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A couple of refereeing howlers marred the two Big Blues leaving the SFC collective with only 2 points when it could have been much more. Despite the two monumental stuff ups, the SFC playing collective outplayed their opposition and can hold their heads high. Jono, Sean and Michelle go around the grounds, review the Aussie Day games and look ahead to the fellas playing Western United in Hobart and the girls playing Perth at Leichhardt. Did you guess this week's "Who's that SFC player?"?

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We can ruin easily ruin our prayers, say the Sages. How, why, and how to avoid this problem addressed in brief in the Parsha Pick-Me-Up.

In this episode, the Gwartney Team discusses Derek Parfit's Mere Addition Paradox relating happiness and population. Parfit's "Repugnant Conclusion" is that a huge population living a life of little happiness, is preferable to a small, but universally happy population. Join us as we break down this paradox from a faith perspective. Philosophical ideas of a beneficial society / 3.00 Should society push for population growth? / 10.15 Arguments against the Mere Addition Paradox / 15.00 Is Z better than A? / 24.45 The Drake Equation for General Welfare / 30.30 Reasons and Persons-Derek Parfit The Trolley Problem, What Would Jesus Do? | #84

Today on Black Focus Radio noon-2 pm on Joynet Radio.com Is there a government conspiracy to make minorities gay or lesbian? Just in case you've forgotten, they are still killing us. White woman shoots and kills the mother of four and officials drag their feet before arrest. The latest clowns join the Repugnant circus and we're not impressed. Catch the new segment: What We Must Do! Daily Black Facts Examples of White Replacement Theory abound. Don't be lolled into complacency. The show is packed with info you can use. Don't miss it! Down load the JoynetRadio.com app and don't forget our podcast on all the major platforms. Black Focus Radio airs daily noon-2 PM on JoynetRadio.com.  Contact the show at BlackFocusRadio@gmail.com Search "Black Focus Radio" on your favorite podcast platform. Like the show on the following platforms: Facebook Black Focus Radio Instagram @BlackFocusRadio YouTube Black Focus Radio #BlackFocusRadio RibbRubb.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-w-coleman/support

Naomi Karavani, RM Brown, and Branko Marcetic join Ben Burgis to say goodbye to Tucker Carlson's show on Fox. You can read Ben's article "Tucker Carlson Is a Repugnant, Pseudo-Populist Fraud" here:https://jacobin.com/2023/04/tucker-carlson-populism-ruling-class-minimum-wage-medicare-for-all-war/...and Branko's article "Tucker Carlson Isn't an Anti-Imperialist — He's a Rabid China Hawk" here:https://jacobin.com/2023/04/tucker-carlson-imperialist-china-hawkBefore that, Ben and the GTAA crew talk a bit about May Day and the (ongoing) struggle for a shorter workweek, play a clip of Kyle Kulinski talking about Ben's article on that, and promote the class on Proudhon's "Philosophy of Poverty" and Marx's "Philosophy of Poverty" starting on the GTAA Patreon in May. In the postgame for patrons, Producer Jordan joins us to talk about Slavoj Žižek's mutlipolarity article in Compact.Follow Naomi on Twitter: @naomikaravaniFollow Branko on Twitter: @BMarchetichFollow RM on Twitter:  @xrmbrownx2Follow Producer Jordan on Twitter: @jayohardeeayenFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisRead the weekly philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.comVisit benburgis.com

