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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Why are you posting stills of Man in the High Castle to sneerclub, I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

There's an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It's even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.

It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (15 children)

Yes and that’s obviously lies, as anyone who has grown up with limited income in a cold area can tell them. Cheap, warm clothing is not bought online (in the US) from Russia, and never from Etsy. In the US it’s bought — if you’re buying new at all! — from Target or Kohl’s or some other big chain. You get layers, you get things used when you can, and the cheapest way to dress warmly is the most normie, uninteresting clothes that are mass produced and sold in low end department stores.

Nothing they describe is practical or cheap. It’s cosplay Kinder, Küche, Kirche, and the journalist repeated it verbatim because she’s a chump.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Warm clothes instead of heating is great, but they manage to subvert it in a very EA way. The way they talk about it sounds almost Calvinist. I wonder if they have some equivalent of the secret TV in the attic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There’s no reason to believe they live this way in reality. None of these profiles do any actual journalism. None of them investigate whether their claims about their childhood are true. This one doesn’t even talk to the neighbors who theoretically live next door for free (and do the unpaid childcare). This is stenography of neo-fash influencers self-described life and there’s no reason to believe any of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

that gives a whole new facet to the meaning of “cold upbringing”.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@Architeuthis

" buys online from Russia"

but why

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Whats the context for this? (Sorry if someone mentioned it and I didn't find it)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He looks like the child Taron Egerton's Eggsy and Scott Alexander

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

@slopjockey

Maybe if Eggsy's balls hadn't dropped and he was raised by a billionaire.

I can't put my finger on it exactly but the pictures of them give me the impression that they've never actually had sex.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Fuck me, is that what Scott Alexander looks like?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

He looks like someone handing out cult literature at the airport.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

That's what everybody who's into HBD looks like

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

can't goosestep without great boots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Their body postures completely bely their need to be relevant and noticed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Does anyone else think that they look stupid?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Dude looks like Edward Sallow's cum dumpster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He looks like younger, bow-tie era Tucker Carlson. Twat.

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