liberalman: enter the carneyverse

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Ladies, gentlemen, and friends beyond the binary, welcome to this stream for today, May 3rd, 2025.

I kind of forgot that the stream was happening, so I have to like put everything together really fast. But hi, I am Tristan. I'm your host today of the stream, the thing that we are doing at the moment. But yeah, hi, welcome. Um, my name is Tristan. I'm the host of Step Back, the YouTube channel you're watching right now. Also the host of the podcast It's Probably Not Aliens. Um, so those are two things that are true. Um, I'm a person who has a Canadian with a with master's degrees in American cultural studies and American history and uh ABD on a PhD on US history and then um does content about the world. So hello everybody. Thank you for joining me on this uh Saturday night uh sequence of things. So hopefully I sound okay and then I'll make sure the music doesn't stop for some random reason. There we go. I know one thing I need to do is that I need to unpair my headphones from my Yeah, that'll do it. ABD. ABD means all but dissertation. So I had finished all the coursework. I had done the comprehensive exams which is sort of like a big um it's a big test you do at the end of your second year of your PhD to uh basically show that you know enough about the subject material that you are in that you could teach a university level class on your subject. So, I took the tests to prove that I could teach US history at the university level. Um, yeah. So, that's sort of where things are at. Um, and you know, less than a week ago, my country had a federal election, so that was fun. It's one of those things where it's very much wasn't didn't feel like an American election because it was like a lot of Canadian elections it's like oh we kind of already knew how things were going to shake out uh weeks in advance and then it kind of is like oh yeah it's like not a surprise at all. there's still like a lot of, you know, the things that happened during that uh election were still kind of um they that Canada's in a weird space and there's a lot of things that are going to change. Anyways, let's take a look at some of these questions out here. Um I got a couple questions at the top but uh let me see if there's anything. Usually we do a um we do something called wins W's. So, at the top of a stream, one of the things that we do is because we are an anti-doomer stream here, uh, is we celebrate our wins, no matter how big or small, to cheer on, uh, the progress of people and hopefully, you know, encourage us to uh to be better versions of ourselves and to uh, you know, celebrate each other, build each other up so that we can, you know, build the the world that needs to be worn. Um so yeah, that's the handful of things. Uh I can um try to think about how to start, but um because it's been about a month and in the last month I can't say that a lot of good stuff's happened. I gotta say, um I uh I found out that I'm probably getting laid off um in the next in the months to come. Um and I just saw today that Mark Carney is planning on cutting back immigration even more, which just because of the nature of my job probably means that it'll be happening sooner rather than later. Um so that's fun. That's super fun. And um yeah, I'm um in a state where I am excited to be looking for jobs in the current economy. That'll be You look scruffy. Yeah, I do look scruffy. I have I'm very overdue for a haircut. I'm getting one on Tuesday.

So, I have definitely um I've definitely uh gone too long. I kind of forgot about it and I got busy, but I have one on Tuesday. I have a haircut coming on Tuesday. Um let's see. Tarbo, multiple people have told you to start podcasting. Your wife is doing very well in her schooling. You're proud of her. That is that's pretty good news. Go get it. That sounds pretty fun. Very good. Yeah, I um a trim and some trim. Yeah, I'm um I have a barber that I have been seeing for years and she does a pretty good job at controlling this mess, so I'm going to go see her and she'll fix me right up. Um she's great though. And then um yeah, I don't I'm trying to think about like I got some like you know got some you have a lot of news on your end either. A yeah, life's life life's kind of rough right now, not going to lie. Uh but there are still things to look forward to. Um, I don't know if this was true of the last session, but um, I had some medication that I was taking for anxiety that improved my mood quite a bit and um, then I ran out and my mood went down again. Uh, but I got it back just the other day, so it's back again. So hopefully I will be I'll be bouncing back and be better than ever. Um I guess on another front too that is a win especially for you guys. Um is uh a couple of things. One I have been doing interviews for uh my next uh step back video. It's going really well. Uh and once the few that I have kind of on the books right now we're done, I'm going to actually get going to um what's it called? I'm going to start uh writing and I'll have a script and I'm going to hire an editor. So, the editing process is going to go a lot faster than it usually does. So, a video will is moving along very slowly. But um as fast as I have the time to spare to it, I probably will have a little bit more also come like late June because I have a um I have a freelance project that I'm also doing right now that's eating up a bunch of my uh my time. And I'm doing some volunteer work for the library that is also eating up a bunch of my time. And all those are going to be done in like the next like four or five weeks. So that'll be fun. And I'll be laid off so I'll have I won't have a day job anymore either. Fun fun. Um, but I am also uh I'm also very much looking forward to uh I'm also like Scott had um some major like he had some wisdom teeth issues. He's in a lot of pain. But I am told that a few days ago he told me he's feeling a lot better. And so we are looking to record the next season of the podcast pretty soon. And we have editors for that as well, which means that um once those are recorded, they'll start coming out in pretty quick order. Uh which means I can probably start getting work on the next season of the show right away, too. So all that very, very good. Um are you on escalop? No, I am on it sounds like I am on three prescription medications. None of which are surprising nor are they very interesting. Um but yeah, I'm on a uh I'm on a Viveance for ADHD. Uh and then I'm on like a blood pressure medication for the fact that I'm taking the Viveance. And then I'm on um what's it called? I am on a uh the the mood improving one is a um is wellbuterrine or wellbutrin whatever they want to call it or it's a generic of it anyway which is kind of sucks in the summertime because wellbutrin makes you sweat a lot but it makes me not hate myself and everything. Uh

so that's kind of like that's kind of the things I got going on there because you know I'll be honest with you like the wellbutrin is needed my mood. Let's just hypothetically imagine you had your dream job, a job that people uh were dying to get, a job where every day your life had actual meaning, where people sought you out for advice and you know you felt like you were making a difference in the world. And then imagine inflation triples the price of everything and you have to abandon your job and you get another job where you work in an office answering emails and being micromanaged and that is your life. You are a professional email answerer. And you could imagine that the going from dream job to per person who answers emails for a living uh would be quite um apocalyptic I would say when it comes to uh not only like my quality of life but like you know my like happiness and stuff. So, um, and I have I have, uh, never, you know, it takes a lot to process the fact that your life is really depressing compared to what you were doing just a few months ago. And so, my mood took a huge like dump. I was finding myself in a absolutely like one of the worst depressive episodes I've ever experienced in my life. I had nights uh like a few like maybe about like six months ago where in the evening when everything settled down I would find myself sitting at the computer staring at the screen just like waiting for bedtime because I was just like I cannot bring myself to do anything. My mood is so bad. I like I'm exhausted and yet like I can't I cannot drag myself to even do the bare minimum. It was one of the worst things. This is one of the worst places my mind has ever been. And I'm still not 100% out because, you know, I I lost I lost it. I lost the dream. And so I have to figure out, you know, how to be okay with that. And pills apparently is the way to do that. So that's fun. Um, anyways, that's a thing. yeah, what is um let's take a look at some of these questions. So we got some questions before the stream from Nordic Mountain. I can definitely try to answer some of these. Uh so first question, do you think that the new Liberal government has the potential to make Canada an economic powerhouse? So, oh yeah. So, Canada had an election last, you know, last week, last Monday, or I should say, I guess on Monday because, you know, it's the same week still. Uh, and almost exactly down the line of like the like I think the um the 338 which is sort of the Canadian version of 538 projected that the federal parliament was going to result in a liberal I think it said 71% chance of a liberal majority government and like a 30 something% chance of a liberal minority government but like almost guaranteed liberal government and we got a liberal minority government, but like a strong one where they only need like I only need like a handful of seats to actually like win the to actually like you know push it over the top. So nothing too like yeah uh the bigger stories are that the NDP took an absolute [ __ ] nose dive. Uh almost all of those liberal gains happened because of the NDP support base just completely emptying out underneath the carney government. Um because of cowardly progressives who yet again got tricked by the liberals into uh the absolutely anti-democratic and completely nonsensical logic behind strategic voting. And we ended up with uh because you know every time everyone talks about strategic voting they always go like oh yeah you have to support whoever is going to beat the conservatives. It's anybody who could beat the conservatives. The thing though is that this is almost exclusively used to make people who are normally NDP supporters vote for the liberals. And it happened in what like the sort of anyone but conservative campaign. All it really did was result in more people voting liberal, including in writings where the NDP candidate is the incumbent and was winning, and

