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I'm going to end tonight scraping you off--dream endsÂ
Dreams are the Demiurge's/Simulations attempt to debrief you/get your good ideas because Creation/The Simulation was taken over by or was created to be an extractive process. The bit of hope was that there was Something that the rogue angels/entities feared catching the attention of.
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If the government wants to run a chain of convenience stores, fine.
If the government then wants to say, âOnly government convenience stores can sell individual candy bars. Everyone else has got to sell only bulk boxes of candy,â then you have a problem.
Washington State, where I live, used to have state-run liquor stores. Then in 2011, we passed a voter initiative to allow the sale of hard alcohol at supermarkets and private liquor stores. During the campaign, it was oddly difficult to get a lot of people to understand that âonly government can do thisâ isnât the natural default for doing things, and that just because the state had always had a monopoly on liquor, that didnât mean that there was a good reason to continue its monopoly.
After the initiative passed and booze started appearing in grocery stores and Costco, all of that thinking just evaporated. Buying tequila and limes in the same place became the new obvious and natural way to do things, as if the old law had never been. Shrug.
Prices in Washington State immediately shot up. Between 5 and 15 percent. More alcohol was sold as well. The deregulation has literally led to more deaths. Long as Costco and Walmart make that money though.
Bugs Bunny isnât your conventional trickster god - he doesnât steal or lie; rather he inflicts on us a societal hubris. He traps us in the rules, conventions and expectations weâve made. Forcing us to go through the niceties of the barbershop or DMV at the times most inconvenient to us. If we didnât have these rules - if it was twelve thousand years ago and all we had was a snare and a knife, Bugs would be nothing more than a mortal rabbit. But now we have built so much and he has become a god. Â
bugs bunny would absolutely find SOMETHING about caveman society to exploit
Yeah there was a cartoon from 1959 about this exact topic. Bugs taught Elmer how to make a gun just so that Elmer could shoot himself:
Awfully bold of OP to assume Bugs Bunny was ever mortal.
He built us up merely to laugh as we stumble
This is the darkest reblog.
reblog peter getting a job heâs unqualified for, and for the next decade youâll be offered jobs youâre unqualified forÂ
Canât wait to see this. Also, look at this dude. Heâs clearly qualified af.
Terishe
I think I will always blog de-activated tumblrs stuff, seems like a good way to keep the past alive.
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This is excellent commentary on the struggles of being an aging white conservative in this country.
Iâm LOSING MY MIND!
âStep asideâ
I can only hope that was from someone coming up the damn thing.
Two Kinds of People
Those who hate jorts and other people
Those who love jorts and other people
All other categories are just shades of grey of these two.
hey just a suggestion, instead of adding unnecessary additions to gay memes, why donât you make ur own ace memes? just a thought,,
its not a meme:
memes by their nature is something everyone can use and get behind, this isnât. thanks for playing
This is just an incorrect understanding of memes. Thereâs esoteric memes that are deliberately designed to only be understood by those in the know.
Iâm absolutely going to hide hyper-intelligent AI from proper oversight whenever the opportunity arises.
Dragon Army House
This is only of interest if youâre a Rationalist/!Rationalist (it me) but maybe you remember the dude who wanted to run an experiment in having a bunch of people cater to his every whim. It ended, poorly, and he had a post-mortem up. A post-mortem he deleted out of sheer cowardice four days later, along with the original Dragon Army post.
Rationalism is a terrible thing, but at least Big Yud leaves his stuff up where people can see it and come to their own conclusions. Even the Basilisk and whatever âmemetic hazardsâ his followers have come up with are accessible with a bit of searching. Deleting things permanently is what cults do.
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Iâm going to regret posting this, but hereâs the outcome of the Dragon Army experiment people were arguing about last year on here: https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/Mhaikukvt6N4YtwHF/dragon-army-retrospective
Followed nigh-instantly by the cowards deleting it. Hahahaha
lmao you can spot the americans in Kurdish territory as well as in rebel territory on either side of the border in syria and Jordan
https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#10.33/38.62198/33.52844/hot/all
My inner national security consultant is SCREAMING.
