Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Didn't they just disappear the guy in charge of their anti-stealth tech because in the aftermath of said tech being utterly ineffective in Venezuela and Iran they discovered that the guy had just made up the data saying it would work on US stealth bombers?
China has large cultural problems of it's own, and I frankly wouldn't be surprised to discover Russian levels of materials were garbage or simply non-existent because they were secretly sold off the back of a truck.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
The Republican Party may be over for the next decade.
Democrats are currently polling worse than anyone except Iran itself.
Going to log the prediction that the polls in 2 months are substantially identical to the ones from February.
Remember when Trump ended everything with that horrible tweet about Robert Deniro?
Did it take everyone a minute to dredge up the memory and substitute the correct actor?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Does it not tire you to engage in this constant catastrophizing? It's been ten years. How are people still driving themselves into madness like this?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Like if you can squat the taller dude on your back and regularly throw around 300 lb+ weights in the gym, are you really at much of a disadvantage in a fight? I guess striking you would be due to body length of course.
Yes, reach is a bitch. Based on limited personal experience, a large height gap strongly overcomes a muscle gap. Top tier athlete/power lifter might swing the balance back, I would guess, and all of this is assuming no particular training discrepancy, but a foot+ of height advantage is massive.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
This isn't something I've specifically studied, but I have a meme in my head that "chew through leadership until you hit the secret sauce right man for the job" is a fairly common pattern in winning modern wars. That the guys in the history books were often talented second or third rank officers who got promoted after fuckups from the peacetime generals.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
Not a big Trump fan, although you have to respect his phenomenal instincts. I think his brain is kind of stupid, but my god his gut is smart.
Donald Trump is the caveman in the bell curve meme.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
"Bayseian evidence" doesn't imply "enough evidence that it makes a practical difference"
My friend, set aside the politics and philosophy for a moment. In the real world, in your real life, if you meet someone who always seems to have an excuse for why everyone dislikes them for bad, unfair reasons, STAY AWAY. The reason appearances can be deceiving is because they are usually not. If your first encounter with someone matches that pattern, sure, maybe it's an unfair fluke (but probably not). If three out of the first four encounters match that pattern, you should accept that that person is a walking disaster, and engage at your own peril.
"Oh, yeah, I have to go to court tomorrow. No, no, it's a crazy story, my ex-landlord is a total psycho."
9 times out of ten, that's actually exactly what it looks like and the person speaking is meaningfully guilty and the kind of person who does crimes and constantly lies.
If you recommend seeking legal redress for their purported "crazy" persecution and they waffle and deflect, increase that certainty to 100%.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
I don't think that phrase is meant to be taken so literally, even if it's phrased as an absolute. It especially breaks down in very granular, binary political contexts... but then I'm the guy who harps on the point that political hypocrisy is almost always mirrored.
But please allow me to rephrase more carefully, and in my own words: If a person claims that there is no objective or knowable truth, that is Bayesian evidence that the speaker is a liar. If a person claims that all the bad stories about them are false narratives made up to persecute them, that is Bayesian evidence that the stories are true. If a person tells you that, really, everyone is a bad person, then that is Bayesian evidence that the speaker is a bad person. And if a person tells you that there is no "truth", only competing power narratives, then you need to start acting like you are in a power struggle because you are.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
That makes me so happy to know someone else reacted like I did.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
I then immediately part ways, because I think that is a poor excuse to entirely dispense with the idea of consensus reality, of shared standards, or even making moral arguments. It would be akin to claiming that since the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle rules out a perfect ruler or clock, your broken timepiece is just as good as the atomic clock in NIST's basement. Or that your dick is actually 12 inches long, which would probably be preferable given the tendency/desire that some postmodernists display: they enjoy sucking themselves off.
Or that special relativity implies moral relativity.
That observation is one of those things that is a reasonable point, and then once you've given that inch, the worst people in the world steal a child-sex-trafficking mile. Everything worthwhile about the point is better organized as the map/territory distinction, and anyone who seems to be trying to disparage the territory in general is probably pseudointellectual trash.
Iconochasm
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11d ago
A bunch of those just live in my head. "There are two kinds of food and you will never find out about the third". "The earth has no sky (but the sky does)". "Buckets are real". "The sun is a ghost/ flat moon".
Might try to write an effort post to debunk the bucket deniers.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
But then why do people go so hard against ICE when ICE was trying to target criminal immigrants, etc? I think partially bc those opposed didn't believe the "criminal focus" bit. But also bc boats sink with their evidence, vs the infinite clips of ICE doing stuff (many posted by ice itself lol)
Based on personal conversations with boomer libs, they just believe straight up crazy things about the situation. That ICE is rounding up random brown people, including citizens, and torturing and killing them just for fun, and sending them to FOREIGN TORTURE PRISONS, all with absolutely no legal authority to do anything because they're not cops.
They appear to literally believe that Donald Trump created ICE as a kind of para-military KKK to enact his evil as the wicked emperor of America. That's why they're so gung-ho to seek vengeance on ICE agents. They think of it like "Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix Black", and not "jailing law enforcement for enforcing the law on child rapists".
We've had a lot of discourse about right-wing radicalization, but the shit women on TikTok are getting up to is a genuine Abyss where reality goes to die.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
The only players in this conflict who, as a matter of sincere religious conviction, base their foreign policy on a desire to accelerate the fulfilment of their religion's end-time prophecies, are the Christian Zionists in the US.
This is just noble savage nonsense, like everyone else who takes a stand against Christianity while blithely ignoring the egregiously worse comparisons from Islam. Are you really contending that religion has no influence on the behavior of a explicitly religious fundamentalist totalitarian government?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
I will also just add that while I myself have made the point that a strong (and especially unified) Europe is not in American interests
I'm self-aware enough to admit that a strong, muscular Europe would probably also annoy me, if in different ways. But it's hard to imagine it would be less pleasant to look at than the current version of a suicidal Europe that hates itself - not even for it's sins, but most of all for it's former muscular virtues!
It's like watching your dad mainline MSNBC until he looks like Rosie O'Donnell.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
A Europe that is able to do things beyond writing strongly worded letters and accepting refugees
This is literally what Trump and MAGA wants and the response from Europe's political leadership has been a genteel, refined, well-bred, exquisitely credentialed version of a toddler throwing themselves on the floor and screaming because you asked them to put on their own trousers.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Damn. How about this?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
If it makes you feel better, I've already dialed downed the usage of AI for stylistic advice or editing significantly, because I've increasingly come around to the people who think that that it dilutes my own voice and personality.
The best use I've found for LLMs is stripping out any personality or style from corporate slop emails I am sending. No fucking way am I bringing my whole self to work - the mask is entirely sufficient for the likes of them.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
She became a generic omnicause protestor instead of The Climate Child.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
It strikes me as an example of "Every accusation is a confession." Perhaps this sort of thing hits better if the reader is a dissembling, delusional jackass.
In fairness, I have read none of these books, but in fairness, they mostly sound just dreadful.
I thought I had read Catch-22, but checking the wiki article, I now suspect that was a segment of a couple chapters in some English class, rather than the full book. Or I've just forgotten 90% of it over the last 20 years.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
I abhor the abominable intelligence, as you may know.
But this is actually an exemption. I loved the early AI stuff because it produced spectacular surrealist humor. The AI generated conspiracy theories is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It's hard for humans to be that creative and absurd without descending into lolquirky, but GPT2 did that by default.
I didn't get that impression from the OP, but then I have a lot less experience with explicitly AI written text. It felt like it had Count's signature sneer. Does AI tend to produce that level of quasi-coherent argumentation? If I had to guess, given the prompt "AI was used", I'd say it was a messy screed that was organized and streamlined by an AI.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
God damn, these Jew guys sound incredible. How do I get on their team?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
I have to preface this by saying that I normally don't think highly of you as a poster. When I saw your header, my first instinct was to roll my eyes and minimize the conversation. But I did end up reading it, and I'm really glad I did. This was an excellent essay, a worthy indulgence for the sin of a few dozen shitposts.
Dead wrong on every single value judgement throughout, of course, but beautifully, hilariously so.
Excellent trolling. I actually had a few hundred words written before I realized you didn't include any links or real background info, and then realized why.
To hasten things for everyone else, article.
The school in question was a central planning initiative that's been captured by the French deep state since basically the beginning. It's a finishing school and personality-killing brainwashing symposeum for nomenklatura kids, and very very much an example of Selection, to the little extent that entire framing is worthwhile.
Which is, of course, the entire point of the post. Being carefully, forcefully stupid in a way that demands reponse from the 'tism.
Gr8 B8 M8.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
Imagine a religion that believes it is evil to pick up $100 bills lying on the sidewalk, and even demands you tithe more $100 bills to the sidewalk. From the inside perspective, getting mad at people who pick up the free money makes total sense - they are violating a holy norm. But from the outside perspective, they look like retards.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
Is it? I know oil prices help, but weren't they reliant on Iran for drone parts?
No, everything has been between "basically fine" and "awesome, actually". This is what I mean by catastrophizing.
That's how long Trump has been dominating our political conversation. That's how long lefties and NeverTrump types have been having crashout meltdowns EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. about whatever new calamity is making the rounds on TikTok or BlueSky. How many times has Trump DESTROYED THE ECONOMY?!!/1 How many times has Trump STARTED WORLD WAR THREE!!!!1? How many times have we seen THE END OF DEMOCRACY!!1?
(They screamed, on their national television shows where they will definitely never suffer consequences for open, deranged antipathy for the purported fascist king of America. Unlike Europe, where complaints about being raped by migrants or criticizing politicians gets people jailed for longer than the migrant rapists.)
And no one ever stops and recalibrates. No one ever pauses to take a sanity check. They just lose issue after issue, fact pattern after fact pattern, and dive straight into the next hype cycle.
Remember the other day when all those idiots thought he was dead?
LMAO.
It's certainly flailing and I want to call it ineffectual, but at this point the sheer staying power of the moral panic / doomsday cult mentality is honestly impressive. Terribly unhealthy, but impressive.
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