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Here's where I plug those productivity apps you can set to block you from certain sites and that you can't easily switch off. Sometimes taking it outta your own hands is the rational thing to do.Curvature of Earth posted:Scott Adams has strong opinions about sweaters. I figured v-neck sweaters would be right up the alley of someone most famous for creating a character with a priapic necktie.
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Count Chocula posted:Ironically, I just read a massive article supporting Brexit from a left-wing perspective: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/11/exit-left-the-socialist-case-for-britain-leaving-the-eu
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Jun 26, 2016 03:20
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Counterpunch both provides legitimate counter-norm journalism and the tinfoiliest of conspiracy theories.
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Jun 26, 2016 03:26
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Did you know the guy who founded Counterpunch is Olivia Wilde's uncle? This has nothing to do with anything, but I have not had anything to do with that trivia until now.
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Jun 26, 2016 03:28
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The site won't load for me. Does he at any point explain WHY v-neck sweaters are basically the same as wearing a leash, or is it just "Ladies like it, so it's bad"? IDK maybe my ovaries are messing with my perception but I can't really see what distinguishes them from any other sweater.
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Jun 26, 2016 04:54
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Puppy Time posted:The site won't load for me. Does he at any point explain WHY v-neck sweaters are basically the same as wearing a leash, or is it just "Ladies like it, so it's bad"? I can't get it to load either, but I'mma assume it's just standard "Beep boop, I am rational therefore my preferences are objective fact".
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Jun 26, 2016 05:10
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I can't get it to load either, but I'mma assume it's just standard "Beep boop, I am rational therefore my preferences are objective fact". It's still available on archive.is.
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Jun 26, 2016 05:12
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No, not preferences. I saw this earlier. His idea was that vneck sweaters are a thing women get men as gifts, therefor, if you wear one, you're letting a womz pick out clothes for you. It's classical magical thinking, attaching undue significance to a random bullshit patterns you have observed and declaring them to be super important predictors of reality. Like racism or sexism, only you know, shirts. If my engineer brain starts doing this poo poo as I age, will one of you please do me a favor and murder me?
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Jun 26, 2016 05:13
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ikanreed posted:His idea was that vneck sweaters are a thing women get men as gifts, therefor, if you wear one, you're letting a womz pick out clothes for you. Why wouldn't you trust the opinion of someone attracted to you on what makes you attractive looking? No, this isn't right, something's wrong here. Scott loving Adams posted:STOP TELLING ME IN YOUR MIND THAT WOMEN HAVE IT WORSE IN THIS COUNTRY THAN MEN! It's too perfect. I'm invoking Poe's Law, he could just be trolling... but if he's trolling, he's in it for the long game.
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Jun 26, 2016 05:24
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It's like the Dave Sim meltdown, if Dave Sim never had any talent or critical respect and was made obsolete by the movie Office Space.
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Jun 26, 2016 06:08
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Whatever happened to Dave Sim? I googled him once and found a very old site about Cerebus called Cerebus Fan Woman all about how his writing was very woman-friendly and an alternative to superhero comics. It just ended with no explanation after covering the first four books and looked abandoned and made me sad.
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Jun 26, 2016 06:45
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That v-neck sweater looks pretty comfy actually.
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Jun 26, 2016 07:58
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Count Chocula posted:It's like the Dave Sim meltdown, if Dave Sim never had any talent or critical respect and was made obsolete by the movie Office Space. Nah, the artistic problem with Dilbert is that Adams hasn't actually worked in an office for a coupla decades. Which is great for him, but not for the art. So it's no longer viciously pointed satire of the working environment, just completely generic newspaper strip humour. (Seriously, look over the genericity of the jokes from the last coupla weeks.) The good ones are still good; we used this one in communications with a new vendor who were being particularly incompetent after wowing us with their smart guys. But I don't think there's been a Dilbert in the last ten or so years that you will see stuck up on the wall above someone's desk in the wild. The bizarro politics and confusing himself with someone who has something to say don't help at all, of course.
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Jun 26, 2016 09:18
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Reminder that Scott Adams was caught using sock puppets on internet discussion threads (Reddit and other places) to proclaim himself a certified genius so why aren't you taking his crazy/bigoted/misogynistic ideas more seriously
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Jun 26, 2016 10:41
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Jack Gladney posted:Whatever happened to Dave Sim? I googled him once and found a very old site about Cerebus called Cerebus Fan Woman all about how his writing was very woman-friendly and an alternative to superhero comics. It just ended with no explanation after covering the first four books and looked abandoned and made me sad. Schizophrenia is a hell of a thing.