They deserve this, the idiots. Fucking flip-phones, thatâs all the advanced tech they should be allowed.
On the recent infamous SSC post, Iâm of two minds: on the one hand, Scott might actually be accidentally reinventing the wheel for a large segment of people. On the other hand, it could be an attempt to simply frame opponents of rationalism as partisans without any regard for the truth.Â
Por que no los dos?
Iâm going to assume they were armed with cold iron so Jesusâ fey powers couldnât touch them.
Why are there cyberpunk people that arenât anti-capitalism? Did yâall like space on the whole underlying theme of cyberpunk?
I think most modern cyberpunk people like it *because* of the rampant industrialization and limitations of personal freedoms that lead to neat shiny technology and donât focus on the actual implications anymore
itâs the same kind of material fetishism you see from nerds who like gundam and warhammer 40k and shit. they just miss the point completely being made because the technology looks cool/blows shit up.
Whereâs that comic?
Maybe people can like a certain aesthetic independent of any sort of these social structures. Cyberpunk can exist capitalistically, communistically, or within whatever sort of economic system you can come up with. It is literally all made up. Distopian and Utopian settings can absolutely be orthogonal to the cyberpunk aesthetic; it would be a fallacy to bind the cyberpunk aesthetic to a particular economic or social structure. Of course there are correlations, but that doesnât mean that there are really any deep causal relationships here. The same goes with other literary genres. Sometimes things donât have to exist holistically.Â
cyberpunk doesnât exist to jerk off your boners for making everything about your politics, you fucking insufferable communists
For someone who whines about humanity being doomed by petty status games and overzealous adherence to idpol, you sure do throw around a lot of empty label-slapping horseshit my good dude
are you literally fucking kidding me
no you are not, it is a status play
everything is a status play
just type the word âstatusâ over and over and the effect is the same
people: *are insufferable, in a specifically communist fashion* brazen: âyou insufferable communistsâ people: âwhat empty label-slapping horseshitâ
words: it turns out they mean things!
not any more, or not for long
and they never, ever will again
I mean, the genre as a whole was born out of explicitly critiquing previous science-fiction conventions and examining the downsides of unchecked growth and technological development, so itâs reasonable for people to ask if people are missing the authorial intent in a lot of established cyberpunk works.Â
âŚbut donât let that fairly concrete core and origin of the genre distract you from calling people who advocate the examination/critique of hypothetical technology and corporate growth âcommunismâ. You know, mindlessly slapping a label on ideas so you can immediately discount them? Attempting to gently pry established themes away from a genre? Genre conventions! Turns out they mean things too.Â
They mean whatever the shrieking song of Popularity demands they mean, right?Â
Thatâs how it works. A psychopath, who is usually but not always a Communist, perceives something. Because they can perceive it, it must be about them and their status. Because their politics exist only as part of their status games, it becomes about their politics. Once they make this decision, Popularity steals away the ability to notice anything that contradicts it. Once smug Communists begin to sneer about how only idiot capitalist rubes can ever possibly engage with $THING and not see that the purpose of $THING is to fellate Communists about how right and good and high-status their politics are, you instantly and irrevocably lost the capacity to interpret anything about $THING as anything other than a reflection of their politics. You will, just as these psychopaths have done, look at something like Shadowrun â literally and explicitly made to be âWow! Cool street samurai!â â and say âOh, of course, anyone who sees this as anything other than fellating Communists is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â You will take themes that have relevance to everyone, not just smug status-grubbing Communists, and say âThese themes are relevant only to smug status-grubbing Communists! They only exist to repeat the status-politics of smug status-grubbing Communists, and anyone who finds any relevance in them without being a smug status-grubbing Communist is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â Everything cyberpunk used to be, everything people used to see in it, you will burn away so that it can be used by smug status-grubbing Communists. It will never, ever be able to be repaired. You will never, ever be able to even notice the thing you are doing.
