The Mind Killer

Support us on Substack!News discussed:Strong Towns on the infrastructure billNew South Wales’ government has started using Coof restrictions as an excuse to monitor and limit peoples’ alcohol intakethe Aussie cops are using check in app data for investigative purposesthe Aussie government is deliberately creating a shortage of at-home tests as an explicitly putative measure to try to increase vaccine uptake.Huawei CFO release was interesting and complicated. See link.District Judge granted injunction to Justice Dept.Injunction struck down 2 days later, abortions are out again. Facebook “whistleblower” revealed… a bunch of stuff we already knewInstagram was net positive on everything except body image for womenon an actually, seriously unrelated note, Facebook and Facebook-owned apps suffer worldwide outageThe “Pandora Papers” leakedLots of trusts in South Dakota Lots of lawyers helping out! Including Baker McKenzie, the US’s largest law firmGroup of Congressmen proposing ENABLERS Act to require more reporting by financial middlemenMissouri state murders a man, which is bad. But the Perfidious Roman asked them to show leniencyA large Colorado hospital system says people on its organ waitlist won't be offered a transplant if they refuse to get the COVID vaccinethis is the same news outlet that warned covid vaccines maybe don't work for organ transplant patients They were mostly wrongVirgin Media is secretly operating its own block on access to VPN sites & VPN review sitesOECD agreed to A global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15%OECD originated to help administer the Marshall PlanNobel Prize goes  to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido ImbensHappy News!WHO approved malaria vaccineMerck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatmentEviction moratorium ends, eviction filings fail to spike, confusing experts.Indigenous Canadians plan huge development project outside of Vancouver11 towers, 6,000 units in the least affordable housing market in North AmericaUK government released plan to develop, deploy and expert nuclear fusion powerJapan restarted nuclear plants that were closed after Fukishima in 2011David Shor and his advice for the Democratic Party.Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Substack!News discussed:Update on Texas abortion law - the Justice Department sued the entire stateUK government mulled bringing in the army to help ease supply disruption triggered by a shortage of truck drivers China negotiated with terrorists, releases Huawei exec in exchange for release of two Canadians. Reason on California math curriculum FDA declares war on AmericaGoogle & Apple both removed Navalny app from app stores, Irony meters everywhere have explodedTelegram also shut down a bot that could text out Navalny’s picksJudge said NY vaccine mandate for healthcare workers must have religious exemptionOnline pastor immediately began selling religious exemptionsRelevant: wine during prohibition US, UK, and Australia formed military allianceGovt is shutting down again? Border patrol horsemen! No more single-family zoning in California!Terner Center estimates that  only 5.4% of single family lots (700,000) will be financially feasible to expandVery little effect on San Francisco area since lots there are too smallGOP-backed “cyber ninjas” audit Arizona election, find more votes for Biden than original count. Review on trigger warnings finds that they are counterproductiveCentral Park Karen speaks! Happy News!Basel Soukaneh, a man who suffered abuse by a CT police officer, overcomes qualified immunity. Denmark has lifted all covid restrictions!Rally to protest the treatment of suspects of participation in the Jan. 6 is apparently 90% undercover fedsL.A. County D.A. to dismiss 60,000 past marijuana convictions Petition for Jessica Watkins to be held in home detention pretrial, including descriptions of her abuse at the hands of the corrections officersGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Bonus episode featuring Aella! We talk about the situation with Onlyfans banning pornography, then unbanning it a week later. We also stray to a few other topics.Support us on Substack!“It’s like KFC saying, ‘We’re going to ban chicken.’ What does that even mean?”OF was having trouble getting investorsOF Seeking a value of $1 billionOF Launched a SFW app (“OFTV”) right before announcing the banPatronizing tweet from OF about sex workersAella: “ I'm not too worried. There's other competitors ready to fill the gap.”Aella’s collaboration siteTwitter survey suggesting sex trafficking is vanishingly rareManhattan prosecutor stopped prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massage chargesProposed California bill creating civil liability for online distributorsAella’s BlogAella’s TwitterGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killerIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Substack!News discussed:Biden orders OSHA to de-facto mandate vaccinesLewis County General Hospital temporarily pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff quit rather than get a COVID-19 vaccine. Biden also activated the defense production act to increase testing capacity instead of just telling the FDA to unban rapid testsSCOTUS refused to block Texas abortion lawAndrew Torrez says this means they’ve overturned Roe v. WadeIf You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t you California Governor?Biden Continues Trump Seizures of Private Land for Border Wall China may be on the brink of its Sept 2008 momentOscars establishing oppression quotas to win Best PictureDemocratic governor of NC vetoes bill which would repeal racist Jim Crow law supported by the KKKCrazy ex kills a bunch of cryo patients that were preserved at KrioRus over a bad breakup Happy News!Good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with gun in New YorkThe bad guy was added to a memorial for victims of gun violenceDave Chipman nomination withdrawn Peter Singer wins $1 million Berggruen Prize for lifetime achievement in philosophy and culture, donates entire winnings to effective charityNo more roomba poop rooms! Afghanistan War was a success?Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killerIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Substack!Australia’s military is not enforcing lockdownsBut they are shooting dogs The Cuomo allegations are seriously dubiousNews discussed:New Taliban is bizarre. chad memes?? The median age in Afghanistan is 18 Biden allegedly ignored warnings of Afghanistan’s collapseThough actually, things are going pretty wellNASA declines to buy Bezos’ on-sale lunar landers and so he sued themSF budgets $1 BILLION for an environmental review for a proposed new train line. What the s**t?OnlyFans bans porn!?!?MasterCard (and soon Visa) are basically not going to do business with porn sitesPressure from the anti-woman and anti-sex lobbies“fighting trafficking” as defined by these groups has also led to policies to defund AIDS programs that worked with sex workers Fake news story claims that Boba Fett’s ship name is the next victim of Disney’s Cancel Culture CrusadeHappy News!Pfizer fully approved!Most of Poly CryptoHack money returned, hacker offered security job by Poly“Sex Trafficking” is good, actually Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killerIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

The Mind Killer has moved to Substack! If you’re using the Libsyn feed, please redirect it to Substack. All other feeds should be fine. Give us your money there!Wes is on vacation next week, so enjoy this early episode!News discussed:Farmers don't want to reuse GMO seedsCannibal! The MusicalAudacity has a new privacy policyBlue Trump resignedAnti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey accused of sexual harassment by two colleaguesBipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate!Zvi estimates 2-3 weeks until it peaks American Academy of Pediatrics tells FDA to hurry the F upWHO is still telling people covid is spread primarily by droplets and contactNew York tries vaccine passports, proves David rightFrance also tries vaccine passports, sparks massive protestsAround 8,600 people in Germany could have received the saline solution instead of the vaccine cuz of antivax nurse.Australia’s FDA is even worse than oursAlso, their lockdown seems inspired by their neighbors to the NorthBiden extended eviction moratorium by 60 days A safe deposit box company in LA was the victim of a $85 million heist… perpetrated by the FBIDemocracy dead in Tunisia?Noah Smith: “China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.”Michael Spavor was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 11 yearsUK supply chain faces collapseApple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, “for the children”Teen suicide rates drop by 15-20% in summer monthsHackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry's history.Happy News!Comic book creators moving to substack, worrying the big publishing houses (which is a good thing)! New book by Emily Oster! About early school aged kids! The percent of these households that had at least one homeschooled child was 5.4% in spring 2020, 11.1% during fall 2020, and 19.5% by May of 2021.Unvaccinated to pay the full cost of their COVID hospitalizations?Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/03p4rwp3Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killerIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Patreon!   News discussed:   CDC (boooo) encourages indoor mask mandates in high-risk areas Iraq is the new Afghanistan China is building a whole lot of nukes Maine constitutional referendum on a “right to food” The fleeing Democratic congresspersons we discussed a few weeks ago had a small superspreader event Facebook is censoring all mentions of Far-Right candidate in Hungary Do you know what’s infrastructure? Regulating cryptocurrency into oblivion! Sideline reporter tells the weeping gold medalist that he can connect with his family over microsoft teams Shipping a 40 foot container cost jumped to 10kusd Walmart to pay 100% of employee’s college costs   Happy News! Bezos’ penis-based space expedition was successful, then offered NASA $2 billion to go to the moon with Blue Origin’s help Researchers Find Way to Convert Type A Blood to Type O  Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!   Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer    Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Patreon!   News discussed:   Protests against the government in Cuba! Cuban-Americans protesting in solidarity Ron DeSantis had to backpedal after he passed an anti-BLM “anti-riot” law earlier this year which criminalizes much of the behavior the American protestors are engaging in.  Cuban protests are embarrassing to the Left, and therefore an unconscionable COVID risk Michael Avenatti sentenced to two years in jail for fraud DACA was declared unconstitutional Hunter Biden keeps embarrassing his dad Delta variant is causing covid deaths to trend upward French anti-vax protests destroy/damage 2 vaccine clinics  Tennessee halted all vaccine outreach to kids, for all vaccines The Guardian published “Kremlin” papers about how Trump was compromised Joint Chiefs of Staff feared Trump would attempt a coup after election Haiti’s president was assassinated   Happy News!   Virgin Galactic successfully reaches the bit of the galaxy which, by some definitions, could possibly be considered space We’ve started the leaving Afghanistan process! And W is having a sad about it Plastic Waste could replace up to 10% of the sand in cement!   Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!   Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer    Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Patreon!   Feedback:   Inside the Battle Over the Soul of the Libertarian Party    News discussed:   DC stopped Batman from performing oral sex on Catwoman Redneck’s need practice at doing Burning Man stuff Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine Massive Kaseya Ransomware Attack  Arizona bill SB 1840 to make teaching racism illegal? Audacity will now share personal data with law enforcement and government agencies  U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the Voting Rights Act The court struck down California's law requiring nonprofits to file a list of their large donors with the state Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits By Those Wrongly Flagged As Terrorists  Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a circuit court ruling that required a Virginia school to let a transgender student use the bathroom corresponding with his gender identity.   Happy News!   Flying Car Completes First-Ever Flight Between Airports (not in the US, of course) China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO   Steve Horwitz writing recommendations Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!   Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer  Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Support us on Patreon!   News discussed:   FDA approves questionable Alzheimer’s drug SCOTUS says Philadelphia can’t require religious foster care agencies to give kids to gays SCOTUS also threw out another b******t Obamacare challenge on “standing” grounds SCOTUS says NCAA can’t keep f*****g college athletes SCOTUS tightens leash on agri unions Supreme Court Rules Teens 1st Amendment rights still exist in school Satanic Temple gets involved in the “F**k Cheerleading” case U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot always enter a home without a warrant when pursuing someone for a minor crime The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider a challenge to the men-only military draft. John McAfee found dead in his cell in Spanish prison pending extradition to the US  He tweeted on Oct. 15 saying “I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”  Senate passed big corporate welfare bill to “compete with China” The Left hates it  The Right hates it leaked documents from the late Trump White House reveal that The Perfidious Roman called down a miracle from the Heavens to steal the election for Joe Biden with the knowledge and assent of the CIA.  Netanyahu ousted as Prime Minister by coalition of 8 different parties French elections give losses to both Left and Far-Right parties, middle-Right surges A battle for the soul of the Libertarian Party was fought and the good side lost.  Yassine from r/themotte was interviewed on Blocked & Reported! Colorado Gay Cake news Inflation is spiking   Happy News! Juneteenth is a federal holiday!  After more than 20 years, California unbans cool-looking guns!  Missouri declares itself a sanctuary state with respect to federal Gun laws  Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!   Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer  Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe