America. I'm in COVID land here and the only reason I, we're actually still in |
| 0:46.8 | quarantine. We're quarantining for two more days because our wonderful mayor decided to impose a |
| 0:52.8 | 10-day quarantine on people returning to Los Angeles and tell no one about it. Okay, the only, |
| 0:58.0 | the only reason I know is we googled like what are the restrictions coming back and all that sort |
| 1:02.6 | of stuff when we found it. There was a small sign near the luggage area. Okay, when coming into L.A.X |
| 1:09.6 | that you could scan a QR code to learn information about the quarantine rules coming into Los |
| 1:15.9 | Angeles that everybody just walked past. Yep, yep, so there's an app apparently but it didn't work |
| 1:23.2 | very well. We've, my wife signed in some sort of form online, letting them know that we're here |
| 1:30.4 | and what our address is. There's been zero follow-up from anyone. Of course, of course. |
| 1:34.4 | No, there are no rules. There are no rules. Yeah, I have noticed that. We broke some of the rules. |
| 1:40.8 | I dared to go out for a walk. Very few masks still. Some people are double masking. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah, there are people are not wearing anything. We are doomed. Of course. No, no, no. You have no |
| 1:52.4 | idea how bad it's been here. And now that, now that because our governor is getting recalled, |
| 1:58.6 | he decided to just open up outdoor dining again because why not? That's why, because he's getting |
| 2:04.0 | sued. Anyway, so we, the rules here are eight feet apart, the tables eight feet apart, and |
| 2:10.4 | you can't co-mingle households. Who's checking? Who's enforcing? Absolutely no, |
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