firmamenti
2yr ago
Being involved in theater doesn’t make you a theater kid, and you can be a theater kid even if you are not involved at all in theater. I wouldn’t take it too personally.
Do you see yourself as better than others? And wish to impose your beliefs on others? Do you imagine over dramatized revolutions yet oppose gun ownership, and associate fitness with something negative?
It’s the kids who were in high school asking for more homework, tattling on other kids, and sneering at anybody who liked sports. If that was you, then yeah you’re a theater kid.
There are however many right wing and even far right wing artists. Anybody who doubts this should spend some time at burning man interacting with the people building the art there. They’re the most libertarian of libertarians.
firmamenti
2yr ago
What does the catastrophe look like?
Move to a small community in Northern Maine, buy about 20 acres, join a church, and get some chickens.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Well it was written by a filthy Protestant…
(Just kidding)
firmamenti
2yr ago
Can you guys recommend some really good, wholesome, non-CW children’s books?
I’ve been reading “the giant jam sandwich” every night and loving it, and would love more like that. Thanks!
firmamenti
2yr ago
I'm not disputing that cancer patients wear bandanas. I'm saying that in this specific case he made his wearing of a bandana a political tool, and lied about people to do so.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Why can’t these people just fuck off and leave everybody alone? If you want to live by a grocery store, then do it. If people want to live in suburbs, then let them.
Stop trying to impose your pet ideas on everybody else.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Wear a hat? Shave his head?
Jamie Raskin is a lifelong grifting rage baiting asshole who continues spreading the insane propaganda lies about Russian spies in the White House.
He also used this opportunity to spread more rage baiting lies, claiming republicans had insisted that he take his bandana off.
This was, of course, a lie: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jamie-raskin-cap-chemotherapy-republicans-house-representatives-1778293
So he wears a bandana, nobody cares except to tell him that they hope he pulls through with his cancer, and he uses this as an opportunity to claim that his political opponents are cartoonish villains, and that his bandana is a form of resistance.
Yes, him wanting you to feel like an asshole, and using his bandana to do so, is very literally what he is doing
firmamenti
2yr ago
Mmm, I don’t think you should feel like an ass. Hes trying to elicit the feeling you’re having now. He’s an asshole, not you.
firmamenti
2yr ago
It's because he could easily be replaced by a chatbot. He talks frequently about "love" and yet seems completely incapable of expressing love.
He has also had some morons on his show, and he acts like they're providing some sort of profound insight on life. For instance: Destiny, Chamath. He also let the founder of Cardano on his show, and let him spew absolute verbal diarrhea for like 5 hours. Lex is supposed to be some sort of intelligent computer programmer, but was unable to identify this guys completely nonsensical technobabble. And I'm not kidding, this went on for 5 motherfucking hours.
He also constantly preaches love and how we should be willing to have difficult conversations, and yet is pretty notorious on reddit for banning anybody from his subreddit who even vaguely questions him.
Finally...he really leaned into "MIT artificial intelligence researcher" but his degrees actually come from Drexel University, where his father is a physics professor. He isn't exactly lying about his education, since it does seem like he did something at MIT at some point, but he isn't really being honest either. It also seems sortof rude/insulting towards his dad to imply that Drexel isn't good enough to be proud of.
I don't know. I really used to like Lex, and I really should like the people he has on his podcast, but he just seems so fake that it's hard to get past him anymore.
firmamenti
2yr ago
This person proposed a pretty interesting thought experiment which has spurred interesting discussion. It seems foolish to ban them for this.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Can you remind me what part of cloud atlas you’re talking about?
firmamenti
2yr ago
It is still absolutely unbelievable to me that this infographic got published.
firmamenti
2yr ago
The reactions to this video are strange to me.
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The attacker is smiling because he is a drug addict having a manic episode.
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Paul is smiling because he is trying to mirror the attackers demeanor as an attempt to de-escalate the situation. Paul is a hyper-social business person and married to one of the most powerful political operatives in the world.
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Paul isn't wearing a button down dress shirt, he's wearing pajamas.
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He's wearing boxer shorts because he was asleep and that's probably what he sleeps in.
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He's probably holding a beer or other drink in his hand because he's been trying to calm the attacker down and buy time. If a manic schizophrenic broke into my house and I was trying to buy time, asking them if it was okay if I got a drink while we waited for Nancy to get home (waiting for the cops to arrive) seems completely reasonable. Or asking him if he wanted something.
This video seems completely boring to me. To be clear, the narrative surrounding it is also completely ridiculous.
firmamenti
2yr ago
How does a random weirdo get into the house of the third most powerful person in the US?
He smashes the window of a door with a hammer, unlocks the door, and walks inside. There is a video of this happening if you want I can find it.
firmamenti
2yr ago
What's annoying about this is that only some dietary restrictions are honored.
For instance: I often eat a keto diet. This means lots of high fat, usually red meat. But when places with catered food ask me for my dietary restrictions ask, do you really think they'd accept "I eat a new york strip and runny eggs with a side of avacado for breakfast every morning, so please have that ready."?
However, if somebody asks for vegan food, that is always accommodated, even though in my opinion that is far more of a taste thing. Non adherence to my low carb diet will actually have measurable negative effects. A vegan eating a normal diet won't be meaningfully effected other than not being happy about it (at first, until they realize how good it tastes of course! Just kidding).
firmamenti
2yr ago
You're getting into a pretty ridiculous semantics argument here. There is now way to be "right" in this. You both just disagree with each other.
