[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

Maybe if we funded them better they'd be able to tackle larger projects.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago

Wait so it's a decentralised network with a rigid authoritative hierarchy?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

Jesus christ mate, they're listening! Don't give them ideas!

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

missing big pieces usually makes it work less well.

I fucking love science.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

I’m skimming this because again fuck all these words

fuck all these words

Perfect summary of Slate Star Codex.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

It's hard for me to even imagine a more apt description of a privileged silver-spoon moron than thinking straw is waste and people would pay you to get rid of it.

Human minds are amazing, I can't even hypothesise what thought processes, if any, led him there

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 9 months ago

trans men have high rates of suicide too

The ability of transphobes to pretend like trans men don't exist never ceases to baffle me. They absolutely hate that trans men disprove half of their claims by just existing, so they pretend they just aren't real I guess?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

If only there was any large active warzone that has largely devolved into positional warfare for two years now to disprove that claim, damn.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago

In this collection’s finest work, Levy’s sentences are cold poetry of a sort. She deals individual cards rather than handles an entire deck. Her stories are vignettes, and the observations whoosh past your ears: “We wouldn’t be collectivizing the Adderall sector”; on drugs, “I could dig a hole to China and save the Uyghurs”; “Ronan Farrow is the only person who could truly relate to him”; “No one wants a Holocaust comparison, but isn’t this what we learned on those field trips we all had to take to museums of tolerance?”; “I wonder where the girls with mustache finger tattoos are now”; “Last night, Ivan and I were texting about all the hot art-world-adjacent millennial girls he knows who have been diagnosed with autism.” There are jokes about taking Greta Thunberg’s and Barron Trump’s virginity.

The lesser work in “My First Book” sinks to high school graduation speech level. “We are the future of the planet” and “I wonder if we will ever get to where we are going” and “Time has never moved faster than it is moving right now” and so on.

I'm sorry, "lol girls with mustache fingers" is high literature but "we are the future of the planet" is stupid? Did the author flip a coin on each of those to decide where it'd go?

Also what the fuck is this about Adderall, I don't even understand what it would mean to collectivise "the Adderall sector", but wasn't there a shortage of ADD medication not so long ago where people who needed it couldn't get it? Wouldn't we want to collectivise this??

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

At this point I have to genuinly wonder how many people using the term "cuck" actually have any idea what it means.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

Is there an equivalent of seasteading for me to fuck off to the ends of the earth to be as far away from libertarians as possible?

Sneersteading?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

I think many 14-year-olds would have vastly more valuable thoughts to share than this dick

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