Posts by KMO
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The conversation with Eric Boyd about the geopolitical tensions around China and Taiwan concludes in this episode with special attention paid to the long-standing animosity between China and Vietnam.
The handsome fellow in the cover art is Qian Xuesen. He worked on the Manhattan project and later on America's early rocket programs, but he was branded a spy and deported to China during the anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era. In China he poured his efforts into developing rockets as delivery systems for nuclear weapons and later for space travel. In the podcast, I was reciting his bio from memory and got a few of the details wrong. Read this for a short but more accurate account: https://daydaynews.cc/en/history/559588.html
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It's geopolitics time. KMO talks with Eric Boyd about the nitty gritty details of the tensions around Taiwan. The CCP insists that Taiwan will join greater China one way or the other. Voluntarily would be nice, but a military invasion is most
definitely on the table. If China invades, will the USA intervene? What about Japan or Australia?
KMO reads from these sources:
https://eurasianet.org/free-speech-risky-as-china-keeps-close-tabs-on-its-overseas-students
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/1/australia-china-tensions-explained-in-500-words
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KMO and Ad Attacker Jim consider the implications of Universal Basic Income as well as the prospect of play-to-earn games growing profitable enough to beat out minimum wage jobs. If young men can get paid to play video games, will they ever leave the house or make an attempt at what we old fogies call "life?"
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The conversation with Rob T about diet, exercise, health and culture concludes in this episode, and then KMO and Jim, your ad attacker, demolish National Public Radio, but with all that Joan Crock, Google and Amazon money, they don't really need listeners anymore, so no skin off their noses.
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KMO talks with long-time Friend of the C-Realm, Rob T. He's been listening since the very early days, and the conversation covers psychedelics, singularitarianism, rural living, health, weight-loss, alternative medical perspectives and doomerism. At the end, there is some outtake material with Adam Sommer, who was the guest in the most recent episode of the main C-Realm Podcast.