grapesmoker.bsky.social
trauma ride on energized obliques
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because what he wants is something you can't say in polite liberal society which is why he does a dime-store straussian bit by lying about his intentions (and also lying about how he now thinks that lying in politics is bad)
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the reason why matty feels comfortable inviting marc andreesen into the tent is because he mostly agrees with his views
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lol what he do now
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she definitely (allegedly) left it there to be stolen and will (hopefully) face the ultimate sanction for treason
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he has a very annoying posting style
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thank you for your service
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not least of which are the germans themselves
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the smallest pebble can trigger an avalanche
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gottem
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mouth too big
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hate it when i'm drafted into the marathon at the shortest possible notice because everyone ahead of me has turned down their spot
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also this is true: bsky.app/profile/thes...
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no i mean like an actual physical fight
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useful guy to back you up in a fight, probably, useless as a political strategist
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his dumbest critics are very dumb indeed but he also baits everyone 24/7 and his response to any kind of counterargument is to accuse everyone of either dishonesty or stupidity so i'm struggling to find any intellectual sympathy for him here
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i'm not actually sure he believes the second thing because he also doesn't seem to actually care much for the whole concept of "wielding power." he definitely believes in a mostly-hereditary class of deference-deserving elites though
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lol
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his "liberalism" is a veneer that covers for what is more or less just naked self-interest. someone with a genuine commitment to liberal principles would be outraged about these sorts of abuses and demand action from their government. matty doesn't care because these aren't even people to him
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a throughline in his public writing over the years is that it's actually fine to deploy the repressive powers of the state against people he considers beneath him. it's also why he tacitly supports racial iq theories
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the most generous read on yggy's position here is that he simply doesn't care whether some subaltern population gets due process or not, and the less generous read is that he actively thinks they shouldn't get it
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if the democratic party had this level of discipline and institutional control it wouldn't be the democratic party anymore. whether that's good or bad is debatable but it would be some completely other organization either way
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actual literal death cult
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no "what if" about it
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the computer is good, to me, i like it
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it is, in fact, real sicko shit
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anyway as a current SWE i enjoyed the thread and as a former physicist i had to make a physics joke about it
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just a riff. in physics the usual way to try to tackle many near-equilibrium problems is to expand some function of interest in a power series i.e. increasingly smaller terms summing up to the final function, and then truncating the series at some point. it works way better than you'd naively expect
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i would not blame anyone for locking this guy in a concrete tomb and throwing away the key
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i honestly can't imagine a set of circumstances that would lead me to utter those words sincerely