There's a lot of politics discourse based around avoiding obvious syllogism
Broadly it seems like 80% of attractiveness discourse is driven by the basic fallacy Roald Dahl makes here, where he believes you can promote the view "being nice makes you attractive" without promoting the logically equivalent view "if you're unattractive you must not be nice"
August 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's a lot of politics discourse based around avoiding obvious syllogism
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Broadly it seems like 80% of attractiveness discourse is driven by the basic fallacy Roald Dahl makes here, where he believes you can promote the view "being nice makes you attractive" without promoting the logically equivalent view "if you're unattractive you must not be nice"
August 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Broadly it seems like 80% of attractiveness discourse is driven by the basic fallacy Roald Dahl makes here, where he believes you can promote the view "being nice makes you attractive" without promoting the logically equivalent view "if you're unattractive you must not be nice"
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My grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.
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The conservative desire to ‘be the counterculture’ is so funny to me: guess how many divisions the writers at n plus one or the baffler command. None! The people who write for cool art mags & curate trendy galleries are far close to me than the median voter, & it does *nothing*, we lose all the time
April 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The conservative desire to ‘be the counterculture’ is so funny to me: guess how many divisions the writers at n plus one or the baffler command. None! The people who write for cool art mags & curate trendy galleries are far close to me than the median voter, & it does *nothing*, we lose all the time
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One of the weirdest thoughts: that I am a Hugo winner and nobody in Singapore even bothers or cares. SFF is so niche and people won't bat an eyelid at local talent.
March 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One of the weirdest thoughts: that I am a Hugo winner and nobody in Singapore even bothers or cares. SFF is so niche and people won't bat an eyelid at local talent.
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Oh yeah...
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Boost and better still... submit!
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There is a new Singapore-based SFF magazine. Looking for Asian writers.
Boost and better still... submit!
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February 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Oh yeah...
There is a new Singapore-based SFF magazine. Looking for Asian writers.
Boost and better still... submit!
sengkangsfq.cargo.site
There is a new Singapore-based SFF magazine. Looking for Asian writers.
Boost and better still... submit!
sengkangsfq.cargo.site
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Every pro Trump self styled ‘effective acceleration techno-optimist’ should be laughed out of every room they try and speak in for the rest of their lives
January 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Every pro Trump self styled ‘effective acceleration techno-optimist’ should be laughed out of every room they try and speak in for the rest of their lives
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The NSF and NIH stuff is the kind of lower-salience thing where it is probably more useful to contact your representative and let them know people are pissed about this, people who vote.
January 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The NSF and NIH stuff is the kind of lower-salience thing where it is probably more useful to contact your representative and let them know people are pissed about this, people who vote.
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i feel like one of the reasons i hate the new right on an intrinsic level is because in another, darker, timeline, i'm probably somewhere in it
December 10, 2024 at 9:15 PM
i feel like one of the reasons i hate the new right on an intrinsic level is because in another, darker, timeline, i'm probably somewhere in it
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honestly the equation of any "you have to take responsibility for your own choices" statement with 'conservatism' is both false and politically frustrating
very funny that i have a quote tweet calling this “right wing bullshit” because few people can store leftovers for a week or two. “you should learn how to cook and be responsible with your money as much as that is possible” is not “right wing bullshit,” it is basic life advice.
January 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
honestly the equation of any "you have to take responsibility for your own choices" statement with 'conservatism' is both false and politically frustrating
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I blame Jordan Peterson for this
honestly the equation of any "you have to take responsibility for your own choices" statement with 'conservatism' is both false and politically frustrating
very funny that i have a quote tweet calling this “right wing bullshit” because few people can store leftovers for a week or two. “you should learn how to cook and be responsible with your money as much as that is possible” is not “right wing bullshit,” it is basic life advice.
January 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I blame Jordan Peterson for this
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"formal education is a scam, you should instead pay $2000 for my six video lecture series on dropshipping" is a weirdly successful pitch. It's also a perfect scam because like,,, what are you gonna do, sue them for the course sucking? They didn't promise anything but 6 videos
This was mentioned by others but there's also the hustle/grindset culture and increasingly ubiquitous scams in America playing into this where an education is broadly viewed by these people as a scam so pursuing one is being a sucker
My dad (a longtime high school math teacher in rural Utah) is constantly bemoaning this. Rural white American culture broadly treats being "stupid" almost as a badge of honor--"I was doing productive things with my life instead of math".
