September 1st, 2024 • 3h 23m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Climate Change
Air Conditioning and Climate Change BOTG
Hey, Adam.
I grew up in Dallas county in the 1960s and never
had air conditioning in a school I attended until high school in
1970. Our classrooms all had a bank of windows along the outside
walls of the building and open transom windows to let the breeze
into the hallways.
In the early 60s we had what was called a "water
cooler" which was a simple, free-standing evaporative device
that made the immediate area around it a few degrees lower.
Today, evaporative coolers are still effective in desert
climates.
The point that no one ever brings up is how much
humidity we have introduced into the environment through urban
development with extensive landscaping and it's required
irrigation, and all the reservoirs that have been created to
provide water for all the cities. It must be a factor in the
equation but I've never heard it mentioned.
Heat is easier to tolerate when the humidity is
low and I feel that this may be why so many think it is so much
hotter today.
Regards,
Mark (TechSon)
Kamala Walz
Big Pharma
Nurse boots on the ground
Hey Adam, I'm a nurse on a sustaining donation I have not seen a recent sudden die off of nurses. What I have seen is an absolute explosion of POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) among my young female co workers. it's a syndrome meaning its cause is not well understood but it has to do with autonomic cardiovascular regulation. The rates among the under 25 females is probably 10% on a syndrome that is supposed to be 0.2% it's a diagnosis of exclusion so it takes awhile to diagnose (once you rule out everything else you get diagnosed based on symptoms) oh also the viral diabetes thing. Type 1 is usually triggered by a viral infection we aren't really sure why.
Thank you for all you do.
-Leif
Surgeon General parents 'overwhelmed' commentary BOTG
Feel free to read all or nothing on air
41 yr old, homeschooling, dad of 5 here checking in (ages 10-3, my wife is a saint): if you're not constantly overwhelmed or worried as a parent about finances/attitudes/schoolwork or ten other things it's time to pop out a few more kids! In my experience, eventually the older kids DO help with younger kids and everyone learns patience, compassion, and empathy...skills perhaps missed with one or two kids.
There will always be some company willing to sell you some flashy gadget or car seat...kids cost as much as you let it. I've had gay co-workers that spent more on their dogs, vets, and vacations than I have raising a family!
Newsflash to the younger generations: you are never 'READY' to be a parent, each kid is drastically different with a mind of their own, and there is never a perfect time to raise a family. They don't pop out crawling and talking back; you're delusional if you think they'll spend the first 3yrs in their own bedroom (which is unnecessary)! A growing troubling trend I see is the lack of risk taking... they're crushed when they don't get that unrealistic/undeserved high paying job right out of school and can't cope, adapt, and work up from the bottom. They're rigid/non-flexible and largely ill equipped to deal with the gut punches of life. There is no reward without risk, and many have no purpose (and depressed) from their mundane redundant lives free from risks.
Fewer and fewer kids are allowed to play hard outside without helicopter parents...these parents follow them into interviews and don't let them get bumps and bruises in life and largely live at home. The importance of play and risks cannot be stressed enough.
Life isn't fair. Sometimes you have to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet or get ahead. Treat others the way YOU want to be treated...the golden rule. These were regular themes on older unwoke Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood...play and look out for people! Old school biblical teachings we've largely stripped from society.
I encourage our so called 'lover of boobs' listeners to find out what they're really for and populate the world with hard working, voting, independent kids!!!
A trash truck driver with a useless bachelor's degree who found his vocation as a parent,
Garbageman Mitch
Season of Reveal
Hair & Hookers Metrics
Far Right!
Trump
Knight How Bogus phone numbers work
Hey,
Listening to today's episode, just a small technical answer to why you can't call any of those numbers that are spamming you. I work as a lead software engineer where we use a lot of telephony stuff for dealing with customers. Especially a lot of SMS (texting).
These numbers are all bought on-the-fly from a company like Twilio for the purpose of spamming people. They likely buy a new phone number for every little text blurb to avoid the fact that each is almost certainly classified as junk very fast by users.
When you buy a phone number for the purpose of sending Text messages, for a carrier like Twilio, you don't have to set up any sort of voice connection or any inbound text handling. You can literally just buy the phone number with an API and you can start sending texts. (Yes, this is John's Microservice Architecture FTW).
Companies like Twilio and carriers like Verizon, T-Mobile, etc, will generally track when a user replies "STOP", but they only track that per phone number, so when you change the phone number every time you send a text, you can get around the "STOP to opt out" stuff pretty easily.
So the spammers like Actblue/Winred have setup systems so when they want to send a spam text, they buy the phone number, do zero setup, send the text, de-register the phone number, rinse and repeat. So when you try to call it, the API provider like Twilio never even sends that phone call anywhere and they don't force the company to make it any different.
Couple that with the fact that political campaigns are exempt from a lot of 10DLC rules for texting and we end up where we are today. Thanks Elizabeth Warren!
Carriers like Twilio have ZERO interest in stopping this, since each message sent earns them about 1 cent, but if you imagine they send millions+ of these a day, after volume discounts, they're easily making $50-100k every time some campaign sends a stupid message. To everyone's phone number they have.
this isn't proprietary info, feel free to use it as you wish.
Cheers
Sir Blake, Baron of Bourbon and Rye
Israel vs Everyone
M5M
Video Game voice actor strike BOTG
Adam as with most things gaining I try to keep a close eye on this would include the voice actor strike. Firstly in a baffling display of stupidity they did in fact forget all about gaming initially. This led to A disruption in the sag-aftra members with the ones that do voice acting and video games being quite pissed off. So then after the initial one was settled they formed a new action. Other than that just wanted to let you know that it's involving two things most media leave out. With gaming there's franchise considerations, for example you could do the voice acting for a character in a video game that goes on to make 10 more sequels and they now own your likeness and voice without paying you for subsequent games. The second thing is that one of the conditions of the strike is they are not considered being a scab if they continue to do voice acting work for any game that began production up to 4 years ago. This is extremely relevant because the majority of video games take six to 10 years to complete production and then often for years afterwards require updates. So that's a lot of work they are not being paid for and conditionally will greatly slow down the cause of this strike being effective. On a personal level I would like to say that I've actually played many games over the last couple years that are done in part or exclusively with AI. From the consumer stand point there's no difference lol. That is to say most of us gamers don't care other than if it will slow down games we're looking forward to which it won't because they've already been in production.
