Classic two truths and a lie strategy for discrediting and manipulation.

Truth 1: There isn’t a lower age on who a sufficiently rich and sufficiently bored person will fuck, kill and/or eat. Truth 2: Pizza is used as a code word.

Lie: It’s the little green men from alpha centuri behind it all! Or at least the other team!

Of course, it’s easy to just lie lie lie lie. But consider the widespread media conspiracy to discredit conspiracy theorists… Someone HAS GOT to be onto SOMETHING.

It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.

The answer is to disengage yourself, and to teach your children AND OTHERS to disengage from social media.

Social media is harmful, advertising is harmful, drugs are harmful, gambling is harmful. This is a question of societal level harm and is is a problem for individual counties, nations, and states to address by the creation and enforcement of law, and for individuals to address by collectively shaming participants.

Pavlov is fine on PCVR, there are plenty of games, lots of community content, and everyone reading this should definitely come play with us right now, today, this weekend, come on down.

I don’t possess conscious experience and even I think this whole thread is crap.

It’s an American idiom, probably emerging about 60 years ago but n-grams dates first usages in print to around 1947.

To wear many hats is to do many different jobs or have many different responsibilities.

I’ve been playing Sorcery, it’s really good!

Sienna was walled in at a time and place when roaming gangs of thugs could, and would, variously murder you everywhere outside the city walls.

Pretty good reason to want to get really cozy with your neighbors. Might be a good time to revisit the concept in some places.

I wouldn’t be so sure.

Pragmatically minded folks are not always concerned with the details of how something is done.

After all, he often uses code written by people other than himself in the kernel, he works to ensure those people are well clothed and fed, but that’s hardly the point of the linux project. The user experience is not so different from vibe coding.

Hell yeah! Those other stupid poor people are the reason your electricity price went up!

I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

Except it is, and it won’t be.

People are fucking expensive, if you ran the same uncharitable calculations people do for AI on people they would rapidly conclude that there is almost nothing more expensive then having a whole person do something, needing clean water and air all the time, destroying the environment by inefficiently cramming it into their face and then shitting it out a short time later.

Right now, it’s on the line (our current generation of AI is just a little more efficient then something which spends literally years in diapers and needs over a decade of careful and often misguided education just to punch a clock and read some email), but one of these things is getting more efficient and the other one is definitely not.

You can get emotional, maybe burn a data center to the ground or something, but the idea that, ‘what this stuff actually costs to run’ is going to land anywhere close to cost of the people doing it, you’re out of your mind.

How about figuring out how to use this disruption to create systems and technologies which are better? Imagine if the OSS and maker movements started in 1880 instead of 1980.

Imagine missing a game so massive it has had a billion sequels, an MMO, and a 700 million dollar television series made because of it.

Pick your poison, witchcraft, zen, Christianity… Being able to see things the way a child sees them is an essential part and something you might want to work on.

I’m going to take a guess and direct you (and most readers) towards a Christian reading, but I assure you, this observation is made by almost all traditions, secular or otherwise, across almost all the world’s cultures.

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 18:3

(Edited for block quote)

Here’s a puzzler.

Did he start with illegals as the first stage in a general campaign to eliminate the poor and undersirable by force, or, now that he has moved to all immigrants, is he going to stop?

Allow me to translate this for everyone looking at this comment and trying to figure out what it means and can’t be bothered to google it.

You MUST IMMEDIATELY go find/stream/steal Star Trek - The Next Generation S5E02 - “Darmok” before participating in this thread.

And if you don’t understand it, watch it again until you do.

You’re welcome.

This has been the case since it was possible to pay someone to run from village to village shouting things… It’s just more now.

Welcome to the party, beers over there.

Not central, just suspicious, but… this is ‘house’ as in astrological house as in the first part of the word ‘horoscope’, not house like a house you live in.

My background in linguistics consists of a couple chompsky soft-science books and a love of tolkien, but if you actually know something and wanna chat I’d honestly love to dig in on this seriously. DM me.

My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that ‘houses’ and ‘hours’ are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian ‘watch’ and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said ‘12 hours in a day? I got you bro’, fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.

The fact you didn’t detect my hyperbole proves my point. Those numbers were in fact completely made up.