resulted in splitting the vote and causing a conservative win in that writing. because it turns out that you can't really like do a strategic voting program uh like they were trying to do and you just and anytime you try you are just trying to make progressives vote for a right-wing candidate again and that's what happened and now we have Mark Carney in power with um who is probably the most right-wing leader the liberal party's ever had and though they have a minority government they don't have that many seats that they need to like get like unchecked power. All they would need is like with a large conservative minority like in second place and like you know a like block kebeekqua having about like 20 something seats like they wouldn't need a whole lot of power brokering to put in like the worst of all of the sort of neoliberal right-wing [ __ ] that the uh that will happen. And now that the NDP is effectively like non-existent in parliament, I think they were reduced to like seven seats or nine seats, something in that range, they uh they are effectively a non- entity in government now. And um that means that all of the goodies that Canadians got through the Trudeau government with the supply and confidence agreement like you know the $10 a day daycare benefit, the uh the dental um coverage for seniors and the um the sort of uh pharmarmacare for certain medications. Uh don't expect those to stick around for too long. And also don't expect like any Canadian like any new social programs anytime soon because uh it's we're in the carniviverse now, baby. And the car the carniviverse is all about austerity and tax cuts for rich people. Um that's literally what he campaigned on. It was so weird to see like progressive Canadians who called themselves like leftwing, some even calling themselves leftists clapping like [ __ ] sea lions uh because of the victory of a central banker uh who literally campaigned on tax cuts for rich people and extreme austerity measures. So that's fun. That's super duper fun. Um, so do I think the new Liberal government has the potential to make Canada an economic powerhouse? No. Um, I think that Canada has some rough years ahead of it. We have some major realignment. We are a country that completely dedicated itself to serving the United States and being a basically economic nub on its rump, just feeding it raw resources for its industrial engines and doing all of their bidding on the world stage because uh they were our best ally and they were the you know we had the biggest land border and it was our strategic edge was uh basically being the sort of uh like one of the US's closest and most loyal uh you know manservants. And we don't have that anymore. And we're far too uh we're far too capitalist and racist to be like, "Hey, Xiinping, let's make a deal. " Um because we won't do stuff. We still won't take off like, you know, our 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and stuff like that. And so we are going to like my guess is that Mark Carney is going to do something like we need to invest in oil pipelines and AI and it's going to be a gigantic like yeah we're going to build way more oil pipelines. Um even though the block kebab said that they refuse to work with the liberals if they build more oil pipelines because of you know the continued existence of the planet earth. But um Carney's opposition is the bunch of people who are so horny for pipelines that if he tried to buy out like you know 30,000 new pipelines that are all just like this turn Alberta into one giant pipeline I'm sure they would be so [ __ ] happy and that'll happen. Although I did hear that apparently oil prices are going to crash next week or that OPEC just did a thing where like um the oil price is going to plummet next week which means that like the uh the Alberta oil sector which is like painfully dependent on high oil prices is also going to implode um like it did in 2020. Um and we're not going I don't know what we're going to do about that. I don't know how we're going to solve that problem because we've put all of our eggs in that basket for so long. So, I think that Canada's got some pretty rough times ahead of it. And I think that Carney's um all of the tools that Carney has to fix the Canadian economy

are not ones that would actually work because Carney's plans for fixing the economy will be tax cuts for rich people and austerity for everyone else to balance the budget. And that is the logic that led to the Great Depression. So like cuz like rich people are not going to in times of economic uncertainty invest more in the economy. If you want to like rich people only invest in things that they think they can get a return on. If we are in a recession, we are not going to do that. What we are going to do is hand out more money that we do not have to rich people by giving them tax cuts. And then they're going to sit on it or they're going to buy assets in other countries. And then we are going to then cut services so that the people who are living precariously because they're going to get laid off uh or you know they're the money supply is going to run out uh because we don't have our largest trading partner anymore and there's no other country except for China that we refuse to work with uh that will um that'll be like you know a source of economic benefit for us and so we're going to be in a we're going to probably be in a bad recession. Um, and the uh the austerity measures will mean that the people who uh do not have the money to survive are going to be even more stringent with their money, which means they're going to start saving up instead of buying things. And when people don't buy things, that's less GDP. That's not economic that's economic ungrowth and all of a sudden we're in recession. But capitalists can't understand that aspect of money anymore. And so Carney is just going to kind of keep ideologically driving us to hell. It'll be really fun. Maybe he'll bail out some banks or something to save it. But you know, here we are. Uh will Quebec MPs help the Liberals out of spite to Trump? You mean the block Kebeekqua? Potentially. Depends upon the deal. Carney just said he's like not making any supply into uh not any agreement with the NDP. He's like ruled it out. He's not doing it. Um I think he did that in an interview like yesterday. Um and like yeah, I don't I we'll see what happens when when Parliament when this new parliament sits because it's going to be like the only things I've heard from Carney's agenda so far are a cut to our capital gains tax structure. Cool. That's like that's tax cuts for rich people. Um cuts and I've seen a uh wanting to decrease the permanent resident count of the country to less than one or to 1% of the population of the country which is huge uh until housing quotes catches up. So uh that is a massive cut to our immigration levels which have already been massively cut and is going to result in some real economic bad times for our cities because you know we have done no effort to invest in our universities and our science and our technology and also we don't have a very high birth rate in Canada which means that immigration is sort of the key to our population uh even being stable and, you know, not like, you know, like rapidly aging and yet here we are. We're just doing the thing. That's cool. Love that. Love that for us. Um, yeah. How come the NDP do very good at the provincial level and very poor federally? Um, because they're different parties. Um, you might not know this because it if you're not American or if you're not Canadian, but like for example, the NDP at the federal level, the one that used to be ran by Jugmeit Singh is the NDP of Canada, but like the NDP party of Ontario is a different political party. They coordinate a lot and they have a lot of like similar ideas, but like they're not the same party and every province in Canada has its own set of political parties. Like Ontario is governed by the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that does not exist at the federal level anymore. It hasn't since the early 2000s. Um, and like our NDP are led by Merritt Styles who has a very different style of politics than the federal party does. Um, and you know, various provinces in various provinces, uh, especially out west, the NDP are the

