Uber Uber Alles

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Uber is actually turning a profit, and it's looking like it could realize the once-seeming-long-shot goals of its founders and investors. Ali Griswold, who writes the Oversharing Substack Newsletter joins us to discuss. Plus, a Russian rocket fails. And, at a meet-up of the BRICS nations, South Africa, Russia, and China are, in fact, there to make friends. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 21st, 2023, from Peach Fish Productions, it's the Jistai Mike Peska.
0:10.0	The Russian spacecraft headed to the moon got there, but not in exactly the way the Russians
0:15.6	had hoped for, as Reuters reports.
0:18.5	The lunar 25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem
0:23.7	preparing for pre-landing orbit.
0:26.0	Yes, that is a plain way to put it.
0:28.4	Reuters had the official Russian Space Agency did put it as reported by the BBC.
0:33.2	In a statement, Ross Cosmos said the craft ceased to exist as a result of a collision
0:38.8	with the surface of the moon.
0:41.2	Russian security forces are blaming Ukrainian militia groups in the incident.
0:44.8	No, no, they're not.
0:45.8	The way it would suggest that when a country puts all of its aeronautic might, behind developing
0:50.2	kamikaze drones, they should maybe be extra careful to build in a specific non-kamikaze
0:56.0	pass over the rest of their projectiles.
0:59.4	Somewhere in Ross Cosmos, there's an engineer saying, wait, you wanted it not to crash?
1:04.5	What kind of maniac built a projectile?
1:07.2	Not to crash.
1:08.5	And I wonder, does Putin kind of have a lot on his plate?
1:13.2	Without space exploration, did he have an unsent use it or lose it billion dollars in
1:19.3	the state coffers to blow on a moonshot?
1:22.1	Or be it for me to tell Vladimir Putin how to conduct his business, but extractive industries,
1:28.3	burying the war dead, he is skilled at putting things into and out of the ground, not safely
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