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Repugnant levels of violins, published by Solenoid Entity on April 12, 2023 on LessWrong. This is a rambling post about the repugnant conclusion, mass-manufacturing, metis and woo, and the fragility of expert discernment — through the lens of my experiences playing, repairing, and selling violins. (And eating discount sushi.) Epistemic status: Discussing utilitarianism-related issues that I'm poorly educated on. (Through the lens of violins, on which I fare much better.) Come for the interesting violin stuff, (don't stay for the philosophy unless you want to watch me repeatedly hitting myself on the head.) If you work in a violin shop, answering the question "how much should I spend on a violin for my child" is hard to do without revealing that you're a huge nerd. Playing violin is great. It's the most important instrument. Teaching it is a challenge. How do you help someone progress from playing like 'oh no' girl to, like, 'wow, she's only three?!' to a really, really good college graduate to being literally Jascha Heifetz? And more fundamentally: what makes Jascha Heifetz sound so damn good, and how did he get there? I think if you zoom out far enough, there are three interlinked factors at play in a violinist's ✨ sound ✨: What does their technical ability facilitate them doing, restrict them from doing, and what does it lead them towards doing? This comprises all of their movement-based competencies, the 'muscle-memory' they develop, the actual physical mechanics of how, through decades of intensive practice, their body has perfectly exapted the violin as the physical part of their aural proprioception. What are the bounds of their audiation? This is their musical creativity and imagination, the sound they hear in their head when they imagine playing. It's the mental and emotional component of their aural proprioception. Even though classical violinists are playing music written by someone else, there's creativity and emotion in their interpretation. Compare this, this, this, this, and this. Just like developing your own writing style, some of this you get from listening to other violinists play. Some of it you generate yourself through your own practice. Do they have a good instrument? Some violins sound better than others. The best violins in the world are prized (partly) for their unique, beautiful voices. Violins are usually made of wood (normally spruce and maple), and even now are almost all handmade to some extent (with more and more machine assistance for mass-produced ones). Very small differences between instruments make a big difference in sound quality. The craft of making really great violins is shrouded in centuries of metis and woo. There'll be a whole post on this, at some point, but suffice it to say that the people who make amazing violins, today, don't even themselves know precisely how they do it, and they contradict each other and themselves constantly. They sure do make them, though. Just take my word for it that a good violin matters, a lot. The above implies six one-way interactions between the factors. For this post, I just want you to take my word on three of them (keeping in mind they're part of this ever-pushing-pulling triangle): Having a good violin helps you to develop your audiation. Having a bad violin makes it hard to develop good technique. (And the obvious) Better violins just produce better sound for any given input. A good player can make a bad violin sound good, up to a point. At a certain point, a good player needs a good violin in order to improve their technique and audiation. Like how your skill as a race-car driver is sorta independent of the car you drive, BUT at a certain point you're going to need a Formula-1 car to compete at the top level, AND you won't even develop the skillset to drive a car like that if you've ne...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Repugnant levels of violins, published by Solenoid Entity on April 12, 2023 on LessWrong. This is a rambling post about the repugnant conclusion, mass-manufacturing, metis and woo, and the fragility of expert discernment — through the lens of my experiences playing, repairing, and selling violins. (And eating discount sushi.) Epistemic status: Discussing utilitarianism-related issues that I'm poorly educated on. (Through the lens of violins, on which I fare much better.) Come for the interesting violin stuff, (don't stay for the philosophy unless you want to watch me repeatedly hitting myself on the head.) If you work in a violin shop, answering the question "how much should I spend on a violin for my child" is hard to do without revealing that you're a huge nerd. Playing violin is great. It's the most important instrument. Teaching it is a challenge. How do you help someone progress from playing like 'oh no' girl to, like, 'wow, she's only three?!' to a really, really good college graduate to being literally Jascha Heifetz? And more fundamentally: what makes Jascha Heifetz sound so damn good, and how did he get there? I think if you zoom out far enough, there are three interlinked factors at play in a violinist's ✨ sound ✨: What does their technical ability facilitate them doing, restrict them from doing, and what does it lead them towards doing? This comprises all of their movement-based competencies, the 'muscle-memory' they develop, the actual physical mechanics of how, through decades of intensive practice, their body has perfectly exapted the violin as the physical part of their aural proprioception. What are the bounds of their audiation? This is their musical creativity and imagination, the sound they hear in their head when they imagine playing. It's the mental and emotional component of their aural proprioception. Even though classical violinists are playing music written by someone else, there's creativity and emotion in their interpretation. Compare this, this, this, this, and this. Just like developing your own writing style, some of this you get from listening to other violinists play. Some of it you generate yourself through your own practice. Do they have a good instrument? Some violins sound better than others. The best violins in the world are prized (partly) for their unique, beautiful voices. Violins are usually made of wood (normally spruce and maple), and even now are almost all handmade to some extent (with more and more machine assistance for mass-produced ones). Very small differences between instruments make a big difference in sound quality. The craft of making really great violins is shrouded in centuries of metis and woo. There'll be a whole post on this, at some point, but suffice it to say that the people who make amazing violins, today, don't even themselves know precisely how they do it, and they contradict each other and themselves constantly. They sure do make them, though. Just take my word for it that a good violin matters, a lot. The above implies six one-way interactions between the factors. For this post, I just want you to take my word on three of them (keeping in mind they're part of this ever-pushing-pulling triangle): Having a good violin helps you to develop your audiation. Having a bad violin makes it hard to develop good technique. (And the obvious) Better violins just produce better sound for any given input. A good player can make a bad violin sound good, up to a point. At a certain point, a good player needs a good violin in order to improve their technique and audiation. Like how your skill as a race-car driver is sorta independent of the car you drive, BUT at a certain point you're going to need a Formula-1 car to compete at the top level, AND you won't even develop the skillset to drive a car like that if you've ne...

