Thu. 04/14 - Redefining Units of Time for the Techno-Era

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Should we be measuring time differently now that we spend more time with digital technology than nature? Paul Ford has some suggestions. Plus, how the heck is AriZona Iced Tea still just 99 cents and not playing any nefarious shrinkflation games like the other guys? And a new study analyzing the personality profile of absolute a-holes. Sponsor: The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/start Links: Time Got So Much Weirder. The World Needs a New Lexicon (Wired) How is AriZona Iced Tea still 99 cents as inflation soars? (LA Times) From 5 fewer Doritos to shrunken Gatorade bottles, here are the insidious ways companies are charging the same amount for less stuff (Insider) Scientists Ran an Experiment to Identify the Personality Profile of an A-Hole (ScienceAlert) What makes an a--hole an a—hole? (EukekAlert) How an early 2000s bop shaped the 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' multiverse (Mashable) How Son Lux Crafted a Maximalist Soundtrack for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (Rolling Stone) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.6	Subject to availability ends 14th of february it's thursday april 14th
0:28.0	2022 i'm jackson bird today should we be measuring time differently now that we spend more time
0:36.0	with digital technology and less with nature.
0:39.5	Paul Ford has some suggestions.
0:42.2	Plus, how the heck is Arizona Ice Tea still just 99 cents a can
0:47.3	and not playing any nefarious shrinkflation games like the other guys?
0:52.7	And a new study analyzing the personality profiles of absolute A-holes.
0:58.9	Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:04.2	We've all been saying it for two years.
1:07.0	Time doesn't seem to pass like it used to.
1:10.2	And what month is it?
1:11.4	Did that holiday already happen?
1:13.2	How can one year feel simultaneously like it lasted in eternity and also never happened?
1:19.2	The pandemic has been doing some strange spatial perception morphing wackiness to our brains.
1:25.7	But part of that may also be the way that we spend our time
1:29.1	these days, so much of it online plugged into our devices. You know, I talk a lot on this podcast
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