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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I like Justine's Kwashiorkor gut.

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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Devil Wears Wings posted:

It's like Plato's cave, except the cave is the Internet and the shadows on the wall are 4chan, tumblr, and Reddit.

Plato's Mom's Basement

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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StandardVC10 posted:

Dead or alive, you're coming in me.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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The Vosgian Beast posted:

Isn't Bannon losing favor lately?

Favor with Trump? Probably not. Trump is pissed that "fake news" reports claim Bannon does the heavy policy lifting for him, but I think Bannon actually does do the heavy lifting and Trump is both too proud to remove him unless he makes a major misstep, like eating a live baby on The View or something, and he doesn't want to think about things so Steve's going nowhere. He might get publicly dissed a little so that everyone knows Trump is still a very strong papa to the nation, but I don't see him losing an ounce of influence over the executive office any time soon.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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It's much more likely that the extra-dimensional living darkness that is wearing Bannon as a suit finishes consuming his essence and he crumbles to ash before this term ends.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I mean Bannon basically betrayed him by having him sign an EO that made him god-emperor of the military or something like that and trump didn't even loving read the thing so he only found out after the fact and making trump look like an idiot is a great way to get trump hyper-mad at you, but we'll see what happens.

Trump seems more focused on the media than Bannon though and, If I know my Trump, he would have publicly turned on Bannon by now had he any inclination. Impulse control and scheming aren't his strong points. If anything the dang ol' lyin' media portraying Bannon as eminence grise, the great gay liberal devil Rosie O'Donnell wanting to play him on SNL, etc, is only gonna cause Trump to cleave to Bannon out of stubborn petulance. He's all about reacting and sticking it to all the media creators that weave his reality in the present, not playing a long political game out here with the adults.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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My wife got drilled by a terrifying mandingo savage and I all I got was this little cuck cart filled with dinty moore stew, lotion and tissues :( :( :(

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Jan 11, 2009

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Like has he never had a real job before at all because his idea of how hiring works is, uh, something

You mean like with him saying they used to give tests? Because when I entered the workforce after college I was tested a couple times when trying to enter larger companies\corporations. One gave me a math test and some kind of test they claimed was given to air traffic controllers before they would even let me get to the first interview; it was pretty intense, but I think that was the point. Since then I haven't really been tested too much, save for one company three years ago that tested me when I applied for a sr. network engineering position.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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More that he thinks that they can't give tests anymore for... some reason. What's probably happening is he's not making it past initial screenings to the point where the tests are :laugh:

Gotcha gotcha. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he just has no clue how things work. Every larger company I've worked for has given me tests that measure what I know and if I can apply it in high stress situations without snapping, tearing my shirt off and running into the car park screaming about globalists (after the exams I took at Applied Systems post college I believe an experience like this may have produced Alex Jones). The easiest have been timed written tests taken with a group of other applicants and the hardest have been interdepartmental panels throwing situations at me simultaneously. I haven't needed to look for work in a while, so maybe he's right and all industries are now so terrified that a non white, non male will begin blowing their rape whistle as soon as they're asked to show they can use Powershell or something, but I really doubt it.

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I like how he clearly thinks that if they were allowed to give him a test they would be so blown away by his high IQ they'd overlook his complete lack of actual experience and social skills

If he was such a great mind they wouldn't bother. Running exam\interview gauntlets is for all us morlocks who need to prove ourselves before a big company will give us the time of day. Also, I'm guessing that even if these idiots were half as smart as they think they are they'd be passed over so quick by any HR person with a half discerning eye, because they wouldn't want to waste the time and effort it would take for the company to acclimate someone who is clearly a couple bad days away from a breakdown and/or harassment suit. Smart creeps who know they can't hack it in a sane environment make their own startup cults for that reason, while the dull creeps bitch online about how our mortal fear of the mystic truths contained within the bell curve is holding the ubermensch back.

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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I wonder how much dorky poo poo like this was lost when they burned the library of alexandria?

mysterious frankie
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Fututor Magnus posted:

Yeah. He thinks you can condition yourself to be gay and claims to have done so to prove that it's better for LGBT people to hang out in racist alt-right circles and adopt their views because the progs want to bring in Muslims who hate gay people and rape white women. And if any leftist were to point out how moronic Wesley's racist ideas are then that is proof that the left doesn't really care about LGBT folk.

Also remember st rev saying that Trump is better for gay people than Hillary.

