Podyallup #93: Unacceptable!

The first thing I wanted to start with, I'm just mentioning that PodYollop is a hyper-local podcast, and so I'm not going to get into national politics, which I find tiresome, which I find divisive.

I find not very useful in many situations.

You know, it's good to know stuff.

It's good to be informed.

You don't want to be taken advantage of and such.

But we are being taken advantage of.

It's a real issue.

And we're being taken advantage of in such a way that we're not able to to actually affect much change.

And yet our focus is so much on that national level or international level And I think that's one of the main drivers of the anxiety that we're experiencing as a society.

Everybody is somewhat anxious.

And I think it has a lot to do with being spun up by various forces in the media landscape.

That could be podcasts, hello.

That could be newspapers or cable news or blogs or whatever.

It's easy to see how we're being spun up on purpose as a means of control.

And I'll give you an example.

The AI data centers are being used right now as a hot button issue.

And there's a lot of uncertainty around that.

That gives people more reason to be anxious, but also people's opinions about AI data centers and really everything.

People's opinions are assigned to them.

It's very difficult to come up with an opinion that is original, that is unique to you.

And, you know, myself included.

I'm not immune to this.

Just because I know that this is true does not mean that I'm immune.

You will be assigned opinions on things.

And if you're on the social medias, which you should probably get off of for your sanity.

The first thing I wanted to start with, I'm just mentioning that PodYollop is a hyper-local podcast, and so I'm not going to get into national politics, which I find tiresome, which I find divisive.

I find not very useful in many situations.

You know, it's good to know stuff.

It's good to be informed.

You don't want to be taken advantage of and such.

But we are being taken advantage of.

It's a real issue.

And we're being taken advantage of in such a way that we're not able to to actually affect much change.

And yet our focus is so much on that national level or international level And I think that's one of the main drivers of the anxiety that we're experiencing as a society.

Everybody is somewhat anxious.

And I think it has a lot to do with being spun up by various forces in the media landscape.

That could be podcasts, hello.

That could be newspapers or cable news or blogs or whatever.

It's easy to see how we're being spun up on purpose as a means of control.

And I'll give you an example.

The AI data centers are being used right now as a hot button issue.

And there's a lot of uncertainty around that.

That gives people more reason to be anxious, but also people's opinions about AI data centers and really everything.

People's opinions are assigned to them.

It's very difficult to come up with an opinion that is original, that is unique to you.

And, you know, myself included.

I'm not immune to this.

Just because I know that this is true does not mean that I'm immune.

You will be assigned opinions on things.

And if you're on the social medias, which you should probably get off of for your sanity.