this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

SneerClub

989 readers
2 users here now

Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
self@awful.systems
blakestacey@awful.systems
dgerard@awful.systems
1
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by mpk@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they definitely missed out on naming two of the daughers ursa minor maior and ursa maior minor.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their next kid will be named Ultima Thule, and they will claim very loudly that this is just because they are so big fans of astrology and that they never heard of the controversy regarding the name.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

jfk

Ultima Thule was a Swedish white nationalist band back in the day.

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@gerikson The name predates the white nationalist band by *several centuries*. Per wiki: "In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin "farthest Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world"."

I suspect they renamed the KBO Arrokoth precisely to avoid the unfortunate recent connotations of the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule

[–] aio@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

and here i just assumed the name was original to ffxiv