Liberal Party at the provincial level is effectively dead. and the NDP have sort of fit in as the like non-conservative alternative in a lot of the provincial politics out there. Um, and so that's where you're at. um they're just different parties and at the federal level people kind of just see things in conservative and liberal. Like there are a lot of districts in Ontario that vote NDP at the provincial level and vote conservative at the federal level and stuff like that. It's weird. It's really weird. Um, let's see. Though I didn't get laid off, my job is forcing me back into the office. Yeah, I'm on a hybrid. three days, three days in on the office and uh it's not fun. Will the NDP ever make a comeback? Uh really good question. I don't have an answer at the moment and nobody really does. The NDP are in a really tough situation. So for anyone who doesn't know about Canadian politics, the NDP are like a Canadian like centerlefty party. They're the only leftwing party that is in parliament that is not like an explicitly nationalist party. Like the block kebeekqua are fairly social democratic too. The NDP are only like social democ democratic political party. Like the liberals and the conservatives are both firmly on the right and um and the NDP are like our only leftwing party, but they're not leftwing. They're they're social democrats, not democratic socialists. Um a fight I have been having with a lot of people Anyways, um the NDP have no money. They have lost almost all of their presence in parliament, meaning they lost uh official party status, which means that they have lost a good amount of money and ability to speak and ask questions in parliament and all sorts of stuff like that. Um they are in a pretty bad place. They just lost their leader who led them to a massive defeat. Now, there are two ways you can look at it. So, one way you could look at it is that this is a weird election that the 20 like a lot of the uh former MPs have kind of talked about like, hey, why'd you lose? It was like, well, it's because this was a weird 2025 election was a weird election and a lot of NDP people got spooked and voted liberal. And so we have to figure out what to do, what the like what the party is going to do after that is uh is anybody's guess. But the party needs a new leader. And one of the big things that you will see if you look at like the federal election uh results is that a lot of the NDP's over the last few elections the NDP have lost significant ground um to the conservatives in specifically like working class and like rural areas and the like in like the area of like labor and like unions and stuff like that, the NDP have lost a lot of ground. And so if the next leader can be like unfortunately and like I was talking about this with some friends in a group chat uh but like unions are like the only political entity like the only like sort of the only sort of entity in can Canada with like power and money that are amunable to the NDP's causes like they have money they have people they have infrastructure And while like you know the liberals and conservatives have billionaires that they can use to just you know hire an entire like they can make their own operations. They can and they can just buy out like you know any corporation will give them money to support their cause. Uh the NDP don't have anything like that because the NDP explicitly is like well less than it used to be but uh the NDP's policies are not exactly amunable to the wealthy. Uh, so the only like organization that can like channel money for donations, like the only like alternative ways to go about it is you either go like the Bernie Sanders route where you try to be singularly from a leader so charismatic that you can raise a shitload of money through small dollar

donations, which you could do, but that is very fragile and dependent on like the leader being very charismatic and very good. or you need somebody who is really good at speaking to voters to labor and um my guess is that is that there's going to be a leadership race and the NDP are going to make a decision and if uh if you know history is to go the NDP tend to make disappointing decisions. Um, but we'll see. We'll see who actually like puts their hat in the ring, what the leadership race actually looks like. They might come to the conclusion that this is the time to actually embrace their, you know, socialist roots and uh make a stand because now with Carney being so far to the right of even where Trudeau was, you know, this time last year that um that like the left flank of Canadian politics is now wide open. like anybody can go up for grabs like that. Like there's basically nobody really pushing leftwing ideas at all in Canadian politics and the uh the Liberal or the NDP might try to capitalize on that somewhat and if they have a leader who like you know kind of channels that Jeremy Corbin Bernie Sanders energy, he might end up with that. Who knows? That'd be cool. Um but we'll see what happens. Um, the NDP is also very clicky and also doesn't like they like uh they have a handful of people who run the party and they have certain ideas types of uh consultants that they like to listen to and we'll see who wins. Um but uh but yeah um if if we can get an NDP leader who can like you know make the case that maybe a like rich fancy lad who's never worked a day in his life i. e. like Pierre Palev. Uh if they can convince that he is no workingass hero, then maybe they can swing some of those votes back. if they can get back to their union roots and get uh the unions back on board, which is unfortunately like I don't know how who they're going to push through to be the leader through that, but um but uh a good union leader could definitely uh push some of the things back over the edge. And just also the fact that like there's going to be opportunity because there's a lot of people who don't like I think there's going to be a lot of people like this time next year. I think that um Mark Carney's popularity is going to be very shortlived. There's a lot of people who voted for him because they got scared of Trump and did not look into what Carney was proposing, Carney's actual policies are and are going to be shocked when, you know, they're going to do a Pikachu face when Mark Carney does all the things that he campaigned on like, you know, cutting budgets, cutting immigration, uh what's it called? Uh cutting taxes for the rich, that kind of stuff. So the ND I think that next election the NDP could make a decent bounce back. And if they have a smart leader, they could probably make a really good bounce back because I think that this election was in some ways a bit weird. And because it's a minority government, it might not even be that far away. It could be like two years from now, we could end up in another election. A year Um there's a time when I was like I don't know 18 19 20 years old where we had a succession of uh conservative minority governments and um a and uh and like we I was like we had like federal elections like every 18 months so you never know. All right. Um, I didn't know well Butrin makes you sweat, but I've been taking it for the most of 20 years. Yeah. Isn't that just fun? What laws can a minority government pass with crossbench support? Um, I think the Liberal minority government's going to get uh have a really easy time passing their tax cuts. They're going to have a really easy time building pipelines. real easy time um you know uh budget cuts, immigration cuts. All they need to do is get like a handful of conservatives to vote for their bills and all of and you know the the liberal party as like under Mark Carney is going to want to put on a lot of right-wing stuff and so the li the conservatives will definitely give them the votes they need for that. Um if

they try to do something progressive, who [ __ ] knows? But they might be able to count on the little bit of NDP support to push them over the edge because the NDP are really small, but they are just large enough that if uh Mark Carney wanted to appeal to them, although he has made very clear he doesn't really want to, um that he could pass progressive legislation with them, but who knows? I think that the conservatives are going to have to a pretty tough time trying to figure because like the liberals have basically rebranded themselves as a non-csychotic right-wing conservative party. They are a right-wing they are basically the progressive conservatives of the 1990s now. Very right-wing, very much into tax cuts, like they are basically conservatives at this point. Um, and the Conservative party, despite Qualv trying to do this weird thing where he's still trying to stay on as leader and take a guy's seat, the knives are going to be out for him before long. And I think one of the big lessons of this election because the conservatives like went from having one of the biggest like leads in the polls uh to like a to being the opposition like they it was one of the biggest losses for their party in decades. And um I'm hoping that there's a handful of conservatives that are going to strategically realize that maybe it was you know Pierre Palev's uh [ __ ] uh like um you know playing Trump light and like venturing into all this [ __ ] culture war [ __ ] that might play well in Alberta but doesn't really play well in Ontario. And so, um, there might be knives out for him. There's some people who have talked about how the next there might be a leadership race in the Conservative Party between Jason Kenny and Doug Ford. I don't know if Doug Ford would do it because he just got like a four-year thing as premier of Ontario. But there may be a move in the Conservative party to push for a more like, hey, let's stop like maybe more people in the freaking suburbs of Toronto will vote for us if we focused on tax cuts and jobs instead of like, you know, getting mad at trans people and like complaining about woke or whatever. But we'll see what happens. Um, let's see. Yeah, Australia had a similar story, I think, happened. when I heard Australia had an election and that they lost um or that their sort of center-left party beat their right-wing party even though the right-wing party was coming in with a hu like basically like just every country is like seeing how uh the sort of like you know playing with right-wing populism that happened in the US uh has led to an utter [ __ ] catastrophe for themselves and the planet and most people are like yeah we would like to not do that and so every like right-wing parties around the world are taking huge hits uh because of looking at the absolute [ __ ] disaster that's happening in the US and uh and changing like you know kind of having a sort of splash of cold water hit us in the face and change our minds the Australian Liberal uh party lost his seat in the Aussie election. It's so crazy how two Conservative Party leaders in the Commonwealth lost uh nations lost in the same week. Yeah, I think it's the same story, right? Albertans are never happy. No, they uh they have terrible main character syndrome. All right, so Dave L, thank you for the $5 US super chat. I appreciate that. I have this pet theory that AI is just high-tech uh tulipomania and that it's next to no utility. I have been wrong before, but it's a hunch. I um I you know I understand the theory there. I respectfully disagree. Is it overhyped? Yes. Um the amount of money being poured into it is definitely like way out of line with its valuation mostly because uh at the moment there's like little else for people to put venture capital into. Um, but I and this is like unfortunately I thought that you know uh we would have finally a [ __ ] dialectic about this at some point and we would grow up but apparently not. But um but I've I've made my statement on this channel before that um that AI is not going anywhere. It isn't this isn't like this isn't [ __ ] cryptocurrency. This is an actual technology that has been uh that has been in development since its origins as

