m__graster
1mo ago
And thus continues the spiral into well-mannered, "rational" circlejerking.
I take a "know it when I see it" approach to whether I think someone is genuine and fiery versus a troll (E.G. Impassionista was most certainly a troll in my book), and HlynkaCG never appeared to be in the latter camp. He just got snarky.
And yeah, being snarky is against your rules. "Your" rules. I appreciate the need to gatekeep to enforce community standards, but if it means removing people like HlynkaCG, then I guess those rules aren't making a community I even want to lurk in.
Have fun regurgitating the same genteel, blowhard-lensed talking points, I'll be hanging out on Rdrama and Kiwifarms. The discussion there is also shit, but at least the users there don't go through foreplay before verbal defecation, and I can call people faggots without getting banned.
And yes, I am being intentionally hyperbolic; I could have spent this post hemming and hawing and then politely asking for a ban, but where's the fun in that?
I think am in rough agreement (though I cannot assume how willing you would be to "trade off" economic prosperity for a more difficult-to-quantify social and individual wellbeing).
In my view, a comparative advantage in economic power means jack shit to me when my options are to spend that wealth living in a city full of people I loathe for various reasons, or live in a rural area full of people I loathe for various reasons; most of those reasons have to do with continuously-declining standards of basic physical fitness, though in the case of cities (even some medium-sized midwest cities) I also struggle with constant pressure to kowtow to the left-wing zeitgeist.
With the current trajectory, I am left having to choose between (please pardon the hyperbole, but I am now speaking even deeper from the heart; to put a fig leaf of Motte-ness onto this rant, look at these CDC stats: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html) living alongside painfully dull and severely obese ambiguously "conservative" rurals whose only redeeming characteristic is a radical "live and let live" attitude that at least leaves me unmolested but who as a result are also bereft of care for the appearance of themselves or their property, or else living in close-quarters with packs of (also increasingly obese) vipers caught up in masturbatory, self-flagellating purity spirals driven by self-serving crybullies and useful idiots.
Suburbs I exclude from possibility as, like the scoffing masses referenced in Lovecraft novels by their traumatized protagonists, I refuse to even credit suburban life with serious consideration. This is not borne from mere meme: I have multiple acquaintances who regaled me with HOA horror-stories that make city-dwelling sound downright pleasant.
Please forgive me for being uncharitable, but as an outlier in all sections of the modern United States social landscape I am frustrated with it.
You are bringing back memories of my time in undergrad philosophy of logic, science, & epistemology classes. Never did grok it well enough to bother proceeding to graduate-level studies, but I appreciate seeing the radical skepticism I dimly encountered being (to the best of my grasp) succinctly described here.
After I swore it off, you made this place worth lurking in again.
An addendum: I browsed your bio, and am paranoid enough in consideration of this [https://www.newswire.com/news/elemental-cognition-sets-new-standard-for-generative-ai-achieves-100-22248725] press release's claims to wonder at the ulterior motives for this post. and whether a human is the (primary) author: is this a sufficiently midwitted community that we are a reliable testing ground for AI-generated reasoning, a middle-of-the-road so constrained that we lack both rubes trivially easy to fool, yet also lacking the true brilliance capable of sussing out machine-made flaws in logic?
I see no reason to assume anything is "real" anymore in consideration of my own limited reasoning abilities. Who am I to tell if that press release is legitimate or corporate jack-off? Laugh at me if you wish, in a thread investigating the very foundations of what we colloquially call "truth" I don't see why I shouldn't indulge my most schizophrenic tendencies.
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