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"Not egalitarian" doesn't imply "anti-egalitarian" any more than "not gay" implies "homophobic".

Honestly I think criticizing Aella for much of anything in that tweet is a little silly. She isn't a politician or even a political writer all that much, she is a sex worker, sex blogger, and weird internet personality. She didn't hang her hat on the woke/anti-woke battleground, she just like talked to people online and tweeted shit sometimes. "Hey my personal friends are all good beans but this person whose tweets I followed because their take in 2021 was sharp has become a huge asshole" is really not anything to be ashamed of. Maybe there is some specific close friend she is referring to, or like some Aella take where she staked out "we really need Chris Rufo to take over the country", I am no expert on Aella lore. But the tweet doesn't give me evidence for that.

This does not apply to Grimes.

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I wouldn't describe Thomas Hobbes as anti-egalitarian. The premise most principled monarchists start from isn't that someone deserves to be king, it's that someone has to be, or else society [for one reason or another] will converge on collapse.

The idea that you should pick the best person to be king is either just a natural passive corrolary of the belief that you have to pick someone, or else a reaction to a perceived reality of democracies defaulting into kleptocracies, which are anti-meritocratic [which is definitely something Yarvin believes].

I don't agree with the ideology, but you are misrepresenting it.

Honestly I think criticizing Aella for much of anything in that tweet is a little silly. She isn't a politician or even a political writer all that much, she is a sex worker, sex blogger, and weird internet personality. She didn't hang her hat on the woke/anti-woke battleground, she just like talked to people online and tweeted shit sometimes. "Hey my personal friends are all good beans but this person whose tweets I followed because their take in 2021 was sharp has become a huge asshole" is really not anything to be ashamed of. Maybe there is some specific close friend she is referring to, or like some Aella take where she staked out "we really need Chris Rufo to take over the country", I am no expert on Aella lore. But the tweet doesn't give me evidence for that.

This does not apply to Grimes.

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I literally don't understand what you mean?

Even if this were all accurate [it's not, Yarvin's not actually close friends or intellectual associates with Land, who is one among many people who have willfully projected onto Yarvin's ideas in order to use his name to chase clout for their own far shallower worldviews, and IMO describing Yarvin's philosophy as 'anti-egalitarian' instead of just, like 'anti-psyop' or something, is a huge stretch if you've actually read any of his work, he's not a dumb identitarian], what is the problem supposed to be?

Honestly I think criticizing Aella for much of anything in that tweet is a little silly. She isn't a politician or even a political writer all that much, she is a sex worker, sex blogger, and weird internet personality. She didn't hang her hat on the woke/anti-woke battleground, she just like talked to people online and tweeted shit sometimes. "Hey my personal friends are all good beans but this person whose tweets I followed because their take in 2021 was sharp has become a huge asshole" is really not anything to be ashamed of. Maybe there is some specific close friend she is referring to, or like some Aella take where she staked out "we really need Chris Rufo to take over the country", I am no expert on Aella lore. But the tweet doesn't give me evidence for that.

This does not apply to Grimes.

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Genuinely can somebody explain to me what the problem is supposed to be with Curtis Yarvin?

Honestly I think criticizing Aella for much of anything in that tweet is a little silly. She isn't a politician or even a political writer all that much, she is a sex worker, sex blogger, and weird internet personality. She didn't hang her hat on the woke/anti-woke battleground, she just like talked to people online and tweeted shit sometimes. "Hey my personal friends are all good beans but this person whose tweets I followed because their take in 2021 was sharp has become a huge asshole" is really not anything to be ashamed of. Maybe there is some specific close friend she is referring to, or like some Aella take where she staked out "we really need Chris Rufo to take over the country", I am no expert on Aella lore. But the tweet doesn't give me evidence for that.

This does not apply to Grimes.

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Imagine if two painters were replying to each other talking about the flaws in their composition skills and everyone was reposting screenshots of it without comment and replying shit like "kill yourself", "just say you're a trash painter", etc.

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once again annoyed at the iconization of laika, a dog who was killed brutally against her will (for little to no scientific value! as acknowledged and explicitly regretted by her trainer oleg gazenko, who considered the mission unjustifiable in retrospect), not some kind of holy martyr for space exploration

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Unfortunately, our plagiarism checker has found that your essay is copied word-for-word from another source. We’re very disappointed in you. At this point in your academic career, you should know better than relying on the Library of Babel to think for you.

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Either you aren't smart enough to be making the right choices by default [, in your 'healthy' state], in which case it's kind of weird to frame this as just randomly failing - or you are smart enough to be making the right choices by default and you do have some kind of damage or impairment that's preventing you from doing so. "Randomly underperforms at achieving goals for 10 years with no antecedent damage" isn't how intelligence works.

It's so horribly possible to make bad choices and to omit to make good ones, you simply can do that. You can live in a way that's not very good. There's no one whose job it is to notice when you're doing this and try to stop you.

There doesn't need to be any particular psychological damage underlying this, the wrong answers are available to everyone. You can waste ten years of your life in exactly the same way that you can go for a long walk from time to time.

