korydg

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Derrida look intensifies

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm seeing some takes now that the ground game did make a difference of a couple of points in the swing states, where it was concentrated, it's just that that wasn't enough.

Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually, it's a stately home.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Something like that happened to me at a similar age (won't go into details) and I never got over my dislike of going into pools and the ocean and learning to swim (which I never have).

Chris Langan and the "Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe"? Oh boy! in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

A propos: John Baez's https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html (How to Learn Math and Physics)

Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

Well you have to admit, finding a non-white object that is not a swan really does strengthen the claim that all swans are white.

Cultists Draw a Boogeyman on Cardboard, Become Afraid Of It in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”