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant, published by Teo Ajantaival on October 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is part four of a series on minimalist axiologies (i.e. axiologies that essentially say “the less this, the better”). Every part of this series builds on the previous parts, but can also be read independently. Summary Population axiology matters greatly for our priorities. Recently, it has been claimed that all plausible axiological views imply certain “very repugnant conclusions” (defined below). In this response, I argue that minimalist views avoid these “very repugnant conclusions”, and that they face less repugnant conclusions than do contrasting offsetting views. 1. Are repugnant implications inevitable? In population axiology, certain offsetting views, according to which independent bads can be offset by a sufficient amount of independent goods, face the Very Repugnant Conclusion (VRC): A population of arbitrarily many lives with arbitrarily high welfare is worse than a population of arbitrarily many arbitrarily negative lives plus sufficiently many ε-lives that each have an arbitrarily small quantity of positive welfare (Figure 1). Offsetting views also allow the ε-lives in the VRC to be rollercoaster lives that all contain unbearable suffering (purportedly counterbalanced by a sufficient amount of bliss). In particular, symmetric classical utilitarianism implies interchangeability between a non-suffering ε-life and the rollercoaster life illustrated in Figure 2 (provided that the “overall welfare” of the rollercoaster life equals ε). Additionally, one may replace each non-suffering ε-life in the original VRC with an intrapersonal VRC life (Figure 3). Recently, Budolfson and Spears (2018) have argued that all plausible views in population ethics imply similarly repugnant conclusions, namely that they imply either the VRC or a closely analogous Extended VRC (XVRC), which I illustrate shortly at the beginning of Section 2. The purpose of this essay is to argue that this claim does not apply to minimalist views. In a nutshell: minimalist views avoid the VRC, can avoid repugnant XVRCs, and, at any rate, face XVRCs that are less repugnant than are the comparable conclusions faced by offsetting views. Three claims Budolfson and Spears (2018, pp. 31–32) make the following three claims: Claim 1: No leading welfarist axiology can avoid the VRC. Claim 2: No other welfarist axiology in the literature can avoid the XVRC. Claim 3: The XVRC is just as repugnant as the VRC. The authors conclude that: Repugnant implications are an inevitable feature of any plausible axiology. If repugnance cannot be avoided, then it should not be. We believe this should be among the guiding insights for the next generation of work in value theory. Claim 1 does not apply to minimalist axiologies The scope of Claim 1 (“No leading welfarist axiology can avoid the VRC”) is limited to ‘leading' welfarist axiologies, that is to views that, according to the authors, are commonly-held in the axiological literature (p. 8). These do not cover minimalist axiologies, although axiologies that are essentially minimalist have been defended, for instance, by Schopenhauer (1818/1819, 1851), Wolf (1996, 1997, 2004), Fehige (1998), Breyer (2015), and Knutsson (2021b, “axiological claim”). To the extent that the VRC seems repugnant, it is worth noting that all minimalist axiologies do avoid the VRC, and can do so neatly without relying on arbitrary or ad hoc assumptions. Claim 2 requires that we extend the XVRC Claim 2 (“No other welfarist axiology in the literature can avoid the XVRC”) is not straightforward to evaluate, because the original XVRC, as the authors define it, applies strictly only to views that make the assumption of independently aggregable ...

Econtalk Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Effective altruism involves billionaires creating various institutions to give away their money to charity in a manner they deem effectiveDue to the core of the movement being utilitarian, the effective altruism movement ends up having many repugnant and strange conclusions “Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scaleChanging the scale of these simple thought experiments adds complexities that completely change the calculus of the scenario Not only should you not have the birthday party for your son, but you're morally obligated to spend less time with your son so you can work more and send more money to help solve the malaria crisis in AfricaThe repugnant conclusion of never-ending well-being arbitrage: everyone ends up with a life that is just barely above the subsistence level Effective altruism wants to arbitrage all the extra happiness away and fairly distribute it amongst the global population Trading instances of good and evil is not fungible in the way that utilitarians want it to be The effective altruism movement is an attempt to formulate morality from the top-down, which is antithetical to how morals have emerged since the dawn of humanity Utilitarianism treats good and evil as big mounds of dirt of varying sizes; Theoretically following the logic of utility, if enough people stub their toe over time, its respective pile of dirt could become larger than the pain-caused-from-WW2 pile of dirt Economists often neglect qualitative components when forming policy and only account for the quantitative when making moral equivalencies, which results in bad policy Charity is good; there are aspects of the effective altruism movement that are good, but the mandate to maximize it at scale deserves to be questioned and investigatedRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgNeuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.

