Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins
Based Camp is a podcast exploring how humans process the world around them and the future of our species. We go into everything from human sexuality, to weird subcultures, dating markets, philosophy, and politics.
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How Jews Circumvent the Rules They Made Up (4K Years of Malicious Compliance) (opens the original)
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Malcolm and Simone explore lesser-known Jewish legal mechanisms for navigating strict biblical and rabbinic restrictions, especially around the Sabbath. The discussion covers travel limits, carrying objects, cooking rules, inheritance practices, marriage agreements, and community boundaries while contrasting approaches to rule interpretation.They examine how these workarounds developed historically, their practical modern applications, and the underlying philosophy of fulfilling the letter of th
Studying Homeless Camps To Predict Future Governments (The Collapse is Coming) (opens the original)
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Join us on Based Camp today to explore Dignity Village, a self-funded and self-governed community of tiny homes in Portland that has operated successfully for 25 years. We examine its rules, governance structure, shared facilities, and low operating costs compared to city-run alternatives.Our discussion covers why this model has endured while other attempts failed, key factors for sustainable micro-communities, and practical lessons for building resilient groups amid declining urban services, hi
Black People Learned About Sovereign Citizens: The Future Of Law in the USA? (opens the original)
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Today on Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone dive into the growing sovereign citizen movement, its pseudolegal rituals, straw man theories, and common law courts. They examine a viral traffic stop involving self-proclaimed Cherokee marshals, the rise of Moorish sovereign groups, and why search interest is climbing despite mainstream assumptions that the phenomenon peaked in the 1990s.The discussion covers personal encounters with adherents, historical parallels in backwoods American culture, declinin
The Sabbath: The Rules Versus The Point (opens the original)
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Upon recognizing the inconvenient hypocrisy of being proponents of “hard religion” that recognize the Ten Commandments as being deeply important who nevertheless work seven days/week, we decided our family needed to begin honoring the sabbath. What ensued was a week of arguing about what the sabbath should actually entail, with me (Simone) getting hyper… Read more
The New York Times Just Learned About Hacker Houses (opens the original)
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Today (Our first Sabbath episode! Don’t worry, we scheduled this for publication today. We’re not working!), we explore the strange new world of Bay Area “tech houses”: high-priced, mission-driven communal homes that have become influential social and professional hubs in the A.I. boom. Using a recent New York Times investigation into AGI House and related networks as a starting point, we ask whether these residences are truly a novel engine of startup culture—or a familiar revival of earlier gr
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