For what it's worth, to me if somebody eats meat once a year or so, then they can still be a vegetarian. Even the vegans eat bacon at burning man, for instance. They are still vegans though.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. I mean a mottizan may have the experience of the clown when talking to non mottizans. I didn’t mean you literally. (I’m away from my computer so typing on my phone. Sorry about that).
A Catholic is warning you that the society is collapsing. You don’t take them seriously or listen to any of their reasoning because you see them as a clown and ignore anything beyond the clown.
A mottizan is warning you that you this stuff is not going to remain as just a few kooky kids on college campuses. You ignore the them because you see them as a clown, and ignore the substance of what they are saying because you don’t see anything behind the clown.
https://www.themotte.org/post/253/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/48121?context=8#context
I’m on mobile, but can try to explain what I mean.
I have a lot of lefty new age, yoga instructing, Bali visiting, “I’m spiritual but not religious” saying, “Buddhism is more of a philosophy” claiming friends.
These people are hungry for something. The age and mysticism of stuff like their misunderstanding of eastern philosophy, is attractive to them because it seems to carry so much weight.
Meanwhile in almost every single town or neighborhood in America, there is a Catholic Church. The church has 2000 years of philosophy to pull on, as well as the most moving art that humanity has ever produced. People associate “meditation” with eastern philosophy, not knowing that their is an equally old tradition of meditation and mindfulness happening in that goofy building with the cross in it.
Not only is the spirituality, the history, the art, the philosophy, etc all there, but all of that philosophy and tradition is what we used to build the modern world. That Church is welcoming people to come into it ever day, or at least every Sunday, and people just…don’t. They don’t even bother to look.
I’m irritated that we have allowed Catholicism to become primarily associated with goofy people in hats, abusive priests, and ugly boring buildings. Im basically just retreading the frustration people have with Vatican 2.
The second thing is that my heart breaks for Protestants. The people attending these awful mega churches and weird youth group pastor things are being deprived of something I think is truly beautiful, and they’re essentially being taken advantage of by people who have a 500 year old hatred of the church. I think Protestants are more than happy to simply lie about Catholicism to maintain this grudge.
A poster here recommended a book to us all called “Introduction to Christianity”, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (who would go on to become Pope Benedict XVI) a few weeks ago. I recently got a copy of it.
I wanted to share with you all the first few paragraphs from the book, because I found them very interesting:
Anyone who tries today to talk about the question of Christian faith in the presence of people who are not thoroughly at home with ecclesiastical language and thought (whether by vocation or by convention) soon comes to sense the alien -and alienating- nature of such an enterprise. He will probably soon have the feeling that his position is only too well summed up in Kierkegaard's famous story of the clown and the burning village, an allegory taken up again recently by Harvey Cox in his book The Secular City. According to this story, a traveling circus in Denmark caught fire. The manager thereupon sent the clown, who was already dressed and made up for the performance, into the neighboring village to fetch help, especially as there was a danger that the fire would spread across the fields of dry stubble and engulf the village itself. The clown hurried into the village and requested the inhabitants to come as quickly as possible to the blazing circus and help to put the fire out. But the villagers took the clown's shouts simply for an excellent piece of advertising, meant to attract as many people as possible to the performance; they applauded the clown and laughed till they cried.
The clown felt more like weeping than laughing; he tried in vain to get people to be serious, to make it clear to them that this was no stunt, that he was not pretending but was in bitter earnest, that there really was a fire. His supplications only increased the laughter; people thought he was playing his part splendidly--until finally the fire did engulf the village; it was too late for help, and both circus and village were burned to the ground.
I’m sure we’ve all felt like that clown at some point or another. Especially with regards to ideas like “just kids on college campuses”.
Here’s a quote, this one from Saint Anthony The Great, one of The Desert Fathers (Early Christian precursors to Christian monks who lived in Egypt in about 300AD).
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”
Anyway I think the relevance to the culture war is obvious here, and could be taken any of many directions. I just read this today and wanted to share. To pull on one culture war thread (perhaps one of the oldest culture war) it is profoundly depressing to me that these parts of our history, especially the history of The Catholic Church, seem to be suppressed or at the very least ignore in modern western society.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Acting like and trying is the difference between malevolence and incompetence or apathy.
I don’t think most leftists are destroying society on purpose, I just think that they’re too lazy of horrified to think through to the conclusions of the policies that they support.
But then there are some large leftist groups who say things like that their goal is to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”, and I’m not really sure what to do other than take those groups at their word.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I don't think you understood my comment. I'm not saying that leftist are trying to collapse society, but I'm saying that they're acting like it.
Consider the leftists who think Republican policy is Literally 1984. Or who assert that corporate executives are thrilled to destroy the planet. Do you think these people have an accurate model of the world?
Do you think it's possible that one ideology could be more long term stable than another one, or are they all perfect mirrors or one another?
firmamenti
2yr ago
Show me where, in the stability AI software, the getty photos are saved. Show me how to get one of the getty images out of stability AI.
You can't.
firmamenti
2yr ago
My position is in alignment with the Catholic Church. Basically: if a mothers life is being threatened, then abortion is permissible.
Those would be the legal, safe, and rare abortion im talking about. I still support those, because I don’t see the surgical removal of an ectopic pregnancy as the same as murdering an unborn child.
The reaction from me is because before, leftists were essentially saying that they needed this tool, but that they would use it responsibly. My reaction is due to learning that their “use” is industrial scale murder of children.
I have never heard this term used as anything other than a pejorative. I've only really understood this term to basically be the teenage version of the "karen" archetype.
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