[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

I am very sure that the only reason they talk about positive eugenics is because negative eugenics, literally forcing some people to not have kids, is taboo. Then again they are pretty stupid and arrogant so maybe they really believe they're breeding superbabies....

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

They seem to believe that stereotypes often have a grain of truth to them, and it's thus ok to believe stereotypes.

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

This could result in the worst podcast of all time

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Apparently newspapers are starting to get rid of mugshot galleries, so he might be lucky.

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

She is obviously not a very nice person but he really is a piece of work. Yeah, go on, encourage your wife to risk her health and her life to have kids you aren't even interested in.

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Every time I read the words "Dimes Square" a red mist descends

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, but there was a lot of blood under the bridge before they could make a truce. But I'd never heard of the truce, that's beautiful. ETA: sadly it seems the truce didn't hold more than 10 years, which is still pretty good. The original Israel-Egypt treaty it was based on seems to have held for about 4 years

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, the Bloods and the Crips. Because those two gangs are well known for peacefully coexisting (?!?!?!?)

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

What's driving me mad at the moment is the plague of bands, artists, organizations using linktr.ee instead of a website (or even if they have a website). That's what your website is for!

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

a castle is not an "investment", it's a money pit.

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

In secondary school we were doing a unit on religion and one day when the teacher was out we watched a documentary about Jonestown, pretty horrible. Ended with the Jonestown tapes. It became clear at the end that most of the other girls in my class had never heard of Jonestown and were really shocked by how it all ended. I don't know if I can go back and look at it all again. Interesting though if only for their relationship to SF politics.

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...no?!? ETA: you could get the "learning small skills" benefit this LessWrongie claims to have gotten by, I dunno, learning how to play chess. Without having to enter a Scientology org. And they wanted to do more courses with the Scientology public speaking course???

It's not a cult folks, it's definitely not a cult....

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