a Soviet project to build a uh a network that could manage the Soviet economy and has developed into what we have now. It is a technology that has been um that has uh has had very um very intelligent computer scientists working on it for decades and is just now bearing fruit in a really interesting way. Uh but what I will say is that uh the hype around it the sort of uh there was a lot of claims that it could do a lot of things that it cannot. There is a lot of uh it was explicitly brought up in talks on how it would be used to make people lose jobs and it [ __ ] around with a lot of uh established ideas about how we think about intellectual property and uh and plagiarism and all that kind of stuff without the people in charge seeming to have much consideration for the things that they were [ __ ] with uh because essentially it is a technology that while it's not uh like while it's not like going to revolutionize everything uh in the way that like it's going to cause like some kind of you know artificial general intelligence that will change the entire world. it is already very drastically changing uh large uh aspects of the ways that we do a lot of different parts of our lives and not all of them in negative ways. Uh we hear a lot of ideas like big things like how the like the really shitty Gemini um instance that they put on Google search told people to put glue on their pizza and stuff like that. Um, but like that's not where that's not where the big changes are being made. uh we're seeing all of the really dumb and ex and big ones, but like if you like pay attention to like where things are going when it comes to like science and like organizational technology and like all this kind of stuff like and in uh the software development space and stuff like that, there's some serious like AI is doing some serious uh like structural changes to um to some of the ways that we do work and the ways that things that ways things function that uh like that we were surprised by. Um and I know that I know people are very skeptical because um we keep you know we keep talking about it in the frames of like you know like artists and in like copyright and all that kind of stuff. like the fact that like one of the first things that uh that generative AI was able to do was uh the was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize uh in 2023 which was basically to completely solve the protein folding problem. Um we had this almost intractable issue in biology in computational biology where uh proteins the sort of you know the little machines that make all of life happen uh are made by DNA folding al uh you know the components of uh of proteins into the little machines that do all the things that make cells work. And the ways that they fold are really complicated and hard to like model and all that kind of stuff. And then um and so like we were doing like it was like more computational power to figure out all this stuff than we were ever going to be able to do. And in 2023 a team using a using an AI model um was able to map out the entire thing. Um and it's already having major things to like developing new cures and all sorts of like medical breakthroughs and stuff like that. It was a huge deal and you're seeing more stuff like that when it comes to things like uh synthetic data and like um what's it called? like um synthetic data is like a it sounds worse than it actually is but synthetic data is like used in like a lot of like scenario modeling and all sorts of like I don't know it's like another one is that uh that the same type of like uh software architecture is driving a really fascinating series of breakthroughs when it comes to uh fusion or two things one is um that it's uh it's making huge strides in changing a lot of the issues that we were dealing with when it came to fusion power. Um to explain that uh nuclear fusion uh a you know a technology that has been slowly incubating for decades and has had like some major hurdles thrown towards making

it work had uh some major problems due to the fact that it's a massive technological uh undertaking. If you think about it, um, how it works is that you use, uh, magnets, extraordinarily powerful ma, like unimaginably powerful magnets. Like the the latest one that just like sort of just got, uh, put together apparently could hover an aircraft carrier. Like that's how powerful these magnets have to be. Um, and you use them to uh contain hydrogen, hydrogen gas, uh, and compress it enough that it then turns into a plasma and fuses into helium, uh, like it does in a star. So, you use the magnetic power to create, uh, like the kind of constriction forces that you need to have pressure uh, akin to like, you know, the gravity of a [ __ ] star. Um, it's huge. And one of the big things that it requires because like the fusing hydrogen is like something like [ __ ] 10 million degrees C, like some insanely high temperature. And it has to be fairly close to these magnets. But for these magnets to function, they have to be cooled to like almost absolute zero. So all of a sudden you have to be able to maintain regularly the most like uh the like some of the highest temperatures in the universe next to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe. And uh to do so you have to maintain this magnetic field and the magnetic field has to be kept very even. Um it's kind of it kind of makes like a donut shape. That's why I was doing that. Um and uh there was an AI system that uh that came I think it was in 2023 or 2024 was uh able to manage the um the magnetic field f and make the sort of little micro adjustments that you can do uh faster than a human being can. And that resulted in some major breakthroughs when it came to maintaining that chain that reaction uh for longer. Uh to the point where it was a technology that had been for decades kind of uh almost to the point where it became a joke that it was like you know like fusion power is going to be 10 years in the future forever. um and has led to like some serious breakthroughs to the point where like there are some commercial plants that are coming online that are getting constructed right now that intend fully to become commercial power plants which is um which would be like unheard of like there's been some major strides because of that and uh the other is in material science there's been like a huge like um there's been some really huge breakthroughs in like uh new material science developments that humans would not even be able to make the connections out because of that but you know we don't live in a world where we can have conversations about technology and we can understand things because uh we've come to conclusion that if it's a technology then it's a Silicon Valley and because therefore it is bad and therefore technology bad therefore AI bad therefore it can have no redeeming qualities and we can't use it whatsoever and also you know like a lot of the other major issues that came along with it like its power usage and stuff like that are some of like the number one things that like uh what's it called? like OpenAI signed like some weird [ __ ] deal to make like a $10 trillion some I don't know some like absolutely absurd number to buy this like massive uh data or build this a massive data uh like computational like data farm thing in Texas when like then the Chinese came in and were like actually we made something that is like on par with your technology for like you know like 1% of its power usage uh And like everybody, you know, they published it as open source and now everybody's like trying to figure out how they did that. And like the next generation of that is starting to come out and like yeah like the power usage is going to go down pretty immensely as we start designing chip architecture and and like uh like you know algorithmic optimization like if there's like one of the big things that uh Sam Alman needs to be like kicked in the ass for doing is releasing the GPT3 model um before it had like been optimized enough so that it had like a responsible amount of power usage so that it like you know got redefined so many different things and became so popular and so you so like you know so used um before they had like done the like sort of work to not like make like they figured out what was possible and before they could figure out to how to do that

