Not uncommon actually. pic.twitter.com/VDPJL2GDyz

— HannahReading 📚 (@readtoyourkid) February 5, 2025

Dude bankrupted his entire town. He even drained his daughter's college fund.

Protecting big booty Latina’s from deportation at ICE headquarters pic.twitter.com/hQSKz6DEXV

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) February 12, 2025

EVERYONE who's over the age of ten and watches anime is a libertarian. NO EXCEPTIONS

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This unfortunately still leaves me with a choice between "this was working with a hostile foreign power to influence an election and the Republicans on the committee agree with this but think it isn't so bad, WTF, that's disqualifying, and a shit ton of people on the internet are wilfully lying or r-slurred"

and, uhhh, thinking that these guys are more partisan and fear-mongering than they present as.

I think I'm really motivated by contrarianism & dislike of lots of the vibes around the democrats to want to believe Trump isn't that bad, but golly the facts seem to make that an uphill battle.

"I recognize my own woke derangement syndrome makes me want to question the facts."

I got a series of DMs from someone calling me nasty names for not having strong enough priors about RWers being r-slurred liars....

Me! That was me! I did that. It's here that you can see that the SFBA Rationalist concept of 'priors' aka 'preconceived notions' aka 'beliefs' is an agency-robbing mythos. This person can't take responsibility for their 'priors' because their 'priors' exist (in their dimwit head) as a fiction of perfect math. Reasoning through math can't be wrong, and you can't be responsible for the fact that you got something wrong if you were using math which was correctly calculated to arrive at that wrong information. Fricking morons. SFBA Rationalist Cultists are in for a rude awakening about the degree to which their mindless faith in Bayesian math derailed their ability to recognize their error.

I think I got some motivated epistemic learned helplessness going on here/ using the "nothing ever happens" heuristic that almost always works.

To be fair, these types are capable of some introspection.

Same as AI X-risk really: The arguments that this is really really bad are convincing, and taking them seriously (generally a virtue) implies I should be bombing data centres & assassinating ML researchers.

Or you could convince Scott Alexander to retract "You Are Still Calling Wolf."

But that seems a bit extreme, so I'm just gonna sit here & try not to think about it too much

lmao these people are so weak.

My US-politics information feed, now that I think about it in response to your question, is largely partisans from either side sharing terrible things the other side did, and rather too much of that is focussed on culture war stuff like trans issues.

They thought that they were spectating the culture war in their culture war threads (@TracingWoodgrains this is important) and that this gave them logical detachment from their politics, unlike those emotional leftists, and so even as they reified their politics they were in denial of the fact of that reification. Mass myopia. Fricking hilarious.

All politics is libidinal. The people trying to be unemotional about it are in a complicated form of denial about their own emotions. Which is, arguably, autism.

So I'm not sure if I'm sensibly fighting the tendency for my finger to keep wobbling back to the fire/ ignoring news that makes me feel bad & doesn't help me/ sanitising my inputs or if I'm cravenly ignoring a pressing threat because it doesn't affect me personally & thus normalising evil.

Scott Alexander normalized the evil.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1iteeaa/the_boomer_brain_has_no_defense_against_this_slop/

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1isyi9o/_/

Anthony Mackie explains what Captain America represents for him:

“Captain America represents a lot of different things & I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations. It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity.”

(Source:… pic.twitter.com/d5bvqIbreF

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 28, 2025

Anthony Mackie clarifies his previous comment about what Captain America means to him:

“I'm a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like Cap is the honor of a lifetime. I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country” pic.twitter.com/P6sWvlmBxa

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 29, 2025

this movie might bomb: https://archive.is/uBVM8

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson.bsky.social) 2025-02-20T00:14:43.177Z

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025

The whole yard is your patio + more time to grill

Too many capybaras: Rodents face vasectomies in luxury Argentine community

Residents of the Nordelta gated community, built on a wetland, complain that the population of the species has tripled in just over three years.https://t.co/dGv7ToXTcc

— Ruchir Sharma (@ruchirsharma_1) February 14, 2025

The mods removed the post, but I have the body text saved and the comments are still up.

It all started when we both got fired from our jobs and I opened up a bookstore with my bestie (22F). My boyfriend would drive me to and from work because I was having car troubles. This story starts last week when he kept going to the city which we live two hours away from. This was really weird because he never goes to the city without me because he knows I enjoy going. It also was a red flag to me because he had been talking about this other girl (21F) that he had went to high school with. Later before he picked me up from work (which he was late for) he texted me and said he was with his uncle and his grandpa but he didn't mention that he had went to the city. I know he was there because we have each others location.

The next day I was going through his phone (he is fine with me doing that because he knows I have trust issues) and I found that he had went with his uncle but I also found that they were talking bad about me saying that I was breaking his car by relying on him to take me to work and pick me up even though he is currently unemployed and I'm the only one bringing any income in. I also checked his Facebook and saw that he was looking other girls up and they were all dressed "sexy". I didn't bring any of this up to him because I didn't want to start a fight over something that I thought wasn't too important even though it hurt my feelings.

Two days later I had a gut feeling and I looked through his phone again and I was looking through his google search history and found the worst possible thing imaginable… snuff porn. Tons of it. So then I told my bestie and she said "LEAVE HIM NOW, BRING THE CATS AND MOVE IN WITH ME." I was in the bedroom crying and he heard me so he came in and I started yelling at him. A lot. He told me he has been watching since he was 13 years old. He also told me he didn't watch it to see the women but the murder and that it has always been a dark fantasy of his but that's all.

After we stopped arguing I went through his phone again and found regular porn therefore proving that he was interested in seeing some women. I also looked at his google and found a Reddit post of talking about someone being unattracted to his girlfriend. Which was a couple days after he was watching the regular porn. I went over to my besties house for the night just to give us some space and the next day we talked about it some more. He agreed to go to therapy for it and that's when I mentioned the other porn and the Reddit post to him.

He said the reason why he looked up the Reddit post was because I was SA'd before we even knew each other and he thought he was taking advantage of me. My bestie is worried and I will admit it is very scary to think about and I do feel betrayed. But on the other hand I do want to help him. Please give me advice.

and we chilling my neighbors

whats good people my bed is cozy and life is good (its not but w/e lol)

i still been off that reddit water but i let myself have a can of coke today

havent lost any weight yet but we dont do it for the numbers we do it for the cause (preach)

to anyone getting butt tonight, heck yeah my neighbor

oh for the record a big part of my lack of love stems from the fact i refuse to acknowedge fat women

Using AI directly is useless too it just tells me to reinstall when the installation itself is the problem then rewords itself to tell me to install repeatedly until it starts hallucinating

I hate the modern web I hate the modern web I hate the modern web