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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 27, 2024

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Might?

Last year you wrote,

Indeed, my past posts is why I said I could be considered biased.

Is there any explanation other than bias for opining with that level of ignorance?

No, but on the other hand, I think ignorance is self-justifying! It is our default state after all.

The irony here is that, though I'd agree with many of your points above (as would most techies; e.g. "Elon time" is something in between a sad joke and an actual conversion coefficient at this point), I still can't actually trust your presentation of them to add anything on top the bare hyperlinks themselves, and even with the links I've got to worry that selection bias is a problem. How could I justify further trust as more than Gell-Mann amnesia?

First of all, I hope I'm not coming across as believing I'm some sort of an expert. I have a mild interest on the subject, follow some of the news, and am going off on vibes. In fact a good part of the reason why I'm posting is to test Vibe Analysis. I'm pretty sure it's a valid way of analyzing the world - I predicted Trump with Vibe Analysis, I predicted COVID with Vibe Analysis, I predicted BLM2 with Vibe Analysis... the problem is that my wife is the only person that heard me making these predictions, and her memory isn't even that good so I have no bragging rights. Now the vibes are telling me Elon is about to crash, and if it's true, I want bragging rights, god dammit! If it's wrong, and I have to wear the DUM DUM hat until the rest of my life - I'm happy with that deal. My pride is a small price to pay for an affordable ticket to space.

Posting here is also a way to verify whether or not I'm receiving all the relevant vibes. It's a bit like my TransTrend prediction post (and it's follow-up), I felt the vibes shift, pro-trans people going from extremely confident to somewhat on the back foot. I wanted to plant a flag, and see if they'll try and take it, and they didn't... at least not in the same way. It was no longer "The Science is on our side, chud!" and a lot more of "oh, are you sure you want the government to dictate what adults can do with their bodies" or petty relitigatiion of Culture War history. Same with Elon - I think his companies are going to crash, I wanted to see if anyone is going to call me a retard for it, and so far the arguments in his defense boil down to him already deserving some sort of trophy... Fine! Give him his bloody trophy, I just want to know whether his companies are sustainable.

If I'm right I also want to warn you lot, so you don't suffer from splash damage of Elon's collapse. I'm planning on spending the foreseeable future bashing woke-supporters for being for "gender affirming care", I'm planning on establishing a goddamn museum, I don't want them to have "Oh yeah? Your side supported the arch-conman Elon Musk" as a comeback!

Sorry if this is too schizo, but I am, after all, the Tinfoil Gigachad... even if that tinfoil hat has "DUM DUM" written on it.

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