Econtalk: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.

Econtalk Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Effective altruism involves billionaires creating various institutions to give away their money to charity in a manner they deem effectiveDue to the core of the movement being utilitarian, the effective altruism movement ends up having many repugnant and strange conclusions “Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scaleChanging the scale of these simple thought experiments adds complexities that completely change the calculus of the scenario Not only should you not have the birthday party for your son, but you're morally obligated to spend less time with your son so you can work more and send more money to help solve the malaria crisis in AfricaThe repugnant conclusion of never-ending well-being arbitrage: everyone ends up with a life that is just barely above the subsistence level Effective altruism wants to arbitrage all the extra happiness away and fairly distribute it amongst the global population Trading instances of good and evil is not fungible in the way that utilitarians want it to be The effective altruism movement is an attempt to formulate morality from the top-down, which is antithetical to how morals have emerged since the dawn of humanity Utilitarianism treats good and evil as big mounds of dirt of varying sizes; Theoretically following the logic of utility, if enough people stub their toe over time, its respective pile of dirt could become larger than the pain-caused-from-WW2 pile of dirt Economists often neglect qualitative components when forming policy and only account for the quantitative when making moral equivalencies, which results in bad policy Charity is good; there are aspects of the effective altruism movement that are good, but the mandate to maximize it at scale deserves to be questioned and investigatedRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgNeuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.

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Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-the-909 (Original post here) 1: Petey writes: When I think of happiness 0.01, I don't think of someone on the edge of suicide. I shudder at the thought of living the sorts of lives the vast majority of people have lived historically, yet almost all of them have wanted and tried to prolong their lives. Given how evolution shaped us, it makes sense that we are wired to care about our survival and hope for things to be better, even under great duress. So a suicidal person would have a happiness level well under 0, probably for an extended period of time. If you think of a person with 0.01 happiness as someone whose life is pretty decent by our standards, the repugnant conclusion doesn't seem so repugnant. If you take a page from the negative utilitarians' book (without subscribing fully to them), you can weight the negatives of pain higher than the positives of pleasure, and say that neutral needs many times more pleasure than pain because pain is more bad than pleasure is good. Another way to put it is that a life of 0.01 happiness is a life you must actually decide you'd want to live, in addition to your own life, if you had the choice to. If your intuition tells you that you wouldn't want to live it, then its value is not truly >0, and you must shift the scale. Then, once your intuition tells you that this is a life you'd marginally prefer to get to experience yourself, then the repugnant conclusion no longer seems repugnant. This is a good point, but two responses.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't, published by AppliedDivinityStudies on August 23, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. There is nothing bad in each of these lives; but there is little happiness, and little else that is good. The people in Z never suffer; but all they have is muzak and potatoes. - Derek Parfit, Overpopulation and the Quality of Life The image of World Z provokes an unsettling cognitive dissonance. It forces us to confront the possibility that any degree of happiness, no matter how magnificent, can be outweighed by arbitrarily small pleasures multiplied across a sufficiently large population. Imagining this kind of mediocrity, we can hardly endorse it over a small yet ecstatic utopia. And yet, I feel strongly that this perceived tension is due entirely to a failure of the imagination. When Parfit says “muzak and potatoes”, perhaps you conjure up the image of a medieval European peasant, covered in mud, living in squalor, only just barely getting by. But read again more carefully: “There is nothing bad in each of these lives”. Although it sounds mundane, I contend that this is nearly incomprehensible. Can you actually imagine what it would be like to never have anything bad happen to you? We don't describe such a as mediocre, we describe it as “charmed” or “overwhelmingly privileged”. After all, each of our lives are absolutely filled with bad things. Some of these are obvious (injury, illness, the loss of a loved one), but mostly they just exist as a kind of dull background pain we've grown to accept. The bad things are, as Simone Weil put it, the “countless horrors which lie beyond tears”. In stark contrast, consider Parfit's vision of World Z both seriously and literally. These are lives with no pain, no loneliness or depression, no loss or fear, no anxiety, no aging, no disease, nor decay. Not ever a single moment of sorrow. These are lives free entirely from every minor ache and cramp, from desire, from jealousy, from greed, and from every other sin that poisons the heart. Free from the million ills that plague and poke at ordinary people. It is thus less the world of peasants, and closer to that of subdued paradise. The closest analog we can imagine is perhaps a Buddhist sanctuary, each member so permanently, universally and profoundly enlightened that they no longer experience suffering of any kind. And that's not all! Parfit further tells us that their lives are net positive. And so in addition to never experiencing any unpleasantness of any degree, they also experience simple pleasures. A “little happiness”, small nearly to the point of nothingness, yet enough to tip the scales. Perhaps the warmth of basking under a beam of sun, the gentle nourishment of simple meals, or just the low-level background satisfaction of a slow Sunday morning. Properly construed, that is the world Parfit would have us imagine. Not a mediocre world of “muzak and potatoes”, but a kind of tranquil nirvana beyond pain. And that is a world I have no problem endorsing. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

