Apr 20

Virtue Reality

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Because it’s fucking pointless, and I am just generally against pointless things, especially if they are done just to make liberals feel virtuous. No thank you.

Part of is that I grew up with people telling me to do shit that was unnecessary, that I knew was unnecessary and that they also knew was unnecessary, but we still had to go through the charade. I can’t tolerate any more of that at all, ever, no matter how many liberals it makes cry. Won’t do it, can’t do it.

Apr 19

Paucity of Revelation

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I’ve thought quite a lot about this lack any sort of vision for the future. Part of this deficit of imagination is just due to polarization but another factor is I believe the diminution of the humanities and the denigration and reduction of the study of anything not STEM-centric.

There can be and will be no invention of a better future if the past is a blank, the present is a spreadsheet, and all minds are filled only with equations rather than inspiration from art, from books, from some declaration of human aspirations and betterment.

Apr 18

No Sust

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My pantry restock game does not involve eating absolute garbage so other than a few granola bars, no, it doesn’t include any of those items. Some of those things, even under a very broad definition, should not be considered food.

That’s the way to be fat and malnourished at the same time.

Apr 18

Hard Vard

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I like doing that to people who expect to impress me for having gone to fancy schools.

Things I’ve said in real life to such hoity-toity people:

  • “Cornell? Is that an agricultural school? You know, ‘corn?'”
  • “Brown? Where’s that community college at? I think my mom went there.”
  • “Stanford? Haven’t heard of it.”

That can be really, really fun.

Apr 18

Nick of Time

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People make fun of Bostrom’s premises about potential technological annihilation (sometimes for good reason), ignoring the fact that nuclear weapons exist already.

Now that’s funny.

Apr 18

Undoomined

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Cool. In the US at least in about 2-3 weeks, case numbers are going to crash, fatality rate will too, and the doom-mongers will look even more foolish than they already do.

Apr 18

Down With Lockdown

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That, and it signals that other vital parts of society have completely disintegrated because the “permanent lockdown” mentality is not what a collective response looks like — unless you consider solitary confinement to also be a community-oriented response.

Apr 17

Find Calc

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Think about the quickest way to get a calculator because I am completely and utterly incapable of doing math of any kind in my head.