Strange and thought provoking episode today! In the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, animal behavior researcher John B Calhoun ran a number of experiments on rodents regarding how their behavior would be affected by increased urbanization if all their basic needs were made. The results were terrifying. Crowded rats and mice became increasingly violent and lost their reproductive instincts to the point that eventually, the utopia went extinct after enduring a final phase full of random violent attacks, apathy, cannibalism and more. Could the increased urbanization of humanity also lead to our species’ extinction as Calhoun warned? Or are we humans too different from rodents to presume that what happens to mice and rat would also happen to humans? I found today’s episode one of the most thought provoking we’ve done in quite some time. Hope you do too! Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: We donated $15,228 to the United Heroes League, who provide free sports equipment, game tickets, cash grants, skill development camps, and special experiences to military families across the US & Canada.
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Timesuck | 324 -The Mouse Utopia Experiments
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I think defining our lives by struggle is a huge part of the problem though. There are so many people unable to experience the challenges that would give them that sense of pride simply due to a system that failed them.
A Smizmar is the love partner in the Amphibiosan culture. It is their soul mate and one true love. When an Amphibiosan falls in love, they enter a state where their skin becomes more like a semi-permeable membrane, allowing the passage of genetic material, thus leading to pregnancy.
Still will take Nixon as president as ur Pedo boy Biden
Wait I'll be back. I got to watch the dolphin sex one first. Oh my heck
🤨So badly want to respond to (JamesHXN, and John Griffin) but I'm sure their butts would be even more hurt that they already are.
Maybe you can find a way to share the good good access to psilocybin for folks that are currently in treatment rather than ingesting it yourself? Share the wealth as legally as possible please, and maybe you can help contribute towards its legalization…
1:07:44 whats the song?
Around 1:44:00 you really kicked me in the brain there, Dan. That quote from FDR, relating to the study conclusions, and in the context of parenting, governance & policy creation….. man that's a lot to chew on.
Can somebody tell me why the santa hat fell off of Triple M @29:39?
Love the studio set up and the delivery style of the show ❤ I wish there was a Picture in Picture type thing though where you share accompanying photos (when applicable) to go along with the stories. Like you do at the end of STD but throughout 😊.
This week on timesuck, Dark eldar mice
Great thought provoking episode. I cannot stop thinking about the neighbors unused land. What happened to rat city #1? What if eventually those neighbors wanted to use that property, only to discover a huge rat metropolis? Those poor neighbors.
It's almost like history has proven Nixon correct, look at any big city in the US
I really really like this episode. This stuff fascinates me and how people interpret it differently fascinates me. Great work as always Dan and Team!
Rats of War! 🤣
27:30
Although I agree with dans assessment of overpopulation I wouldn’t say that overpopulation and the relationship between population growth and resource availability isn’t backed by anything. It’s very well supported by many many ecological studies using model organisms. Not to mention Scenarios where wild populations are allowed to grow out of controle. They don’t grow forever, something always ends up removing a large portion of the population.
The reason it isn’t backed by history is because humans have never been able to effectively fight off the checks and balances that keep our species at “low” levels, like disease and competition. In the event that all these things were removed and humans did choose to reproduce at historical rates, I think it’s undeniable that we would experience the scenario that Malthus posits would absolutely happen. We’ve just changed the factors so his ideas look doom and gloom crazy from a perspective with internet porn and condoms
Who the fuck is this so-called "alt-right" your talking about?🤨
I ask because I keep hearing about them but can never find them….
I love how we can see the direct correlation between my community's current state and the results of this experiment.
This also includes the condition of mainly large cities as well..
But to call it out is crazy?😐
And don't get it twisted I know it wasn't only completely meant totally for my community..
But I do find it funny that it's crazy to acknowledge🤯🤣🤣
Hmmmmm…
Well nevermind😐
In hindsight, it's a lot harder to see the trap when your standing in it🤔…
My apologies for any typos….
