• Exocrinous
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Is Well There’s Your Problem very leftist? I listened to a couple episodes and I got more of a politically uninvolved vibe, so I got bored

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      Is Well There’s Your Problem very leftist?

      YMMV. The crew feels like the left-most fringe of /r/neoliberal if you aged them 20 years, gave a few of them actual experience in civil/architectural engineering rather than just State Uni B-school, and shaved off the knee-jerk hatred of Bernie Sanders / Jeremy Corbyn.

      I got more of a politically uninvolved vibe, so I got bored

      They tend to be more on the technical side of the FALGSC spectrum, so you get less “this is the politician/union leader who you should be organizing with” and more “this is the highly technical reason why you shouldn’t let your nation’s largest failson administer the construction of a transcontinental railway”.

      I enjoy it because I’m genuinely interested in the science/engineering/math behind a lot of these industrial scale failures. It is cathartic, particularly when I’m grinding through my own workplace engineering/accounting crisis of the day.