at a way that you can actually scale um responsibly they just released it and then found out that the entire world like really wanted it. So it's like okay yeah it's a it's an extremely important breakthrough technology that uh that has uh unfortunately come out too soon and uh came out and was just released to the public without us you know really dealing with all of the sort of philosophical and like legal ramifications of it before you know we could figure out what it's going to be in society. But honestly, it will probably cool down at some point. I think there's already like there's sort of like people already realizing the bubble's kind of bursting because everyone poured like fuckloads of money into it that and uh and now they're realizing that they it's hard really hard to make profitable and um it'll go dark for a while. Uh but like you know you can run something pretty good on like a gaming PC now. So it's like not going to go away. you could like you could have a you could run a large language model on your computer if you really wanted to. Um, and it's just going to get like that process is getting more and more efficient and you can run like better and better models on lower and lowerend systems. And so even after like you know the big things the big brands if they all crash or whatever I still think that it's going to exist in one capacity or another you can't un uninvent it. it's going to be around doing stuff forever. Um and so uh hopefully it'll like you know its actual use cases will develop and uh the sort of like you know uh the scramble to get uh investor capital by like cramming it into as many things that really don't need it as you can will hopefully you know go away and we can actually like figure out what kind of role it's going to play in like the world in the future. and honestly it's it disrupted a whole lot of the ways that we do a lot of uh a lot of knowledge work and at the moment the instinct has been to react against it but honestly like it's not going to go away and so we have to figure out what a world with it in it looks like and like as a technology where it has use and where it doesn't and etc etc because that's all going to be worked out by people using it and seeing what happened but I would say It's not a thing that like OpenAI wouldn't have gone from being this like obscure nonprofit to being like you know potentially like one of the most profitable companies on the planet or the very least like owning like I think like one of the top websites that exists on the internet now. They wouldn't have done that if it was completely useless and nobody wanted to use it. And I think that the people who are trying to talk about how it has no use uh either don't understand it very well or they're just sort of like they have a [ __ ] eating crackers sort of mentality towards it where they don't like the circumstances surrounding its creation and therefore they have um they have concluded that it is bad and therefore needs to be destroyed and there's no space in between. Even though technology is just it's it'sn't it isn't anything. It isn't it doesn't take a stand. Um Open AI sucks. Anthropic sucks. Um you know Google's [ __ ] Gemini program sucks. Uh but the actual technology they're working with like with the internet like with everything is just sort of there. And I think that a lot of people don't I think that the people who call it like glorified autocomplete and stuff like that ha um have not done the research or because like they started the relationship with it with I hate this and I want to spend the rest of my life proving that it is bad and that is never going to result in you having a like nuanced and like you know thorough understanding of the technology behind it, the ideas behind it, the stuff that it does and like all that kind of stuff. Whatever people did the same thing when the industrial revolution came too and uh Markx pointed out that that's kind of like you know try like fighting industrialization is kind of like trying to fight a force of nature and we're doing it again. Canada, we better off join the EU. That would be nice if Canada joined the EU. I don't think we're gonna get it just because the EU has rules that they would have to bend pretty hard for us to get in. And also, there's definitely an idea that

like if we if Canada became too close with the EU or too close with Europe or with uh with China that the US would start treating us like Ukraine and things could get a lot grosser. Um, let's see. Jaylord, thank you for the five Aussie bucks. Why are left and right in Canada both against Carney? Uh, why were why where were both opposed to Trudeau as well? Um, I mean, the conservatives in Canada hate Carney because he's a liberal and a lot of conservative politics is just a like visceral hatred of the liberals. Um, also he believes in climate change, which is kind of interesting. He like actually is like one of Carney's like few things that he seems to actually care about is like green development. And um if you know anything about uh Canadian conservatives is that Canadian conservatives are fanatically anti-environment. Um they represent Alberta and they're very like Alberta is like where most of their base is. Alberta is a petrol um exporting like a oil exporting province and um that has resulted in the conservative conservatives overall and the conservative party uh fanatically being against the very concept of doing anything to do anything about climate change. And people criticize Carney from the left because he's a fundamentally a conservative. The other problem was saying he was too brown for a certain segment of the Canadian voting public. That is unfortunate but also true. uh Jugme saying basically like by the fact that he is either him being uh Punjabi or him just being a like a seeku visibly wears a turban. Uh both of those more or less like cost the NDP the entirety of its like 2011 orange crush victory in Quebec which um was very sad. Uh, what is Bernie Sanders really after? He's not seeking re-election yet. He's going on tours giving anti- Does he want to push AOC for running for president? Maybe. I do think that he's trying to prop AOC up as the new face of sort of the progressive left in America. Um, either for her to run for president. There's I think that like FD signifier said in a video that there's evidence that she is starting to kind of like think about running for president but um which might be interesting might uh but um but definitely to make her like the face of the progressive movement because at the moment there's not really anybody else besides Sanders who really sticks out in that space. Um and AOC could be like you know Casio Cortez is going is probably the closest thing that the US has to like a visible like young leader of the of like you know the left in like democratic politics and um he's trying to use whatever he can to do that because you know like most people he realizes that the Trump government that you have right now is the result of decades of you know neoliberalism and the sort of hacking away and like the the the impacts that happen to an American population after, you know, you take away basically everything they need to survive for decades. And yeah, um am I going to consider buying the new Delaras DLC where you can build meat ships and fly a fight a hive mind fallen empire? Yeah, probably. I mean, I would I uh I think I'm a few DLC's behind in Stellaris, but I read uh an article about the big patch that they're releasing like this month and um how they're like completely reinventing the mechanics of the game again, and I'm like, "Oh, most of this looks interesting. " I think they're adding a lot of stuff from Victoria 3 to it. Uh so, I probably will I'll probably think about playing it again. The only thing is that like I have so many games I want to play and I have no free time to play any of them. So I have to like I'll buy it because I want to play it and then I'll never have the actual like hours to play the thing. We'll see. One benefit of superc conducting

magnets that the power draw is uh low as electrons can flow through the superconducting material with no resistance. Yep. All the power draw from maintaining superconducting magnets is entirely to keep them cool. Yeah, that is. Yeah, the Victorian. Thank you for the $20 Aussie buck super chat here, Jaylord. The Victorian period fa fascinates me in many ways. While technology and economics advance the period in Europe and empires and its backlash against Napoleon's liberalism, religion and monarchy are back in that era. Yeah, it was a it was, you know, turns out that history is a series of dialectical revolutions and counterrevolutions until we get to here. That's that. Dazia says, "I think uh AOC is running for Senate, not president. " That I think is very much more likely to happen. I think AOC is too young to really run for president at this point. Um but uh but go uh going for Chuck Schumer's Senate seat that comes up soon would definitely be an easy win for her I think. And um and her being in the Senate for a little bit to because the thing is like you know the House is very much focused on like a lot of like you know low down like you know sort of like on the ground type issues and much more close to your constituencies. uh senators do like the committees and stuff like that. And if there's if AOC wants to run for president, she's going to need to like, you know, build up her like like you know, foreign policy experience and it's going to need like, you know, like to like have like more um hands-on experience working with like big machinery in the US, you know, theoretically, you know, pending that like, you know, the United States actually like stays together over for the next few years. I don't know what the [ __ ] going to happen obviously with Trump and everything, but um but uh but being in but like some time in the Senate like most people who run for president are either senators or governors and um her having that sort of background in the Senate would definitely help raise her profile on that. What about Tim Walls? I don't know if Tim Walls like I don't know. We'll see what Tim Walls does uh with like you know when they're starting to next year I guess when they start to cycle up on the start cycling up for the next uh next set of primaries. Like around this time next year is when like the first people will probably start announcing that they're running for president, right? um for 2028 or wait it's 2025 2026 no it won't be for like another two years I guess there's going to be a presidential election still I think so I don't I they may not be like you know fair they may like do something to like disqualify anybody who is not Trump from running but yeah I think that to say that there just won't be elections is a bit too far. They will just have meaningless elections. Even like most dictatorships have elections. They're just shams. Um it's Peter Dutton in the election. He lost yesterday. He was pro- nuclear power. But then again, Australia has uranium mines. So in the age of nuclear environmentalism and mining, there could be more around uranium. Okay, that's Yeah, Canada also is a uranium mining country, but we do have nuclear power plants. I know because nuclear power powers my car. Do you think it's sure there's an entire uh an internal power struggle inside Trump's administration between anti-war and pro-war factions? I wouldn't be surprised that there is like a thousand power struggles happening in Trump's government. Um, it's so chaotic and it's so like corrupt that like a lot and there's so many like very different power brokers in Trump's government. Like the the alliance that needed to be made to make Trump happen is full of so many people with so many different like aims and goals that uh they are all going to be fighting for relevance and popularity. Like even the fact that like in the U like right now the US is about to have like one of the worst like economic shocks to its system in

