Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3hr ago
Rephrase it as "defend the principles of civil society and a morally sanctioned opportunity to be hostile to an asshole". Karens work at Aldi, too.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10hr ago
But these people, and I admit I think they sound a lot more sensible than the tech people online, actually use the technology and go, "meh". They see it as a mildly amusing toy. Maybe it has some uses, in some niche fields, but for the most part it's just not very interesting. If they didn't get access to it, they would not particularly care.
Normies use the ChatGPT app, and from what I see, the results are often worthless garbage. I mean a significant fraction of the time it's literally on the level of "Please design me a rectangle." "Ok, here's that triangle you asked for."
A lot of that is surely user error, but the entire pitch is that it can field natural language requests. There's a minor IRL issue of local flyers with QR codes that don't work because the person just asked for "A flyer with a QR code" and the free version on mobile at least doesn't ask follow-up questions like "Is the QR code supposed to actually do anything?"
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11hr ago
It's like you live in the third world. Tonight, I had a 16" pepperoni from a local place that was featured by Guy Fieri for $23. 33% bigger, approximately a hundred times tastier, and $3 less.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
Well for starters, most fanfiction (or fiction of any kind) consists of more than 4k words stapled together from eight loosely connected vignettes.
I guess there's value in the specificity, but I feel like baseline Mottizan imagination could crank out one of these but better while taking a crap.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
Those immigrants could be helping to build enough housing for everyone; the construction industry is heavily Hispanic. They are just not allowed to, because nobody is allowed to solve the problem.
Have you seen what buildings look like in Latin America?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
For the most part you don't have to actually interact. The videos of utterly brazen thieves are the tip of the iceberg. The other 90% will bail to try later or somewhere else if a staffer is just hanging around suspiciously close. "Hey, can I help you with anything?" is the best practical defense.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17hr ago
Yes, the part you underlined is precisely what I was referring to. "There's a plausible enough alternative explanation that we're not going to get a conviction through a DC jury" is actually a different statement from "There was no evidence of the crime at all because we made it all up."
You are reading the first and imagining the second. Or, less charitably, lying.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17hr ago
Yes, all shoplifting is theft from the community. But that's a second order consequence, so it's functionally inscrutable High Arcana to the people who need to hear it.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17hr ago
Plenty of low level employees do care, in the sense of "Fuck you, I have to do this shit to get my stuff. Why should your defectbot ass get it for free?"
The employees who don't have that attitude are usually the ones getting let go within a few months.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18hr ago
The case was dropped due to lack of evidence
That's actually not what your own cite says.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18hr ago
If the rate is increasing, then it is not increasing fast enough.
How fast do you expect it to go? Doubling in 10 years isn't enough? Well, it's definitely not when 3 times the total accumulation of new housing is brought into the country in the form of government-subsidized illegal immigrants in just a few years. Imagine if demand for housing were 10-30 million people lower.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18hr ago
It's all been live corporate zoom calls. I don't have any way to demonstrate a non-doxing example. Just a commonality I've noticed. I figured if it were really a thing, than someone here like Rafa would know what I was talking about and explain.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Yeah, totally random, self-described "concerned citizen" and double-digit ActBlue donor who knew enough about the topic to make a trip because he wanted to check it out for himself while somehow completely missing all the culture war angles, and so stuck his arm into a pool that you're not allowed to touch to feel it and wriggle damaged parts around just out of idle curiosity, but he definitely says that he didn't affect it in any way.
Completely random guy being harassed for literally no reason.
That doesn't explain anything, it's just whataboutism.
Nah, it's just rubbing your nose in your Arctic research station levels of isolated demands.
If you want a more general, real answer, it's because that's the meta. You immediately drop double-barrel, incendiary shells of rhetoric even over minor things, because the other side is going to do the same or worse, and they will never, ever, ever, show a shred of respect or grace for any kind of retiring humility or professionalism. It's not like you'd be granting respect if they'd said something bland and non-committal about "seeing where the process goes". It's not like anyone making a culture war bonfire out of a pool renovation would have chilled down a single degree - they (you) would have just kept heaping wild accusations onto the pyre*. And it's not like there aren't much more egregious examples to throw shade at elsewhere.
