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You know, as Emil Cioran and Albert Camus prove, contemplating suicide makes you a better person. I am not saying they should do it, but it is beyond obvious that Kid Rock and his fanboys are too much of pathetic pustules of ressentiment to have ever contemplated suicide. They should.

Calling things Reddit is just higher-order Reddit

so true anti

I was never going to vibe code bc I care too much about every single line, and don't do it professionally, but it's interesting that many people who have been vibing for a while are now repudiating it as fundamentally, if subtly, deceptive or hallucinatory.

Fascism is all about throwing temper tantrums because experts know more than you

Pedocon Fact

I think you're an idiot if you invoke "oppositional defiant disorder" in any capacity that isn't criticism of the concept iself

The reason why far-right people largely can't be far-right in public even under an explicitly far-right regime is because far-right ideology is just literally anti-social in a way that makes most people want to assault or berate you. It's a serial killer ideology.

underappreciated reason to oppose mass social media is that more decentralized and localized moderation makes the kind of deeply perverted antisociality you see on "the internet" impossible. it's just too easy to get away with right now. it's unsustainable. no wonder people retreat to their discords

nothing convinces me of the dead internet more than those vaguely right-wing self-help grifter youtubers who are themselves nominally anti-internet and such.

Any Democrat or Liberal who comes into power in the next 3 years or so will be Sovereign under a State of Exception.

dead internet theory is, past a certain point, just color revolution theory for the web.

Sorry RadFemHitler I was not familiar with your game

Sarkeesian Rhythm

DuckDuckGo image search: "stereotypical utopian city image"

wow look at this beautiful Solarpunk visual art. so radical and revolutionary. no one has ever thought of integrating greenspace into the modern city in an ecologically friendly way.

in general however i do think the desire for mass social media is itself a mistake and the internet should be a little more parochial. preferably without the opacity of something like Discord servers.

(note: this does not by transitivity apply to sovereign states. I am not Mencius Moldbug)

I think it's possible but ironically for the technolibertarian dream to be realized u prob need a small group of highly ideologically-motivated and relatively virtuous maintainers. i.e. benevolent dictatorship. to avoid both bureaucratic torpor and capture by a mob of culture war mercenaries.

Steam should sharply distinguish between AI-generated code and AI-generated assets if only because anti-AI people don't appear to care much about the former. over-reliance on AI-generated code is presumably still bad craftmanship unless and until we achieve AGI, however.

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IS ANTISOCIAL

inability to internalize the fact that merely saying something is antisocial (or prosocial!) does not make it so. even when most people believe that it is. fascism of the mind.

The problem with phones is that they allow any semblance of freedom or privacy in what is supposed to be an institution that controls when you can go to the restroom. They're a corner away from the telescreen. Such natural behavior as meetups or gossip is problematized since it's not Studying.

Particularly revealing passage from the WSJ:

> Students were using their phones to plan bathroom vaping meetups, gossip sessions and fights. “When behaviors escalate in an invisible space, we can’t prevent them or react as fast,” said Moore, who presides over a district of about 5,000 students.

The data on classroom phone bans "working" shows that it makes students more well-behaved and well-disciplined prisoners. I.e. taking away even more autonomy from someone in a total institution makes them even more impotent. This is framed as a novel or unexpected insight because of ideology.

eternal warfare against growing the landfill

there should be fewer and larger transistors, computers should be "worse," and this is the most consistent "anti-Luddite" view.

as a general rule the modern world should be a deadlier place. not for vitalistic reactionary reasons but for common sense reasons of tradeoffs existing.

so true we should waste even more resources making things "safer" in ways that are absurd and inefficient. the middle class should live in the padded cell of slop forever as the landfill grows and the homeless suffer as their encampments are raided for not being up to code.

you are a progressive technocrat who posts all day. your opposition to cultural novelty and new media is more fear of impermanence and neurotic risk-aversion than any sort of principled stance. you have formed a cargo cult around public libraries. you're psychically indistinguishable from a fascist.

me when an anonymous person sends me a letter threatening my life written in blood: "we must ban mail"