It's Called a Tama-God-Chi

[@franslair2199]

Real TF heads remember when this episode was called operation clippy

[@redkite1908]

Yeah, but Tama-god-chi is still a pretty good line.

[@dorianhinkle5595]

I call upon Trashfuture to respect the original title, but I also respect their choice to change.

[@franslair2199]

@@dorianhinkle5595 I don't respect their decision to make the podcast worse by removing the audio visualizer

[@dorianhinkle5595]

@@franslair2199 yeah it does suck, Riley is practicing Tory austerity policies on his own damn podcast😞

[@RealRacingRoots]

1:02:00 for Milo as Donald Trump talking about Chinese God

[@kohhna]

Funny enough something that came into my youtube feed was David Frost on the BBC interviewing Mosley, and it was a geg. Mosley actually says "I started the blackshirts to defent free speech from the mob", short of the woke being in there thats basically the same playbook. It was basicaly very much like something you;d hear on Rogan.

[@LudicrousBarchart]

The highlight for me was the surprise in Trump's voice when he explains that the artificial god that China built is Chinese and speaks Mandarin.

[@TnegaLibram]

TrashFuture? More like Trash Present!

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I can't believe the "kind of wonky but thats part of the fun" voice to text software Doug Doug uses for his silly videos is also being used for healthcare (dont know if actually the same but similar quality). Especially since charting would be a great thing to automate if it could actually be done right

[@napalmholocaust9093]

US power grid being theoretically crippled by such a low amount of damage presupposes the rest of the grid is functional. They don't stress test much, might take just one substation that handles a large reroute of power. You flip that load to another line and it may not handle it. There is no stockpile of the tens of thousands of transformers that will blow in a solar storm either. We already had another Carrington event like 6 months ago. Only reason it didn't F us over was some sympathetic polarity of our magnetosphere, it was shed-off instead of sizzling modern society. The veneer of civilization is tenuous.

[@jacobmartin1100]

tbf, one of the key liabilities in the form of long-range transmission wires has been substantially hardened to such events in the past decade or so. Regarding transformers, it's proving difficult and expensive to keep replacing them in Ukraine in the face of a determined effort by the Russians to destroy their energy infrastructure. I imagine having anywhere near a necessary stockpile to enable a quick recovery from a major solar storm would be near impossible. Even if you could, you would face substantial difficulties in organizing and distributing them, particularly if survivalists start taking matters into their own hands and emulating warlords, there's enough of that concerning conspiratorial language and behavior floating around already.

[@vylbird8014]

@@jacobmartin1100 There are ways to address all of this in advance, but it all costs money. Private industry won't invest any more then they have to because the shareholders demand returns, and government won't because politicians don't get elected by promising higher taxes. Mostly you just bury transmission lines - it's expensive, but it makes them resistant to all weather events and most weaponry. You still need to replace transformers, but those are at least located in nicely accessible facilities with roads. You can also upgrade the protective devices that should disconnect transformers so they are less likely to be damaged, and fit protective filters on control electronics.

[@vylbird8014]

I'd also add that last storm was nothing compared to Carrington. That event is still the record-holding geomagnetic storm - no other has been recorded to match the intensity. But it was a truly exceptional event. That storm was putting out so much flux it set telegraphy equipment on fire and had the aurora pushed so far you could see it in Mexico. We've seen nothing even close to that since. If we did experience another Carringon event, it would certainly shut down power grids all over the world. There are automated disconnects that would prevent the most serious damage, so we're not looking at collapse-of-civilisation level disaster here, but it would take days to restore power to critical areas and some more rural towns might be without power for weeks while engineers work through the repair backlog. It would be a serious inconvenience for all.

[@LeoFieTv]

Is it really that surprising that Keir polls lower than Adams? Adams is hilarious. He's got a personality. Keir is barely a person.

[@ameliafox9429]

I saw this show up last night and was immediately excited to watch it this morning :D

[@EvocativeKitsune]

Barfight advanved metrics, just in time for the end of the World Series

[@NovemberIGSnow]

I badly want to see the Chinese God that's Chinese bit animated

[@VHand5]

Why does Milo's American accent at the beginning sound like David Duchovney?

[@5508Vanderdekken]

Military AI also solves the problem of declining recruitment numbers, should it work

[@ZhukovsBoots]

Will there ever be any Ainsley Harriot based shirts? I already have one of course but not a Trash Future one.