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Jun 26, 2016 13:03
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BobHoward posted:Reminder that Scott Adams was caught using sock puppets on internet discussion threads (Reddit and other places) to proclaim himself a certified genius so why aren't you taking his crazy/bigoted/misogynistic ideas more seriously And this is the real problem with sockpuppetry. As soon as it is revealed that a nonzero number of people who like your work are actually just you posting about yourself, everyone who posts positively about you might be a sufficiently developed sockpuppet account. And that poo poo can never go away. At this point, I'm not sure that anyone actually likes Dilbert. Surely Adams is a logical and rational enough person to realise that?
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Jun 26, 2016 13:27
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Jack Gladney posted:Whatever happened to Dave Sim? I googled him once and found a very old site about Cerebus called Cerebus Fan Woman all about how his writing was very woman-friendly and an alternative to superhero comics. It just ended with no explanation after covering the first four books and looked abandoned and made me sad. http://comicsalliance.com/dave-sim-cerebus-in-hell/
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Jun 26, 2016 13:47
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ikanreed posted:No, not preferences. I saw this earlier. That's still just him presenting his preferences as objective. "I wouldn't buy myself a v-neck, therefore any man who gets one is just getting it as a gift from a woman and doesn't really want to wear it." It's dumb as gently caress. I buy myself v-necks because they're comfy and I think they look good on me but because he doesn't like them to him that's just proof I'm brainwashed by the feminazis or whatever.
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Jun 26, 2016 19:09
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That's what he's doing now, but really Cerebus is basically watching a man have a complete loving breakdown and spiral into insanity culminating in an arc about how women are a void that sucks all the joy and light out of the world
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Jun 26, 2016 19:56
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https://www.reddit.com/r/badpolitics/comments/4n8bko/the_silicon_ideology_fundamentally_fails_to/ Someone who is almost certainly Scott Alexander goes on Reddit to yell about that anti-NRx paper written a while back and pimp Scott's incredibly lovely pseudo-takedown of neoraction
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Jun 26, 2016 21:53
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:That's still just him presenting his preferences as objective. "I wouldn't buy myself a v-neck, therefore any man who gets one is just getting it as a gift from a woman and doesn't really want to wear it." It's dumb as gently caress. I buy myself v-necks because they're comfy and I think they look good on me but because he doesn't like them to him that's just proof I'm brainwashed by the feminazis or whatever. I know that may seem minor, but come on, how loving rude do you have to be to not only throw presents in the trash, but to publicly brag about it? ETA: I think my boyfriend owns V-neck sweaters. If so, he bought them for himself. He's kind of into clothes. I'm reminded of this bit from The Wire: quote:Bunk: It's a Joseph Abboud. He puts dark buttons instead of brass on his blazers. That's the Abboud signature. pookel has a new favorite as of 04:53 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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pookel posted:The real crazy to me is that he just publicly admitted to throwing away three gifts. If I were a girlfriend/mom/sister/colleague/neighbor/whatever who had given him a v-neck sweater this year, I'd be kind of pissed to hear he'd had that little respect for my present. I'm guessing that Scott Adams probably already has really tenuous relationships with any women in his family and that they don't give him poo poo. Except they hopefully give him lots of poo poo for his opinions.
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Race Realists posted:are we allowed to post from That Place because The world filter is the best thing ever
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I think the cathedral does a brilliant thing it allows democracy to be the cover while distributing the decisions of the elites to the minds of masses.It should be preserved if youre a reactionary and simply put to better use.These ideas of AI , kings ,camerals all this futuristic crap thats never going to happen while we slip into Johannesburg circa 89.Its so much easier to take over a government than start from scratch. DENRx claims modernism doesnt work because HBD then suggests trying things never before used on humans its crazy nerd faggotry men simply need to organize a mosaad and start thinking 4g warfare and whatever means might work The cathedral can be got by smart white men using their heads its run by friend of the familys and chicks for christsake
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I know everyone here already knows about the conspiracy theory that SA birthed SJWs, but this is the first comprehensive writeup of the whole theory I've seen, originally an 8chan post but quoted here by a Redditor:SA sounds much more impressive this way posted:Saw this on 8chan (I think) a while ago and saved it copying here:
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Jun 27, 2016 05:36
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It's worth noting that the violentacrez thing had nothing to do with goons and everything to do with Adrian Chen outing him and doing an article about him Shortly after he did an investigative journalism about the goatman
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Jun 27, 2016 05:57
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Curvature of Earth posted:I know everyone here already knows about the conspiracy theory that SA birthed SJWs, but this is the first comprehensive writeup of the whole theory I've seen, originally an 8chan post but quoted here by a Redditor: A: wow, this dude really likes throwing around mental disorders as insults B: didn't it start off as making FUN of Ron Paul? That's what I've gathered. C: I thought Lowtax liked GBS the most? D: why do ppl browse 8chan? It is just /B/ but worse
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/badpolitics/comments/4n8bko/the_silicon_ideology_fundamentally_fails_to/ Someone who is almost certainly Scott Alexander goes on Reddit to yell about that anti-NRx paper written a while back and pimp Scott's incredibly lovely pseudo-takedown of neoraction At least someone down the thread is calling Scott's ideas racist. I personally think he's not so much racist as he is a massive hypocrite with bizarre ideas about how to argue or change society (there's that meta-level ideas nonsense again), but it's a good thing we have some critical voices there.
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Jun 27, 2016 06:47
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Literally The Worst posted:It's worth noting that the violentacrez thing had nothing to do with goons and everything to do with Adrian Chen outing him and doing an article about him It happened at about the same time as we were telling the world about Reddit's love of child pornography and Redditors generally aren't bright enough to understand that two people not liking them is not evidence of collusion.
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One of the things that "historian" above forgets to mention is that a lot of right-wingers got banned after the "Toxx yourself for McCain" and "Toxx yourself for Romney" threads. And I believe that a lot of the people mocking libertarianism in LF, writing Bioshock fanfic, etc. were the same people mocking Malatora in (I want to say) 2007. And the primary difference between the two groups is that one was a group of people in a fantasy world who believed that if they had the right technology and went off to a faraway island, they could become gods; and the other wanted cyberpenises.
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Pope Guilty posted:It happened at about the same time as we were telling the world about Reddit's love of child pornography and Redditors generally aren't bright enough to understand that two people not liking them is not evidence of collusion. It was long enough after our thing that I could see it being a reaction to the redditbomb, because that whole thing kinda revealed how hosed the whole power structure was
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I think the cathedral does a brilliant thing it allows democracy to be the cover while distributing the decisions of the elites to the minds of masses.It should be preserved if youre a reactionary and simply put to better use.These ideas of AI , kings ,camerals all this futuristic crap thats never going to happen while we slip into Johannesburg circa 89.Its so much easier to take over a government than start from scratch. DENRx claims modernism doesnt work because HBD then suggests trying things never before used on humans its crazy nerd faggotry men simply need to organize a mosaad and start thinking 4g warfare and whatever means might work The cathedral can be got by smart white men using their heads its run by friend of the familys and chicks for christsake Oh man this guy is so close it's kinda painful.
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Curvature of Earth posted:I know everyone here already knows about the conspiracy theory that SA birthed SJWs, but this is the first comprehensive writeup of the whole theory I've seen, originally an 8chan post but quoted here by a Redditor: Literally The Worst posted:It's worth noting that the violentacrez thing had nothing to do with goons and everything to do with Adrian Chen outing him and doing an article about him Not to mention the Redditbomb did not lead to the creation of SRS, it was in fact predated by SRS by at least a year. It certainly raised our notoriety though. Twerkteam Pizza posted:B: didn't it start off as making FUN of Ron Paul? That's what I've gathered. B: yeah, it was made so people didn't have to argue with Lolbertarians in good faith (since otherwise they flooded D&D with stupid poo poo) D: these people love their
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Tesseraction posted:Not to mention the Redditbomb did not lead to the creation of SRS, it was in fact predated by SRS by at least a year. It certainly raised our notoriety though. well there was proto-srs, which we took over around the time of the anderson cooper thing, then it was like another six months or a year until the redditbomb iirc
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Jun 27, 2016 14:15
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I had someone excuse their 8chan posting as "sure they're literal Nazis but they're some of the most creative people I've ever seen!"
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Literally The Worst posted:well there was proto-srs, which we took over around the time of the anderson cooper thing, then it was like another six months or a year until the redditbomb iirc Anderson Cooper's segment was September 2011 and that's when I created the IRC channel to deal with the jump in popularity we got, but the community was already up and running back then, and started in the February or so of that year when *cough* first started to build the inner circle.
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Tesseraction posted:Anderson Cooper's segment was September 2011 and that's when I created the IRC channel to deal with the jump in popularity we got, but the community was already up and running back then, and started in the February or so of that year when *cough* first started to build the inner circle. That sounds about right, because it would have been that summer that the Reddit thread got posted here and we found the original SRS, with such hits as "Reddit or Stormfront?"
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Yeah - I think you might be thinking specifically of the descent of the Archangelles which happened around the time of the Redditbomb. About a month or two beforehand.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah - I think you might be thinking specifically of the descent of the Archangelles which happened around the time of the Redditbomb. About a month or two beforehand. Probably? I was never super active in SRS because of some uh conflicts between the inner circle and myself, I mostly stuck to the forums side of things And by the forums side of things I mean defacing the Free Internet Act with sluggo is mad and ts12 (rip)
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Oh man that Free Internet Act was beautiful. Does a copy still exist of the finished product?
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