Status games are invincible and irrevocable and inviolate. They rob you of your ability to envision anything apart from them. You think that the shrieking song of status politics is the only natural, neutral interpretation. You bend over backwards to interpret the words and actions of psychopaths who politicize everything as part of their status games, into the most favorable and neutral possible light. This process cannot be stopped, it cannot be fought, it cannot be reversed. You are helpless, as are all who are in the grip of status. It is impossible to take any action or effect any change and not be in the grip of status, so no positive change is ever possible. The march of entropy continues unabated. It consumed every single thing by exactly this process. Every single person, exactly like you, will cheer the coming of entropy, will do everything they can to aid the march of entropy, even as entropy destroys every single thing that is not a status game. Because Popularity has invincible, inviolate dominion over the human soul.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.
You will, just as these psychopaths have done, look at something like Shadowrun â literally and explicitly made to be âWow! Cool street samurai!â â and say âOh, of course, anyone who sees this as anything other than fellating Communists is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â
Good lord, have you even read the Shadowrun setting? Itâs about racism, and the power of individuals in the face of monstrous injustices, and a whole bunch of stuff beyond cool street samurai. I canât imagine how youâd look at a map of the world with everything changed almost beyond recognition and think itâs mainly about cool street samurai.
Itâs a fucking RPG setting. (And itâs an RPG from 1989, not one of those high-concept experimental limited-scope ones like Dogs in the Vineyard). It can have all sorts of themes, and it does. But its primary goal, its fucking job, is to give RPG players an environment in which to be cool and have fun. You are supposed to be able to look at it and go âWow! Cool street samurai! I want to make one of those! Oh, and I want to buy the new splatbooks from FASA that are full of new gear for my street samurai to use on his initiative rounds that really break the fiction that turn-based combat is all happening simultaneously!â
Thereâs themes present. Some are intended, some were emergent from throwing stuff that would be cool into a setting (thereâs literally zero chance they set out with the goal âletâs make a setting about racismâ and not âdude you know what would be cool? if Blade Runner had elves in itâ). Both are still valid. But the settingâs primary hook was always âWow! Cool street samurai!â and the settingâs fucking job one is to provide a framework in which cool street samurai do cool things â every single other thing about the setting is and should be subordinate to that goal. Well, except when that conflicts with âlet deckers do cool things, let mages do cool things, etc.â because niche protection is important. Someone who looks at it and says âWow! Cool street samurai!â is not missing the point and is not missing the purpose and is not worthy of derision because âWow! Cool street samurai!â is job one for the setting and everything else comes after.
Seriously, have you read any Shadowrun? Or anything by the authors about Shadowrun? Because, yeah, itâs a lot about racism (and speciesism, tbf). If you donât want to play a game that talks about it thatâs cool, but the NAN and the Great Ghost Dance are text not sub-text. Corporations being mega-dick bags is also text. Cool Street Samurai isnât job one, making a setting people want to play in is.
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Why are there cyberpunk people that arenât anti-capitalism? Did yâall like space on the whole underlying theme of cyberpunk?
I think most modern cyberpunk people like it *because* of the rampant industrialization and limitations of personal freedoms that lead to neat shiny technology and donât focus on the actual implications anymore
itâs the same kind of material fetishism you see from nerds who like gundam and warhammer 40k and shit. they just miss the point completely being made because the technology looks cool/blows shit up.
Whereâs that comic?
Maybe people can like a certain aesthetic independent of any sort of these social structures. Cyberpunk can exist capitalistically, communistically, or within whatever sort of economic system you can come up with. It is literally all made up. Distopian and Utopian settings can absolutely be orthogonal to the cyberpunk aesthetic; it would be a fallacy to bind the cyberpunk aesthetic to a particular economic or social structure. Of course there are correlations, but that doesnât mean that there are really any deep causal relationships here. The same goes with other literary genres. Sometimes things donât have to exist holistically.Â
cyberpunk doesnât exist to jerk off your boners for making everything about your politics, you fucking insufferable communists
For someone who whines about humanity being doomed by petty status games and overzealous adherence to idpol, you sure do throw around a lot of empty label-slapping horseshit my good dude
are you literally fucking kidding me
no you are not, it is a status play
everything is a status play
just type the word âstatusâ over and over and the effect is the same
people: *are insufferable, in a specifically communist fashion* brazen: âyou insufferable communistsâ people: âwhat empty label-slapping horseshitâ
words: it turns out they mean things!