He goku'd his dick gay by training in the high-G environment of bing image search results for "the gayest sex you got". That's pretty cool.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Race Realists posted:

loving moron probably doesnt even know he's bi

Explain it to him using the quasi d&d terminology that these idiots filter reality through and he might decide the stat bonuses of multiclassing are worth it.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I can hold a modem in my hand and do the creative math modem + my skull = cyberpunk heaven, but I can't go on the internet with an intangible god, so gently caress that 1.0 poo poo.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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90s Cringe Rock posted:

You don't just give MIRI all your money. You pay for your cryogenics insurance first, then you give MIRI all your money.

I want these idiots to be right about tranhumanism, and for them to wake up 100 years in the future where aesthetic preferences have changed so dramatically that they don't look like sleek immortal technogods, but instead that motorcycle\man hybrid from that one Nightmare On Elm Street sequel, so they wake up looking like a wet industrial mistake and re-perish from shock, but their servitors just keep bringin' em back.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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90s Cringe Rock posted:

Pretty sure it wasn't Delany.

Delaney is soooooooo good and I have wanted an adaptation of Nova since I was a teenager.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I was thinking they had a problem with the word "solidarity", which as we all know was invented by godless commies.

Or was invented to fight godless commies? Whatever it touched communism at some point and therefore it's evil by association.

Everything has been touched by communism, which means everything is evil, which means nothing is off limits in the fight against evil, as even illogical, self destructive acts achieve the desired result. Abracadabra. <- magic spell for transmogrifying white dudes into creeps.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Darth Walrus posted:

I dunno, their ‘Don’t be Evil’ sensors have got pretty rusty. I’m not sure necromancy would trip ‘em.

If you look closely there's an asterisk after "Don't be evil" and when you reference the bottom of the page you'll see the condition *but, I mean, what really is evil anyways?

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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"do the right thing *cough*fortheinvestors*cough*"

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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IMO, the world would be in no way reduced if both these fake example people murdered themselves with fanciful notions of progress.

Well... materially it will be ravaged by their attempt. Moreso. Hm... I don't know what my point was anymore.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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BENGHAZI 2 posted:

I too think people who just want to do silly cosmetic poo poo are as bad as tech overlord shitdicks

it's the tilling up the world's resources for dumb dumb bullshit while the world slides into a quivering techno perdition of its own making part the equalizes them in my eyes

-Posted from an iPhone 7

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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aware of dog posted:

This isn't the best place to post this, but I didn't know where else to put it
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/970815875635929088?s=21
I wish he would just stick to science

Preferably quiet science. Look at the moon and write down some math about it, you insufferable vest junkie.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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He shows up anywhere he's invited to smug it up about anything these days. I remember him being lovably smug back in the day, but the positive attention went to his head and now he thinks he has actual meditative wisdom that can be broadly applied, rather than a very specific intellectual focus. He's not virulent, but he's super obnoxious, and it pains me to think that he's seen as the heir apparent in any way to Sagan and his much more welcoming, poetic, secular mystic outlook on the beauty of the natural world and the scientific method's ability to help us explore & appreciate it.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Sam Harris isn't the hero we need. He isn't the hero we deserve either. I'm not entirely sure he's even the highly incompetent villain we deserve. Maybe he's that dog they put a cape on in the old Justice League cartoons. I forget what my point was here.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Curvature of Earth posted:

I'm running a sideblog on Tumblr that regularly gets notes from neoreactionaries. I end up seeing poo poo like this every day now:



The stereotype that far-right Tumblr blogs post tons of anime titties is only half-true, by the way. For the alt-right, definitely. But proper neoreactionaries run ~aesthetic~ blogs. The exact aesthetic depends on the person. Dark, surrealist photography and paintings, with a sprinkling of obscure religious art. Or cars shot at night, alongside knights and guns. It's reached the point where I'm put on edge just from the feel of their image posts.

The giveaway isn't just the random Hitler quotes (though that does happen!), it's the tone of their (and their peers') own text posts: nihilism paired with seething rage. The world is decadent, corrupt, decaying, and ultimately self-destructing, and there's not much you can do but sit back and enjoy the show, but also it's all the fault of those drat blue-tribers, who are all stupid, whiny, vile, and hateful.

The Right always kinda trots behind the Left, taking and remodeling culture to their standards. The whole aesthetic\vaporwave\ironic nostalgia movement, regardless of the fact that it started as a leftist critique, makes hay for virulent nihilists, because when stripped of the socialism it's just trapper keeper art, mournful roman busts and dead dreams of middle class prosperity. Super easy to append Manchild Among The Ruins (of his favorite mall) crybaby meanderings to that.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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You mean before he uses her as a baby factory then divorces her immediately after he was done exploiting her body like he did his first wife right

He's going to send her on a two week vacation right before divorcing her, so he can interview replacement wives.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Samovar posted:

She got ears.