December 28, 2024 at 4:07 AM
"formal education is a scam, you should instead pay $2000 for my six video lecture series on dropshipping" is a weirdly successful pitch. It's also a perfect scam because like,,, what are you gonna do, sue them for the course sucking? They didn't promise anything but 6 videos
Genuinely crazy how bad reddit's gotten; incredibly blatant trolling "I wanna deport my trump supporting neighbours parents" get's taken inexplicably seriously.
Everyone talks about the boomerfication of Facebook but I feel like the same thing happening to reddit has been less noted.
December 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Genuinely crazy how bad reddit's gotten; incredibly blatant trolling "I wanna deport my trump supporting neighbours parents" get's taken inexplicably seriously.
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Everyone talks about the boomerfication of Facebook but I feel like the same thing happening to reddit has been less noted.
December 26, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Everyone talks about the boomerfication of Facebook but I feel like the same thing happening to reddit has been less noted.
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If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
November 9, 2024 at 12:01 AM
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
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This headline was deliberately written to make people believe this was related in some way to the UHC murder.
But if you actually read the article, NBC News reported on Atrium Health in September and the medical debt was forgiven starting later in that month.
But if you actually read the article, NBC News reported on Atrium Health in September and the medical debt was forgiven starting later in that month.
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:45 AM
This headline was deliberately written to make people believe this was related in some way to the UHC murder.
But if you actually read the article, NBC News reported on Atrium Health in September and the medical debt was forgiven starting later in that month.
But if you actually read the article, NBC News reported on Atrium Health in September and the medical debt was forgiven starting later in that month.
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looking at the right-wing SICARIO fandom and it really is evidence that you can't make an anti-war movie, even if it's the war on drugs.
December 13, 2024 at 2:47 PM
looking at the right-wing SICARIO fandom and it really is evidence that you can't make an anti-war movie, even if it's the war on drugs.
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reaction to the Biden pardon of the corrupt judge confirming some of my more cynical views about people who proclaim a belief in abolition, decarceration etc: that there's a giant asterisk of "but, like, not for things that *I* think are really bad"
December 13, 2024 at 4:30 PM
reaction to the Biden pardon of the corrupt judge confirming some of my more cynical views about people who proclaim a belief in abolition, decarceration etc: that there's a giant asterisk of "but, like, not for things that *I* think are really bad"
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Biden pardoning 1,500 turning into a negative story on this website about Joe Biden really is the entire Joe Biden presidency in miniature.
December 14, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Biden pardoning 1,500 turning into a negative story on this website about Joe Biden really is the entire Joe Biden presidency in miniature.
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What strikes me about the CEO killer is not his specific beliefs but the fact that he was a very recognizable type of young male ideology tourist. He was a This Explains Everything addict, whether the "this" was as benign as Michael Pollan or as malignant as Peter Thiel and the Unabomber. >
December 10, 2024 at 12:23 AM
What strikes me about the CEO killer is not his specific beliefs but the fact that he was a very recognizable type of young male ideology tourist. He was a This Explains Everything addict, whether the "this" was as benign as Michael Pollan or as malignant as Peter Thiel and the Unabomber. >
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All the WHO MUST GO memes have a real 'Ozymandias' quality to them now
December 8, 2024 at 3:35 AM
All the WHO MUST GO memes have a real 'Ozymandias' quality to them now
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this has been floating around everywhere today, I see people are once again falling for the classic blunder of "discourse started by a single deliberately-attention-seeking survey done by a private sector financial services firm"
November 23, 2024 at 7:48 PM
this has been floating around everywhere today, I see people are once again falling for the classic blunder of "discourse started by a single deliberately-attention-seeking survey done by a private sector financial services firm"
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the majority of AI 'startups' are just new grads with no AI experience building a frontend to someone else's API
November 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
the majority of AI 'startups' are just new grads with no AI experience building a frontend to someone else's API
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I know I'm a broken record on this but one apolitical cultural reform we absolutely need is pushing the hell back on "get that bag" culture. Stop praising content creators for better natively integrating their advertising! Stop giving content creators a pass for advertising scams!
November 23, 2024 at 5:30 AM
I know I'm a broken record on this but one apolitical cultural reform we absolutely need is pushing the hell back on "get that bag" culture. Stop praising content creators for better natively integrating their advertising! Stop giving content creators a pass for advertising scams!