Hey folks, welcome to the 12th Dark Horse Podcast live stream. I am here with Dr. Heather

Hying. We are going to engage in a discussion today of whether or not we have crossed an event

horizon. Let us first take care of a few matters arising. We are going to be talking for about

an hour and then we are going to do a separate Q&A as has worked much better for us in the past.

We will answer your super chat questions as filed during this live stream. We will get through

as many of them as we can and then we will collect some of the super chat questions that are

generated during the Q&A. Other announcements that we should make?

Oh, you wanted to talk, say something about your Patreon.

Yes, there has been some question amongst fans of the podcast about whether or not the lectures

that I have advertised on Patreon. Lectures is probably the wrong word, but the monthly discussions

of what's called the Coalition of the Reasonable. That's a politically focused discussion

and the evolutionary discussion that follows. First Saturday and Sunday of each month.

The question is, are they still running? Yes, they are running. They are quite popular and exciting

and we've been having a great time. There are some people who have been participating in those

discussions for years now and anyway, they are very rewarding. I have been a little reluctant to

push them because I am reluctant about Patreon itself after it has demonstrated a desire to

censor people. So I have not loved using their mechanism. That said, no good substitute has shown

up and so for the moment that's what we're using. If you want to join those discussions,

I think you would find them very interesting. Okay, so let's see, where are we? I guess here's where we are.

I am wrestling with the fact that never in my wildest imagination did I think that the thing

that was going to bring humanity together was going to be the need for a haircut. Just didn't see

that coming. No, that didn't show up in my accounting either. Yeah, so that raises the question about

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