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Wasn't he part of the original "Drag Queen Story Hour" panic? I swear I first heard about it from something he wrote in First Things.
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Given that most of them were reading SSC in the early 2010s, I wouldn't be surprised if they literally just called themselves "the in group".
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ok, Martin Luther.
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I would just like to say this post was a fun way to find out the name of the new Pope (and indeed that there was a new Pope!).
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I mean when the overhype is morons saying it'll either make the Grey Goo scenario real by the end of the decade or usher in a post-scarcity utopia, it's kind of hard for dismissal to compete.
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I'm sure it's reasonable for things like allergies, but virtually every person I've met who casually mentions "reading ingredients" was doing because they're terrified of ingredients with more than two syllables.
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Has to be Mar a lago, right?
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Can't wait to hear the excuses when they fail to produce any significant number of systems by that deadline.
Hopefully it makes this mess easier to clean up later.
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This is far more recent than I realized. I would never have guessed this was standardized within my lifetime.
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Video games, with a dash of some talking points he might have heard from the defense/aerospace VC grifters in his orbit
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If you haven't gotten yourself addicted to nicotine because some morons at OpenAI were telling you it would make you a better engineer, you wouldn't understand
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People have been using the phrase "Medieval peasant brain" to describe a lot of insane beliefs the last few years, but as I recall "Muslims are pagans who worship many gods" was very literally a widely held Medieval belief!
By the end of the decade they'll believe in the four humors at this rate.
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For the writers, it's usually some variation of "All the bad people who were mean to me on pre-Musk Twitter need to apologize, tell me I was right, and admit that I am very, very smart."
Now they never actually come out and -say- that, but it's kind of obvious.
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“Americans built the richest and most prosperous society ever to exist, and one part of that was the creation of an endless stream of handheld entertainments, which told them they were miserable and impoverished, and consequently the country committed immediate political and economic suicide”
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Liberal hawk-dom is no longer optional
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This guy is easily my favorite YouTube find of the decade, and it's not even close.
Sometimes the algorithm actually nails a good one.
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Provided they have the cognitive capacity to put those two things together, anyway.
Seems a bit questionable given the story!
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Same reason Ayn Rand's "heroes" in Atlas Shrugged start their reactionary plot after the smartest of them invents a literal perpetual motion machine.
The plans don't make any sense if you don't start from an assumption of inevitable victory.
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Dead Carl "Mediocre Man Theory of History" exhibit A, honestly
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Imagine if F/A-XX ends up just being "B-21, but inexplicably can do carrier launch".
I'm pretty sure there's a geometry problem there but it would be extremely funny.
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Well the solution to that is obvious: just "cryptographically control" literally all metalworking tools and supplies that could conceivably make strong acids.
That's surely nothing for this all powerful "SovCorp", right?
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I guess if one takes the utterly delusional line that "gradual democratization" is something we could expect if the Kaiser's plan to make Mitteleuropa real bore fruit, the idea that the 1914 USN was on even footing with the Royal Navy doesn't seem like much of a leap.
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I wonder if anyone has ever asked him who gave Lenin a bunch of money and put him up in a sealed train.
Surely not his beloved Kaiserreich!
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The Wikiquote page for Kaiser Wilhelm is an absolute -journey-
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It's funny that the venture capitalists are so married to the malinvestment narrative... my brother in christ you are the malinvestment
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Is this an InfoWars fever dream? I feel like I -have- to know the context of this video
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This seems like the kind of thing you'd do -after- full regime consolidation when you can count on electoral backlash being essentially a non-factor.
Doing it before just seems like touching the elephant's foot.
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Musk is a noted F-35 hater, so he probably is quite happy with this.
... it'll probably be among the excuses used to boost the SV "defense" startup scams popping up all over as well.
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Someone I work with described their Roadrunner product as "The capability of a Shahed for the price of an SM-2", and that's surely an exaggeration but given the VC penchant for lighting money on fire I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't -that- far off.
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They're apparently claiming they'll start production in Ohio next year.
I work at a prime and a lot of our software people have been the most ridiculous unpaid Anduril hype men over the last year; I'm hoping for a dramatic flameout, if only for spiteful reasons.
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The Bible has plenty of fucked things in it, but stuff like this makes me wonder if they're actually just reading "Cannibals All!" and calling it scripture instead
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I remember seeing a place in Boston around 2012 serve an "Arizona style pizza" with chipotle, chorizo, and jalapeños (audibly mispronounced in the most amusing way by the cashier).
It was a lot better than I initially thought it had any right to be, though I've never seen anything like it in AZ.
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The funny thing to me reading this is that the 2010 midterms were when I first noticed that something was going very very wrong.
Tea Party Republicans were basically all the substance of Trump without the man himself.
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If you were old enough to be an adult but young enough to have not graduated college into the 2008 recession and gotten burned by it those years were pretty good with all the lifestyle subsidies.
....if you were totally disconnected (which a lot of us were), anyway.
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The last sentence referring to defense tech scammers is almost certainly a direct reference to companies like Anduril.
Maybe they'll deliver something substantial, but what I've seen of them just reeks of under-delivering hype cycle marketing.
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I once again regret not screenshotting the "for some a massacre is utopia" post from The Old Site
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When that does happen, how possible is it to correct this stupid travesty later on when the DoD is staffed again by ~sane people?
...provided that we manage to avoid another Hicks/Austen situation.