gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You don't understand, the Gray Tribe's unique connection with the police, in conjunction with the crime-prevention drones developed by Anduril, will entirely eliminate crime like mugging. There will only be Grays hunting Blues for sport.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

Arif Ahmed is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College,

so far so good...

and a campaigner for free speech

and there it is.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

I'm in a forum where some person claims that the sealion is actually the reasonable one.

It's proof to me that this throwaway comic is such a good summary for certain online behavior that there's an entire subculture built around trying to subvert it.

(also Wondermark is great in general)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

remember when Tea Partiers were teabagging?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Internet weirdo to salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners: at least you're all not cucks!

SotEMW: cucks?

IW: you know, like that porn where a white dude watches black dudes fuck his wife!

SotEMW: <racks shotgun slide> get the hell away from my daughter

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

Yes there are, or were. The OG Nazis treated Dutch POWs slightly better than French ones, for instance.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

According to Wonkette, they're now in danger of deportation because they don't know any Russian, and don't seem interested in learning it

https://www.wonkette.com/p/canadian-idiots-who-fled-to-russia

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I just read an account of the Nazi occupation of Norway in WW2 and it was a bit like that. The local Nazis (the OG Quisling!) were widely hated, there was passive resistance at every turn, and very few Norwegians were interested in some sort of "racial bond" with Germany.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 9 months ago

"It wAs aCtuALLy a lAB LEaK" is such a right-wing shibboleth that it's extra delicious that some wingers[1] put their money where their mouths and were comprehensively disproven. Kudos to the Lesswronger who went through all this, even though a 100K payout made it rATioNaL


[1] I don't have any evidence that Rootclaim are right-wingers but my priors tell me they are

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That thread is gold. Specially love this one where heroin is dismissed because it's not utilitarian enough

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34649954

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Side note, I know Taleb is widely appreciated, but man this is some badly written stuff. Is all his stuff like this? I realize blog post != book, but c'mon, some pride in craftmanship is in order.

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