Knowing Grimes, there's like a 50% chance those are extremely high quality fake ears that she bought specifically to wear with that dress.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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darthbob88 posted:

Maybe, but from a quick GIS, I think those are her own all-natural jug handles.

Well g'bless her and the ears she flew in with then.
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I think the thing that most disturbed me, vis-a-vis Grimes and Musk, is that all the pictures of them looks like a lady going out in public with her dad. 16 year age difference is a bit much, but I'm not even talking about that; he looks like a doofy dad taking his goth daughter to a wedding and this is the last time they'll have a daddy daughter dance before she leaves for England to start her Masters program.

EDIT: I mean at least go all out trying to conceal your age with "hep" clothes and makeup, end up looking like a pretty fun at barbecues middle aged suburban lesbian in the process, Musk. It's the least you could do.

EDIT: But also consider that he would have been old enough at the time to legally drive his girlfriend's mom to the hospital so that his girlfriend's mom could give birth to his girlfriend in a hygienic environment. All being like "Don't get your girl gak on the tuck and roll, lady! MY dad will kill me!"

All leaning in close at the maternity ward to the baby, all being like "One day I'm going to take you to third tier award ceremonies in my nerdmobile," *eyes dart left and right, whispers* "M'lady."

EDIT: turned "girl gook" to "girl gak" because boy howdy that could be misinterpreted.

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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Bolek posted:

Nothing peculiar here about this immediate motivated reasoning by throngs of people to try to find reasons why this woman is now unacceptable. Totally normal don't worry about it.

You can still like Grimes even if some likeminded people have some beef with a thing she said. It's probably not a conspiracy.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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That's the miracle of the human mind!

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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chitoryu12 posted:

What exactly would cause a self-modifying computer to turn into God where the human brain did not?

Not much. These dimwits base their theories off of their favorite science fiction concepts, where the author has written a plausible sounding way (to laymen) to quickly get to the thing they really wanted to talk about.

I can sort of understand where they're coming from, because it's very easy to think you know poo poo when your whole life has basically been auditing intro courses to all sorts of subjects without realizing it, getting lots of surface information, generally delivered via some for of entertainment or pop format. Like, I thought I knew about economics until my wife started taking masters level econ classes and would leave her work out. The math made my mind break and I quickly learned that I didn't so much understand economics as I did know how to talk about it at parties. If I wasn't married to her, she hadn't left her work out and I hadn't admitted to myself it was beyond me, I would still to this day think I had something valuable to contribute to a conversation about economics. It's so easy to be dumb & stay that way.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Coincidentally I don't get invited to many parties.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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more like Pudblowsky

mysterious frankie
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hackbunny posted:

*a quick image search later*



lmao

Good ol Anime.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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Fairly passive posted:

Facebook seems to have pushed him over the edge. He was eagerly awaiting a thrilling cyberpunk future and he got Facebook.

Which is a shame because I liked Nick Land. His blending of Bataille and Deleuze\Battari et al, plus 4 edgy 2 you occult cyberpoetics was really fun & definitely felt like a strong influence on Grant Morrison's voice in The Invisibles. He's maybe the only Dark Enlightenment guy who I feel like "did the work" to get to that point; ie drove himself insane with rigorous high level academic study of philosophy*, instead of a lot of toxic levels of internet fart huffing, so I have a bit of begrudging respect and sympathy.

* also, the drugs. I assume.

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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What the gently caress is Prager U? I only know them from crazy long youtube commercials about how Israel is good, or a black guy saying that racism is over and that other black people who talk about it are whiners... wait, I think I just accidentally contexted myself a good enough answer.

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mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

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I only knew about them because they take out extremely long youtube ads. I've gone to watch an old episode of The Computer Chronicles, then I got some guy being like "The western Left wants to tell you that Israel is a nation committing genocide against its neighbors. But consider this; Stalin was a leftist and he committed genocide. So genocide is a Leftist thing. Problem is, Israel is extremely Right wing, so by that logic they couldn't be committing genocide. But now look at who is making the claim, the Leftists. Seems pretty convenient, doesn't it? AlsoLechembreadissupergoodcallyourmothershemissesyouGodbless."

Except it takes like 20 minutes to get there. I'm sure some other weirdos like me stop to gawk at the weird commercial, but I'm guessing overall people skip them, as you should, so they're wasting a lot of cash on being something you see five seconds of before your music video starts.

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