TESCREAL is structurally an evangelical a-theist religion descended from the 19th century Russian Orthodox christianity of Nikolai Fyodorovitch Fyodorov and in my new book I will—

Hannu Rajaniemi beat us all to the punch all the way back in 2010, didn't he? The Sobornost are exactly who the Rationalists want to be when they grow up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief

There's something about how these weird ideologies grow and how people get trapped in them that reminds me of oncogenesis.

When a cancer forms, cell lines experience a typical progression where a lineage accumulates mutations which aren't that bad individually, but combine in the aggregate to cause havoc. The cells close themselves off from outside communication and lose all capacity for repairing genomic damage or heeding signals to slow out-of-control growth. Environmental factors like pollution and ionizing radiation can predictably push otherwise benign cells in that direction; the same cancer can develop in thousands or millions of people independently via convergent shit-evolution.

It rhymes, doesn't it?

The Dominic Cummings we have at home

How would you first approach explaining this shit past “it can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong”?

This is the question of the moment, isn't it?

I have no answers, but i can say thanks for being a light in the dumbness.

As an adhd enjoyer, the idea of someone using our prescription stimulant medications of justify raw dogging gas station meth is fucking wild. Stimulant meds have been around since the 50s, but they are waaaaaaay better now, mostly because of novel delivery systems that carefully control the release rate of the active compound. I've learned the hard way that while generic allegra-d is fine, you can't fuck around with your adhd meds this way, because the difference between generics varies wildly, and unless you request particular manufacturers -- any or all of which may be in short supply when you request it -- you're playing russian roulette with your executive functioning for the next month.

Getting generic adderall xr is like buying a plane ticket, but not knowing until you board whether it's an Airbus, a Boeing, or an Ork Wagon with a thousand pounds of fireworks glued onto the roof.

Then these guys are just going to do meth that they got from a guy?

Jesus.

Edit: do you reckon that meth > GMO mouth bacteria?

Also:

I took an online IQ test in 2004 and scored 160 i am very smart --hakernews, probably

Fyre Festival as a Service

It would give the orcas an opportunity to do the funniest possible thing

the underclass is politically neutralized...

Jesus, Ray, phrasing

Men have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making phallic machines

The first niche will be taken by sexbots

The second, entertainingly, also by sexbots

Society will suddenly realize it doesn’t need men and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.

People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don’t like to consider the negative implications

The smart strategy for men would be to ban ALL of the following:

 sexbots
 artificial dongs
 transformers

Nobody except men should be allowed to look sexy(manly sexy), look male or be bears.[1]

To some extent TUFF men like @RokoMijic are smart enough to realize that it’s essential to defend the male monopoly on this stuff. But the average man just isn’t strategic enough to go along with this, and there’s (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.

[1] Women get to keep the Oxford comma.

Where are the bed sheets?

Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

Edit3: I've never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It's the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I'm sorry, I'm being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

What if the Technocracy Movement fucked NASCAR

What if Nazis but the uniforms are Gildan instead of Hugo Boss

What if fascists were stopped with atomic wedgies instead of atomic bombs