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hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that I’ve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this
the button doesn’t necessarily say “Elucidate the Rapture” but it does say something that’s kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.
I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema
this is far more than “random person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrative” - let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?
to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth
the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:
the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”
in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton
in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”
Crystal Thierry’s (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company
here’s what the warning in the image says btw because i wanted to read it but it was too blurry so i had to spend several minutes hunting for a version with better resolution, so I’m posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey
“DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD”
I'm Norwegian. Norway is where my family and memories are. There's an island up the coast with Grandpa's name on it. One of my Norwegian cousins was a world champion at something (no specifics, that would dox me).
Still I love and respect America, which showed the world how to be rich and free, and that's what I want to appreciate and reflect on today.
During the Cold War, Soviets used to say that Communism was better for the economy, because Capitalism* had so much waste on things like marketing and competition and duplication of effort and boom-bust cycles, and the Communists promised they would never have anything like the Great Depression. Even some defenders of Capitalism believed this and argued that the freedom was worth the monetary cost.
*unfortunate word with nuance but this is not the post for it.
Then the Soviet Union fell and we learned that Communism was in fact worse: the Soviets had been having a long depression, and were exaggerating and misreporting their accomplishments by counting chandeliers by weight, bragging of their steel tonnage while hiding a famine, and selectively focusing on their growth rate during industrialization and electrification which was higher than the growth rate of already-industrialized America. Catchup is easy, pushing the frontier is hard.
Hayek and Mises gave a formal argument (the calculation problem) for a distributed prices and market system, but the United States of America has lived it. The USA is so rich, that if a relatively prosperous European country like Germany were a US state, it would be the second-poorest state in GDP per capita, between Arkansas and Mississippi at the bottom. Britain is even poorer than Mississippi. Spain is another 30% poorer than that again.
Be like America.
The new generation of commies has thoroughly internalized the economic defeat, and pivoted to arguing "growth is bad for the planet, growth is the ideology of a cancer cell" but it's the same desire for power and control and central planning in a mask.
One way of telling genuinely planet-loving environmentalists from communists is to ask about their opinion on nuclear power.
Environmentalists love it for the lack of CO2 emissions, the scalability, the renewability, the reliability, the cleanliness, and so on. It's a really great power source. France has shown the way here.
Communists hate it because they want to ration power as a means of control, but nuclear power makes people rich and free with cheap electricity to have whatever industry they like, so commies confabulate reasons why it's bad.
With help from the government, three new nuclear reactors have achieved successful testing or "criticality" to satisfy a presidential challe
May a hundred reactors bloom.
May electricity become so cheap that households don't count electricity bills any more.
May every man become rich, not in coin which is an accounting fiction with complicated problems attached, but in electricity and paper and things like that where wealth gives the freedom to choose to keep the light on and continue reading when the sun goes down, which many people in history could not.
In the past year or so, it has occurred to me that a lot of think pieces around male loneliness or "dating in the bay area" uses a really warped version of "before you can love others, you must learn to love yourself", where complete self-actualisation becomes a prerequisite to dating. That's a really high bar.
Part of this is probably that the dating market in the Bay Area sucks for men, even rich men, so if you're 24 and you're making half a million year, you aren't safe from women dating twenty men like you and writing a think piece about this. You know, women who have their pick of 20 eligible bachelors are the real victims here!
Sometimes there are additional stipulations like "You're not supposed to derive life satisfaction from your work" or "You're not supposed to derive life satisfaction from your romantic relationships" or "You're not supposed to derive life satisfaction from art/your hobbies/travel/family".
I could completely turn this around. If you think you already have a perfect life and complete self-actualisation, and you only want to date then, and you think the other party should also have their life figured out, then first, that's one hell of a humblebrag, but second, it means that you don't have a lot of space in your life left to date somebody of make a life together, and it shows that you expect the other party to also not make that much space in their life for you.
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A running theme in leftists circles is thinking that opinions which were maybe present 80 years ago are in fact universally held by everyone besides them.
"We hate poverty war and injustice, unlike the rest of you squares!"
to be fair this is a theme among everyone else's circles too
fred clark called it the "anti-kitten burning coalition," before he vanished inside his own progressive asshole. people see something wrong and have to convince themselves they are the only ones to be against it, that they are heroically standing up against it in the face of opposition (as in the example of a news article about some psycho burning kittens, where the comments section didn't seem aware that nobody else thought this was okay and all said things like "I can't believe that everyone thinks this is okay!")
respond to someone who believes something utterly hateful and absolutely foaming at the mouth insane that is nominally in support of some positive goal, and they will respond as if you had said "I oppose the nominally positive goal!"
leftists think they're the only ones against poverty and injustice, feminists think they're the only ones against rape, racists also think they're the only ones against rape, christians think they're the only ones against violence, libertarians think they're the only ones against tyranny, conservatives think they're the only ones against child molestation.
you see it a lot more from leftists because right now a lot of leftists are Maximally Political and make every place they go Maximally Political, but they aren't the only ones who think like this they're just the ones who don't shut up about it.
another crazy thing about WWII is the way they were making fundamental discoveries and tech improvements every six months and actually getting them from drawing board to the battlefield before the war was over, instead of spending twenty five years on a project to deliver a new helicopter or troop carrier and then cancelling it after spending a billion dollars and delivering nothing at all; stuff was simpler back then.
storywonker said: Probably a combination of government performing R&D themselves rather than outsourcing to companies that need to be paid, hyperfocus on the war effort, and willingness to nationalise anything that doesn’t cooperate
I think that’s definitely playing a role, although it certainly doesn’t hurt that dieselpunk tech is basically just steel + engine, with barely any need for electronics and even more importantly no software
also absolutely no regard for occupational health and safety or ecological impact back then, which certainly simplified product development at enormous human cost.
also the whole culture dropping what they’re doing to deal with this
Like, out of people involved in the DNA double helix, Watson was too young and Franklin I think didn’t do war work. But Franklin’s boss, Randall, was a war hero for his innovations in radar, and her collaborator/enemy Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel Prize, did wartime experiments to determine what happens to buildings in incendiary bombing. Francis Crick was designing underwater mines, in an arms race with German minesweeping technology
like… this isn’t necessarily a good thing! It had a huge opportunity cost! But if all the best scientists are designing bombs instead of whatever research they’d otherwise be doing, you’re going to get bombs
The other thing you have to remember about WWII is that literally everyone in the Halls of Power at the time was on fairly large amounts of mind-altering drugs.
