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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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All Episodes

26:21

Where Left and Right Actually Come From

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2026/07/11

Where did "left" and "right" come from? A single room in 1789 France. This episode traces the origin of the political spectrum from the Estates-General to the Cold War, then asks the harder question: does centrism have real intellectual foundations, or is it just a rejection of extremes? We explore the Third Way, radical centrism, and why the middle keeps moving even when voters don't.

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23:56

How "Liberal" Means Opposite Things in Different...

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2026/07/11

Why does "liberal" mean tax cuts in Germany but higher social spending in California? This episode traces four political labels — liberal, left-wing, libertarian, and progressive — through their actual intellectual histories. We explore the 1930s semantic fork that split American and European meanings, how libertarianism reclaimed classical liberalism while adding radical personal freedoms, and why "progressive" is often just a rebranding of "liberal" in markets where that word became a slur. The

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24:43

When Political Disagreement Becomes Mortal Enmity

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2026/07/11

The recent death of former MP Ann Widdecombe prompted warm tributes from across the political spectrum—even from those who opposed everything she stood for. Less than a decade ago, two sitting UK MPs were murdered during constituency surgeries. Jo Cox was killed by a far-right extremist in 2016; David Amess was killed by an Islamist extremist in 2021. This episode examines the gap between respectful disagreement and lethal enmity. How does everyday performative hostility in parliaments normalize

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24:21

How to Lock a Box That Was Never Meant to Be Locked

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2026/07/11

What happens when military logistics meets a plastic moving box? This episode explores a listener's question about borrowing the U.S. Army's prepositioned stocks program for personal storage. The key insight: Euroboxes are designed for industrial supply chains where perimeter security handles theft, but they lack integrated locks for civilian use. We walk through the DIY solution — drilling rivet nuts into reinforced corner ribs — and map the Army's APS model onto everyday life. Geographic staging,

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25:54

How Incoterms Keep Global Trade From Falling Apart

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2026/07/11

Most people have never heard of Incoterms, but these eleven rules published by the International Chamber of Commerce are the skeleton underneath nearly all cross-border trade. First created in 1936, they've survived containerization, air freight, and the internet — but each revision reveals where the system is straining. This episode traces the evolution from 1936 to the 2020 update, breaks down the five targeted fixes in the latest revision, and asks whether Incoterms are becoming less useful as

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26:25

How to Build Community in a Vertical Building

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2026/07/11

Most high-rises are designed for efficiency, not connection. Residents are stacked in private units connected only by elevator cars where silence is the norm. But it doesn't have to be this way. This episode explores the architectural choices that create—or destroy—community in vertical buildings. We examine the "threshold spaces" that enable neighborly encounters, the "amenities trap" that isolates rather than connects, and real-world experiments like Le Corbusier's skip-stop corridors and Moshe

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26:04

What Actually Changes at 300 and 600 Meters

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2026/07/11

Most buildings called "skyscrapers" don't actually meet the official definition — and the ones that do fall into three distinct tiers with radically different engineering rules. This episode breaks down what changes at 50 meters, 300 meters, and 600 meters: wind dynamics that turn buildings into sails, elevator systems that become vertical subway networks, concrete pumping logistics that verge on chemistry experiments, and the aerodynamic tricks that let megatalls like the Burj Khalifa survive

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23:08

What Actually Unites Global Conservatism?

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2026/07/11

What does a British Tory really have in common with an Indian BJP supporter or a Swedish Moderate? This episode uses Ann Widdecombe’s career as an entry point to explore the philosophical core that unites conservative movements globally — and the institutional, religious, and economic factors that drive them in radically different directions. From Burke’s “little platoons” to Orbán’s illiberal democracy, we trace how the same instinct to conserve produces opposite policies depending on what’s being

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26:19

The Overwork Trap: Why Doing More Creates More Backlog

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2026/07/11

When there's more to do than you can hold in your head, working nonstop can feel like the only responsible option. But research shows that sustained cognitive effort beyond four to six hours actually degrades your ability to prioritize — meaning you're creating more backlog than you're clearing. This episode breaks down why overwork functions as a cognitive prosthetic for ADHD brains, how the equilibrium approach has hidden costs, and the three concrete practices that externalize your backlog so it

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27:33

How Old Planes Get Safer With Age

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2026/07/10

That 30-year-old 737 making your stomach drop? It's probably been inspected more thoroughly than a newer one still carrying passengers. This episode unpacks the counterintuitive world of aircraft aging, where pressurization cycles matter more than flight hours, and cargo conversions turn retirement-age airliners into safer second-life freighters. We explore how the military keeps B-52s from the Kennedy era flying past 2050, why Israel's F-15s stay combat-ready, and what all of this reveals about

