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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Kazinsal posted:

yeah he's totally that guy who'll just listen to anyone tell stories even if they're not particularly exciting ones or anything. not a bad thing, just... not exactly what you would expect out of a popular interviewer

if there was some kind of "joe rogan experience abridged" where it was basically just cut down to the interviewees talking about poo poo I would probably be inclined to listen to some of it. for some reason though rogan himself just... is grating to me. like listening to an untrained, inexperienced streamer, except this dude's been in broadcasting for like 30 years

I think that unpolished every-man style is why so many people like him so much. it isn’t anywhere near as grating as NPR just uncritically listening to republicans arrogantly lie to their faces before asking a new unrelated question.

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TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Was Joe Rogan an actual MMA fighter? I only remember him being a ringman

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



joe rogan uncritically gives shitbags a platform and for that he deserves your scorn, not your attention.

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
i just listen to the ones where he has people focused on topics im interested in are on.

i dont care what else he has or hasnt done

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

TOOT BOOT posted:

you guys don't seem that worried, cspam is pretty gloom and doom about what's going to happen

cspam is filled with people who had a tenuous grasp on their daily lives at best before all this happened.

everything they predict is usually wrong. dont put much stock in what they have to say.

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy

TOOT BOOT posted:

my friend tried to get me to listen to joe rogan once and the podcast started off with a very uncomfortable shill for fleshlights so I turned it off

if you say, "ok google, resume podcast." it will start playing joe rogan experience even if you have another podcast app open and paused. makes me glad google knows so little about me I guess?

anyways here's a decent take https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Midjack posted:

joe rogan uncritically gives shitbags a platform and for that he deserves your scorn, not your attention.

worse: his strung-out-on-cough-syrup-and-edibles-at-all-times demeanor makes even the dumbest maga chud celebrity he platforms look like an unironic galaxy brain genius. he's frequently described as a gateway to the alt-right for gullible people

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I still think that if you listen to an alt-right shithead spouting nonsense and a far left socialist speaking universally known but unsaid truths and you come away liking the alt-right more, you’re already an irredeemable fuckhead.

joe Rogan is actually impartial because he is incapable of not being that way due to brain damage and drugs.

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Midjack posted:

joe rogan uncritically gives shitbags a platform and for that he deserves your scorn, not your attention.

What media outlet doesn't toss softballs at people they're interviewing?

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Midjack posted:

joe rogan uncritically gives shitbags a platform and for that he deserves your scorn, not your attention.

i just listen to part of his podcasts with people i find interesting, like that disease guy or cornell west. if you actually cut out every media person who uncritically gives shitbags a platform then what media are you even consuming?

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

I liked rogan's interview with james hetfield from metallica because hetfield got totally fuckin sober in the early 2000s (and even goes back into rehab voluntarily if he feels it coming back to him) and watching rogan try to parse the totally happy experiences of someone who's 100% drug and alcohol free and committed to it is like watching someone realize that capitalists aren't your friend at the same time as they're learning that santa isn't real and there is a word for that feeling you have after you wake up night after night from having dreams in which you're inexplicably a girl

big shtick energy
May 27, 2004


my level of panic is like 90 degrees out of phase with the general public. last week I was super worried and getting more worried quickly, while most people didn't give a gently caress yet. now everyone's panic seems to be escalating and personally it now seems like it won't be that bad overall.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

the grocery stores here are pretty much flat out of non-perishables. I've done all I can, time to ride out the next couple months and take solace in the fact that, worst case scenario, my country has a functioning healthcare system and even if I'm in triage for 24 hours, I won't get a bill for it

que sera sera

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

DuckConference posted:

my level of panic is like 90 degrees out of phase with the general public. last week I was super worried and getting more worried quickly, while most people didn't give a gently caress yet. now everyone's panic seems to be escalating and personally it now seems like it won't be that bad overall.

I wrote a post in the D&D cv thread which i think is the next phase which is not fun. I gotta stop reading those threads

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
y'all think too much.

just ride it out, whatever happens, happens. you can't stop it, so don't fret over it.

*exhales absolutely monstrous bong rip*

ShadowHawk
Jun 25, 2000

CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

WINE is not employment, dude
might as well tell yospos what I actually do for a living now

I'm an SRE at Google. Day to day I keep display ads serving, and I'm oncall for major ads incidents

ShadowHawk
Jun 25, 2000

CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER
so this economy now has this huge swath of people getting laid off soon or no work to do

and this other swath of people who work in virus-affected sectors who are completely swamped and understaffed (anything to do with health care, logistics, delivery, etc)

and we're def in a recession (though it's not official until retrospectively looking back 2 quarters later)


computer touching is somewhere in both worlds, some firms are gonna layoff and some firms are super-well positioned (eg those working in home delivery or teleconference stuff)

Feisty-Cadaver
Jun 1, 2000
The worms crawl in,
The worms crawl out.
Joe was on news radio and news radio was fuckin great (for a 90's sitcom)

theadder
Dec 29, 2011


whats an sre

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

ShadowHawk posted:

might as well tell yospos what I actually do for a living now

I'm an SRE at Google. Day to day I keep display ads serving, and I'm oncall for major ads incidents

yikes. what’s the word for the opposite of an essential service?

