What kind of moron believes stuff like this?

It has at least three neologisms that I noticed without first reading the Snopes article and in addition doesn’t sound period-appropriate in a number of other ways. Truman and MacArthur also had quite different writing styles whereas this sounds like it was all written by the same person, and in addition nothing there sounds like a typical telegram communique.

Humans are outmoded. Our software sucks.

A note about my other blog.

I assume my few readers are discerning. As such, sometimes I post items on the other blog that I disagree with as long as they are thoughtful and well-reasoned. And some that I only agree with partially and any combination thereof. Or even items that might directly contradict something I post here.

And no, I usually won’t say which is which. That is not the purpose of that blog for me.

Assuming you know what I think about something from what I post on the other site…heh, good luck with that.

If I write about it here, you’ll have some idea. Over there, good luck. The other blog is not (usually) to pursue some ideology, but rather to spur thought. Though I vow to slam the FAs and MRAs on either blog relentlessly, so there’s that.

But Epicene Cyborg is a space for wide thought, not conclusions. If you think you know what I think from reading that blog alone you’re probably really wrong.

And this has been a public service announcement courtesy of my own bad self.

This is great news and the EFF does excellent work with the few resources at their disposal, but it is still requesting  and being granted from our masters a right that shouldn’t even be in question.

All rights have to be fought for of course. That’s just the way humans work. But that so few people are at all concerned about what information they have access to and how much control they’ve given up — well, I just think humans as evolved are ill-suited to the society in which they find themselves for the most part.

But climate change is likely to take care of that, alas in a most unpleasant way.

Something I have trouble processing is the delusional nature of the fat acceptance/fat celebration movement.

I mean, every human is delusional to some degree — including me — or else we’d all kill ourselves immediately as we realized the true Nietzschean/Lovevraftian horror of a cold uncaring universe.

But the link between calories and how big you are is so bleedin’ obvious. That the whole movement denies calories in/calories out and elementary laws of thermodynamics is just so bizarre to me. Yes, various food does metabolize somewhat differently, blah blah blah, but the basic fucking fact is that if you eat less than you burn, you’re gonna lose weight. Period.

In changing my own habits I saw this right away. I cut my food intake in half (roughly), and lost 50 pounds in about four months. In fact at one point I lost so much weight I was getting too thin (less than 140 pounds) and had to start eating a good bit more.

I’ve been watching closely how people eat at work because people are notoriously bad at reporting their own calorie intake. A lot of people who “don’t eat much” according to themselves eat more calories at breakfast alone (observed directly by me, my company often brings food in) than I eat in an entire day.

Many of them eat snacks constantly but I am sure they don’t count those towards any sort of calorie tally.

So much delusion. Befitting Poe’s Law, I often cannot tell when someone is actually an adherent of the fat acceptance movement or is trolling/making fun of the FAs because the two are completely indistinguishable.

Except one guy at work who I really like. He’s big but honest with himself and others. He says, “I fucking love food so I’m gonna be fat.”

That I can perfectly support 100%. He knows what he likes, doesn’t hide it in some stupid-ass veil of delusion, and understands the consequences.

Perfectly consistent. The rest of these nutcases just annoy me to no end.