TheFooder
5d ago
Dude is also a devout Roman Catholic. Trying to shame him for being a virgin is probably not the best avenue of attack.
TheFooder
5d ago
McLuhan's famous adage, "the medium is the message" applies in this case. We've moved beyond the information era into the narrative era supported by a vast and all-encompassing media blanket. You literally cannot belive anything because everything is the story that someone wants to tell. Actual facts and information are at an extreme premium. That's the real tragedy.
TheFooder
9d ago
Walter Kirn has said numerous times that his read of the media surrounding Mangione tells him there will be an acquittal. I'm not super confident in that prediction myself, but I would take the under on him getting the death penalty. Seems like what you're seeing puts a chit in the Kirn basket.
TheFooder
9d ago
One can hope. It's jsut a nicer way to keep one's house, IMO. The Asians have it right.
TheFooder
9d ago
There was a point in time, after the Mexican-American war where Mexican lynchings were greater than black lynchings in some Western states. The relative peacefulness we see now took a long time to generate.
TheFooder
10d ago
Houellebecq’s Submission
I thought to meself, "I kmow that name..." Turns out I have Platform on my bookshelf, lo these past 15 or more years. I think I started to read it and had the same visceral rejection that I experienced reading Portnoy's Complaint and simply put it down. Maybe it's worth another spin on the Houellebecq tilt-a-whirl if this Submission book is any good.
TheFooder
11d ago
My view of that is that we (as a cohort) couldn't really afford the houses either. I'd add it as another chit in the 'this isn't a new problem' bucket.
TheFooder
15d ago
GenX here. I got into this with my supposedly intelligent GenX peers, both PhDs, who simply couldn't believe that at 19 years in the early 1990's I could see that all of this housing stuff was an unaffordable nightmare. Maybe half (if I'm being generous) of my friends own their homes and most didn't buy until well into their 40's. People pretend like this is a new problem but it was well in play 30 years ago.
TheFooder
2mo ago
You want a jihad but you don't want it to be stupid? Methinks you demand too much good sir!
TheFooder
2mo ago
I is minor and insignificant suggestion. I think Barbarian jsut fits better with the other three super-positions. A barbarian is a political superposition or a job, whereas a caveman is more of a species. anyway, cool idea nonetheless.
TheFooder
3mo ago
Don't know if he's relevant but he has a substack that pops up on my feed every now and then: sigmagame has 7k+ followers but a few hundred like per post. I didn't realize it was a person at first (who names their kid Vox Day?) and if you told me it was someone writing as someone else using AI I'd have to take it on faith.
TheFooder
3mo ago
Where does Kulak fit into this heirarchy?That dude seems pretty extreme to me...
TheFooder
3mo ago
degree to which they have not succeeded in making peaceful revolution impossible.
much confused! The Blues have succeeded in making peaceful revolution possible?
TheFooder
6mo ago
In the story the journalist wasn't a lib, just playing the role. The joke is that she was more conservative or based or w/e than the Bannon-ites. My read: the purported beliefs of most MAGA types, or typical young conservative, aren't anything beyond memes that make them feel good about themselves and the real ubermensch have no respect for them and will take them down too.
TheFooder
6mo ago
That was my tactic with the Anthrax vaccine back in the 90's. It was double-plus hard because I was in the military, but I dodged it anyway. No regrets.
TheFooder
6mo ago
I, for one, enjoyed it. But I don't think I'm in the same solar system as anyone you might be aiming this at.
TheFooder
6mo ago
With decades of seeking I've yet to find a group anywhere close to the Motte for interesting and thought-provoking conversations. Substack is a watered-down version that I don't fully appreciate. I've learned more and seen more in this forum than any other. All else is tribalism.
TheFooder
6mo ago
Isn't that the general precedent? Top-level big thread, keep it out of CW thread? My $0.02 = no reason for a ban.
TheFooder
6mo ago
Are you saying a fool would never admit they were wrong? Why not? Fools do all kinds of things some of which might not be foolish. Hannaia's problem is that he's wrong all the time. Maybe he's a terminal fool and should sit down for a while. Just admitting one was wrong isn't enough of a reason to consider him a meaningful intellect. There are many public intellects I disagree with but still have valuable analysis. Hannania is not one of them.
TheFooder
6mo ago
Really...Hanania said that? Another reason to dismiss him as a fool. It should have been obvious from the start the bromance would sour over time. Had it been a prediction market (I was aware of...) I would have definitely taken that bet, though I must admit the honeymoon laster longer than I expected.
Usually, the one guy on the team not using an LLM.
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