KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
6d ago
I assume it's inevitable. In case you're interested, "embiggen" and "cromulent" are both fake words invented by The Simpsons. But the terms you're flagging are existing terms from the sorts of papers that fed into the intellectual groundwater of upstream communities in the 2000s-2010s IMHO, rather than "extremely online" or "rationalist(-adjacent/-descendant)" or "online right" shibboleths/inventions.
KingOfTheBailey
6d ago
Not all of the modern embiggenings of the lexicon are bad.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
Haven't watched Slow Horses, but if you like this sort of stuff, I'd check out The Sandbaggers.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
I only remember "Obama's deportations" used as a rhetorical weapon against Trump supporters, like a "we could've done it our way" once the conversation shifted back to "yes we're doing deportations". I think it turned out they were mostly border turn-backs, but I don't remember for certain.
Given that "abolish ICE" is a common slogan, providing services to ICE is seen as a boycott-worthy offense, sanctuary cities exist, and amnesty for illegal immigrants has happened in several European countries (most recently Spain), I think that the idea that a sovereign nation gets to enforce its national borders is still a controversial one in contemporary discourse.
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
You might be thinking of a tweet downstream of Geek Social Fallacies.
KingOfTheBailey
17d ago
One of the arguments the older safteyist rhetoric used to make the point that "reinforcing certain behaviors doesn't get you the outcomes you want" was "animals were selected to like sex because sex leads to reproduction and evolution 'wants' animals to reproduce. But then humans went and invented contraceptives and abortion so they could have all the sex they were evolved to want, without any of the inconveniences of pregnancy and children".
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
Would you mind going into more detail on the return to Christianity? Not necessarily "how the arc of your life changed" (though if that's not too private, by all means), but more what got you to step back through the door? It seems all so strange in the particular to me that I find it unbelievable. Why Jesus at all? Why was he born there? Why the crucifixion? I don't expect a theologian's answers, but I'm trying to give the flavor of why it seems so strange in time and place and detail to me.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
Or if you lived through the pandemic years.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
Ah, I see the problem. Thanks.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
I am now curious why you favor the fourth form over the second.
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
You're welcome. How do you decide when it's acceptable for your personal style to deviate from normal formatting conventions? I remember deciding at a fairly young age that many punctuation rules around quotation marks were indefensible, but especially the rule about placing the period inside closing quote.
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
Speaking of hyphens, using a hyphen to join an adverb to an adjective ("professionally-edited") is incorrect. See e.g., Chicago Manual of Style 5.93 ("A two-word phrasal adjective that begins with an adverb ending in -ly is not hyphenated").
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
Doomish doesn't sound specific enough ("doomer" was one of the early "-oomer" memes). I am sympathetic to Yud's arguments and think Yuddites is very apt.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
It took me until Charlie Hebdo, and the response to it, to understand this.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
There is a news article I've never been able to find again, published on 9/12 or 9/23, about how we mustn't give up the rights and freedoms that make America special when responding to this threat. It's such a shame to look back on it and think we almost did it, almost held fast to our principles in response to an attack unlike anything the world had seen. And then instead, once the shock wore off, we had the PATRIOT Act and all that followed.
KingOfTheBailey
27d ago
Well I was referring to assaults which wouldn't have happened had the victim been normal.
Yes. That is called a hate crime.
This argument proves too much. Crazy people fighting on the street are assaults which wouldn't have happened had the victim been normal (to the extent you can identify one).
To the extent that sexuality and "gender identity" are malleable within individuals (and despite "born this way" rhetoric used to justify gay marriage, there seems to be at least some amount of this, particularly in women), queer advocacy can be considered as harming the people who would otherwise have had functional lives. For a concrete example, you could consider the promiscuity of gay culture, which allowed AIDS to devastate gay communities so badly that it was designated GRIDS, for gay-related immunodeficiency syndrome, when it was first detected. A more recent example might be the amount of unnecessary suffering Monkeypox caused. For trans, the social contagions seem even stronger and the harms more stark (due to hormonal/surgical intervention and the reduction of one's dating pool to epsilon). People on Discord posting under queer identities have me aware of what they called a "queer gap", where all the time spent "figuring yourself out" means that queer people hit social/romantic/life milestones later than straight people. This, too, is a harm. Are the benefits of the promised self-understanding and self-actualization worth it?
