Godproof Bullet

something just quite exhausting about Kriss getting MeTooed, disappearing, reappearing on weird cath/right-wing websites where the cancelled tend to congregate after a while, then managing to weasel his way back into the mainstream

i'm willing to make common cause with a lot of people, but i don't think it's purity testing to think that a man who pivoting from writing from left-wing outlets to postliberal ones should be setting off Marcel Deat detectors

somewhat funny that the US people reading that Sam Kriss article are like "this is pretty good" and the UKpol posters from Twitter 2016-2020 have a thousand mile stare

I use “libertarian” purely as a sociological grouping, because there has never been a coherent libertarian political philosophy

i think that that “good/evil” threshold is rather plainly and precisely located at the threshold between getting the LLM to write for you and getting it to edit for you

The border is very slightly but not very fuzzy and starts when it goes beyond correcting incorrect grammar

yes, they are both trots AND libertarians

The fact that so many LM/Spiked types started off studying at Kent under Furedi shows that grooming teenage kids is literally what they do.

lol, once again, AI is adored by the film and art establishment

and absolutely, yes, everybody involved is precisely goldfish-brained enough to let that happen

It’s an ideology problem circularly citing itself into an epistemic one

Cass plunged ideology into the heart of medical knowledge, especially by inventing the fear of locking kids onto transition

Now, it’s a valid medical concern that kids who delay puberty might get locked into transitioning!

that isn’t a conservative argument, it’s the other way around

if you think you can just cut out middle men, you think that the problem can be solved by reducing inefficiencies, that’s a conservative argument

the anti-conservative argument is just that everybody deserves a fair wage, no ifs or buts

When it comes to things like steel, Western countries tend to have an advantage in processes, which cost more, because we tend to have a better paid and better educated workforce, with more room for quality controls and so on, as well as industrial bases which incorporate more decades of development

Like the guy said: steel is cheaper in China. It’s cheaper to manufacture, it’s cheaper to transport the ore to processing, it’s cheaper to get the ore out of the ground

The most obvious difference is labour costs: you can pay people less in China

It’s not about inefficient processes in the US

the tradition

i came back to this so i could say “people just remember reading 19th century novels by women as teenagers and project that onto them. this explains the exact same phenomenon occuring with jane austen”

Seared into my memory is one night walking into an extremely quiet, polite bar in Tartu (Estonia) except for Captain Jack absolutely blaring out of the large TV on the wall

insanr to me thst there are people who stopped calling him that just because the royals took his title

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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he is that thing where they dangle this guy in front of me, whom i have only heard of from drama, and say “look at this, this is your god, justify this”

fuck i used to slur

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lol

i will simply reiterate what i said before

bsky.app/profile/mull...

everything = gender

this is not my map, i don’t have anybody to attribute it to, wtf do you thnk i am actually talented like that

a map of christopher columbus’ voyage to the west, indicating the debris cloud over north america and the great lakes, tidal impacts around the atlantic coast, including tidal waves which reached new spain (present day mexico) in only 4 hrs, and europe in only 9, and the rapid acceleration upon entering the atlantic ocean proper which the santa maria experienced and ultimately led to the impact shortly afterwards

🤬 columbus arrival was america’s 9/11 🇺🇸😥

‘exiled from tpot’ is the saddest trombone i’ve ever heard

I love reading a nice comment online that’s like, “Sorry to hear, FMGCT. As AIRH said, transmission issues are no joke. Better get it into the mechanic soonish.”

And then you look at the usernames of the people they’re referring to, and they’re FuckingMyGrilledCheeseTonight and AssholeIsRatsHome

i wanted to find movies that have “feet” as a theme and predictably it is impossible to search for this because the keywords are just saturated

i repeatedly cannot get over the fact that this self-hypnotising lunatic has THAT beard and THAT haircut

I wanted Heritage to look like Eichmann, this shit is a new and unsettling level of banality for that level of evil