[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

My condolences.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Iarwain", cf. Charles' Wain, wainwright; from the Middle English for "a wagon that transports ears"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I was there for it, but I'm not sure I could explain it.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

(taking notes while talking in Zoidberg voice) "Don't ... let ... acid ... on job"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Is one truly fulfilling the fantasy if one's lair is not in a volcano?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

⏹️ apparently is indeed the "stop button emoji"; whatever meaning he intended that to have, yours is irresistibly better.

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