Hey y'all! Ya know, we had a plan to talk about a movie but life intervened so we threw the plan out the window. This week on the Patreon, Rivers is doing one of his favorite things in the world which is sitting down for a chat with comedian Ed Greer! We finsih up the last of the Twitter mailbag questions from this week's free show and we discuss some hardcore, real-life sci-fi-type stuff that's been happening to one unlucky fire and brimstone preacher. This was such a fun talk. Ed is the man! Y'all need to follow him on Twitter if you've not already @EdGreerDestroys. Join the Tower of Power by signing up for our Patreon now for only $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheGoodsPod
The Daily Signal - Socialism Destroyed His Homeland. Here’s One Venezuelan’s Warning for America.
Venezuela used to be a thriving and prosperous Latin American nation. Its citizens enjoyed a quality of life, and immigrants flocked there to better their situation. All of that changed abruptly when socialism took over the Venezuelan government.
The once flourishing country quickly became an example for other nations as to what happens when socialism is allowed to run rampant. Violent crime skyrocketed, people lost their lives and livelihoods, and neighbors began to view each other as rivals for ever-diminishing resources.
Yet, many Americans, blissfully ignorant of the ravages of socialism, want to bring it to the United States. When they hear the word socialism, they think of "free" college and health care, as promised by politicians such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Venezuelan Daniel Di Martino has seen firsthand the horrors inflicted by socialism in his homeland, and wants to educate people about what it's really like.
"In Venezuela, about 30,000 people get killed every year of murder. My aunt got kidnapped one time, and when she went to report the kidnapping in the police station, one of the police officers was one of the kidnappers," Di Martino said.
"It's a country destroyed by socialist policies, so it's very hard to find food, very hard to find basic necessities," he added. "So, you have to make lines for hours. You have to bribe people. You have to be corrupt. It's not a good place to live. And so, that's why I'm very grateful to have been able to come to America."
Di Martino joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to share his experiences with life in socialist Venezuela, as well as to offer his advice on how to educate Americans about the dangers of the ideology.
We also cover these stories:
- President Joe Biden pushes world leaders to bolster democracy during a virtual "Summit for Democracy."
- The Food and Drug Administration authorizes booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 16- and 17-year-olds.
- The parents of two girls who survived the Oxford High School shooting near Detroit file two $100 million lawsuits against the school district in federal court.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
The U.S. civil court system doesn’t get as much attention as the criminal courts, but it would be hard to overstate its importance. In 2018, for example, 47 percent of respondents to a Pew survey said they had dealt with the system in one way or another; from eviction proceedings, to debt collection, to child-support modifications.
What happened when the pandemic upended such an important pillar of the justice system? Did new technologies fix existing problems—or just create new ones?
Guest: Qudsiya Naqui, officer at the Pew Charitable Trust
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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PHPUgly - 265: PHP Cows
Links from the show:
- https://twitter.com/shocm/status/1469036714668687364
- laravel/framework tickets being closed in a hurry? : laravel
- What's new in PHP 8.1 - stitcher.io
- Operating without foreign key constraints - Documentation - PlanetScale
- Git's Best And Most Unknown Feature - YouTube
- https://twitter.com/gfunkbass/status/1462022411482800136
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Opening Arguments - OA550: Oxford Shooter’s Parents Charged
In what seems to be an unprecedented but perhaps bold and necessary move, the parents of the Oxford shooter have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Andrew has the breakdown of what happened and if the charges are likely to stick. Is it a slippery slope to... anyone being charged for everything ever? Nah. Before that, we've got an update about the Amazon unionization effort. A new election has been ordered, which is good news! Find out what Amazon is guilty of. Links: Amazon new election order, Michigan Penal Code Section 750.321, jury instructions
Short Wave - What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? (encore)
On a rapidly changing planet, there are many ways to measure the health of an ecosystem. Can sound be one of them?
Researcher Sarab Sethi explains how machine learning and soundscape recordings could be used to predict ecosystem health around the world.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Zero to MVP without provisioning a database
PlanetScale is built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system that runs at colossal scale hosting YouTube, Slack, and GitHub.
A familiar theme: Big cloud companies aren’t set up for independent developers. Sam and Ceora discuss how serverless can get projects—even businesses—up and running quickly.
Choosing the stack for a new business? Tools like Netlify can scale with your product, so you don’t have to change your architecture as you evolve.
Staging environments should be a thing of the past. That’s why PlanetScale enables database branching.
And finally, a question from Law Stack Exchange: Can satellite images be copyrighted?
Divided Argument - Out of Whack
We’ve been waiting for months to bring you this one: we can finally talk about the President’s Supreme Court Commission, which just finalized its report this week. We also briefly talk about the recent argument in Dobbs and try to predict what the Court might do.
It Could Happen Here - Neoliberalism Part 2: The Trade World War: G7 vs G77
In part 2 of our series on Neoliberalism we look at the economic crises that plagued the 1970's and the forgotten conflict between the G7 and the G77 that shaped the modern world
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From crisp cider to blistering lava, life advice, climate solutions, the comforts of venison stew, cockroaches in orbit, UFO culture, social justice, dongs, worms, wasps, fireflies, bear orgies, makeouts, disasters, the deep ruts of the patriarchy, and desperate horny bugs. This second-ever “Audiobook Mixtape” has it all. So if you’re near a fireplace but have no book, or haven’t started holiday shopping (like your dear old Dadward VonPodcast) let this casserole of literary snippets serve as a refresher of favorite episodes, a teaser for ones you haven’t heard or just a gentle nudge toward a bookshop.
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