They also lobbied to decriminalize blackmarket sales in order to keep the pharmacy floodgates pried wide open

i got prescribed oxy as a 16 year old for a relatively minor wrist surgery around 2016/2017, it's honestly crazy how much they're handing them out

Maybe to go back further, the reason there's been such a jump in cases of "pain" is that we weren't built to do to the same repetitive shit for 8 hours a day for 40 years.

eek, i was prescribed gabapentin. my doctor went rx crazy and now he's in jail. 

Great Show - they all good - but nicely and sensitively handled <3

holy shit I was repeatedly offered gabapentin in similar situations I thought it was so strange

Once more into the breach of Afghanistan takes: the media now turns to our precious abandoned military ordnance to hand-wring over, and Britain continues to feel the cold shoulder of the Biden administration. We also cover China’s new gaming ban, and an effort to gin up a BDS movement against the Taliban.

Chapo Trap House

554 - Junkyard of Empires (8/31/21)

“Follow The Data” is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. “How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing,” a 2018 NPR headline read. “Data suggests that schools might be one of the least risky kinds of institutions to reopen,” an opinion piece in The Washington Post told us in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the last 20 or so years, a trend of labeling concepts as “data-driven” emerged. It applied, and continues to apply, to policies affecting everything from education to public health, policing to journalism. Decisions affecting these areas will be more thoughtful, the idea goes, when informed and supported by data. In many ways, this has been a welcome development: The idea that a rigorously scientific collection of information via surveys, observation, and other methods would make policies and media stronger seems unimpeachable.

But this isn’t always the case. While gathering “data” is a potentially beneficial process, the process alone isn’t inherently good, and is too often used to obscure important and requisite value-based or moral questions, assert contested ideological priors and traffic in right-wing austerity premises backed by monied interests. When our media tell us a largely unpopular, billionaire-backed idea like school privatization, “targeted” policing, or tax incentive handouts to corporations have merit they’re backed by “the data,” what purpose does this framing serve? Where does the data come from? Who is funding the data gathering? What data are we choosing to care about and, most important of all, what data are we choosing to ignore?

On today’s episode, we’ll look at the development of the push to make everything data-driven, examining who defines what counts as “data,” which forces shape its sourcing and collection, and how the fetishization of “data” as something that exists outside and separate from politics is more often than not, less a methodology for determining truth and more a branding exercise for neoliberal ideological production and reproduction. 

Later on the show, we’ll be speaking with two guests: Abigail Cartus is an epidemiologist at Brown University. She focuses on perinatal health and overdose prevention in her work at The People, Place & Health Collective, a Brown School of Public Health research laboratory.

Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics

Yeah I'm thinking we're back. Back with a big one. Back with Bono. He wrote a memoir called Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story and we're podcasting all about it. Well, not all about it, but about half of it, because Bono's book is so meaty that it requires a two-part podcast. We dig into Bono's early life in bubblin' Dublin, the crucial single week where he asked out his wife and joined U2, his political awakening and initial transition into "foreign dignitary," and the time he made a Parmesan cheese sandwich at Paul McGuinness's house. It's a wild ride, and an Irish one. Missed you guys :)

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Songs in the episode:
"With Or Without You (8-Bit U2 Cover)" - 8-Bit Misfits
"Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones
"I Will Follow" - U2
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2
"Pride (In The Name of Love)" - U2
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
"Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Where The Streets Have No Name (Live)" - The Killers
"Big Boy" - Viagra Boys and Jason Williamson
"The Fly" - U2

And Introducing

#116 BONO! pt. 1

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Aliens, death, infinity, God, 18th century history, british empire, Gulf War Trading Cards

Grill Stream

253 - Wallace and Vomit 06.08.23

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Barbie, Bidenomics, Republican Primaries, Gulf War Trading Cards

260 - The Steak that Shakes the Barley 08.25.23

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Argentine libertarianism, Liberal subjectivity masterclass

261 - Hyperboric Chamber 09.08.23

In possibly our most ambitious audio experiment to date, we invite Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House to chart a history of Liberalism and American politics. What is it? Where did it go wrong? How does it fit into a star wars analogy?

There's also a good 10 minutes on the upcoming Ozyfest music festival featuring headlining act Hillary Clinton. The Aum Shinrikyo death cult comes up at the beginning. I don't know we talk about all kinds of shit, it's a big one.

Matt Christman's Softcore History

We take a look at the life and times and barbaric practices of Mssr. Macron, his shady backers in French tech and finance, and his pedophile wife

Episode 123: The Stupid France Of Mr Macron

Following today's mob violence at the U.S. capitol building, we break down how, once again, American media would rather ignore homegrown currents of white supremacist vigilantism and their buddy buddy relationship with law enforcement and focus instead on how an anomalous President Trump makes us like those horrible poor people of the Global South.

US Media Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"

With Mr Market in a manic episode, we sit down to splain exactly what happened last week, what the hell Robinhood is up to and finally answer the question: what is the stock market

Episode 134: Freakanomics

We talk about McKinsey’s recent settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, the history of heroin, the Sackler family and Perdue Pharmaceuticals, and all the sickos making bank getting you and your family high as shit

Marketing of Oxycontin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

History of Oxycontin told through Purdue docs: https://www.statnews.com/2019/12/03/oxycontin-history-told-through-purdue-pharma-documents/

Oxycontin Crusade: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/22/abbott-oxycontin-crusade/

Episode 138: OC 80

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