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Make Deer Great Again
Cybernetic Crumb

DuckConference posted:

my level of panic is like 90 degrees out of phase with the general public. last week I was super worried and getting more worried quickly, while most people didn't give a gently caress yet. now everyone's panic seems to be escalating and personally it now seems like it won't be that bad overall.

Everybody has to go through a process to assimilate what's happening. The more aware you were about covid I think the earlier you got your panic attacks done with. Most people still have a long way to go.

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

fart simpson posted:

yikes. what’s the word for the opposite of an essential service?

your posting

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


dang

ShadowHawk
Jun 25, 2000

CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER

theadder posted:

whats an sre
Site Reliability Engineer

Half your job is "projects" like automating things or efficiency work and the other half is stuff like oncall and upholding service SLAs

Mostly I do traffic management and capacity planning/measurement stuff (ads is kinda big)

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

its your moral duty to do that job really badly, op.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

I work on financial software and there's a huge email thread about support for negative interest rates on bonds

ShadowHawk
Jun 25, 2000

CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER

fart simpson posted:

yikes. what’s the word for the opposite of an essential service?
so one thing I've learned is that news organizations really really care about having their display ads work

like one time I broke a lot of doubleclick and there were a bunch of articles about it that I'm sure were just thrilling to everyday readers

there's a bag of shredded money beside my office desk to commemorate the occasion. There was a tradition of passing it on to whoever caused a big outage but I decided to just leave it on display instead (some people might not take it in stride)

five years of this and now I'm the senior person on the team

Fatal Error
Feb 13, 2013

by sebmojo
i’m trying to stay calm because i can’t do anything anyway, but almost all of my friends are doom and gloom sadbrains just like me. and i can ask them to stop sending me the news because it’s making me feel like poo poo but then they do that anyway a short time later

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


our HR department has really ramped up their workplace morale efforts, which i suppose is a nice idea, but i'm just finding them patronizing and sanctimonious and have really started to disengage from their programs. the work itself is still fine, is secure for the short term and i like my colleagues so i'm pretty lucky overall i guess.

President Beep
Apr 29, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

theadder posted:

idk who joe rogan is

its u

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Sagebrush posted:

i watched an infectious disease researcher talk about the coronavirus on the joe rogan show. i had never seen a joe rogan show before. it was very enlightening.

joe rogan is a stupid man, yes? not like mean or malicious or anything. just... extremely credulous and very dumb

dumb enough to be way more successful and laid than you

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

theadder posted:

idk who joe rogan is

joe rogan is the host of fear factor and always looks at a womans tits

but respectfully and appropriately

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

well my gig economy employer got classified as an essential service in multiple states, guess I'm not getting laid off yet as we let underpaid folks deliver goods to people locked up at home

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy


I 8 poop lol

Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

ShadowHawk posted:

so one thing I've learned is that news organizations really really care about having their display ads work

like one time I broke a lot of doubleclick and there were a bunch of articles about it that I'm sure were just thrilling to everyday readers

there's a bag of shredded money beside my office desk to commemorate the occasion. There was a tradition of passing it on to whoever caused a big outage but I decided to just leave it on display instead (some people might not take it in stride)

five years of this and now I'm the senior person on the team

breaking doubleclick is probably the most public good you've done in one act the entire time you've been at alphabet, well done

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Friday morning

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe

Sagebrush posted:

that's a good way of putting it. the questions he asks are like what a college freshman might ask, or a keen high schooler.

"is it true that the virus can be killed by being in a sauna? i heard that the 180 degree air kills the virus. what, not even if it's like, just the virus in your mouth? even then?"
"have you heard about this deer wasting disease that deer get? is it anything like that? my friend hunts and he says there's a really bad deer virus out there."
"oh man i saw this picture of two kids, one with smallpox and one who was vaccinated and it was like, wow, one is totally sick and the other one is totally fine"


fair enough

one of my favorite things to get in the mail is my state’s conservation magazine. that chronic wasting disease and the steps to identify and contain it is hosed, like the bad news section in otherwise the coolest periodical I get.

Asleep Style
Oct 20, 2010

Hed posted:

one of my favorite things to get in the mail is my state’s conservation magazine. that chronic wasting disease and the steps to identify and contain it is hosed, like the bad news section in otherwise the coolest periodical I get.

prion diseases are straight up frightening

Cosa Nostra Aetate
Jan 1, 2019

qirex posted:

I work on financial software and there's a huge email thread about support for negative interest rates on bonds

:cheers: We had a discussion about that at my job a few months ago, and this reminded me that I never heard what came out of that. I guess I'll be finding out soon if we're getting accurate floor data at least.

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CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

Hed posted:

one of my favorite things to get in the mail is my state’s conservation magazine. that chronic wasting disease and the steps to identify and contain it is hosed, like the bad news section in otherwise the coolest periodical I get.

yeah it always bums me out when i get the pamphlet with my hunting license that explains what i have to look for in the deer.

the one thing that worries me is "does the deer get too close or is the shot too easy?" and its like maaaan you are making me second guess the poo poo out of myself.


the dnr rules, tho

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