Stellula
6hr ago
Doesn't this prove my point pretty cleanly? The Mennonites are not using the internet.
Stellula
17hr ago
I think the internet has just been devastating for Protestantism. I don’t really think there are any “serious” Protestants left.
If Vivek “converted” to some pointless Evangelical mega church, it would just feel hollow and unserious.
Catholics (and I include the orthodox in this) have basically just won. Protestantism isn’t taken seriously anymore, and so a “conversion” to Protestantism would similarly not be taken seriously.
Stellula
1d ago
I think you’re hitting the core here.
If Vivek moved here, converted to Catholicism, named his kids Sean and Brad, starter personally going by Jim and became an obsessive football fan, maybe I’d buy it.
Because that’s basically what my ancestors did. They changed their names, punished their kids if they tried to speak the old language, named their kids almost comically American names, and just thanked god they were allowed to be here. They wanted to be American not lecture Americans on how to be better.
Four generations from now if some Vivek descendant wants to “rediscover their roots”, then fine. But America does have a culture, actually, and if you want to be an American the good news is they you can! You just have to actually do it.
Stellula
9d ago
God knows that it is our fate to spend our lives in the darkness, and knows that we'll need a light.
C is the language which feels like it can get us out, but python is the language that will be there for us when we can't.
I just watched the preview for this, and it's funny how quickly red/blue tropes shifted.
When this was made I imagine that the family is meant to be taken as fun loving, goofy, and obviously blue, where as SJP is meant to be taken as stuffy, uptight, and obviously red. (edit: I just read the plout outline and one of the family members is a gay, black, deaf man who adopts a child with his gay lover)
But my initial read when watching the preview was that this was a story about an uptight leftist/frigid/HR/feminist type having to spend the holidays with a bunch of conservatives.
Stellula
10d ago
Central planning fails again.
Every single time. This happens every time where you try to engineer around the existence of the human soul, and it will continue to happen, forever. There is a war going on between the ensouled and the enslaved, and you can see it playing out here. The enslaved, who occupy places like HR departments, CPS field agencies, reddit moderation discords, city ordinance compliance departments, HOA boards, and Rust governance bodies, fight against the idea that an ensouled human being might have their own ideas about how to live their life, or how to manage the memory on their own computer.
C is god's language, and as counterintuitive as it may sound: so is python. All other languages exist only to build a path towards enslavement.
Stellula
15d ago
imagine the smell
If any of you are on the tech/ai/startup side of x (which I imagine is everybody here), you probably saw the following exchange:
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A guy working as 'head of AI' for a company called Cline commented "Imagine the smell" under a photo of a hackathon.
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Indians assumed that somebody commenting on the smellyness of a hackathon (I've been to many hackathons, and nerds smell) must be commenting on Indians, and thus freaked out.
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The guy who made the comment replied to some of them saying that no, actually, he was just making a common internetism, and generally speaking to the smell of a bunch of guys in a packed room.
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The guy's boss gets involved, surely due to the campaign by online Indians to get him fired, saying that he wouldn't be firing anybody.
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Enough pressure happened that the guy's boss recanted, and fired the guy.
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Now the internet is imagining a lot of smells, cline has earned a ton of bad will, and the general dislike of Indians in the tech community has grown.
Here are some thoughts on this:
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I'm increasingly of the opinion that people should be able to filter the internet by country. I don't care what people from 9000 miles away, from a totally different culture, who have no investment or stake in my society have to say about it. I don't want to interact with these people. My life and my world is not a place for them to wage petty dramas and entertain themselves by harassing people here.
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Indians specifically (and I say this as somebody who has spent a considerable amount of time in India, consuming indian culturalisms, and interacting with Indians) seem to have a particular penchant for online drama. There seems to be a particular focus on people saving or losing some form of "face", although that isn't exactly it. It's similar to honor culture you find in other societies, but maybe just its own Indian brand of it. I think what we're seeing here are two cultures which should be separated by 10,000 miles of ocean running into each other on the internet; the clash should not be unexpected.
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"Imagine the smell" is not an anti-Indian slur, or at least it wasn't. It comes from image boards, and gets said under almost any moderately interesting photo of people. However, I think the massive freak out over this has turned it into one. Interdesting.
Can you link me to an example of a church where, if Vivek Ramaswami converted to it, Americans would see this as a strong signal that he was all in on America?
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