I saw a tweet once about the Millennial experience being something like "get told none of the rules apply, and that you get to reimagine new ones, only to reconstruct all of Grandma's wisdom from first principles in your 30's and scramble to apply them before it's too late". Defaults matter and are mostly good for most people. It seems to me that a lot of advocacy speaks as if the defaults work for maybe 5% of the population when it's rhetorically something more like 95%.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
Only that they've been on the "edgy Newgrounds Humor" thing for years. Racist Mario was uploaded to YouTube 12 years ago and TRANSformers 10 years ago. The new Space King is up to 7.4M views and their board game's Kickstarter is at 3.7M on a 50k target. Chud money has been looking for something to fund for a long time, and they'd be mad not to ride that train as far as it takes them.
And for all the in-universe "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" stuff, Tom & Don seem like decent mellow spergs when they appear as themselves.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
Not on short timescales. This is the sort of thing you need thick community bonds to make work. If one were interested in conserving society, I'd first look at getting people out of rentals and into real homes so they put down roots. That means stabilizing house prices, ensuring proper order, addressing illegal immigration so the demand side brings houses back into affordability, etc.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
I can understand why western justice systems consider insanity as a defense against a finding of guilt, but the incentives seem to align better if it's considered an aggravating factor in sentencing.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
Praise be to SPACE KING! Episode 5 is out.
HPMOR does a much better job with this, because Slytherin's current behavior as the "evil" house —
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish wasn't bad on that front, but that's the only thing vaguely modern that I can think of.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
A moving performance and a powerful clip. But if the laws instead lie flat as a crop-circle for one's enemies but tall and thick to protect one's friends you just have anarchotyranny.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Probably not any more. I think you need the lounges normal people don't even know exist.
DHH has been controversial for a pretty long time now. See, for example, Martin Fowler's 2009 essay on the "Program like a Pr0n Star presentation, which was not given by DHH but his name is dragged into it as a Leader Who Should Be Responsible For Influencing The Community During This Difficult Time. He's talked about paying the wokes to leave 37signals, and called it "the best money we ever spent on anything related to culture". He's also been writing much more openly about his Noticing even before The Camp of the Saints, calling the renaming of git's default
masterbranch tomainan "exploit of good faith", asserting the necessity of deporting the gypsy population in Copenhagen, claiming that more and more people have had enough of "this [woke] nonsense", and that the ethnic makeup of London's population is cause for concern.I agree that battle lines are moving and new ones are being added to the left/right standard package of beliefs. It looks like Ruby has well-and-truly passed the "exciting" phase of the language lifecycle. What's left are companies just trying to get things done and not as much new work in the language. Coinbase - another business that started with a Rails monolith - published its Coinbase is a mission focused company post back in 2020, and DHH talks about Tobi-from-Shopify helping out during 37signals's purge. (Shopify also runs on ruby and has invested a lot into that ecosystem.) The people who hype your language but work the backchannels if they catch you without a rainbow flag pin seem to have moved onto Rust and (more recently) Nix.
The more obvious MIC and MIC-adjacent companies from tech-right boogeymen like Anduril and Palantir and such have long been excommunicated from the "standard" (read: hard-left) online spaces. I don't know which new image is going to stick as Ruby's online reputation: a tool for "normal" companies just doing normal company things (37signals, Hey, Shopify, Stripe) or the language that "all those people" use.
AI has definitely added as the new thing you "should" hate if you're on the left, largely displacing blockchain because nobody can afford GPUs anymore. While I really don't think it's fair that any company can scrape the internet and launder everyone's collective work back to us at pay-per-token rates, I think splitting on political lines is going to prove a strategic error in the medium term. Linus has been pretty clear that LLMs and their output are OK in the kernel community. It seems like people who can steer the newer models to keep producing working and maintainable code are going to be so much more productive, and we could well see a world where all the left-leaning people self-select out of the projects people actually use.
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