621: Outrage Fatigue Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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TN woman taken to court for Christmas decorations being too Halloweeny: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/style/halloween-decorations-tennessee.html
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast contains offensiveness distilled down to its purest form. Also, naughty words. |
| 0:07.4 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by a whole lot of people not taking God did it for an answer. And now, the Skating Atheist. |
| 0:19.2 | This is Matthew. I work as a senior software engineer for NASA. |
| 0:22.3 | 2024 was a big year. |
| 0:23.8 | First, the agency adopted scaled agile framework, which accomplishes exactly the opposite of all |
| 0:28.2 | of its stated goals. |
| 0:29.4 | Second, we had a $1 billion IT contract restructuring to reduce the number of contracts, |
| 0:34.0 | only to have the new company subcontract with dozens of others, effectively |
| 0:37.5 | recreating the initial problem. |
| 0:39.5 | Then, an unprecedented round of cost-saving layoffs where contractors working more than |
| 0:43.3 | eight hours per day were laid off instead of many civil servants who work only two. |
| 0:47.6 | I can confidently say that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy, incompetent monkey people. |
| 1:10.7 | Music evolved from filthy, incompetent monkey people. At... |
| 1:11.6 | It's Thursday. |
| 1:15.4 | It's January 23rd. |
| 1:17.3 | And it's clashing clothesday. |
| 1:19.2 | Okay. So, question, what clashes with a pug shirt? |
| 1:23.0 | Uh, baby funeral. I'm no illusions. |
| 1:25.7 | That's true. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm Mila Bostic. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm Ethan Wright. And from |
| 1:28.9 | Steven Spielberg's New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating |
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