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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://marshallbrain.com/youve-had-your-turn-the-case-for-euthanizing-everyone-at-age-65

The "How Stuff Works" guy ~~decides to be normal~~ argues that retirement should be eliminated and the elderly executed "because they're not productive". In a further fit of normalness, he endorses EO Wilson without qualification.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Jesus Christ, this guy read A Modest Proposal and took it as fucking inspiration.

Why is it always eugenics and euthanasia with these chucklefucks? The idea of exterminating large amounts of humans seems to tickle something in some people’s brains.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Never heard of the dude, but despite writing a 6 part series entitled "Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time" has has not gotten the new party line from Dear Leader that the most pressing issue is the catastrophic lack of (white) babies rather than too many people.

OTOH porque no los dos? Force women in the "first world" to have kids, euthanize all the brown people.

edit people killed at or around 60 is a minor plot point in the pretty terrible Asimov novel Pebble in the Sky, where it is not seen as a Good Thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's bizarre to me that the articles starts out arguing that this is necessary for environmental reasons, then shifts to egalitarianism (spread wealth from the global north to the south), before landing on productivity. A complete scattershot argument whose only constant is a desire to euthanize the old, with only the EO Wilson connection for any clue as to why he came to this conclusion.

As for fiction, I think you could name probably quite a few stories that feature this kind of mandatory maximum lifespan, almost always as an obvious signpost that the government is cruel. (I am trying to remember one in particular, I think it was a short story called "Hop for Jubilee"? Ring any bells for anyone?)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I finally launched that collaborative software community. welcome to FreeAssembly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

from HN:

I got frustrated with ChatGPT for hallucinating sometimes, and my friend said "could be worse, could hallucinate all the time." And I thought it'd be fun to make that, and then we came up with a few more, and now we have this: https://cap-gpt.onrender.com/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

No actually a system which hallucinates some of the time is actually worse than all of the time. People will simply not use the latter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

could hallucinate all the time.

oh sweet summer child...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'm honestly okay with this one. This is a good AI project.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

YapGPT is just an API into yud's inner monologue isn't it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

with advent of HapsburgGPT inevitable, what's the next overhyped dumb thing cryptobros turned promptfondlers will turn to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they've been trying quantum but as awesome as quantum computing will be when it arrives, it'll be a bit obvious that in 2024, these expensive lab toys can't quite factor numbers so high as 35

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

nanomaterials got worn out already? i mean these are real but quite underwhelming, it's always some sensor or shiny powder, not nanomachines

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I took psychic damage reading some of those replies (that's 3 of them)

hopefully the OP there can find more places to find experience and feedback from than r/ssc, though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

What's wrong with the weed advice? Seems reasonable enough to me.

The 2 page treatise on inequality which is primarily impotent faffing about from "first principles" definitely hurt me though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

the psychoactive effects are quite subjective (and no one-size fits all), so I find the stated-as-fact/certainty of tone there a bit of a waste

(it is also a very common enough thing in many communities of people that partake in psychoactives, but, yeah)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs.

(my emphasis)

that's your problem right there bud

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

As somebody who amateur DJ'ed (badly, very badly I must add, I'm not suddenly cool, more the reverse):

I don't understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs. IMO, the choice of music is often quite bad, it leans heavily towards repetitive EDM, the playlists could consist of far more interesting music

This is such a revealing thing. And the theorizing after it on why bars do this is even more revealing (he could have just asked). But yeah people don't go to bars for interesting new music, they come for the socializing, which is a lot easier if everybody can dance along with the music, or just nod along with it if it is more a socializing place. Sometimes there also isn't a plan but just 'we should get a DJ'.

The whole list is a collection of 'I have no empathy and I also never thought about asking people about these things' btw. I really hope this is a teenager.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to know what he thinks they should play.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

music that is interesting, obvies! like, y'know, maybe algoraves, or maybe things that use classical elements. unfortunately the idle masses would never go for such things, the goddamn proles!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

lmao i knew it was going to be a samuel barber remix before clicking that link, well done

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I kept with the "this has definitely seen mass consciousness" options to really hammer down the point ;D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I guess he doesn't realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@Soyweiser @gerikson Plus the sets of "people who can DJ competently" and "people who are convinced that they should be allowed to DJ in public" do not, unfortunately, overlap completely.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Hey that one other metalhead at the bar really liked my dj style. Don't be a hater ;).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago
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