1:00:29
Thats interesting🤔
The newest trend in my community is trans people, secretly sleeping with straight men and not being up front about them being so😐
Another trend is amongst our young.
it's "if you don't have a body?" Meaning; cought a murder.
Normally of another young black, "the ops"
"your not a man🤨"
There's also another trend amongst our young women. That it's a fundamental human right to kill their children😐
And the father "according to the state" has no rights or say so at all….
1:02:00
If the rats had grand parents, or operated the way we do?
I do believe we'd see a lot more of correlation😐
Probably mirror image….
I'm very upset that the rat war connercial wasn't called Rat: Shadow Legends
You can't just jump into a random hentai and expect to cum. You gotta get invested in some characters in an anime or anime style game and then find some 3rd party material of either just hentai or a hentai game and realize how emotionally destroyed you are and cry yourself to sleep instead of jerking off to the desecration of beloved characters.
So the argument that homosexuality occurs in nature is moot, too, right?
Don’t worry about mispronunciation Dan, it’s fucking hilarious and I look forward to it honestly. I was dying about the marinara islands! ❤😂
I think we have a ton of birth control and other weird chemicals in our drinking water. But either way im just as horny for men as ever haha
As someone who has spent half of my life in a rural area and half of my life in various metro areas, I find this idea that city people don't help one another total BS. Every single time I've been in distress in the city someone came to my aid immediately.
I'm rushing to catch a bus to get to a job interview and miss it. The very next car pulls right over and the lady inside offers me a ride. She and her family pray for me to do well on my interview.
Car broke down once on the highway. Some random stranger pulled over to help us within a couple of minutes.
I was working nights at a gas station. A woman ducked into the station and told me a strange man was following her. So I locked the door and called the police while the guy frothed and paced and stared at us from outside. This wasn't anything special, it was just what anyone would do.
I realize this is all anecdotal, but I feel like every place has its own character. Some urban neighborhoods are great places to live where people take care of one another, and some probably aren't. Some rural places are hotbeds of meth, racism, judgment, extreme views, etc., and some are just pleasant places to live where people tend to be kind to one another and act like a tight community. I, for one, feel safer, less likely to be judged or gossiped about, and more connected in the city.
You watched hentai and DIDNT find Japanese guys are pretty rapey? I question the diligence of your research Sir.
That was very well done.
"lavish social welfare" being a negative is kind of a misconception by the people against social welfare in general. Look of course too much social welfare would be bad. In fact the poor are the worst examples of this. I would argue that the trust fund babies and multimillionaires and billionaires of today are the BEST examples of "lavish social welfare". They have everything they could ever want and all things taken care for them. Actual social welfare as we enact it today is far too little. Think of welfare checks. They don't provide nearly enough to get recipients into lives they truly wish they had. Do you think any majority of welfare actually thinks of themselves of "living their best life"? Right now I'd argue we're giving people just barely enough…. far from "lavish" socialism, and it seems from studies of UBI that giving people a little baseline of welfare and social safety nets is largely positive, we should probably do more, but to worry about socialists giving everyone some utopian "lavish" benefits… we're so far from that we shouldn't even be giving it an ounce of our time and thoughts. Too many struggles is just as bad if not worse than too little struggles. I'm more inclined to argue that a lot of us have too many struggles at the moment, and wealth disparities are at the heart of a lot of that right now.
19:02 Thats not true. a lot of animals actually share, esp those who live in communities. most animals do not hoard resources above their needs. for most animals sharing with their group is essential to survival.
1:44:34 there is a difference between challenge and struggle. what youre trying to talk about are challenges. being poor and not having what to eat or where to live does not benefit anyone in any way. I guess children who grown up with lack of food and ended up being physically ill because of that should be greatful for their parents to forcing them to experience such struggles…
https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk
Damn this is so well done. You are officially my favorite podcaster cause you are so thorough and lots of what I thought, you ended up saying shortly after!
I love they just stuff you into a room of random christmas to squeeze a view of you through, for the ambience. Hilarious
looks like "the Pjs'" Boiler/nuclear room
22:55 I put my headphones back in. Had no idea what was coming, but good call