[-] maol@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

That too - a significant section of the tradcath subculture spends most of its time fulminating against "Bergoglio" these days.

Also, if they happen to be the pro-Russian/anti-Ukraine kind of right-wing shithead, then the political alignment of some Orthodox churches may be amenable.

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

It was Jann Wenner, former Rolling Stone owner/editor, who said that he only wanted to write about "philosophers of rock ’n’ roll" for a book he wrote called "The Masters".

You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

I started (but didn't finish) a degree in city planning, and we literally spent a lot of the first year learning about why planned cities are usually a bad idea. Siskind's a schmuck

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

Not sexist at all!

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

eurgh. I think a lot of them probably delude themselves that they aren't just posting. but they are just posting. they're christians the way QAnon followers are political activists.

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago
[-] maol@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

it hasn't but it has been promoted as a predictor of success in education, work and life. The Bell Curve famously claimed that higher IQ people were more likely to finish education, stay in work, stay out of prison and stay married.

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 2 years ago

No matter where he went he would start a cult, wouldn't he. His belief in his own greatness is too strong. If it was the 1920s he'd be running a spiritualist church or something, if it was the 1970s he'd be running an LSD church or something, but unfortunately it's the here and now and he's running a computer church.

[-] maol@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

hello! \o_

I was an infrequent commenter at the old place (u/yawaster), usually when I got really annoyed about something TESCREAL related. I will probably also be an infrequent commenter here but I still need an occasional outlet for my sneer. Fair play for actually setting up an escape raft from Reddit rather than slinking back, the future of the useable/bearable web depends on people putting their money where their mouth is.

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