Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫
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@alyx@gameliberty.club
- Gender:
- Yes, I definitely have one of those.
- Sex:
- Yes, please!
- Clan:
- Hyūga
- Nationality:
- Martian
- Location:
- Neptune
- Occupation:
- Retired
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...
Joined Aug 2019
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@beardalaxy @alyx the internet uniquely permits brief acts of pretense from a large number of people to feel like continuous experience. Get a thousand people, encourage only 10 minutes of "trans validation" from each, and the aggregate is already 24 hours of trans validation. A thousand people pretending to be happy for 10 minutes each day is enough for a lively Discord of continuous happiness.
And 1000 is a small number, and continuous validation is not required, so the required brief pretense is so brief that even weak censorship and selection is enough for the illusion to work. You could have a bot in your house that, every time you take a dump, shares a novel and true snippet of conversation from the internet that supports the illusion that eating shit is a normal thing to want to do.
I'm sure that the same people who think propaganda wins wars already all think that algorithms and LLMs can completely conquer the world via this illusion. But, like with the pro-war propaganda from the last few years that had the extreme opposite result on me, these efforts are likely to be so over-the-top that the illusion breaks easy, and more people become alert to it.
And 1000 is a small number, and continuous validation is not required, so the required brief pretense is so brief that even weak censorship and selection is enough for the illusion to work. You could have a bot in your house that, every time you take a dump, shares a novel and true snippet of conversation from the internet that supports the illusion that eating shit is a normal thing to want to do.
I'm sure that the same people who think propaganda wins wars already all think that algorithms and LLMs can completely conquer the world via this illusion. But, like with the pro-war propaganda from the last few years that had the extreme opposite result on me, these efforts are likely to be so over-the-top that the illusion breaks easy, and more people become alert to it.
Here's a thought: what if the current queer/trans obsession with identify, self-ID, your chosen identity being recognized and respected, also has something to do with internet naming culture.
At some point, we've started seeing trans people being a lot more violent about their pronouns being respected and all of that. So I wonder if the way how they interacted with online culture, and how they transitioned while participating in online communities, influenced things.
Ever since early internet days, we're all used to assuming an online ID, an online name, an online persona, that often has nothing to do with your IRL name, with who you actually are. It's something considered normal and people generally respect these names people chose for themselves (aside from the occasional doxxing). That's how you get someone with a boring name like Carl Benjamin to be called after an historical figure like Sargon of Akkad.
Now mix this internet culture with the trans movement. They're essentially doing the same thing when they transition. They assume new names, new personas. And they get used from how this is treated in the online space, that their personas get recognized and respected as who they are. But somewhere along the way, they forget that when we normal people go IRL, we don't use our online names. They expect their chosen names to continue being respected IRL... which doesn't really go as planned, because you can't hide behind an avatar IRL.
Normal people usually segregate their online selves from their real life selves. But maybe the modern batch of internet raised trans people didn't get the memo. My theory is that a lot of people formed their trans persona while on Tumblr. Then they started emigrating their new trans persona, first in other online spaces (Twitter, Reddit), and finally in real life. So at every step of the way, they expect to be treated like when they first formed their trans identity on Tumblr.
Since Twitter, Reddit, mostly function by the same internet culture regarding naming, they probably didn't get much opposition. After all, you wouldn't know that behind the anime avatar named Sally, is a fat Matt Dillahunty looking guy. So the "respect my pronouns!" mostly works. They got validation in most internet spaces, because the culture simply allows anyone to assume any name they want.
So when they meet real life... of course they'll act like spoiled brats, because the internet essentially did spoil them regarding their self-ID. Of course they react violently to even the smallest accidental misgendering. In their minds, they simply do not even comprehend that their appearance simply doesn't match a "Sally". Internet gave them a skewed view of reality, that they are indeed a "Sally". After all, all the online spaces they participated in called them Sally.
So what do you think? Is my idea a "yay" or a "nay"?
Don't know what's up with me lately, but I keep getting new ideas trying to explain the current cultural/political zeitgeist. It's like randomly being hit with inspiration. And it's really not like me. Whatever...
