I think a lot of wanting to take AC away is that with the new Puritanism of liberals they just have unbridled enjoyment at the idea of people suffering.
Month: August 2020
Go Big Or
I want to be Galactic Overlord not because I covet power, or because I wish to prove anything, or even because of megalomania, but because expansion out into the cosmos would be the most expansive and encompassing art project of all time.
I want to disassemble stars to emblazon the cosmos with the luminance of human victory!
Black Roses
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I Con
A lot of what you’re seeing today:
Gestapo
Herr Morse, you have engaged in unauthorized non-algorithmic sex, and now you vill be punished!
I feel like I’m in crazytown, watching the shit the liberals get up to today. They really are turning into the American version of the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
What a bunch of shitheads, mooks, and weirdos. Fuck liberalism.
First Sentence
Write the first sentence(s) of a book that has this picture as its cover. pic.twitter.com/in3k4fVBOb
— (@TJPayne3333) August 7, 2020
Just the smallest of sounds impinged at first — leaves crackling like the bones of small animals underfoot, a gelid winter wind slicing through thin limbs — but with halting steps and bruised hands she felt her way to the stairs, and then to the newt-smooth door.
Lit Out
Deep skepticism and epistemic throughness doesn't lead you to sexy questions. It leads you to strange questions.
Example: What is the real literacy rate of Western societies?
Officially 95%+.
But might there be reading-like behaviours that can fool school and sophists.
Yes.
— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) August 1, 2019
The real literacy rate in my opinion is about 10-20%.
Weepy and Creird
once I met a guy who when I told him I wanted to go into animation he said "I thought kids made animation?" when I said it it was actually adults that produced kids' shows he said that seemed "creepy and weird" & i can't believe I see the exact same sentiment from ppl on twitter
— Tessa Mag (@tessamag) August 8, 2020
Huh! Do read the entire thread.
That explains a few things, or at least correlates with the fact that I’ve seen John Green, Joss Whedon and even Suzanne Collins called “creepy” for writing about teenagers. For some reason, I didn’t connect it to identitarian concerns. I thought it was the usual liberal “protection from harm” BS, but I was wrong.
It’s really about the fact that Green, Whedon and Collins aren’t themselves teenagers. It’s just identity wankery all the way down these days.
Are there really adults who think that kids write kids’ shows and media with kids in them? Really? What the ever-lovin’ FUCK?
Itive
Trans ideology is mostly senseless, but it’s only marginally more senseless than the ideology it replaces.
Not that that makes it great. It just means there are two Big Stupids battling it out, while normal-ish people cringe on the sidelines.
La Fuck
The thing that’s really annoying to me about science twitter is the feeling that everyone on it is always At Work
— strategy consultant (@neoliberal_dad) August 8, 2020
Yeah. Fuck putting on professional airs all the time. Fuck this, fuck that, fuck all ya’ll.
Send it to my boss, his boss. I do not give a fuck.
Memento Mori
Global warming projections are now so dire that 10 more years of staggeringly high emissions leading humanity rapidly towards a 3°C hell is now being framed as 'hopeful'. https://t.co/nFFjwYpHMp
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) August 4, 2020
I have noticed that, too. Strange how short is memory.
Only Hobby
3 traits I’ve noticed most often in people who get cripplingly invested in culture warring:
– Lack of strong individual interests outside of group affiliations
– Sense of humor restricted to amirite and mockery
– Totalizing (hedgehog) aesthetics
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 15, 2020
I agree. As with many conservatives, I think the prissiness and prudishness then becomes a devoted hobby for these types.
GFO
the only reason to make a list of your important identities is so that you can destroy them https://t.co/Ow09R968um
— bowser (@browserdotsys) August 5, 2020
Why are libs so fucking obsessed with this identity bullshittery? They claim not to be nationalistic but cling to artificially-created utterly illusional neoliberal identities like it’s going to save them.
Ok, then, I’ll go:
1) Galactic Fucking Overlord
2) Galactic Fucking Overlord
3) Galactic Fucking Overlord
Galaxian
beginner tech support: try and fix problem, fail to find answer, get frustrated
intermediate: know enough to know user is lying, maybe succeed through clever questioning
expert: the problem is that the user is talking to you, the solution is whatever makes that stop
— Steven Binch (@GrimConch) August 8, 2020
Grizzled veteran of the tech support wars: Solve a problem in five minutes the user and their entire IT team has been working on for weeks, then both the user and the IT team get angry at you, because you’ve embarrassed them and accidentally made them look bad in front of their bosses.
That’s my life.
Byoo Teeeeee
I was thinking about aesthetics today and obesity. And now that I think about it more deeply, much of the pushback against the reality of the harm of obesity is not about health, but the desire to be thought beautiful/attractive even though obesity is very destructive of that actuality and its claim to exist.
Because, as almost everyone knows, the absolute quickest, most surefire way to suddenly become hugely more attractive is to lose weight. And I suspect a lot of that is evolutionary, not cultural (though culture modifies it and its parameters, and it’s more complex than my gloss above).
So a lot of the Fat Acceptance movement truly does not care about health, but because losing weight is so hard for so many it attempts instead to cack-handedly modify the perception of others rather than to work on improving themselves.
Alas, for the most part, modifying the perception of other people who don’t really care about you or your particular psychoses is even more difficult than modifying and improving one’s self.