bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I never got much of a sense that Charlie would be open to have his own mind changed

No way, really? Are you really doubting the professional nazi troll's desire to have his convictions challenged through good faith dialogue?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The lobsters thread linked in a sibling comment has more examples, but here's him eulogizing Charlie Kirk in a nazi bar https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1966456391146606806

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck, that's good

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Glowfic sounds like fan fiction written by CIA agents.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my ideal version of Omelas there's a secret institution where people like me are given vast power and wealth to think about how to solve the tortured child issue.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

The title already says it's a lexture by Thiel— oh wait sorry I see what you mean.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think "making up a guy to get mad at" is already an idiom as is.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

I still read xkcd regularly and think it's pretty good. I don't think "we" as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.

Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If you're not already in the rat pipeline it's just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, it's still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

When the "criti" for Amazon is just that it's "boring", I feel we're in plain old hype territory.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

somehow not the first or second TMBG reference I've seen today

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