its entire history because essentially the entire like beating heart of the American economy just got ripped out of its chest um with the tariffs and um the fact that like the CEOs of like Walmart and like all the sort of big box stores that really rely on these like you know on Chinese supply networks and stuff like that to function. The fact that they can't even get on a turn is um is showing there's like some really like there's things are getting really weird in Trump world. Yeah. Um, do you think Alberta will ignore the rights of First Nations to join the US? Oh boy. Um, so this another thing that came up is that like Alberta is uh like during the election the people whed uh in Alberta saying that um if they uh you know if they lose the election, if the conservatives lose, this was like their sort of like you know if you leave me I'll kill myself type of abusive thinking, but they were like if you leave like if you if the if the liberals win, then Alberta is going to vote to separate. And like first of all, uh people have made a pretty decent case to show that you can't you kind of they kind of can't. Um they're not like Quebec. They joined Canada in a very different way. That means that they don't really have the legal right to separate. Um, but Danielle Smith just put forward a bill to make it easier on to do a referendum on such a like on various things. But like such this could be a such a thing. But the thing is that like like Quebec and or like Albertan separ uh independence had does not have does not have like uh the same staying power as it does like in Quebec. Quebec's nationalist movement like Quebec's separatist movement is like over a hundred years old like if not older and it has like several like major political parties in that country or in that you know in that nation that their entire goal is eventually getting independence like the block Kebeekqua and the Peltic Kebeekqua are both explicitly separatist parties. Um, Alberta doesn't ha hasn't done that leg work. And the thing is like without that leg work, like you can't just like vote to leave Canada and not have to deal with like a bunch of [ __ ] up like random [ __ ] Like as you pointed out, the fact that like a good chunk of Alberta's territory is not does not belong to Alberta. It's federally protected land. There's like land the that the federal government has, but then there's also land that is uh given to indigenous nations through a treaty between them and the Canadian government, not the Alberta government. Um this issue came up when it in 1995 when it came to the Quebec referendum as well is like indigenous people in like you know indigenous reserves and like you know the various like territories that they hold in Alberta are not made with the Alberta government. They so that their land is like it is theirs through a agreement that they have made with Ottawa and so Alberta doesn't really have a role in that. So Quebec is kind of like Canada's Texas. I would say that Quebec is more like Canada's Scotland. Um like Scotland has a independence party. It has a like very old independence movement that is active and is relevant in Scottish politics to this day, you know, to different degrees, but still relevant. And I would say that Quebec has that sort of tradition. Alberta, Alberta separation has always had some Yahoos who believed in it. It's never been popular. And I know that uh with everything that's going on right now, like joining the US is not a popular thing in Alberta despite all of their sort of belly aching like Yeah. Do you mean there'll be an election but no Democratic candidate or there will be a Democratic candidate who will be like mysteriously arrested right before the election and uh none of their votes will get counted properly and stuff like that?

Um what kind of car do you drive? I drive a Hyundai Ionic. It's a hatchback sedan. Let's see. Conservatives in Europe invented the welfare state back when capitalism was second fiddle to aristocracy when the bougie gaining ground over nobles led to its graduate diploma. Okay. A lot of the welfare state was built up after World War II uh as a sort of desperate attempt to keep the working class from becoming communists. Yeah. Um, also, would any country recognize Alberta's independence? I'll bet Trump would, especially if he was going to try to annex it and turn Alberta into, what's it called? Like uh, America's version of the [ __ ] um, Crimean Peninsula or whatever. Are Quebec separatists generally left or right-wing? Scottish independent people are generally at least progressive liberals. Yeah, I would say that that's a that's similar. Like the black Quebeca outside of its like nationalist stuff and it is um is fairly like social democratic in its politics. Although I will say that it's um it's fairly uh it's fairly racist. Um, so who's that? Uh, why does Pierre Paleyv hate Doug Ford so much? Um mostly it is so Doug Ford and Pierre Polyv uh have a very interesting dynamic based on the fact that they are in two very they're two slightly different political parties. Uh so Pierre Palev came up through the uh the Canadian Alliance which was like a really right-wing party that existed in Canada in the 90s and then merged with the progressive conservatives uh to become the conservative party of today. Uh he is very socially conservative. He's like anti-abortion. He like, you know, has a bunch of like, you know, he like he does culture war stuff. It's the reason it's the entire like sort of act part of the conservative political project that um that is why they uh can't they despite them like trying over and over again they can't seem to actually form a government because ever since like Steven Harper who was very socially conservative but was smart enough to like kind of like keep it on the DL since Steven Harper the conservative party has struggled to have a leader who isn't like playing footsie with like Albertans who are like blood and soil and like you know like like they're just like Americanstyle social conservatives. The problem is that um the Conservative Party of Canada like that sort of like policy is popular with its base in like the West in like Alberta and Saskatchewan, but it's not like this is like a regular thing in Canadian conservative politics is that every time the Conservative Party plays with being socially conservative like you know like being like well why do like let's be more racist or let's be more like you know sexist or something like that. um it like loses them a lot of their voter base in Ontario, especially in this critical region called the 905, which is sort of the suburbs around Toronto, which usually, you know, is usually the like deciding um the deciding area like the battleground that decides elections. Now, Doug Ford is the progressive conservative premier of Ontario. Uh, and he just won like his like what, like his third majority government in a row, which is like insane. He's very popular here. Uh, and he's very popular around Toronto. Uh, but it's because Doug Ford keeps away from all of the social conservative [ __ ] Um, and so they don't like each other. because Pierre Palev is like a um he's a he's an ideologue. He is a right-wing like a far-right ideologue. Um while Doug Ford is just a corrupt rich guy. Uh, and Doug Ford probably dislikes like a lot of

