Episode 316: They Live!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school safety, They Live, Trump gets a boo-ing just in time for Halloween, and Stack Exchange continues their dumpster fire...STILL!

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Show Notes:

• Are the latest OSX and iOS worse that previous versions?
• City life vs. Yee-Ha life
• Feedback: woman may have killed child after getting hundreds of thousands in treatment
• Feedback: Queen removing pictures
• Feedback: Hocus Pocus remake info
• "They Live" was better, though
• "They Live" was a warning that is still relevant in the Trump world we live in today
• Teachers are using Home Alone to defend against gun lovers
• Trump BOOED! BWAHAHA!
• Woman killed at "gender reveal"
• Stack Exchange dumpster fire update
• Hashtag Cause a Scene podcast episode referenced
• Update: there's a GoFundMe for Monica
• "Disrupting the Status Quo"
• This has to be a record for downvotes on a question, or at least in the running...
• David's post continues sliding down
• Should Twitter activity count against someone in a separate job?
• RoboTrump highlights a study in detection of fake Trump vs. real Trump statements by people
• Voretaq sent a link highlighting how bad people are at skepticism vs. "fake news"
• Texas transgender case concerning a child...

Episode 315: Stack Exchange Community Dumpster Fires Continue the Burn!

Bart and Norma discuss house hunting, heart fun, Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow CONTINUES their community dumpster fire, and fight clubs be fighting on Geeking After Dark Episode 315!

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Show Notes:

• "I'm going to say Voretaq is ghosting us this week..."
• House hunting: ongoing
• Yay for heart problems!
• Racket got a new cave!
• Dubia roaches for Racket food?
• Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow meltdown continues!
• I'll note that as of this writing the post is under 10...
• The only thing that stops a bad woman with a book is a good guy with a gun, apparently
• Feedback - FIGHT CLUB (for old people)
• Feedback - requiring cursive writing
• Google has learning to program via Grasshopper
• LA is on fire again
• Trump acts like he doesn't understand why he can't have G7 summit at his hotel so he can get lots of sweet sweet cash
• Final Destination reference
• Yet another Trumpster fire of a Cabinet meeting

Episode 314: A Pile of Pronoun Problems

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some news stories and we complain (again) about Frontier Internet, but the big story is the StackOverflow/StackExchange moderator explosion making rounds on their site, some news outlets, Hacker News, etc. etc. etc...

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Show Notes:

• Showing of house scheduled! (But after recording, it was unscheduled...)
• Voretaq is old and his leg is falling apart
• Alabama teen learned stepmom wasn't biological mother, so he shot everyone
• Licking doorbells and other fun hobbies
• Yes, I left in some connection issues because FRONTIER IS TERRIBLE
• I was on chat with Frontier for a repair investigation regarding the outcome of the previous tickets, since I didn't hear about updates from the previous repair. They disconnected after  (under my protest) telling me to restart the modem.
• Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow steps in a dinosaur-sized pile of pronoun problems
• Timeline from the ousted moderator
• More of Monica's information
• There's an SE "official FAQ on gender pronouns" getting downvoted. A lot.
• SE's kerfluffle was on HackerNews
• There's a YouTube/SE user that has posted, and apparently deleted, a number of videos about the issue. Here's a video from user Yvette...if it doesn't get deleted too
• Sara Chipps had an apology (perhaps referred to as an "apology") that was not received well
• The David Fullerton apology, which might be a Sara Chipps apology using the right words. But it was well received for awhile.
• Why are the changes to the CoC and licensing not being readily accepted?
• Monica's announcement of what happened on MiYodeya SE site, with updates and info
• The Xtian "Brothers I Must Go" resigning announcement by user Caleb
• The Register article implying Monica is some kind of bigot...that will age well in her future Google searches!
• Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,...some accused SE of racing to release an "official" apology from David before this site went live
• HackerNews also has a Dear StackExchange link and comment thread
• Did you know there's a website to sum up terms of service and rate them? (Don't know how "good" this site is, though...but it didn't like Stack Exchange)
• A clarification posted by a (resigned) moderator who may or may not have instigated the firing/dismissal (or was at least in the initial orbit of controversy)
• Idealism vs. realism
• Trump in video depicting murders, right wingers pretend they're not bright enough to have endorsed it
• Trump's net worth is...questionable, at best
• Racist PA teacher on leave, likely to be fired
• Cop sent on welfare check, shoots woman he's checking on
• Voretaq discovered he can buy his upstairs neighbor
• NYC apartment heating
• Voretaq should get an Alinker

Episode 313: Beware of Frontier for Internet

Bart and Norma discuss the IRS, Internet connection issues, germs, and is there a black hole orbiting our solar system?

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Show Notes:

• Frontier's Internet service and their rebranded Netgear D2200D still lacking
• AAAAND Internet connection failed; THANKS FRONTIER
• Motorists view porn on roadside billboard
• Yummy stuffed skull pizza bites
• Moving/packing update
• Baby shower nachos poo platter
• Rich people are harder to audit, so the IRS doesn't bother...instead, they attack "poor" people
• Woman dies but DirectTV wants their early termination fee
• Germs in your home
• Vandalizing the Wikipedia
• Planet 9 may be a primordial black hole?
• Trump confirms what he did, but only %40 of conservatives believe it's true...uh...duh?
• Trump abandons Kurds because he owns property in Turkey?
• Rich pay lowest taxes

Episode 312: Your TV Is Watching YOU

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the new Joker movie, NYC pizza, 3 new studies of how much your smart TV is spying on you (again), and Stack Overflow seems to have a small PR problem with their moderators. Episode 312!

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Show Notes:

• HP used to make better printers...revisit, briefly, the HP Golden Period
• Randy Pausch
• Rudy Giuliani's Fox meltdown
• DREAM act, deportations
• Feedback
• Joker Movie
• What is the deal with the Joker movie?
• Lets talk pizza and garbage plates
• If a man falls in the woods, does only the Apple Watch hear?
• Stacey Dash, former GOP talking head and Fox commenter, arrested
• Your TV is spying on you
• Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange community-company schism growing with "firing" of moderators
• Seems to be what sparked with this incident
• New York Comic Con is coming!
• It's trendy to give "talks"
• Dreadlock-cutting hoax