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Many methods, one goal. Pro trans transhumanist, liberal, georgist, pro state capacity, anti administrative burden.
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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every time i use an all-gender restroom i get nervous that someone will figure out that i'm not really all genders
August 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
every time i use an all-gender restroom i get nervous that someone will figure out that i'm not really all genders
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It’s going to be okay because we’re going to make it okay
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s going to be okay because we’re going to make it okay
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oh never mind this is actually true in Britain
Oh, ofc OP is British lmao
August 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
oh never mind this is actually true in Britain
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I guess the answer to the Democratic Party's Young Men Problem is to, like, run even one guy under 50 who doesn't clearly suck?
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I guess the answer to the Democratic Party's Young Men Problem is to, like, run even one guy under 50 who doesn't clearly suck?
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the race for the twenty-first century is a race to see who can stop hitting themselves first
July 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
the race for the twenty-first century is a race to see who can stop hitting themselves first
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Remember, the Online Safety Act was passed by a Tory government in 2023. It only just went into effect. If Labour wanted, they could safely wash their hands of the whole mess and blame conservatives.
Except now they *are* the conservatives.
Except now they *are* the conservatives.
July 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Remember, the Online Safety Act was passed by a Tory government in 2023. It only just went into effect. If Labour wanted, they could safely wash their hands of the whole mess and blame conservatives.
Except now they *are* the conservatives.
Except now they *are* the conservatives.
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I’m deadly serious by the way.
The UK fiscal and economic situation is fucking dire right now and that is in large part because government policy is permanently tilted towards the needs and preferences of retirees.
The UK fiscal and economic situation is fucking dire right now and that is in large part because government policy is permanently tilted towards the needs and preferences of retirees.
Because no one wants to say no to the baby boomers.
July 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m deadly serious by the way.
The UK fiscal and economic situation is fucking dire right now and that is in large part because government policy is permanently tilted towards the needs and preferences of retirees.
The UK fiscal and economic situation is fucking dire right now and that is in large part because government policy is permanently tilted towards the needs and preferences of retirees.
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Pedocon theory appears to be the real engine of history
July 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Pedocon theory appears to be the real engine of history
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why am I paying someone to fetch me a bucket of water when I can get as much as I want at the free tap it came from
I think one thing that annoys me about generated articles is that if I actually wanted an AI to give me a rundown about a topic, I would rather use a model directly and trust my own capacity to formulate a prompt.
My default response with your webpage is that I'm looking at noise.
My default response with your webpage is that I'm looking at noise.
July 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
why am I paying someone to fetch me a bucket of water when I can get as much as I want at the free tap it came from
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I think people not in online fandom world are liable to under estimate how significant an expression of women's sexuality this is nowadays. It'd be like banning books with topless Scotsmen called The Highlander's Hidden Heart or whatever in the 80s/90s.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I think people not in online fandom world are liable to under estimate how significant an expression of women's sexuality this is nowadays. It'd be like banning books with topless Scotsmen called The Highlander's Hidden Heart or whatever in the 80s/90s.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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(If the “future scary paradigm” is so bad, should we push on LLMs instead? I offer some concerns there too—e.g., the reasons to feel good about alignment of today’s LLMs seem to be getting less and less applicable over time!) (9/10)
June 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(If the “future scary paradigm” is so bad, should we push on LLMs instead? I offer some concerns there too—e.g., the reasons to feel good about alignment of today’s LLMs seem to be getting less and less applicable over time!) (9/10)
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in this sense trump is basically the id of every american voter
June 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
in this sense trump is basically the id of every american voter
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"Greedy physicians expand clinic, want to treat and cure another 21 patients."
“Plan to build 21 senior apartments […] decried as ‘only greed’”
The dehumanizing idea that new housing is “developer greed” and not, you know, a place for people to live that will benefit those people.
The dehumanizing idea that new housing is “developer greed” and not, you know, a place for people to live that will benefit those people.
New England land-use policy has a sort of primal evilness that is unmatched anywhere else in the US. A toxic combination of "I got mine" selfishness, xenophobic stupidity, and presumptuous "I should have a say in everything" busybody culture.
www.newstimes.com/news/article...
www.newstimes.com/news/article...
June 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Greedy physicians expand clinic, want to treat and cure another 21 patients."
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AI alignment folks: Is there a consensus on the relative difficulty/importance of:
(1) Making AI understand human values
(2) Making AI care about human values
(3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do
(Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)
(1) Making AI understand human values
(2) Making AI care about human values
(3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do
(Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)
June 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
AI alignment folks: Is there a consensus on the relative difficulty/importance of:
(1) Making AI understand human values
(2) Making AI care about human values
(3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do
(Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)
(1) Making AI understand human values
(2) Making AI care about human values
(3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do
(Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)
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On the bit torrent twitter wishing it was the signal twitter.
Poor BlueSky team. The developer goals are like: "Let's make an open social network with an open API and data interop."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
June 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
On the bit torrent twitter wishing it was the signal twitter.
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something that really irritates me is that the same corner of the Internet puts out these two messages without really understanding the contradiction between
"just don't be an asshole/be a good person and you'll get ___"
"no one owes you anything/life owes you nothing"
"just don't be an asshole/be a good person and you'll get ___"
"no one owes you anything/life owes you nothing"
June 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
something that really irritates me is that the same corner of the Internet puts out these two messages without really understanding the contradiction between
"just don't be an asshole/be a good person and you'll get ___"
"no one owes you anything/life owes you nothing"
"just don't be an asshole/be a good person and you'll get ___"
"no one owes you anything/life owes you nothing"
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it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are
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I tried to get Gemini to make this for me but I guess it can't do that. Usually it just changed the pfp and this time just gave me an unrelated image and I'm too lazy to edit the image myself
June 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I tried to get Gemini to make this for me but I guess it can't do that. Usually it just changed the pfp and this time just gave me an unrelated image and I'm too lazy to edit the image myself
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there has been a slight attempt at a 2015 era SJW revival in the last few weeks and I'm here to say don't do it. we need to evolve not get back on our bullshit.
June 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
there has been a slight attempt at a 2015 era SJW revival in the last few weeks and I'm here to say don't do it. we need to evolve not get back on our bullshit.
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"Russia is prepared to fight forever"
No it's not. It just says that.
No it's not. It just says that.
The Economist’s Oliver Carroll reports that Russia threatened to capture Sumy and Kharkiv and said they’re ready to fight for years, even forever.
Russia never wanted peace, doesn’t want peace, and never will.
Russia never wanted peace, doesn’t want peace, and never will.
May 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Russia is prepared to fight forever"
No it's not. It just says that.
No it's not. It just says that.
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For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.
May 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.
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we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris
April 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris
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pulling up English ivy and can't get over it being a high tech robotic gray goo. developing rigid robots would be an intermediate step on our way to a squish-resistant lattice like they use. we're not even close. only reason I can defeat it is because I spot its regular solar panel deployments
no plant species or bacteria or anything ever gray goo'd the planet? not once, with an uninterrupted carbon substrate and limitless solar energy? hard to believe so i'm taking it as more evidence for quantum immortality
July 29, 2024 at 5:16 AM
pulling up English ivy and can't get over it being a high tech robotic gray goo. developing rigid robots would be an intermediate step on our way to a squish-resistant lattice like they use. we're not even close. only reason I can defeat it is because I spot its regular solar panel deployments