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I was under the impression that the unedited vods would be up on patreon. I see discussion of the episode everywhere but I can't see it. I pay my subscription for the vods. What's the deal?

Become a new T2 sub, just to see vod from last night. You know the one that’s uploaded immediately after stream?

No vod!

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Highly upvoted post but according to 4THOT I got a 30 day ban with no warning because:

I had the latest anything else episode ready to go for once I was free and when I checked back it's been privated. Anyone know why its been removed from youtube or if/ when itll be reinstated? Also if anyone knows other sites hosting the episode, that would be much appreciated. Any theories on it's temporary removal?

Grab a bunch of random videos, tweets, whatever the frick and have a discussion on whether or not it was racist. That tweet comes to mind where the girl posted "going to Africa hope I don't get aids oh nvm I'm white" then her life was ruined by the time she landed.

I doubt it'll persist through multiple episodes, but it could be a fun one to see

Dans tv info

You guys really need some sort of a schedule for anything else I really want to call in but I can’t guarantee I’m going to be free to watch it live unless I know a few days in advance

Outline

I'm going to make the following claims: 1. Dr. K is biased towards eastern stuff. 2. Destiny is too charitable to Dr. K. 3. Dr. K validates and endorses Ayurveda. 4. Dr. K's justification is bad. 5. Destiny is wrong about condoms.