You just only ever notice it when you see an opportunity to pounce on the side you dislike.
*Turing Test Writing Challenge: SecureSignals style post blaming the pool issues on Israel. There was a person holding a "First they came for the algae..." sign...
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Maybe when she shares a commiserating drink with all the other people who sold their souls, hurt innocent people through lawfare and wasted government resources, she can at least feel good that she didn't overplay so cartoonishly hard that she helped Trump get re-elected.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
The amount of new housing is going up though, and the rate is actually increasing, from about 890k in 2014 to 1.6m in 2024. Are you sure this is a general problem, and not a "trendy cities misruled by Democrats" problem?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Mostly mid-Atlantic, but some from much further.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Is there a distinctive "corporate girlboss" voice? I have regrettably reached the point in my life where I have to attend a fair number of zoom meetings. I have noticed a kind of common affect for a large number of the women who run them. It sounds like a reformed uptalk, coming from the roof of the mouth in a way that I want to call nasally, but it really isn't.
Is there some kind of vocal training course for corporate women that they might have in common?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
because of deliberate political decisions to restrict new supply.
And to inflate demand. 10-30 million illegal immigrants live somewhere, and sending them home would free up a ton of housing.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
The poverty of imagination of the characters is rivaled only by that of the author.
This is how I felt about The Water That Falls From Nowhere When You Lie. This variety of magical realism should be gatekept from the rest of genrefic with machine guns and minefields.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
One wonders how one could advocate for workers' rights and treating employees fairly, and yet also support the importation of a workforce to be exploited by employers for the sole purpose of reducing costs.
Because the people leading the charge on this are upperclass failsons and failed creatives, perpetual grad students and surplus low-midwit knowledge workers. The immigrants driving UberEats and hanging drywall aren't competing with Mamdami in the rap game, or getting lucrative contracts for shit-tier art that should have gone to his wife.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
but that's not a very good long term plan - they would need to have food, shelter, facilities, sources of income, etc.
What's "long term"? Now, I'm not asking you to define the term. I'm asking you to imagine being unable to grok it in the first place.
There was an old tumblr post about some animal, a racoon maybe, that had gotten itself in trouble. Maybe stuck in trash, something like that. And the notable thing that made it worth posting was that the critter openly approached some humans for help. The OP phrased it as something like "It's neat that they've developed an instinct to, if all else fails, just go ask the local apex predators and maybe they'll fix it for no reason". And the follow on replies discussed how we were basically fey to them, with powers and motives beyond mortal comprehension.
I have met people who act like this. They're not visibly special needs, but they're probably below 80 IQ. And their problem solving approach very often reduces to "find a person dressed nice and ask them to use magic".
What would a nation of people like that look like?
Why would those people need to worry about food, shelter, facilities or money? They have crossed the gate into the FeyWild, and know now that the fey are kind and generous to a fault beyond their ken. Those things are Europe's problem now. The EU will just use magic and fix it for no reason.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
I've been playing TTRPGs regularly for almost 30 years. GURPS is definitely my most extreme ratio of time spent reading to time spent playing. It was just all so elegant. But most of my friends like less crunchy, or more setting-specific stuff.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
The second one was written by William H Stoddard, a sure sign of quality.
I regret that I never got to play much GURPS.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
A crisis that is likely going to end Spain's left-wing government comes out of thin air, clearly coordinated,
How thin air? That left-wing government just recently granted citizenship to half a million Africans, with heavy implications that they'd do it again and in greater numbers. Invasion levels of young men charging into Spain was the most predictable outcome in the world.
The selling point in the commercials is that you don't. You can just talk to it like a person. Most normies don't quite get that it's sort of like a brutally autistic person you can just talk to, but you have to carefully phrase everything and anticipate mistakes that would normally come up and be dealt with over an actual conversation. In actual practice, it's less effective at anticipating your needs and problems than the 16 year old girl with a tablet standing outside a Chik'Fil'A.
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