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Every adjunct college professor dreams of having a full-time, tenure-track position. Cynthia Vacca Davis was offered a tenured position teaching English at a small Bible College, a job that offered a good salary with benefits. The problem was, Cynthia had just agreed to be a supporter of her friend Danny, who had just come out as an intersex male after living well into his adulthood as a female. The president of the Unnamed Bible College (UBS) pretty much lost his dull, tiny mind upon hearing about Cynthia's friend and her plan to write about Danny in her MFA program. So, Cynthia had to make a choice: sign the violently anti-LGBTQIA faith statement to get the job or forego the job in hopes of finding something else. Evangelical schools make every student, faculty, and staff member sign statements of faith that contain all manner of indefensible garbage, and many sign it in bad faith, choosing to ignore the statement and still be in good standing at the school. I have a whole book about doing this, myself. But Cynthia couldn't bring herself to attach her name to a school that expressed such overt hatred towards so many people in the world. She has a book, Intersexion, from Lake Drive Books about her and Danny's journeys that I hope you all will buy and read. I know I learned a lot about intersex people from it. Chapel Probation is part of the Dauntless Media Collective Music by Scott Okamoto and Hauskatt (Jen Lee) aka Jenyi. Join the Chapel Probation Patreon to support Scott and for bonus content. Join the Chapel Probation Facebook group to continue the conversations. Follow Scott on Instagram and Twitter rscottokamoto.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-okamoto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scott-okamoto/support

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Elif Batuman reads her story “The Repugnant Conclusion,” from the April 25 & May 2, 2022, issue of the magazine. Batuman is the author of “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them” and the novel “The Idiot,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “The Repugnant Conclusion” was adapted from her second novel, “Either/Or,” which will be published in May. 

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In one of 2021's best weeks, we finally delve inside and evaluate Spiritbox's debut album Eternal Blue, Employed to Serve's victorious Conquering, and Miss Vincent, questions gage onomatopoeias, title tracks & Rick Astley, and Album Club is a monstrous 2000s death metal springboard from Tobias Forge in Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness.

S2SE1 ZineQuest3: A Feast of Zines! Pt 2 Back for round two, I see! We've got three more creators for you, in this installment of A Feast of Zines! First up, we have Sam Sorensen with Lowlife, JVC Parry talking about Peculiar Children, and Tony Vasinda of Plus One Exp bringing you Repugnant! This episode is full of the unsettling, the creepy, and the down-right gross! ·         Sam Sorensen: Lowlife  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/583799276/lowlife-0?ref=user_menu shs9424@rit.edu / Twitter: @HeadOfTheGoat ·         JVC Parry: Peculiar Children https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jvcparry/peculiar-children jvcparry@hotmail.com / https://www.facebook.com/JVCParry / https://twitter.com/jvcparry / https://jvcparry.com/ ·         Tony Vasinda, Plus One Exp: Repugnant https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tokenterrors/repugnant-the-worlds-most-disgusting-ttrpg?fbclid=IwAR1z81Ep7_L3-gJZj2eFeZqYL6xaFG_g9xcyiJ91o9lCyu8VqULA0bwbGCc tony@plusoneexp.com / https://plusoneexp.com Social Links Bite-Sized Gaming|Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitesizedgames Zac Goins|Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xzacklee Troy Sandlin|Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/troysandlin Jon Christian|Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwarfpower Katherine Linquist|Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sparklyandglitter This podcast is powered by Pinecast.