".. if you have made money under dubious circumstances in the former USSR, and you're looking for someone in the West - in the 'rule of law' states - where you can park that money in a real estate project - which is the great engine of money-laundering - Trump is absolutely perfect."
"He will rent out his name to you, for a cut; this thing that gets built somewhere will be call the 'Trump Tower' wherever-it-is. You will chuck in a load of money. Maybe it does go bust, but money might have come out the other side to contractors linked to you. If you get any return, if you keep any of that money, that's a boon for you, because you stole it all in the first place!"
FMK: Harry Mudd, Captain Lorca, and Contreland. Ben and Adam answer this and many other burning questions as they revisit their time with Star Trek: Discovery on a retrospective episode of #GreatestTrek
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"... it felt a little bit to me like a cross between a political program and a bit of a game show. The "raise your hands" and all that stuff. I just wanted something a bit more serious I think."
You know what would be more useful during an election than a Presidential-style debate, where the leaders of the two dominant parties spew talking points at each other?
Well anything really. We need those like a fish needs a bicycle.
But I'm thinking a whole debate on each policy area; housing, social wellbeing, corrections, etc. Between the current minister and opposition spokespeople for that portfolio.
If we are to have a leaders debate, the people running it ought to be obligated by election law to include more than the 2 largest parties. Otherwise the news media end up effectively campaigning for those 2 parties, by giving them disproportionate coverage.
What about any party that got over 3% in the previous election gets a leader into anything billed as a leaders debate? For the same reason that all parties get a broadcast allowance based on their vote at the last election.
A good summary of what recent housing policy changes add up to;
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"If you look at what this government have done, right, so they've dialed back the state house building program, they just cut half a billion $ out of that last week in the budget."
"Steel production generates almost 10 percent of global carbon emissions and has long been considered 'hard to abate'. Enter Boston Metal, a startup that aims to make carbon-free steel using only (sing it with me!) clean electricity. In this episode, CEO Tadeu Carneiro explains 'molten oxide electrolysis' and its potential to transform the industry."
"One of my favorite nuggets of writing advice comes from James D Macdonald. Jim, a Navy vet with an encylopedic knowledge of gun lore, explained to a group of non-gun people how to write guns without getting derided by other gun people: 'just add the word modified'."
...a gun person’s imagination gnaws at that word 'modified', spinning up the cleverest possible explanation for how the gun in question could behave as depicted.
I haven't listened to the podcast episode yet, but the excerpt I'm quoting from intrigues me. Are there words that propagandists use to trigger the same effect? Eg a word that conscripts political reporters into adding flesh to the bones of "tax relief"?
Thanks to Nocturne Podcast for having me on the show recently along with my co-author, Aparna Venkatesan, to talk about our word "noctalgia" in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve dark skies in West Marin, #California.
Any other let’s plays that also publish their work as a podcast so I don’t have to hack a method of turning YouTube channels into podcasts? I know about gorillas play through but I’m looking for others. I turn all YouTube channels into podcasts anyway to avoid the ads and other cruff, but anything on #PeerTube? #Gaming#Games#YouTube#Podcasts#Podcast