On the Allied side, most people drank like fish. FDR was fairly responsible about it as the President, but during his off time, he drank like a fish (his “Haitian Libation” was particularly infamous). My book of ‘Congressional anecdotes’ is in a box right now, but there are so many stories about Congresscritters bailing off work to go get wasted that they make up a majority of the funny stories about Congress pre-1970. Stalin held mandatory dinners for the Politburo with forced drinking games, and Churchill was so notorious for excessive alcohol consumption that people debate to this day whether he was an alcoholic or just a man of his time.
And this was normal back then. Until the 70s, it was normal for most people to drink, to drink a lot, and to be able to function in society while mildly buzzed.
The Nazis, in contrast, had a bit of a weird straight-edge thing going on. They believed in clean living and tried to get alcohol out of their ranks.
….so they were all on meth. Every last one of them. They were all taking pervitin, which is essentially crystal meth. A lot of them were mixing said meth with cocaine, and some of them still drank on top of that. They think the Blitzkrieg went as fast as it did because all of the Nazi top brass was on meth.
I’m not naiive enough to think that our dear leaders aren’t on some kind of substance, but they’re presumably on different ones, and so they’re making different bad choices.
WW2 was fought as a huge amount of technological progress was unfolding. The 1920s/30s saw very rapid technological developments, which were delayed in rollout by the Great Depression. If you suddenly send military spending way up and mobilize the national economy to full employment, you’re going to get very rapid progress in the planes and AFVs you develop and field.
In defense of modern miliary development projects: they are probably orders of magnitude more complicated than in the 1940s. Think of a 1940s fighter plane: you need propulsion, a gun armamant, construction to be somewhat resilient, a good airframe. A modern fighter jet needs all of those things, plus stealth, missiles, computer systems, probably more things I’m not thinking of.
[aspiring highway bandit voice] oh yes absolutely your decentralized anticiv pastoral utopia with no form of organized or regulated transport of goods sounds incredible
Changing the "empathy" stat in cyberpunk with an "open source" stat that goes down the more cyberware with proprietary software you install. The higher the stat the more likely you are to have a stupid ux decision or dark pattern interrupt what you are doing.
You can try to jail break equipment to raise your score back up but if you fail you have to roll on a table of consequences, ranging from an annoying pop-up to full deactivation and repossession of the cyberware by the corporation via force.
If it gets too low you still go cyberpsyco, that hasn't changed.
'OK so basically you're a helpless naive innocent stupid baby until you're 27, then you get like two or three years to get everything figured out until you're a decrepit old geezer who time forgot. This is a very healthy social structure that only idiots and pervs could have a problem with'.
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My favourite trope in the world is overpowered main characters who think they aren't that great at whatever they're doing and they're just scraping by, meanwhile they're the devil incarnate from everyone else's pov
One lovely coincidence in my manuscript is that in 1998 purchasing value was roughly 50% of what it is today. A $50 dress becomes a $100 dress. A $200 monthly stipend becomes a $400 monthly stipend. A $500K house becomes a $5 million dollar house, hold on wait a minute.
paul krugman endorses the principle of salus populi suprema lex and the abolition of the first amendment. how is it that this guy is a reasonable centrist and curtis yarvin is not, when they believe the same things
the new york times is a very unhealthy influence. but because the government can't just ban it, we've had to learn to live with it. we've had to accept that decent people don't put any stock in it, and live up to our duty to ensure that the people we care about don't fall into the bowels of new york times addiction. even though the new york times is a dangerous drug, dealt by disgusting perverts who want to sap and impurify the fluids of the body politic &c., &c., we understand that the government can't be trusted (alas!) with the power to delete it.
The existence of a very large number of massive carnivores in the setting is explained by the presence of a species of wild pigs with a reproductive rate comparable to rodents, having a litter of up to twenty piglets every month and being able to breed at six months old, ensuring that the population of megafaunal predators and fantasy monsters and giants and dragons and whatnot have no shortage of fresh meat, and in fact are essential to the balance of the world to avoid it being overwhelmed by hordes of hogs.
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I'm looking at Amazon reviews of an intermediate-level go set (wood and glass, board, stones, bowls, no plastic, full size), and way too many of the reviews are about go as a game? One gave go two stars.
I'm looking at Amazon reviews of a piece of computer hardware, and one review is one star, box contained brick, no way to explain to Amazon that this was a fraudulent brick, they thought I had put the brick in.
I'm looking at App Store reviews of an insurance app. Do I really need to install it? Do I need to have my professional liability insurance any my household insurance policies in my phone? One review explains the man's house burned down, and he couldn't access his phone, so he made a claim in writing, and they replied through the app. He called them, and they said the TOS say he has to use the app. He didn't reply through the app. They denied his claim. The app itself runs really well and has good UX. You can find your insurance policies and premiums and coverage and all that. Five stars.
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