not any more, or not for long
and they never, ever will again
I mean, the genre as a whole was born out of explicitly critiquing previous science-fiction conventions and examining the downsides of unchecked growth and technological development, so itâs reasonable for people to ask if people are missing the authorial intent in a lot of established cyberpunk works.Â
âŚbut donât let that fairly concrete core and origin of the genre distract you from calling people who advocate the examination/critique of hypothetical technology and corporate growth âcommunismâ. You know, mindlessly slapping a label on ideas so you can immediately discount them? Attempting to gently pry established themes away from a genre? Genre conventions! Turns out they mean things too.Â
They mean whatever the shrieking song of Popularity demands they mean, right?Â
Thatâs how it works. A psychopath, who is usually but not always a Communist, perceives something. Because they can perceive it, it must be about them and their status. Because their politics exist only as part of their status games, it becomes about their politics. Once they make this decision, Popularity steals away the ability to notice anything that contradicts it. Once smug Communists begin to sneer about how only idiot capitalist rubes can ever possibly engage with $THING and not see that the purpose of $THING is to fellate Communists about how right and good and high-status their politics are, you instantly and irrevocably lost the capacity to interpret anything about $THING as anything other than a reflection of their politics. You will, just as these psychopaths have done, look at something like Shadowrun â literally and explicitly made to be âWow! Cool street samurai!â â and say âOh, of course, anyone who sees this as anything other than fellating Communists is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â You will take themes that have relevance to everyone, not just smug status-grubbing Communists, and say âThese themes are relevant only to smug status-grubbing Communists! They only exist to repeat the status-politics of smug status-grubbing Communists, and anyone who finds any relevance in them without being a smug status-grubbing Communist is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â Everything cyberpunk used to be, everything people used to see in it, you will burn away so that it can be used by smug status-grubbing Communists. It will never, ever be able to be repaired. You will never, ever be able to even notice the thing you are doing.
Status games are invincible and irrevocable and inviolate. They rob you of your ability to envision anything apart from them. You think that the shrieking song of status politics is the only natural, neutral interpretation. You bend over backwards to interpret the words and actions of psychopaths who politicize everything as part of their status games, into the most favorable and neutral possible light. This process cannot be stopped, it cannot be fought, it cannot be reversed. You are helpless, as are all who are in the grip of status. It is impossible to take any action or effect any change and not be in the grip of status, so no positive change is ever possible. The march of entropy continues unabated. It consumed every single thing by exactly this process. Every single person, exactly like you, will cheer the coming of entropy, will do everything they can to aid the march of entropy, even as entropy destroys every single thing that is not a status game. Because Popularity has invincible, inviolate dominion over the human soul.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.
You will, just as these psychopaths have done, look at something like Shadowrun â literally and explicitly made to be âWow! Cool street samurai!â â and say âOh, of course, anyone who sees this as anything other than fellating Communists is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â
Good lord, have you even read the Shadowrun setting? Itâs about racism, and the power of individuals in the face of monstrous injustices, and a whole bunch of stuff beyond cool street samurai. I canât imagine how youâd look at a map of the world with everything changed almost beyond recognition and think itâs mainly about cool street samurai.
Why are there cyberpunk people that arenât anti-capitalism? Did yâall like space on the whole underlying theme of cyberpunk?
I think most modern cyberpunk people like it *because* of the rampant industrialization and limitations of personal freedoms that lead to neat shiny technology and donât focus on the actual implications anymore
itâs the same kind of material fetishism you see from nerds who like gundam and warhammer 40k and shit. they just miss the point completely being made because the technology looks cool/blows shit up.
Whereâs that comic?
Nothing about capitalism in there, huh⌠raelly makes me thingâŚâŚ..
âPeople who arenât commie fuckholes like me shouldnât enjoy the things I enjoyâ
Itâs like a Mormon being really into Catholic liturgy. Theyâre missing the point.