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this but without the assumption that booktok is making things worse, the condescenscion, or the assumption that they're actually getting off

booktok did ruin a lot of romance novels bc of the demand for instant gratification but culturally it is kind of a slay that so many young women are just reading smut and masturbating all day #respect

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i’m crying i’m crying i’m crying

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One time my mom took me to a hibachi grill with a bunch of her friends and if you've never been to a hibachi grill basically the draw is that theres a bunch of interactive performance stuff done by the cook who cooks for you at your table, and one of the tricks they did at this one was take a squeeze bottle full of liquor and shoot it into your mouth across the table (with permission)

And now at our table my mom explained this because it was my first time going, and she wanted to make sure to warn me it was liquor because she knows I don't drink- she just said "if he offers to shoot at your mouth, say no because it's alcohol".

And so the chef does his thing and it's all very impressive, but the time does come where he pulls out this squeeze bottle of booze and asks me if I wanna try

I of course say no, because I really don't do alcohol, so he moves on to someone else

And I watch, and slowly come to understand that this is some sort of game, because once someone is drinking from the continuous flow the chef starts counting "ONE! TWO! THREE!"

I realize that we're trying to see who can keep drinking the liquor from three feet away without choking or spilling, and its a bummer cause i kinds wanna try now and I CAN'T

But he goes around the table with everyone there, and I think my mom makes it to three, one friend makes it to five, I think my brother got to three as well, and he comes back to me

And I'm REALLY bummed out now but I will not drink alcohol, so I sort of sadly repeat that I can't when he pulls out a SECOND BOTTLE and grins and goes "juice?"

And Im like FUCK YEAH LET'S GO and im a bit worries he's gonna spray it into my eye or something but he doesn't, it hits me right at the back of the throat, and I start drinking while the whole fucking table counts "ONE! TWO! THREE!"

And like

It just sorta

Kept going?

And Im looking at the chef and he starts freaking out by the time we get to six, and at around seven I kinda start looking around and my auntie is staring back in shock, my brother is laughing his ass off and my mom has her face in her hands

And then at like nine or ten it gets like. Super tense and quiet, and only the chef is still counting

And I guess it got too much for even him cause we're at eleven and I don't believe in quitting early and it is almost painful how awkward it's getting

So he cuts me off at twelve and raises his hands in the air and everyone else cheers and claps like a dumb movie

and I just sit back in my seat to look back at my mother staring at me surrounded by everyone she knows, bright fucking red in the face and choking with honest to god tears in her eyes and she puts her face back in her palms and starts chanting "I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know"

So I give her the biggest, proudest grin and tell her, "I won."

So now every time something suggestive happens in a movie, or in conversation, or something shocking happens around us and she goes to jokingly cover my ears, I just ask her, "Remember when I won?" And she goes face-down and groans, because I know EXACTLY how she thinks I trained to develop that particular skill and she HATES knowing that about me

The truth is though, I'm a whole ass 28 year old virgin. I've never so much as kissed anyone in my life. I had no idea I could do that trick until that exact moment

But she doesn't know that, and I'm never gonna tell her

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Reminder that you're actually interesting. Your hobbies are interesting, your interests are interesting, you are important and loveable and people appreciate you. You're just a loveable, interesting person.

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bro, you gotta get on tumblr. its like a public diary that anyone can make fun of or report to the police

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They . . . didn't believe Einstein's claims about relativity, though?

Many of them even after the claims had been "independently verified", which is why it makes sense to say "didn't believe" instead of "disagreed with".

it's not quite right to say that "they didn't believe Einstein's claims about relativity" as belief isn't the appropriate action for claims about the material world that can be independently verified.

it would be more correct to say that they did not accept or disagreed with Einstein's claims about relativity, at which point you can look at his hypothesis and examine the evidence that he is seeking to explain or to find and consider the points that are in dispute and if everyone continues this process they should eventually reach near unanimous agreement as long as reality behaves in a consistent way, which so far it does appear to do.

now you could say "they didn't believe Einstein when he claimed he had a headache" as that's a claim about his personal experiences that cannot be independently reproduced or verified by anyone else: it rests on his authority to comment on his own mental state, which normally you would be compelled to take at face value unless it conflicted with his earlier statements or he had demonstrated a habit of making such claims at what you considered to be opportunistic times, in which case you might have grounds for scepticism even if you could not actually rebut them.

(this isn't about Einstein of course, as they very much did accept his claims about relativity).

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The problem isn't "people don't really want decentralization", it's "the average person in any given group has a poor enough understanding of the benefits of decentralization that the group as a whole will passively resist any serious effort to make it work"

Also, to a hardcore decentralization-ist, the question of whether it would be good if achieved as they envision it is separable from the question of whether it can be made to work.

Easily my most controversial technology opinion is that people— even most tech people— do not care about decentralization or federation. Lots of starry-eyed enthusiasts keep thinking people do, and they always get proven wrong.

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"Ostensible hero pretends villain's efforts have Succeeded In Death by Raising Awareness, proceeds to fritter away rest of Awareness on self and do nothing" is actually a common pattern in real life. Since the superhero movies don't generally explicitly subvert this, viewers are left having to assume that it's what happens when the cameras stop rolling.