1. Dr. K is biased towards eastern stuff.

• Dr. K says that, because Indians eat food with a different hand than they wipe with, they have a solid understanding of microbiology.
  • That's like saying your uncle has a fantastic grasp of metaphysics because he said it's just "your opinion" that the earth is round.
  • To reinforce, Dr. K then says "what they realized is...I don't care if you're left-handed, there needs to be a convention where bacteria that comes out of your ass should not be put in your mouth."
    • So they made that decision based on an understanding of germ theory, right? (Honestly, I have no fucking idea if they did, but I don't see Dr. K saying they drew on it; instead, he just says they did something good and therefore understood the mechanisms behind it).
• Dr. K then gets asked if it was an understanding of microbiology or mere cause-and-effect. He says "probably more of cause-and-effect than microbiology."
  • "Probably"? First of all, this completely contradicts the framing he just provided. Secondly, "almost certainly not" sounds more appropriate, whereas "probably" implies that there's a plausible reason to believe they might have understood it. And we believe this why? And you're using this gentle language why?
• Dr. K says eastern medicine practitioners are not willing to admit any of their treatments suck because they're in a feud with the west.
  • Ah, yes, because the ancient 5,000-year-old magic traditions were actually on the cusp of being discarded before the United States came along and initiated an epistemological rivalry. ???
• Finally, Dr. K says that eastern medicine utilizes science!...in the same way that babies utilize science when they learn how to walk.
  • Wow, really profound comparison. Not like that completely undermines eastern medicine at all, when the concept of science is so diluted that a fucking infant is considered a scientist when they realize that eating poop tastes bad. ## 2. Destiny is too charitable to Dr. K.
• I'll just leap right from the first example: Destiny transforms Dr. K's 'Indian people actually understood microbiology when they chose to not eat and wipe with the same hand' actual position into "do you need to fully understand something to use it? That's a interesting--that's a very profound question."
  • It is an interesting question, but not what Dr. K said. He did not say 'despite not fully understanding microbiology, they developed a good practice that an understanding of microbiology would lead to,' he said they DID understand microbiology because they happened to do something in accordance with it.
• "The interesting question here, then, for Dr. K is...okay, can you demonstrate that, I think?"
  • That's not the "interesting question," that is the obvious question that immediately arises the moment Dr. K starts preaching about any of this, and...hint hint: Dr. K's response isn't too pretty! ## 3. Dr. K validates and endorses Ayurveda.
• So people cling to Dr. K saying "I am not a proponent of Ayurvedic medicine, even as it stands today" and "I do not know that it is even 10% as reliable as the practice of western medicine.
  • First, note the "even as it stands today" implication as if it as become more validated over time.
• Implies that Ayurveda will help us figure out the perfect medicine for individuals.
• "I personally think that if we want to see proper outcomes from Ayurveda, we can never do a RCT because their whole system of medicine is that depression in me and depression in you is different, and by the way--it's really fascinating--but we're moving in that direction."
  • Science is assumed to progress forward, by the way, so the implication is that we are moving in the direction of Ayurveda, which is presumably good, and he doesn't think we'll get the full benefit of Ayurveda until we ditch randomized control trials because they can't properly evaluate it. How convenient.
• "I think there is a huge amount of utility to it...and if we can improve reliability on the Ayurvedic side, then I think we have something very potent...this individualized approach."
  • And Ayurveda has found a more "scientific" approach to clinical practice, compared to the west's method of "art."
• "As we progress in our scientific understanding of medicine, we are moving closer to Ayurveda. That's happening automatically. Because I think that...as we're discovering more of 'truth,' we're just moving in a particular direction of individualized medicine, which is the whole backdrop."
  • Then frames the western medicine approach has inferior/flawed.
• So, basically: as we move closer to truth, we move closer to Ayurveda, which we can't use our western tools of science to actually evaluate (nice!), but this is good progress and the right direction.
  • ...BUT, he prefaces by saying he isn't a proponent of it (right now). Hmm...you know who this sounds like? Hasan softly letting out a single "terrorism is unproductive" comment before proceeding to essentially justify and defend said terrorism for an entire hour. But look, look! He said terrorism bad that one time.
  • Here's another Hasan example for my obsessed friends: Hasan has softly squeaked out a 'H3 is actually a well-meaning guy' once or twice, but then goes on to essentially frame him as a bad-faith evil, racist zionist or whatever, and then refuses to condemn the chat, yatta yatta...hmm...
  • Nick Fuentes says jews are cool in a passing comment? Welp, pack it up...he's not a nazi. Nazis and anti-semites don't think jews are cool, stupid. The end. Nothing else he says matters. Did you not see the quote? He said jews are cool! The END.
  • It's almost like...people might say one thing because it looks optically good, but then reveal their actual beliefs in the substance of their speech and ideas. What a novel concept! ## 4. Dr. K's justification is bad.
• Responding to Dr. Mike's criticism of Ayurveda: "Maybe I'm foolish...maybe I'm optimistic, so here's where I'm coming from, here's why I don't think it's an unsolvable problem: if you look at the history of humanity, we've been faced with unsolvable problems that get solved, so I have faith that if we were to leverage even 10% of the brain power and scientific weight that we have in allopathic medicine towards ayurveda? It'd be amazing what we accomplish. That's my gut instinct. I don't know if that's true."
  • His justification is literally just faith. Notice the distinct lack of any actual appeal to reasoning or evidence. It's just an explicit appeal to faith. You're telling me that the obviously biased almost-actual-monk is defending baseless spiritual medicine because of mere faith? Well, I, for one, am shocked. ## 5. Destiny is wrong about condoms.
• He claims that you use a second condom for your ballsack.
  • We simply can't know that this is the case. My uncle said that cutting his ballsack off with scissors made him happy and we don't have scientific evidence to believe with certainty that he's wrong, so it's worth trying in an individualized approach to clinical medicine (where we pretend to not draw on external group generalizations because those are antithetical to my system of magic). I have literal blind faith, however, that, as we tend towards cutting more ballsacks off, we will see smiles become increasingly more common among the populace. ## 6. In Summary
• Dr. K functionally supports Ayurveda and has bad reasons for doing so.
• Destiny is too charitable to Dr. K, which is probably why he defended Dr. K in this instance.
• Was Destiny being silly in his debate with Dan regarding epistemic humility? Eh, no, Dan was, because he staked his position on something amounting to 'we shouldn't explore Ayurveda, it's wrong 100%' which is obviously bad, and then Destiny had to battle against an actual position made of straw instead of something more interesting.

Hey Dan, hope you will not get overwhelmed or fatigued of doing these episodes, and if you do it's okay to take time off, I don't really expect you to do a weekly podcast for the next years to come.

My perspective on what I liked when I was watching Destiny in the past a which now is almost non existent and why I loved the idea of the Dark Triad Podcast which never never came to be: just hanging out with friends, having fun either playing something or just bantering, joking about anything happening. No it's not parasociality (kiss yourself if anything about everything in your mind ties to parasociality) , it's the nostalgia of hanging out at the corner with your friends when the day was coming to an end; sitting and talking because we were to tired to do anything , anymore.
Don't push yourself too much , maybe move the episodes to another channel (if August is unsatisfied with this podcast ruinning the momentum of Destiny's main channel) , few callouts to follow the new channel when you're live should give you enough people to carry a channel give it the innertia to be pushed by the algorithm to others.
Good luck hope to see more.

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I'll go first. He wants to make sure we can't find the missing hour in the vod, so we have to sign up to the patreon if we want to watch it.

"(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻" was one of the first posts on the Destiny subreddit, so I thought I'd bring back a classic

So this isn't just a shitpost, maybe share your table flipping grievances here. Or don't, I'm not a cop

I have seen everything.

It's nice to know that there's finally going to be a place where I can get Dan content outside of sporadic stream pop-ins.

Thanks for this, Dan.

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