About two decades ago, I got in a debate on a now-closed forum (where I got banned as usual) with some dumbass who said that electric vehicles would never be more than 1% of any major market anywhere. And never is a long time, yeah? What actually happened:
Where you at now, you lame fuck? People are confidently wrong even when the future is obvious.
I could never work retail because the moment a customer spit on me one of us would be going to jail. And that of course would be me. Because the other person would be headed to the hospital or the morgue depending on how fast people could pull me off the dipshit who made that mistake.
What a world.
Technologists who stray from the light and begin to imagine sociological solutions to major problems end up being just as silly as anti-technologists who do the same.
Return to the light of "MONKEY USE TOOL". https://t.co/A023jMJ062
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 4, 2025
Agreed with both. Technological solutionism works but tech-bro sociology is inhuman and terrible.
Degrowthers — no matter which side they are on — are the true evil. The whole “technology can’t get us out of this!” is so insane. And dangerous. Motherfucker, it’s the only thing that can.
It’s so sad and weird that so much of Europe is ideologically opposed to air conditioning while dozens of thousands of them die each year from heat.
Nowhere is truly enlightened. Humans are just slightly smarter chimps, mostly. Sometimes not even as smart as that.
Does anyone really believe that women get a horrifyingly ugly tattoo that makes them look like a gutter hobo to “take control of their body?” I’ve heard that excuse and that doesn’t seem like what’s happening there in most cases.
If so, way to fuck it up. All you’ve taken control of is looking like a walking trash heap.
What a gift. Grace makes it mean something.
Nearly all of the women I supposedly “just wanted sex” from I actually wanted absolutely nothing to do with.
True of most men most of the time, by the way….
Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States.
China must be incredibly happy. They got all the destruction they wanted for free.
Broadly the larpers on here think that fertility declines can be counteracted by stripping women of their rights and implementing some sort of (this varies) hypertrad social structure with religion as the social technology to hold it together.
Of course, this wouldn’t work. https://t.co/R63KJsGcQP
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) July 4, 2025
It is impossible to recreate the cultural past by recreating the material conditions of that past. Culture simply does not work like that; as Nietzsche knew, there is no going back. That project is doomed to fail in really heinous ways.
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