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- Sun May 19, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 288
- Views: 32164
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
I am very aware that complaining about who controls a popular tab can come off as petty and yada yada yada. There are plenty of people who are more aligned with me who would become tyrants with that power too. Frankly, I am GLAD any popular post button slows down or doesn't work. These are nightmare...
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 288
- Views: 32164
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
I do think twitter has degraded quite a bit tho. every day my non posting account acquires a couple of porn bot followers the main problem is that the feed having popular and new is now, almost, useless. popular hangs around for days, the same posts, the same people. new is mostly random bots and c...
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 288
- Views: 32164
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
Which reminds me I forgot to add the hubris of medical doctors to the maelstrom.
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- Sat May 18, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 288
- Views: 32164
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
and this separates him from the rest of the tech weirdos how?
We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.
It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.
We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.
It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 759
- Views: 819144
Re: Computer Games
From A PC game to a bunch of bastards in the void: How does Void Bastards Work? A game that changes how you play it. ------------- Void Bastards is fun for a few hours with a solid concept but its not enough content to make any of it work for more than the initial few playthroughs. Maybe that's beca...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3037
- Views: 1291709
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
got anythin' recorded?
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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.
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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 288
- Views: 32164
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
Brass tacks is that Musk is not better than what came before, outside the shortest of scales. A different kind of bad.
It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.
It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3037
- Views: 1291709
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 759
- Views: 819144
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:57 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
- Replies: 187
- Views: 27592
Re: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:50 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
- Replies: 187
- Views: 27592
Re: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Poetry
- Replies: 138
- Views: 33522
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Cool Maps
- Replies: 208
- Views: 37030
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Cool Maps
- Replies: 208
- Views: 37030
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Cool Maps
- Replies: 208
- Views: 37030
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Science + Technology
- Topic: Scientific/Math Humour
- Replies: 271
- Views: 57239
Re: Scientific/Math Humour
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Science + Technology
- Topic: Scientific/Math Humour
- Replies: 271
- Views: 57239
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: Postmodernism and Critical Theory. Or why the Empress has no clothes.
- Replies: 872
- Views: 71875
Re: Postmodernism and Critical Theory. Or why the Empress has no clothes.
Gotta be annoyingmaxxing yourself to get to the heart of our condition:
Then there is Wittgenstein's Poker incident
Freeman Dyson: a thoroughly disagreeable character
Then there is Wittgenstein's Poker incident
Freeman Dyson: a thoroughly disagreeable character
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Political Levitas
- Replies: 2379
- Views: 414793
Re: Political Levitas
"It's an adverb culture by this point..."
- Fri May 10, 2024 5:06 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
- Replies: 679
- Views: 73111
Re: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
Interesting way of putting it. A lot more sensitivity to dodginess; a lot more sense of arbitrariness to enforcement. Lot easier to spread gossip. People seem to forget that they did try to get Sean Combs before on a nightclub shooting and his lawyers humiliated the city on what should've been an op...
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Political Levitas
- Replies: 2379
- Views: 414793
Re: Political Levitas
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1788246709836878028 To a non-USonian, what is the context? Apologies. -------- Govenor Noem released the type of memoir/policy books one does nowadays when eyeing higher office. She's positioning herself for the vice presidental nomination. In the book, she ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Poetry
- Replies: 138
- Views: 33522
Re: Poetry
Did you hang out with the literary crowd down in New Orleans?