Episode 201 - A Nice Pesto Aioli

Debates, debates, debates. Dat's all I hears about dis week. Debates this, de bates that. I don't even know who da Bates are? Norman Bates? Like from da Psycho movies? Why is he runnin' for President? You gonna vote for a psycho? Really? Don't he dress up like his mother or whatnot? You really want one o' dose homeopaths in da White House? Whateva happened to decent honest Italian-Americans runnin da joint. Like Bobby DeNiro. He was king a da place back in da seventies! Hell, even an Irish fella. Nowsadays we got all these Khakistanis and Liberians and You-Know-Whats in the office. Anyways, $14.56 is your total. Jeez all dat moolah, just for:

* The Open Software Gamble
* Getting Your Issue Solved Right Before You Record
* Fact Checkers
* Douche vs Turd Sandwich

Ah, good ol open source software. All the goodwill of a community-ran project combined with the work effort of $Free.99. The problem is that you've got to deal with either a know-it-all, anticorporate, "i'll never sellout" bastard that works on it when he's not delivering pizza or a constantly shifting "small company" aka a Slack server of university students that's actually a branch of a branch of the original project because the creator ghosted them. And even then, you're dealing with either the barest of bones "drag this file into this command prompt batch script" or the "I Can't Believe It's Free" almost professional UI and by god, everything in between. It's a real gamble and honestly, most of the time you're better off buying.

Sometimes an issue is a big ol diamond. Shiny and new, we can wax poetically about it for a whole episode by itself. Other times it's a 5-minutes-before-we-hit-record last resort of a hail mary. Then every now and then something happens and the issue starts growing and growing. It's just one thing after the other this week and boy are you going to unleash it on Monday night. And right before you do, the thing you've been steaming about the last four days gets put out like a lit match and a gust of wind. You're not gonna be able to light that match again, but damn it you're gonna tell the story of that match's life.

The problem with fact checkers: there are two facts to every question these days. The one you want to hear and the one you don't. Is that how facts actually work? Of course not, but we've pushed each other apart so much that we have "facts" and "alternative facts" now. And everyone is guilty. Agenda-pushing news gets stuffed into outrageous headlines that present half of the facts if any and that gets shoved into your timeline or wall or what have you, and the common person doesn't click through. Whether its laziness or for any other reason that headline is now the fact, even if the rest of the story disproves it. And so you've got 2 different sides doing this to two separate types of people and now we can't agree on anything because every part of the chain is biased.

The greatest of choices. A literal douche versus a literal turd sandwich. At this point its like the country is being run by Jigsaw and he wants to play a game with us. Either cut your chest open with a rusty spoon to find the key he implanted into you that will unlock the machine slowly running a giant drill into your temple or sit there and let it happen. Either way it's going to hurt. People don't like pain Jigsaw. That's the part you forgot. Worst of all, these days there's a bunch of people on the sidelines constantly yelling at you to play the game. THERE'S A DRILL INSIDE OF MY HEAD RIGHT NOW.

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