like what is doing with the conservatives because uh, associating the conservatives with this like sort of like you know American Republican style [ __ ] is probably hurting his brand. And if like I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future we saw Doug Ford run for leader of the Conservative party because he would win. He would win so hard it would be insane. um because he would be able to uh connect with that sort of 905 base that uh like the idea of tax cuts, like, you know, no services for anybody, you know, typical like right-wing stuff, but they don't like the sort of the sexism and racism and like, you know, that kind of like social conservative culture or [ __ ] because that's like American style politics and nobody likes that here. Um so like he would win. Like the Conservatives would win that so hard. Um but yeah, but that's why they there the the Conservative party of today was made of a merger of two political parties that have a very different idea of what conservative politics in Canada should be like. And the one that has the most power in the party right now is one that is basically going to consistently uh keep it from really winning in a uh like winning in the sort of parts of Canada it needs to win in order to become to form government. And um and yeah, it's uh it's going to be tough like uh a and the other one that is you know more like less ideologically inclined and more about like you know just like right-wing economic stuff and so yeah they're at a loggerheads and I think that is like that is the major internal struggle in the Canadian right at the moment. Fun paleontology fact. Earlier this year, the Jurassic soropaginox was classified as chimera, comprised of sorapod material and a very large allosaurid parts. It's now an Allosaurus Anax. I am so lost. How did that How does that uh does that mean that they like mischaracterized two like one skeleton is actually it's actually multiple skeletons or something? Didn't PP and the Conservatives win flip 905 areas in Ontario and other parts of Ontario? They still lost. So the 905 is relevant anymore on its own. not on its own, but um and I don't know. Just look at the freaking election results. I mean, all right. Um like they did make gains the 905, but it's not like they won the 905. Look here, let me let's look at this uh Google image search thing. Um yeah, so if you look here, this is the uh this is the GTA. So the GTA is uh the term we use for the uh the greater Toronto area. And this is like so blue is conservative and red is liberal and little orange there is NDP. So this is 2021. This is the election we had in 2021 and that's where they were at. But you look like the conservatives made some gains but in like the Toronto core didn't really swap. Also like this is all 905 right here. And they made some gains but not a ton. like they got closer like a lot of these races here, little writings here, they came closer than they did, but at the end of the day, the liberals still pulled through and um and so it wasn't enough to completely to like really flip the 905 enough to like to win over the election. But like you think about it like Canada only has 330 something seats in parliament or 340 something seats in parliament. And uh look how many seat seats there are here in the Toronto area. massive. If you look at like the whole country overall, you can see like they just completely run up the score here in the west and then like you know rural

Ontario and then in all of the cities they lose like the liberals just like win. So like we uh like you know we don't have the electoral college here. So, you know, we don't have it so that like, you know, one person's vote represents like 600 times the voting power or whatever. But the reason like the thing is like we've had a couple of elections where like the liberals like won the election even though they got fewer votes than the conservatives. And that's because like over here in Alberta, the conservatives are winning with like, you know, 80 85% of the vote, while like all these other areas, liberals are winning with like, you know, sometimes like, you know, like 39 40 45% of the popular vote. Um, so unfortunately this map looks really weird because Canada is an extraordinarily large country but is population is very condensed in its uh in its urban areas and so even more so than the US it looks a lot more conservative than it actually is. So, if we look at like maybe I don't know like we can find like a more like popular vote or something like that. Let's put the Canadian. Yeah. So, you look at like the sort of like votes here. Um, you can see that like that the liberals got like 580 like you know like got like close to half a million uh more votes than the conservatives did which is like you know it's significant you know 2% of the popular vote which is you know in America that's massive right? uh, yeah. Do I think that Trump will ignore the Colombia River Tree with BC and divert water into the States? Uh, who knows? He's dumb enough to do other things. He might do something like that. Um, let's see. So, I don't know what you're saying here. Does this mean that Allosaurus annex is like a sorapod or like a therapod that looks like it might actually be like is it bigger than Tyrannosaurus or is it just kind of like you know is it still or is it just like you know just a really big Allosaur that we didn't know about before which you know we're there's different degrees of cool happening there. Um, so let's see. You always forget that the colors are flipped. Yeah. I mean, it's Yeah, I think the conservatives are blue also. Like it's true in the UK as well. In the UK, you don't see that because their liberal party is very small. like the UK have a reduh or no the UK in the UK like what's it called in the UK uh the labor party is red and yeah the conservatives are blue and then they use yellow for SNP but then what color are the liberal democrats I don't know what color they use I guess they have to win seats to have a color to be on the map or whatever I think it's true in Australia, too. Like they're their conservative party are called the Liberals and I think they're blue and then they have a Labor party that is red. Excuse me. You shouldn't talk to her. Liv is like an orange yellow color. Okay. But isn't like the Scottish Isn't the SNP also yellow? So there's like two shades of yellow. That's gross. That's a color nightmare. Now, okay, now like kind of bouncing between that and the freaking paleontology talk. Yeah, the T-Rexes keep getting bigger. It's what? So, like to this date, the Tyrannosaurus Rex is

still like the largest predator that has ever lived on Earth. Yeah. As far as we know is that or the largest land predator, I should say, because there's probably like a whales or something like that are bigger and they're technically carnivores. Um Oh no, it's saying Spinosaurus was bigger. Okay. Goddamn Spinosaurus. I have been so I know that uh what's it called? I feel like when I like you know got old enough that I started like I started I stopped like kind of following dinosaurs um dinosaur stuff. I feel like most of like the development in paleontology happened in like the last 20 years. Like it's been absolutely insane how much paleontology has changed in the last like couple of decades and like we're in a whole new world and I have no idea what's going on in that space anymore. dinosaurs. The SNP uses like a tan color. It's a lighter color. The lived shades did not mix together. Okay. How do Canadian primaries work? Are there primaries and writings where liberal candidates debate each other similar to Democratic primaries in the US? No. Um there's a couple ways that it so how it works is um we don't call them primaries. We call them leadership races. So the way that it works is um is like uh first of all the party has a leader, right? Uh leader. There could be a leadership race just triggered by like you know um you know like challenges to leadership. It works differently in every party on the inside and then they have their own leadership race and it's its own thing. Um and the uh what's it called? They don't do primaries or anything like that. They just sort of have a vote. Usually there's like a conference and they have a vote and uh every party member can vote and they vote for a leader uh and the leader of the biggest party like the s the party with the most seats in parliament is the prime minister. You don't vote for the prime minister at all. Um now in the different writings which are sort of our I guess like I think in America they're called districts or whatever. Um, in our various writings, uh, the parties will try to field a candidate in each of them. Uh, they mostly do. Um, I think there's like, you know, like some parties they don't, obviously. Smaller parties will have a harder time running. There's some people who are only running in like one little thing. But um so so choosing a leader of like those various different things is mostly done through having a like a leadership race like a vote or something like that in that place. Um, so like I just think of a couple of examples, but like um like I was sort of associated with the leadership race that happened in the New Democrats in uh writing that I used to live in because they redistricted me out of it. Uh but uh we had a few candidates who wanted to be the rep the candidate in the federal election. Then the party did a sort of vetting process and they had us bring in a third person and then the two uh one of the people dropped out because uh she just didn't want to do it anymore. And so we had two candidates and then they held a leadership race event where the two of them made their cases, took questions, and then anybody who lived in the writing and was quote a member in good standing, which means that you were like a paid you had like paid your dues and you were like a member of the party could vote and whoever won was the candidate. But there's very often times like where uh candidates are there's no choice and there's just like you know they just like walk right into it. There are some places where like um because the parties want to have a

