"It’s really striking how many Clubhouse rooms that are on these very tense topics that can go for hours and hours and hours without actually blowing up. Wherea

"It’s really striking how many Clubhouse rooms that are on these very tense topics that can go for hours and hours and hours without actually blowing up. Whereas on Twitter, they would have detonated three minutes in." The difference between Clubhouse and Twitter is Twitter has bots and people who are paid to influence. Bots haven't mastered faking speech well enough to disrupt Clubhouse yet. The influencers will show up eventually, but it seems like Clubhouse has some good moderation features and since it's slow and linear, and only one person can speak at a time, it's more human manageable. "I can't watch television, news or commentary or anything like that anymore. It's just too much of an alienating and frustrating experience; I'd much rather go listen to three-hour podcasts" Yes, absolutely. I can't stand TV any more. I now listen to podcasts when I eat dinner instead of T.V. The great part about podcasts is there is so much variety. T.V seems to be locked into a much smaller set of ideas. "California has had this incredibly absurd period…you could make a Terry Gilliam movie about high speed train construction in California. Like a sequel to Brazil or something, set in the California bureaucracy and political system where you spend billions and billions of dollars and absolutely nothing happens. What would be the most obvious thing in the world is a high speed train between San Francisco and LA. All of these programs exist, they've been authorized, with taxes and all kinds of stuff and like nothing." The peak of the absurdity is San Francisco. That it took 1 billion dollars to construct 1 mile of subway in San Francisco is pretty funny. San Francisco also spends $300 million a year on 8,035 homeless people. We spend 16% of our GDP on health care, double as a percentage vs any other country and have worse outcomes. There's something going on here that nobody wants to talk about. I think it's related to this: "I'll confess to being shocked and stunned by how well things worked. I thought last March, when we decided suicidally that we were going to basically shut the economy down. I was like, oh shit, this is really going to be a horrific depression. What's the worst possible depression you can have? It's one where you have simultaneous blows to the supply and demand side and you kill the engine and stall the plane." It makes you think. How much of the economy is just "bullshit jobs"[1]. How much is just make work, and what we need to do our daily routine and survive just sitting around at home with our laptops is maybe 30% of the actual economy, plus a bunch of stuff made in China? Despite what most doom-mongers claim, there seems to be an ENORMOUS amount of slack in the system, and to actually do something that doesn't take advantage of all that slack, like building new infrastructure, is an enormous ask. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs