Essays

The Time-Travelers guide to the worst timeline, Chapter 2

The philosophy in our timeline is trash. Here's how much better it could be on other timelines. Via our own combat philosopher, Steve Mix

The Time Traveler’s Guide to the Worst Timeline

Congratulations, traveler! You have managed to find your way into the worst timeline. Feel free to panic. Essay on the low-key horror of our current reality, by Steve Mix

Capitol Riots: Anatomy of a Catastrophe II – Electoral Boogaloo

Scrapper again deconstructs the failures that lead to the latest major catastrophe befalling the United States, the how, why, and what the f

The Zipper Merge, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Traffic Engineers

No, you're not being a nice guy by getting in line as soon as possible, you're making everyone's commute take longer.

Failure is Part of the Process

How mixed martial arts can teach us to correct the problems in our decision making and thought processes.

Latest articles

50 Ranking Conspiracy Theories: Tier List

For our 50th episode, we invited a few people to join in live and help us rank a set of popular conspiracy theories on their threat value to society brought by people who sincerely believe in them.

49 The Fandom Grievance—Grifters

If you have an internet connection (which you do, otherwise you're reading this in the far future via gravitational waves or sophons or something),...

48 Aaaaaaahhhh (yes, that’s the title of this one)

In this episode we discuss the burning dumpster clown assault rifle rodeo that is America right now, and Phrost nearly gets himself canceled over a "hard-R".

47 Into the Manosphere

In this episode, Phrost and Jack do a short dive into the "Manosphere" —the corner of the internet that targets emotionally vulnerable dudes (mostly younger), and exploits that vulnerability to sell them garbage supplements, "how to get a date" programs, and much worse.