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the 'less apish instincts' is my favourite partstarku wrote:he also says that making people smarter will reduce conflict
so i'm not sure how seriously we can take him
idk, transhumanists hating humanity seems kind of a givenNietzslime wrote:the 'less apish instincts' is my favourite partstarku wrote:he also says that making people smarter will reduce conflict
so i'm not sure how seriously we can take him
i'm always fascinated by how so many transhumanists hate humanity so much
re: death
i actually sympathize with him, since real depression can totally blind you to all of your options for escaping it, and having a sweet material life doesn't really relieve a brain chemistry problem. i don't really sympathize with how he posts about his depression, ostensibly for support but mainly for attention, and then refuses to accept his audience's attempts to support him
re: that n&p thread
jesus christ
adr wrote:scrawl of course locks the thread
because someone dared to question the efficacy of the mods
or because he thought it was actually useless with my REAL CONTENT and QUALITY CONTRIBUTION and shit?
It's weird for me since, like a lot of nerd stuff that pisses me off it's like looking at a mirror mirror version of myself where I never emotionally developed past 14. I feel like I can totally see where someone who's being all 'hurp durp emotions are inefficient' is coming from on (ironically enough) an emotional level. But the thing is that I can't on a logical level because in my experience that sort of sentiment is totally just reactionary emotional bullshit and not like...an actual opinion that you thought through.Nietzslime wrote:the 'less apish instincts' is my favourite part
i'm always fascinated by how so many transhumanists hate humanity so much
Stark wrote:Probably because it's easier to write off anything ideologically threatening as 'the other' and forget about it. Its remarkable to someone who's listened to years of people support the right of people to protest gay funerals and bring guns to political rallies talk about how some guys sitting down is a violent attack on the true American way of life.
At some point, though, there has to be legislative action. It's not like the 1% are going to see the light and fix the fucking mess they created on their own. OWS itself might be better served staying clear of electoral politics (not least because any attempt to do so would inevitably schism the movement), but at some point, Congress and the state legislatures are going to have to actually pass laws that favor the 99% if the situation is going to get any better, and without either electing OWS-sympathetic legislators or leveraging OWS's energy to pressure existing legislators, it's never going to happen.Losonti Tokash wrote:shit should we tell them that voting in non-shitbags is impossible under the current system
What's really hilarious is that apparently his post where he went "You're just an ANARCHIST because you don't view protesting as merely an ends towards voting" was only deserving of a warning. I guess this is because SCRawl is a terrible moderator who takes what is admittedly a shitpost by myself, and yet ignores a downright incoherent post full of ridiculous garbage that a bunch of people called out. But because Zinegata pushed the report button (and broke the fucking rules-as-written by doing so), he gets a light warning about "toning it down".Djinnkitty83 wrote:I didn't have the heart to do some proper trolling there.
And Bakustra, how dare you make a waste of a post in a the OWS thread, I hope your time in the scathing hell that is... The Barrel will teach you not to offend SCRawl.
Yes, that's very definitely true, and so when Zinegata called the second of those approaches anarchy I was downright stunned.RedImperator wrote:At some point, though, there has to be legislative action. It's not like the 1% are going to see the light and fix the fucking mess they created on their own. OWS itself might be better served staying clear of electoral politics (not least because any attempt to do so would inevitably schism the movement), but at some point, Congress and the state legislatures are going to have to actually pass laws that favor the 99% if the situation is going to get any better, and without either electing OWS-sympathetic legislators or leveraging OWS's energy to pressure existing legislators, it's never going to happen.Losonti Tokash wrote:shit should we tell them that voting in non-shitbags is impossible under the current system
I quoted an excerpt from a book called American Nerd some time ago, but I'm going to bring it up again here because the guy's definition of nerd pretty neatly wraps up everything beneficial and detrimental to being a nerd.Ohma wrote:It's weird for me since, like a lot of nerd stuff that pisses me off it's like looking at a mirror mirror version of myself where I never emotionally developed past 14. I feel like I can totally see where someone who's being all 'hurp durp emotions are inefficient' is coming from on (ironically enough) an emotional level. But the thing is that I can't on a logical level because in my experience that sort of sentiment is totally just reactionary emotional bullshit and not like...an actual opinion that you thought through.Nietzslime wrote:the 'less apish instincts' is my favourite part
i'm always fascinated by how so many transhumanists hate humanity so much
He goes into some pretty interesting detail on all of the stupid habits and neuroses that go with being a nerd of some kind. Like simultaneous contempt of but obsession with manly men stereotypes, or various issues regarding race and sex.I believe there are two main categories of nerds: one type, disproportionately male, is intellectual in ways that strike people as machine-like, and socially awkward in ways that strike people as machine-like.
These nerds are people who remind others, sometimes pleasantly, of machines. They tend to remind people of machines by:
1. Being passionate about some technically sophisticated activity that doesn't revolve around emotional confrontation, physical confrontation, sex, food, or beauty (most activities that excite passion in non-nerds—basketball, violin, sex, surfing, acting, knitting, interior decorating, wine tasting, etc.—are built around one of these subjects).
2. Speaking in language unusually similar to written Standard English.
3. Seeking to avoid physical and emotional confrontation.
4. Favoring logic and rational communication over nonverbal, non-rational forms of communication or thoughts that don't involve reason.
5. Working with, playing with, and enjoying machines more than most people do.
meanwhile, i'm dumb enough to respond to zenigataLosonti Tokash wrote:here we go again
zenigata hit reportadr wrote:"His post was one big ad-hominem, and we don't like that here."
where the fuck is he when shitposters like patrick degan are there?
That's what I got barreled for lol.Flagg wrote:Zinegata is mentally insane. Just refuse to engage him on those grounds and maybe he'll go away.
I like the double standards that come up under threads like these.adr wrote:What gets me more than anything else in that Penn state thread is the implicit assumption most everyone has that they would have done things so much differently if they were there.
If Patrick Degan had a grasp of logical fallacies, he could call my personal story followup some kind of tu quoque crap, and I don't have much of an answer for that. Even if we are all morally bankrupt cowards, that wouldn't necessarily invalidate calling someone one, so that branch isn't great logic and I realize that.
But still, it bugs me to see these armchair "heroes" so arrogantly and so viciously attack someone when they really have no idea how they'd react in a similar situation. (and it gets worse because they don't even know all the facts!)
If my own flaws are anything to go on, I'd say odds are they'd take the lazy or weak or cowardly way out too. Assuming they don't just freeze up entirely from such an extraordinary experience.
I personally like how it's impossible to understand that someone might go: "gee, I wonder what ever came of that eye witness report of child rape, maybe I could ask the people I reported it to, or the guy who was the alleged attacker who I was and remain close friends with."Aaron wrote:It doesn't take much to call 911, I've done it in the past. But to wade in fists swinging ala the duchess, is pure fantasy.
like most things duchess says :VAaron wrote:It doesn't take much to call 911, I've done it in the past. But to wade in fists swinging ala the duchess, is pure fantasy.