maol

joined 1 year ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Fuck it, throw some more junk into orbit, why not

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Where's the guy who said AI use is a form of austerity

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

Serves indefinitely? Not even 8 or 16 year terms but indefinitely?? Surely the US supreme court is proof of why this is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

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

"democracy, but if it wasn't a democracy"

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the second draft of "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" in less than a week while buzzing on cocaine. The Rationalists just write obnoxious blog posts.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Apparently newspapers are starting to get rid of mugshot galleries, so he might be lucky.

[–] maol@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

The combination of these two things is jarring because heroin is a Big Kid drug, not a prestige drug, and how, of course, could a neuroscientist smoke heroin?

Unlike this guy, I have no problem understanding that smart people sometimes like to do stupid things. There are a lot of doctors who smoke. This is not because they know tobacco is secretly good for you.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

I can only assume the vibes were rancid

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But does he know that one of the Pythons was a member of the UK Gay Liberation Front?

[–] maol@awful.systems 28 points 2 months ago

"poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist"

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