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conditionalZeppelin retweeted
i had a dream that i captained a blimp on behalf of the US Navy and that a lot of the countries on earth had small blimp fleets just roaming the earth with no defined mission at all
I'm supposed to laugh about how primitive and antiquated this is, but this looks better, more fun, less gay, and in better taste than what we actually got
Reject the adults-stay-home ideology with every ounce of your being. Adults in normal, functional, non-dying societies have active social lives. This is load-bearing in all sorts of ways you cannot begin to imagine.
This sort of thing was radicalizing even when I was a teenage libtard, only then it made me an "elitist" rather than "practically hitler"
Doing anything other than doubling down on bad decisions is a rare and admirable thing to see.
I've glorified poverty and dilapidation largely because I've always assumed I'd be poor forever regardless of what I did. I figured I might as well learn to get enthusiastic about poverty, dysfunction, and obscurity if it was inevitable.
Now that I've escaped it, I ask myself: "What the hell do I do now?"
What do I actually want?
After years of training myself to "want" a poor life on the distant (rural) margins, now that I no longer have to do that I have no idea what it is that I actually want. Always, I've let my blackpilled perspective on my own station interrupt my ability to want anything. If it wasn't ultra-cheap, I simply forced myself to not want it, period.
Now? I could realistically make it work almost anywhere with careful planning. Could get into all sorts of businesses, try anything, make any number of interesting or edifying gambles or ventures... this is solely because of careful, anxiety-inducing levels of fiscal caution and extreme frugality.
If you've ever wondered why it is that I seem "all over the place," it's this exact thing. It's this combined with becoming a father and realizing that the dilapidation and poverty I've forced myself to "want" isn't actually what I want to give my kids.
conditionalZeppelin retweeted
I sincerely believe the biggest risk from AI is doomers inside the labs deliberately creating dangerous-but-not-extinction-level events to manufacture consent for a global AI regulatory framework. Do not trust or employ utilitarians with an eschatology.
Eugenics is bad for the same reason command economies are bad: because centralized authorities are shit at making the necessary sort of long-range judgement calls
conditionalZeppelin retweeted
It all follows a very predictable pattern:
1) Useful service that requires a great deal of social trust emerges.
2) Undesirables abuse the service.
3) Rules are put in place, which undesirables don’t follow.
4) Well-behaved users are inordinately punished by new rules.
My most unpopular opinion is that capitalism vs socialism is an increasingly meaningless distinction in the age of the totalitarian megastate.
conditionalZeppelin retweeted
I'm sorry I can't stop reading and re-reading this. No head of state has talked like this in probably 200 years. Today is something like a rebirth for the world and you need to stop and consider it deeply. This is the spirit that launched the Conquista and the Reconquista.
Muchos mensajes, análisis y comentarios como este, asegurando que las pandillas de Haití no son como las de El Salvador; que son sanguinarias, que están fuertemente armadas, que nadie ha podido vencerlas, que todas las misiones han fracasado, que estamos cayendo en una trampa, que no sabemos a lo que nos enfrentamos, que será nuestra ruina, que vamos camino a nuestro Waterloo.
Pero cuando Dios nos conceda la victoria, los mismos que hoy dicen todo eso cambiarán su discurso. Dirán que siempre fue fácil, que cualquiera podía hacerlo, que las pandillas de Haití no eran tan peligrosas como se pensaba.
En fin, nunca los hemos escuchado y no vamos a empezar ahora.
Todos los que se han enlistado son creyentes y hemos encomendado esta misión a Dios, mientras que las pandillas de Haití son satánicas y es de conocimiento público que hacen sacrificios humanos.
Dios nos concederá la victoria. El Creador del Universo está con nosotros.
Deuteronomio 28:7
“Jehová derrotará a tus enemigos que se levantaren contra ti; por un camino saldrán contra ti, y por siete caminos huirán de delante de ti”.
Nothing prepares you for how pissed everyone gets when you have a baby and don’t turn into an overtired basket case.
Many people’s cope rely on this being a major tradeoff in the quality of your life that it just isn’t.
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The scalable alternative to MAID is dying gracefully of your appointed ailment when the time comes.
