My condolences.
"Iarwain", cf. Charles' Wain, wainwright; from the Middle English for "a wagon that transports ears"
I was there for it, but I'm not sure I could explain it.
(taking notes while talking in Zoidberg voice) "Don't ... let ... acid ... on job"
LessWrongers don't have a sense of a "vaguely plausible normie" that is calibrated in a grounded way (by trying to teach the Intro for Non-Majors courses, trying to explain to relatives and high-school friends what you do for a living, etc.). Instead, they have a concept constructed to set them apart and above. The normie is the ideal rube, the complete inverse of the sophisticate that the LessWronger aspires to be or believes themselves to have become.
Is one truly fulfilling the fantasy if one's lair is not in a volcano?
Academic prose is not known for its scintillating qualities, but reading meta-analyses and reviews about calorie restriction (for example) is easier than reading a Yud tweet.
I'm pretty sure that my response in that situation would get me fired. I mean, I'd start with "how many trees did you burn and how many Kenyans did you call the N-word in order to implement this linked list" and go from there.
⏹️ apparently is indeed the "stop button emoji"; whatever meaning he intended that to have, yours is irresistibly better.
I had noticed the user ID and figured that they were sequentially-assigned integers, but I hadn't bothered to check what the numbers had gotten up to. I'm seeing a 930, an 1175, a 2327.... So, yeah.