swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

heredity influences environment

smugly "well actually environmental factors are genetic too"

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Playdoh statistics is right jfc.

Scott if he was 100 IQ points better at using maths: https://youtu.be/msDuNZyYAIQ?si=tTkbGsDgCgZNTXk0

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Something I’d like to investigate is this very right-wing phenomenon of defending granular “freedoms,” like saying slurs in public with strangers, or not wearing a mask during a pandemic etc.

The easy explanation as to why they do this so often is that the boot rwers lack the intellectual capacity to reason about what “freedom” really means and how it’s not a matter of being able to do whatever small atomic action that their overlords, the tie rwers, tell them is important. The thing getting in my way of believing this easy explanation is that it’s kind of heartbreaking to think people can be that stupid.

RE: boot and tie terminology: see here

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For those that don’t want to look it up and are ok with a potentially incomplete version:

Apparently it’s when someone (in PUA context, a woman) says, does, or demands something disingenuously to see how you react to it. My guess is that there are PUA doctrines about how to react and detect this sort of thing.

As is a PUA framed thing, it’s probably a way for someone to dismiss any boundary setting behaviour as gaslighting, which is ofc fucked.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could it be that Yud read about Bombadil, thought, “man it’s a good thing this dude is with the good guys, or middle earth would be screwed” and then decided to spin that into a technocult about AI?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Let's get that thread going!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

More like… Project Awful

^boom^ ^roasted^

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

@self@awful.systems interest check thread for an airport book industrial complex sneer instance?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

While I don’t listen to any “narrative play” podcasts (as I’ve heard them labelled as) I do listen to an amount of improv based podcasts. So on some level I understand the appeal. Also if you like comic books or blaseball or anything lore-heavy, that would be adjacent to narrative play.

Let’s plays are speedrun adjacent so I also kinda like them. That being said that’s just what I get out of them. Everything I enjoy I have in mind that it ain’t for everyone (boy I wish it were for more people though…)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Dawg, I wish it weren't real, but here we are.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

There's a fine line between "no kinkshaming" and Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance

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