ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Oh it's funny, and it's sending me to the funny farm thinking about it
I think having any sort of "credentials" about comedy should be counted as severe negative points of credibility for any judgements made about comedy. Taking comedy seriously enough to get a degree in it utterly defeats the purpose. Also the fact that such a degree exists in the first place and that my tax dollars likely funded the program and likely subsidized the girl's loans to pay for it too makes me want to burn everything down.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
It was a mass email (sent to about 400 ARPANET users) advertising some computers from DEC: https://abusix.com/blog/the-birth-of-email-spam-gary-thuerks-1978-green-card-incident/
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
On the other hand, the first ever spam campaign happened in the 70's on ARPANET
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Prior to the civil rights era new understanding of the first amendment and freedom of speech, when a foreigner was found agitating on behalf of another country (who wasn't a diplomat of some sort), deportation was the least extreme form of punishment.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
SCUD Manifesto
Saddam Hussein's inspiration!
For those unfamiliar with Solanas, it's the SCUM Manifesto, with SCUM standing for "Society for Cutting Up Men".
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Even though neither of us think it was rape, my wife and I have been quoting the Norm MacDonald meme at each other for a week: "Now this may strike some viewers as harsh, but I think everyone involved in this story should die".
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Oh I know, it's just another funny USAID conspiracy theory
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Also allegedly why Nike (and hoodwear generally) is in decline
At least for the "killed people in Africa" claim, the numbers most cited about how many people cutting it would kill were beyond bogus to the point of what I would consider blatant academic malpractice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-4eQZdxlPCU
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
I mean, it's marginally better that the Talmudic POV that Jesus is suffering in hell by being boiled in feces.
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
The apocrypha are probably another matter. They get wild.
FWIW the Apocrypha usually refers to a specific set of Old Testament books that are accepted by the Catholics as canon but rejected by most Protestants. Books like the Gospel of Thomas etc. tend to be called "Pseudepigrapha".
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
The bigger deal would be Matthew (of Matthew Mark Luke and John fame) being a tax collector for the Romans. But modern society usually doesn't quite comprehend why that was such a big deal in Christ's time.
I've been politically homeless for years, you get used to it. I've been an open source freetard for a long time, while also being rabidly anti-communist. And while I am not anti-AI, I do believe the tech is overhyped. And my overall political worldview is decently chuddy, but I'm not anti-Israel, which has led to plenty of awkward assumptions and interactions.
Most people don't neatly fit into one political camp or another. Find the one that fits you best, and then try to be a voice of reason within it (without being a saboteur or infiltrator or spoiler to the overall goals of whatever movement(s) you join).
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
No, I simply see it as the latest thing in a series of shifts in the tech world
For the past couple of years DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson), best known as creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy Linux, has been accused of being a fascist, a supporter of genocide, etc. Usually on the basis of extremely minor things, like refusing to fire people for joking about certain foreign names sounding funny.
Well, he still hasn't come out as a supporter of fascism and genocide, but he has officially gone full chud by recommending Camp of the Saints after witnessing the chaos currently going on in France (DHH himself is Danish, but I can see why he'd see something like that in western Europe as striking close to home): https://x.com/dhh/status/2105982071747604545
Now I disagree with DHH on plenty of things (Ruby and languages without strong type systems generally are dogshit, change my mind). And DHH's opinions aren't really my focus here. But such a prominent voice in tech going openly in favor of remigration strikes me as a sign of a growing rift in the world of tech. We already saw the beginnings of this with all of the big tech CEOs that decided to back Trump in 2024 (Musk in particular).
The world of software development has traditionally been split into two main camps: open source borderline communist hippies, and mercenary enterprise software people. There's exceptions in both camps (Eric S. Raymond is a good example), and software devs as a whole often fall into gray tribe as opposed to red or blue. But there seems to be a seismic shift in this world, with new lines of allegiance being drawn daily. AI has been a big divider, with the borderline communist hippies in the open source world largely coming out against it, and the corporatist mercenary crowd in favor (at least if you listen to the loudest voices on either side).
Software/tech has been one of the biggest drivers of significant social, economic, and political changes for the last half century. AI seems poised to be the biggest change yet, and the more chud-aligned faction seems to be the biggest supporters. So my question is, do you see the same sort of shifts occuring? And where do you see these shifts leading to in culture, governance, etc.?
EDIT: Palmer Luckey was another tech guy known to be rightwing, but it appears he has gone full chud as well: https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2106469826189574369
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Surprisingly haven't heard this one yet. But it reminds me of the George W. Bush housing deed "scandal" where someone found out the deed to his house had a covenant that it couldn't be sold to black people. It had been put there by a previous owner decades before and hadn't been enforceable since the Civil Rights Act and there was a decent chance that Bush didn't even know about it but that didn't stop the media from making hay from it.
Honestly Talarico being descended from slave owners would be a complete non-issue to me if it was actually true. The heretical stuff his pastor says is far more concerning: https://cbn.com/news/politics/james-talaricos-pastor-makes-shocking-statements-no-way-knowing-if-jesus-really
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Sure, but magicalkittycat seems particularly egregious in this regard. You don't see me making a thread about Brandon Herrera's Democrat opponent being a fat illiterate retard who claimed a photo of him clearly holding up a copy of the Communist Manifesto was actually him holding up a copy of Mein Kampf.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Do you ever make threads about democrats acting like retards? There's plenty of examples I can share if you'd like somewhere to start.
I'm not denying that there are plenty of people on my "side" that act like buffoons, I'm just trying to point out that you only ever seem to care when Republicans do it.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
the US is at war with Iran.
Is it? Or is it a "special military operation" or "police action" or one of the 50 different terms countries have come up with to avoid officially declaring war?
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
I'd love to see them called "unlawful combatants" instead of terrorists, but I imagine if the press adopted such a practice generally it would lead to some awkwardness in their reporting on things like Gaza.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
For those unaware, Nathan Fielder is the guy who did the sort-of-comedy/sort-of-serious show Nathan For You where he would give businesses outlandish business strategies to try out. Like a gas station offering ridiculously cheap gas, with the catch being you had to fill out a rebate form and deliver it to a drop box at the peak of some mountain in a national park two hours away.
But also, many Christians insist that they are not dualists.
I can only imagine most Christians denying ethical dualism (i.e. that good and evil are essentially equal but opposite forces), not that body and soul are distinct things.
The only Christian groups that could potentially be considered monists in the body-soul sense are probably those that believe in annihilationism, i.e. Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
But by the time of Last Ditch’s monthly community meeting on September 11, only one of the original founders, Matellian, is still involved. The two others stepped back from the daily operation months before, Matellian says, citing various pressures and health issues. One had enrolled in clown school.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." - Voltaire
This gap has been rapidly closing in the last two decades thanks to lowering standards at universities. Frankly the only reason the gap hasn't disappeared completely is because of similarly lowering standards at high schools.
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