GorillionRialGraphene
Hopefully funnier than that last guy...
User ID: 692
GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
For anyone who was wondering about this, the federal government was going to withhold 10% of the highway funding.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Easy one: Inkscape. It's a vector graphics program that's sort of like powerpoint on steroids. It's drag and drop, making it effortless to make simple graphics, and also supports extremely powerful tools for more complex stuff. It's good for everything from a 2 minute infographic to print quality page layouts for publications. It's free and open-source.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Yep, this is my major gripe with Wikipedia. A many articles, particularly the one on Gamergate, basically get writen and then some smug editor sits on it and reverts any changes that disagree with the media naritive, citing the media consensus rule.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
A while back on 4chan, I saw an interesting quote from a book that said something along the lines of:
The larger a system is, the less diversity it can support. Something something, the galapagos islands have vastly more biodiversity than north America despite being much smaller
Now, I didn't save the picture, and it was photograph of a page of a book. I tried searching for "larger" "system" "less diversity" "support", but you know how terrible google is about finding anything that isn't an "approved" mainstream news article nowdays. I ended up finding a paper called Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches? that was tangentially related, but it seems to be more focused on conservation. Any idea what I could search for to find more information about this as a general topic? I feel like this could "The larger a system is, the less diversity it can support" is a very interesting premise that could describe a lot of topics, especially sociological and economic topics.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
a particularly egregious use to block student housing because the students themselves would constitute an environmental impact
Yeah, humans tend have an impact on environments they live in. Seriously, how did we get a system that is so self defeating? It's insane that Califorians can't build houses.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
I met some guy at a gas station who had Phocomelia in both of his arms. (The thing that makes your arms look like baby arms) I asked him if I could buy him a drink, and he said a mountain dew, so I bought him 2 dews and a bag of popcorn.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
It's a reference to the naming scheme that was used by the ban evasion subreddits for Million dollar extreme, which follows the Number, Currency, Rhymes-with-extreme pattern. Sure, I might be biased, but I've been reading a lot of rationalist stuff recently, and I've been reconsidering some of my viewpoints. (I'm a problem theorist, not a conflict theorist.)
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
If you're having trouble SCROOLING social media on your phone, just download some ebooks. If you download a bunch of non-fiction educational books you'll probably be bored though, so be sure to actually download something fun like Ultra Cyberpunk Detective: The Cypher City Hacker Femdroid RoboKiller Slasher Supreme if you're trying to actually replace "fun" websites. Longform reading is much better for the mind than just reading snappy one-liners on reddit.
I'm struggling to understand exactly how students are being "brainwashed".
Do Asians get a part too for all the ethnic genocides they've been through as well? Seems a little Eurocentric.
point-blank what you think "we" should do about it
Simply be transparent about it. Stop lying that AIPAC/Ultra-Zionists don't control the government. Powerful special interest groups have always dominated politics, it's just the way the world works. However, I have a problem with bankers/media execs who exert massive, disproportionate power over the general public, and then when criticized for their actions, they hide behind a photo of a shoeless orphan.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
There's a million other sites suitable for dumping silly internet memes and culture warrior blowhard "jokes." If anything, this site should become a high-effort posting comunity where people make well-thought out text posts. I personally think high-effort satire can be extremely funny when done well, and if we're going to post anything for laughs, it should be longform text posts. Like it or not, this site will likely get quite a bit of overlap with the various dispora of MDE or Deuxrama, but it also has the potential to attract lefties as well. I'm here because I want to be able to write more than a few sentances without geting the "words words words" response. (Sorry I don't know the history of Motte, I just got here from the rdrama crowd. Based on what I've seen so far, it seems like it's a dirtbag left or stupidpol type community.)
Perhaps if the site had a subform that had a serious "nothing but your own OC" rule, I could see it as being suitable.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Based on what I've seen, it's my opinion that Biden is explicitly a figurehead, and holds almost no actual power. He's struggling with dementia, seriously. But in terms of the actual people running the white house, particularly Harris and the cabnet, I think their actions are in oposition to the freedom and wellbeing of the American people.
GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
The problem with trying to study modern history is that the world is simply changing too quickly for definitive conclusions! The whole truth is rarely revealed when things happen. Today, people think google is immortal, and yet, 20 years from now, we'll look back at the memoirs of the executives and project directors and see that the writing was on the wall when they unambiguously choked on AI development and dropped the ball to Microsoft and Meta.
Studying the past is much easier, since rumors get cleaned up and facts get checked.
Terrible idpol response:
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There aren't state laws mandating Irish potato famine education courses in 23 out of 50 US states.
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The US doesn't give disproportionate amounts of money to Ireland, and then also have to give money to their neighbors to incentivize them to play nice with the irish.
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Ireland has never been caught spying on US politicians or planting Stingray units around the White house. (However, in fact checking this, I did discover that the IRA got weapons from the USSR once.)
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Our relationship with England is not actively sabotaged by the Irish.
