the gruel of the future—today!

tämyo kropnulaṃ skam pñintu ke ne kulypal yātlune

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i think neopronouns were a good idea. what if we revised the grammar of the language to make pronouns an open class. like in the animes...

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i don't like how, when people talk about desires, they only talk about things like dressing up and having odd sex. one may want to do that and also do other things. one may have one's role to play in the completion of the Great Work

[ostolero]

Hell yes. Spring Break 2013. Pop a Molly and get jolly in south beach. New York is a dream to me now.

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[handsaniti]

Imagine your old, weird manager who kept trying to be besties with you because you were a captive audience.

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

the ideal era of history to retvrn to is the one where the king of france sent his son to adopt the title of The Dolphin and rule The Dolphiny, which wasn't france and by stipulation of treaty could never become france. all our current rot stems from the abrogation of the treaty, between france and Dolphin Humbert, the last independent The Dolphin, by which The Dolphiny, ruled by The Dolphin, wasn't france

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i h8 when the facts get in the way of a good post

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i think it would be good to replace 'CEO' with 'king'. bebder's quest to kill the king of wendy's...

[design-girl]

Egonlab

Spring 2027 Menswear

[official-kircheis]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i find it objectionable that it's useful to me to learn practical skills. and to practice agency and so on. to be a creature doomed to struggle to make up for the sin of its existence by its deeds. it would be better to be the sort of person who becomes an unmoved mover, an aesthetic object around whom the social world revolves, a hyperoptimized agent who wields the appearance of lack of agency to supernatural effect. but at the same time, the existence of such people is obviously immoral – everyone ought to be required to adopt the mindset of a knight, a beast of the quests whose skin in time fuses with its armor, as it does. a venture lord...

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

Far and away the number one thing that could improve young people’s living standards in America would be to embrace more market-oriented housing policies. ... But younger people’s lived experience of “capitalism” is of central planning and massive shortages of the single most important item they consume. So of course if people tell them the alternative to the status quo is “socialism,” a lot of them are going to want that.

[angelicdust]

[neelysworld-deactivated20140321]

[bdalak]

the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else

mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being

[pigeonsplease]

When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was… how almost everywhere had revolving doors.

I’m Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we don’t need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.

So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.

Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.

[the-library-alcove]

Yes, I have these saved for exactly this reason.

[k-simplex]

Victor Barker - Wikipedia

new problematic fave. this look would seduce me so easily

[yaoist]

In 1926 while living in London, Barker received a letter addressed to a different Colonel Barker, inviting him to join the National Fascisti. Barker replied to the misdirected letter with the missive "why not", reasoning that membership of what was a macho group would help him pose as a man.

Joining a fascist organization to prove you're man enough is possibly the most man thing to do.

[segmentedleg]

File:Control Panel, Brede Pumping Station - geograph.org.uk - 3945709.jpg

[cenylie]

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

HELLO????