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Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.

Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.

The remarks at the end on how EA is actively trying to recruit and convert young uni students to their cause is chilling.

"Mr. President! We can't allow... a ChatGPT gap!"

Wat

[Grace's] grandfather, a British scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, found that poppy seeds yielded less opium when they grew in the English rain, so he set up an industrial poppy farm in sunny Australia and brought his family there.

To grow opium???

(OK I guess for medicinal purposes but maybe point that out)

Maybe I'm paranoid but I can't help but feel that the recent spate of "omg people have having too few children!" on HN is just another way to promote anti-abortion policies to the non-religious.

Representative example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39499490 (linked article originally published on Quillette, natch)

I remember this... wasn't this on old Sneerclub?

I think the consensus was, you still need to brush your teeth to avoid gingivitis, which is at least as big a deal for dental health as caries.

I believe there's a normal progression for any cult where they are convinced that The Man is out to get them.

What both sides have is an unrestrained contempt for the Fourth Estate:

Every journalistic outlet whose journalists credulously reprinted this patent bullshit should investigate those journalists to see who their connections are with whatever PR firms Andreessen Horowitz has hired; and then, regardless of the results of that investigation, should fire every one of those journalists for being one of either corrupt or hopelessly gullible.

It's sad when people pretend to have read some great piece of literature (like War and Peace), but at least it's understandable from a social perspective - the pretender wishes to conform to an ideal of a cultivated person.

It's hard to say if it's sadder or just more pathetic to pretend to have read a piece of dreck like HPMOR.

A variant of this organism was first created in 1985, and volunteers deliberately inoculated themselves with the modified strain. This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since.

Who needs the FDA when you have vague hunches?