candidate in every single riding, sometimes there's not like a local riding association to like choose a candidate or field one. And so they'll have what are called flyin candidates who are just like people that the party just like kind of like drops in and registers on the ballot just so that they can say they had somebody in there. But um welfare state started before World War I and German Emperor and Austrohungarian Empire, both conservative monarchies. No post. Oh, yeah. I guess like yeah, there was like there's uh what's it called? Um I keep thinking of uh I guess I would think of like what was it called? Like Red Vienna. Red Vienna was like an example of that. I don't know exactly know what point you're trying to make Jaylord though, but um yeah, a lot of those governments did those things because like you know working movements like you know socialist movements kind of forced their hand. Do you have any news of Mia Moulder? Um, nothing detailed. Uh, I had a I texted her a couple weeks ago and she replied saying she was okay. So, but she's been kind of hard to get a hold of in recent months. Um, but yeah. That was the last that like last I text her I was just like I texted her on her birthday and um I just said like you know hey we haven't talked in a while hope you're doing okay and she said that you know yeah she's okay yeah. Do you think that JWST really did find signs of a water world? Uh, definitely did find I think they like if you're talking about like um the trying to remember what that planet's called again. Um, I'll open my Google alerts cuz I have a thing open for it. Uh, the planet uh, oh gosh, where is it? K218b. That's the big that's the that's I think that's what you're referring to. Um, so James Webb has definitely found um has definitely found water worlds before. That is like not in dispute. But um the big thing about the K218B or whatever was that uh they found signs of what they thought was chemistry that could only have been the result of biological activity or at least as far as we know there is no source of the chemistry that they had on being anything but that. Um and so the result was like okay if this works then like it's a good uh candidate for SETI. I don't know about SETI, but it's a good candidate for like if you're talking about this one like K218B is um like as far as like I can tell like they were talking about how it was a pretty good like they thought it might be like a um like a sort of bacterial like the chemistry the chemical that was found in its atmosphere is a chemical that we find on Earth that's produced only by bacteria. And so they're like maybe this is like a big ball of bacteria like so like on an ocean world or something like that. But I have uh I've been trying to keep my eye on this story because whenever things like that come up you know I want to keep my eye on it because of you know the podcast and everything like that. And I'm already seeing that some people are some experts are claiming that the analysis was flawed and that there are ways to produce the chemicals that they're talking about without life. And so there's already some like you know some

creeping doubt about whether or not um whether or not like you know uh Kepler was able like whether or not uh K218B is actually a uh actually has life on it. So we'll see. But there's a lot of stuff that's like, you know, already kind of the claim is already kind of starting to get kind of falling apart. Canada has claimed to the largest known fossil animal we know the color of. It was a rusty red in life. Interesting. I remember one of the things though like my wife and I are in a constant fight about the Kelly kind of rejects the concept that dinosaurs had feathers and I'm like a full embracer of it. But I found out that also that like it was probably likely that um the T-Rex like lost its feathers when it became an adult. And so it was actually a little bit more like the Jurassic Park T-Rex than we thought instead of it being like a kind of like fluffy creature, which made me a little sad because I liked I was a big fan of fluffy T-Rex. But it turns out that was probably maybe what they looked like when they were babies and then they kind of, you know, lost it like they you lose down or whatever. Yeah. All right, we have about 10 minutes left, which we chat about. We had a pretty cool uh pretty dinosaurs and Canadian politics. And it's funny, I've been like I feel like I haven't I've been like given like how much my job intersects so much more with Canadian politics now. Canadian politics has been so much more relevant like and like you know has had a lot more going on than it has in a long time. And like feel like for the first time in like a long time, I'm like way more clued in into Canadian stuff than like American stuff because like you know I haven't been following along on what's going on with the US because you know it's usually just a long string of like horrible things the Trump administration's doing and the Democrats doing like nothing. Um, so, um, I say that while I'm like I still listen to Democracy Now, like almost every day. So maybe I'm being uh a little facicious there, but there's a lot more kind of relevant stuff happening especially because like you know I think the last election like you know might have had a I mean probably maybe not in the long term but like I was a little bit like it would have affected my it would have affect like the results of the election would have affected like my job prospects and stuff and I'm like oh well it turns out anyways that both Carney and uh both Carney and Palev hate [ __ ] immigrants and so um I'm going to lose my job either way. Uh, anyways, I guess I should actually read what his like press conference says about his policies, but I'm not looking forward to some of this stuff. Yeah, Parliament starts on May 26th.

Okay. There was like um a book I read about dinosaur art as people were talking in the chat. I think it was all possible yesterdays or something like that. It was a really good book and like one of the things about it was like hey like none of our dinosaur art factors in the fact that like animals are weird and like you know fat is a thing and like we don't know like what fat distribution on these animals would have looked like and we don't know what like you know like they're talking about how like they had like one drawing I think that was like it was like a triceratops eating a lizard and it's like yeah sometimes herbivores just eat meat like sometimes a deer will eat like will eat like a squirrel if it's hungry. Um and like they had like a picture I think of like a bunch of dinosaurs in a tree and it's like yeah sometimes you find dinosaur sometimes you just find animals in trees for some reason and stuff like that and I was like oh it was a really it was a really like and like uh I think the thing that's most known for is that there was this drawing they did which is like if you had drawn a baboon using its bones in the same way that we draw dinosaurs using their bones and like it looked like nothing like we would ever think of for a um for a baboon as an example. I think it was all possible yesterdays was the name of that. Let me see if I can find some of the art from that. All yesterday's. That's it. Yeah. See if I can show you some of this. It's pretty cool. We're going to finish this off with dino talk. Yeah. Like the sort of protoeratopses in the trees like that and like Yeah. This is the baboon if drawn like the way that we draw or uh dot drew dinosaurs. The way that we drew dinosaurs, we drew it with a the way we do a skeleton for a te for a dinosaur type thing. Um yeah, like we don't have things like this kind of stuff flesh that we wouldn't have covered or like there was a really good one that was like Um, oh, there's the baboon. They're like f There's one where like they had like a dinosaur that was like fluffy and I wanted to find that one. It was like a little white puff ball, but yeah, it was a cool concept. All yesterday's fluffy dinosaur. Maybe that'll work. I guess not. Oh, yeah. Like this as like a dinosaur cuz like there were dinosaurs that lived in like cold places. And uh this is like Oh yeah. Like a dinosaur. This is what a dinosaur like, you know, could have looked like and a T-Rex sleeping. So, you usually see like dinosaurs like, you know, hunting or something and instead you'd see like here like Yeah, T-Rex slept. I think I saw down there a Stegosaurus breeding, which is another uh kind of goofy one. You wouldn't be able to tell tadpoles and frogs are the same animals if you just went by bones. Yeah, I think I remember somebody saying once that like not too long ago we learned that like several different sereratopsians or whatever were all just the same species at different stages in life. Something like that. Like we used to think that there were several different seratopsian species uh in one area and then it turned out that they were just like the same species just in different life stages. This is what I remember. All yesterday's had a picture

that also showed that like predators and pre and herbivores didn't always fight if there wasn't like, you know, a necessarily need for it, that kind of thing. It's interesting. I should read that again. I own it somewhere. All right, we're getting close to the end. So, I think that on that dino topic. Uh, I will call it for now. I'm hoping that by the next stream I have a video. We'll see. My next month is looking real busy, so we'll see what happens. But, um, I think it'll be okay. Um, you guys are great. Thank you. I apologize for being a little bit late. Um, but I think we ended up having a good time. I hope you guys have a wonderful time and you take care of yourself. each other. You keep yourself, you know, uh, keep yourself taken care of and um, yeah.