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23:27

Building Israel's Future: A Policy Platform

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2026/07/10

After hundreds of episodes diagnosing Israel's deepest governance failures, we finally prescribe the cure. Hannah challenged us to build a coherent party platform — not left or right, but functional. We propose five interconnected pillars: breaking monopolies to slash the cost of living, fixing housing through land reform and permit fast-tracking, pragmatic separation of religion and state, overhauling the education system by tying funding to core curriculum, and expanding regional economic

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30:14

7 Bills to Fix Israel's Cost of Living

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2026/07/10

What would you actually sign into law if you held the finance minister's pen tomorrow morning? This episode builds a seven-bill reform program targeting the specific mechanisms that make Israeli household goods cost 40% more than European equivalents while poverty sits at 20.9% — the highest in the OECD. From import oligopolies that function as private taxes to an Israel Land Authority that engineers housing scarcity, each proposed law targets a concrete lever rather than a symptom. The diagnosis:

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26:01

Modbus to Smart Home: The Real Bridge Guide

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2026/07/10

Heat pumps, solar inverters, and battery systems all speak Modbus internally, but your smart home speaks TCP/IP. That gap looks small — it is not small. This episode tests three Modbus-to-Ethernet gateways at different price points, from a $25 serial-config module to a $285 industrial beast, and reveals the single best option for home integration. But hardware is only the first hurdle. We break down the two hidden traps that stall most projects: non-standard Modbus function codes and the register

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26:04

SSH Key Strategy: Compartmentalization vs. Chaos

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2026/07/10

Should you generate a dedicated SSH key for every server you manage, or reuse one key everywhere? This episode breaks down the real security tradeoffs — blast radius vs. operational friction — and shows how ssh-agent, Host blocks, and password manager backends can make compartmentalization viable. We also tackle the new complication of AI agents that need SSH access: static keys in ephemeral environments, command restrictions, and when an SSH certificate authority actually makes sense. If you manage

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24:09

Window Films for Renters: Privacy, Heat, and Removal

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2026/07/10

Thinking about adding window film to your rental but worried about getting it off later? This episode breaks down the two main categories — privacy films that create a one-way mirror effect during the day, and heat rejection films that use ceramic nanoparticles to block infrared without blocking cell signals. We cover the physics behind both, the critical application details that make removal possible, and exactly how to peel everything off cleanly when move-out day comes. No more living room

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22:27

Why Air, Sea, and Truck Freight Use Different Boxes

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2026/07/10

Why can't a shipping container fit on a plane? In this episode, we explore the three incompatible worlds of freight — air cargo ULDs, ISO containers, and standard pallets — and the brutal geometry, physics, and history that keep them separate. We look at military experiments like the tri-wall container, the failed ISO one-C proposal from the 1990s, and emerging air-land pallet hybrids that try to bridge the gap. For high-value, time-sensitive goods, eliminating cross-dock transfers might finally

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25:46

FCA vs EXW: The LCL Shipping Workflow

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2026/07/10

If you're buying small quantities from Alibaba and using LCL consolidation, the wrong Incoterm can turn your shipment into a logistics nightmare. This episode breaks down the operational reality of EXW, FOB, and FCA — and explains why FCA is almost always the right choice for small importers. We walk through the actual workflow: how to coordinate between your seller and freight forwarder, what address to use, who talks to whom, and the common failure modes that sink shipments. No theory — just the

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21:33

Pigeon Eviction 101: Netting, Cameras & Israeli Law

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2026/07/10

Daniel’s Jerusalem balcony has been claimed by a protected rock dove, and he’s navigating Israeli wildlife law, toddler safety, and a seven-week nesting clock. We break down why netting is the only legal, safe deterrent—and how his Reolink IP camera can turn surveillance into a citizen science project. From motion zones to time-lapse mode, learn the cleanest path to evicting the pigeon without fines or harm.

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26:43

The Exhaustion Premium: Why Tenants Don't Sue

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2026/07/10

Daniel and Hannah had a solid legal case against their landlord—a roof leak, mold, broken lease obligations, and a lawyer-landlord who knew exactly how to exploit the system. They won their case in principle, but lost their security deposit to a mutual waiver of liability. This episode unpacks the brutal math behind tenant-landlord disputes, introducing the concept of the "exhaustion premium"—the hidden cost of exercising your legal rights that keeps 90% of tenants from ever filing small claims,

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22:28

Burn the House Down: Iran's Both-Sides Strategy

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2026/07/10

Most coverage of foreign electoral interference focuses on picking a preferred candidate. But for the IRGC in Israel, the goal is different: don't pick a side, burn the whole house down. In this episode, we explore the three mechanisms Iran uses to accelerate internal erosion—social media amplification that fans both extremes simultaneously, funding both sides of a protest movement through unaware cutouts, and deploying deepfakes that inflame everyone before they can be debunked. We break down the

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