At least it looks like the future AI overlord will have a sense of humor.
Have you ever thought why Muslims are forbidden to eat pork? It's probably because a goat fucker got tape worms. Those fuckers supposedly give you crazy stomach aches and cramps.
So Muslims go violent over not eating pork because someone wasn't smart enough to cook their food.
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I really believe, that the one thing that separates the left and the right is, that vast majority of lefties are literally too retarded to understand the tolerance paradox.
Ironically enough, they quote it quite often too.
Imagine being the person that legitimately thinks that the extremist Islamic regime, that funded multiple terrorist organizations, doesn't lie.
I just.... sigh... It's my fault tbh. When I talk to people, I generally assume everyone involved is on my level of just average 100 IQ. Every once in a while, I'll see someone who I'll even think is way smarter than me, but maybe they lack a specific context or niche information. Honestly, even when I call someone stupid, I do actually think they're average IQ. And I usually blame ideology, misinterpretation of information, or general ignorance of information, for the big disagreements.
My mistake is that I forget 50% of humanity is below average IQ, by definition. Two figures IQ is a real thing. And I should actually take that possibility into consideration.
A new height in antisemite stupidity: Iran was definitely not making a nuke, because Iran said they don't want nukes.
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What I read... Frondeur lets jews bone him in the mouth. 😏
Antisemites are an one of a kind breed... of stupid.
>Islam and Muslims openly state out loud that they want to conquer the world
Antisemite: Muslims are peaceful, they don't care about America
>small piece of poorly worded phrase, in some ancient book that nobody actually cares about, that nobody but them ever cite or talk about
Antisemite: IT'S THE JEWS! THEY WANT TO DESTROY YOU!!!! IT SAYS IT RIGHT HERE!!!
Don't talk to me, or my zero point energy field manipulator, ever again.
I wonder if we might need to start building and using freemium internet browsers, if we really want to have online privacy.
If you look at something like Firefox, it generally has a pro-privacy stance, but at the same time, they take massive donations from Google, to make their search engine the default. They literally can't survive without the biggest threat to online privacy. So why the hell are people trusting Mozilla here, when Mozilla is literally throwing any beginner user to the wolves with this move? What, doesn't your grandma also have a right to her data privacy? Just because someone doesn't know technology well enough to change a search engine, it doesn't make it right for Mozilla to essentially profit from their ignorance.
And this does not even get into the issue that we ultimately don't know what Mozilla does with some of your data, like bookmarks that you can sync with their server. If they're cash strapped, why wouldn't they make some extra money by secretly giving that away?
A freemium model might help a browser sustain itself without being dependent on donations from big tech companies that have ulterior motives and goals.
Gacha gaming has unfortunately shown that the 80-20 rule is strong. You can have 80% of the people using a product for free, while 20% are more than able and willing to whale like crazy and sustain the developer of the product.
It doesn't need to be as exploitative as the average gacha game, but what if a similar model could be made to work for other software? A crazy good browser that gets it's money from selling themes? People are perfectly willing to spend money for game cosmetics, you think someone wouldn't spend money for a nice browser theme?
It's a crazy idea, an insane one even. But is it any crazier than expecting the people who take money from the companies that threaten your privacy, to protect your privacy? Isn't that a conflict of interest? I don't even know why I didn't think about this before (the conflict of interest thing).
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Republic of Gaming
Republic of Gacha
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Get sleepy! Get sleepy! Get sleepy!
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Get hydrated! Get hydrated! Get hydrated!
Romanians have a children's limerick that you use when someone insults you to basically say back at them that they're projecting.
Cine zice, ăla este,
Ca măgarul din poveste,
Și măgarul a murit,
Și tu l-ai înlocuit!
(He who says it, is it,
Like the donkey in the story,
And the donkey died,
And you replaced him!)
Haven't thought about this in many years. There's quite a bit of wisdom in this little poem.
- Gender:
- Yes, I definitely have one of those.
- Sex:
- Yes, please!
- Clan:
- Hyūga
- Nationality:
- Martian
- Location:
- Neptune
- Occupation:
- Retired
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...
Joined Aug 2019