While clever, this works the same for Italians or Germans. You could even stretch it to work for Asians too.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Well, the obvious one is that if you acknowledge your weaknesses, you can better address them. For example, we all agree that boys are generally more aggressive than girls, and therefore benefit more from special instruction to control their anger.
As a hypothetical example, lets say you had a race of green people who were biologically adapted to utilization of violence, corporal punishment, and emphasis on the spoken word. If you wanted green people to have better quality-of-life outcomes in a technologically advanced liberal society, you would want to place special emphasis on teaching green children to suppress their emotional intuitions in favor of liberal platitudes. (I.E. Sticks and Stones...)
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
No, it's not unreasonable to ask people to use content warnings. Ousting people for having sensitivities is what purity spiralers do. I'm particularly thinking of this effect in """right""" wing communities where there will be extremely vocal people who insist on spamming NIGGER at every opportunity, despite the fact that this type of user doesn't make original content, doesn't contribute to the codebase, doesn't effortpost, and refuses to be nice to people who do. They end up chasing off everyone else and cutting off the fresh flow of content. Any online community is 100% better off without these types of people. It's perfectly reasonable to ask people to spoiler-ize sensitive content. Not everyone wants to see gore, porn, or whatever, and that's OK.
Sure, SJWs say something that sounds similar, but SJW types practice their own forms of purity spiraling. If you don't post a black square, you can't be in the group. If you don't allow me to inject my political views into every topic, we can't be friends.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
I personally would like to see some kind of emoji reaction system like discord. A clown face, smile, or confused face can all be quite descriptive to gauge public opinion on a post. I don't downvote at all, unless something is especially poorly written.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Pop culture's recent facination with gender-non-conforming males, namely "femboys" is particularly interesting. Based on my observations, most tend to be straight, gynephillic, sometimes bicurious young men who previously lacked a "goal body" that they wanted to achive. They're prehaps not traditionally masculine, have intelectual interests, and really do not aspire to the image of masculinity that society pushes: a dumb, uncaring, drunkard, heavyset dudebro who despises intelectualism and lacks emotional sensitivty. Thus they get fat and don't take care of themselves. Then along comes alternative depections of masculinty, you can be a lithe yet toned, slim bodied male with (debatable) good fashion sense. Not everyone actually has the discipline to actually get fit, of course, but enough people like the idea that's it's practially mainstream.
Also as far as the neogenitalia thing goes, FtMs will probably still want penises, but I highly suspect MtFs wanting vaginas will be a passing fad. Probably a really wierd prediction to make, but, although many men will likely want to become women, the future is absolutely phallocentric.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Byuu's emulation and reverse engineering efforts were more meaningful than anything KF has done. Privacy is a requirement for free speech.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Language models aren't sentience. When you ask the AI if it feels pain, and it generates some thoughtful paragraph about it being a machine or whatever, that's not 'the AI' sharing it's thoughts. It's a text completion algorithm generating some text based off human literature about fantasy AI personas waxing philosophical.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
Probably a bit tangential, but I believe in a number of "pesudoscience" Parapsychological phenomena, such as remote viewing and micro psychokinesis - Particularly of random number generators.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
It's funny because I figured EA would take several years to go mainstream, and I was trying to sound prophetic in a story I was writing about a year ago, but it became real wayyy faster than I expected.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
To add on to what others said, their culture around "lowcows" has become really toxic. You could perhaps describe the userbase as looking for blood rather than milk. Many famers are downright hateful to the lolcows. The alternate crowd (like rdrama) is more akin to watching wierd and bizarre indie movies: It's wierd, but in an interesting or morbidly facinating way.
GorillionRialGraphene
1yr ago
I don't really forsee this as becoming a thing any time soon. Sure, there will always been outlandish people that end up in vice news articles, but the human body remains the most versitile form in terms of ergonomics and utility.
If you've browsed alternative politics communities for any period of time, you've noticed that people on supposedly opposite sides tend to use each other's language and terminology "ironically". (IE, "Moid"/"Foid", "Incel", "Chud", "Libtard", "Dudes rock") Likewise, people tend to enjoy the same entertainment media: Strategy games, dialogue heavy RPGs, The Cyberpunk genre and it's associated political themes. Why do supposedly "leftist" subreddits (stupidpol, Redscarepod) get flooded with rightoids when there's a banwave?
I have a theory that many people are actually sort of a meta-fan of the politics fandom. When you're into weird, obscure political philosophers like Julius Evola or Ted Kaczynski or Max Stirner or whoever, you're not actually "more right" or "more left", you're into alternative politics itself.
If you believe that the US government is controlled by a select group of international enthonationalists, it's not that hard to generalize that belief to a class-struggle framework. Likewise, if you believe in class-struggle, it's not crazy to notice that certain upper classes, particularly in Washington DC, have over-representation from certain groups and strong in-group political loyalty to those groups.
Anyone else notice a similar effect? I'm still trying to develop my thesis.
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