It is also a spinoff of Slatestarscodex reddit, where they had a ‘culture war’ thread which was a containment thread for the culture war topics (which is a bad idea, containment threads cause spillover in the rest of the community (see for example discords with ‘everything goes’ meme channels or the ur example /pol/), which was spin off from the subreddit because it was getting so bad. Scott (slatestarcodex) played the game of cryptoneoreactionary ‘sorry you feel that way’ disavowal of the thread but still vague endorsed themotte.

I’m still annoyed I didn’t take screenshots of the replies on themotte trying to recruit people into blood and soil (a neo-nazi term if you are not up to that terminology) homesteading community. I still wonder if they deleted their own reply, themotte mods did it (doubtful as they seem to be very into also leaving mod messages for transparancy) or if it was the reddit admins.

Anyway, the place sucks, and basically anything vile goes there if you use enough words, references, and are vague enough about it. (So don’t say ‘I want to kill people who cheat’ you write a 4000k word post on your ideal society which includes references to capital punishment for cuckolds).

I thought you were Patrick.

But that clearly is from elden ring. (When gerikson gets angry it turns red).

Doesn’t matter that much, according to Gerard it fitted, and awful.systems is a weird algamation of all the different subs anyway (at least for me, as I directly use the site itself).

Sure who are you going to believe, a very large team who worked on this for a year? Or the FTX site which has ‘Boolean Are_Solvent = True;’?

The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.

Sigh. Would be shocking if this wasn’t a regular policy.

E: Also this is not really sneerclub territory, as sneerclub is very specifically about a certain group of nerds, not just all libertarian nerds in general. We are the hipsters of the sneer. (So prob more techtakes/buttcoin)

A lawyer with people skills.

An undertone in Dutch weird right wing twitter is a desire to move to Russia/(sometimes Viktor Orbáns Hungary) because at least there they still have freedoms and rights. And they accuse the left of living in a filter bubble.

I do hope everybody here is aware of the deeper TheMotte lore, and what kind of place it is.

E: also themotte mentions the ‘alt light’ (not by name) but I heard a rumor that apparently a lot of these yt alt light people were paid by shady people to make rightwing content. The YT’er (sorry if you know any of those) chrisraygun apparently revealed it, but I have not looked into it at all.

Dutch level

Yeah The Netherlands sucks a lot of if you only listen to the racist right. (A similar thing would happen if you were to listen to the poor Dutch minorities/disabled people/immigrants etc and took that as the whole of the Dutch experience (which is to say we still have room for improvement, and some people have it a lot better than others)).

Is it my original ideas that are wrong? No I have just discovered a new degenerate race of humans.

Edit: A glorious sneer from twitter

I think even the Rationalists realize that science will solve all solvable problems, and time travel is not a solvable problem. That is why they would just simulate it all and consider it the same as the OG thing. “I made a non-interactive time travel machine that allows you to go back in time and look how WW2 went. You should see this! Saving Private Ryan starts playing.”

I cut out the whole tech step and I’m simulating all the orgies I’m having in my mind right now!

Dammit, too slow

Yeah it is one of those, wish I had not read that stories. Poor guys.

Think dgerard mentioned last time I talked about it re H+ transhumanism anti aging that it all seems to have stalled.

Show it to others as a visual gaudy signal of wealth?

Or to tell time? lifts left testicle “ten” lifts right “thirteen”.

Didn’t some soviet towns run central heating off power plant waste heat? “Where do you live? OpenAiVille, we get free^M cheaper central heating, but the noise of the severfans running every day and night is deafening.”

Do you guys not have phones?

And how did that turn out?

Checked profiles, the latter.

Yeah and he is a huge IT-nerd. (as in he is big, a nerd and works in IT).