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I need to find a girlfriend

E: since writing this I have found a girlfriend. wagm

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“The new paradigm is so young and yet-to-be-articulated, that every single politician in the world can be said to be on one side, and that there is yet to be a single person in opposition.”

Imagine how disgustingly easy life would had been had we not been born to confront these problems.

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How about death camps but only for the... nevermind

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Reason, with succor sweetness, whispered into his ear, "Wouldn't it be better for you to die?"

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Disagree with quitting phones.

Abandoning weapons technology only gives a competitive advantage to your enemies.

We are already kicking this Regime's ass in terms of decentralized mimetic warfare, even from our digital ghettos.

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Boromir be like

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Good mockery, but the point remains.

As Ted K predicted, there's no escape from the suffocating Panopticon of mass adoption.

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> The only way out is to get away from the screens. This is going to be as big and life-changing a decision as quitting crack cocaine...

And yet people marches on with it, and fails to survive without it. The main core of it is that those who wishes to quit, just want to "quit people" entirely ala Ted Kaczynski's maladpt breakdown, which is an even bigger red flag all unto itself. Undersocialization, anyone? The fetishistic cling to primitivism should be as big of a red flag as people calling themselves "X guru". https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/against-waldenponding https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/against-waldenponding-ii

> Do you want to build a swing-set for your kid, or, do you want one to be provided for you by the state...

Assume you and your ethnicity are idiots, the latter would always win. Instead, "do you want to build a tribal playground away from the state?", and nothing says family like a shrine and some Asian swine cages for discipline (pls don't). More families in control of themselves though, yes always!

> They are members of a death cult. They are not zombies, they are not “npcs” - they wish they were.

If death is a constant, why would they wish for it? To reclaim death to atone for their un-life? Is it just a fever dream like the ones in the wars of last century, where if people are serious, it is not a "mission accomplished" but a Kayfabe of spiritual proportions? If one constantly obsesses over death cults, it is more likely that is just proof that it is superfluous, reality's equivalent of "show, don't tell" and "all smoke, now fire", The thought process of Le Geh work at times... Does that mean the future of enacted death camps are free-range rather than factory farms, with "TradWife" and "Lumberjack" flavors? Oh no, if everyone has their eyes on industrial totality and not neo-feudalism...

> The idea of an “AI that decides to kill humanity to optimize some arbitrary production it was designed for”, is not some thought experiment.

A horrible reminder, Roko's Basilisk is a reference to Cancel Culture, Paperclip Maximiser is a reference to consumerism, and "Principal–Agent Problem" refers to Bagehot's "dignified" (hollowed mission) and "efficient" (spontaneous process) systems. And as everyone would expect, a golem always has a conjurer, and reality triumphs over human idealism. https://graymirror.substack.com/p/3-descriptive-constitution-of-the https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk

> If you want to turn human life mechanical and optimize it like a machine, what you get is a human factory, and if you set up a human factory what you get is a human butchery.

"Eat bugs", says the bugmen (Asian "you are what you eat" literalism), whilst the powerful realizes that people are bugs and not cattle, but desperately coping. The joy of goblin mode to gnome mode (burnout-to-liberty) is ironically apt. From bugs to mushrooms ("rhizomic" eh?), but then again mushroom farms are already an efficient "thing", even more so than bug farms. Which is more nutritious again? https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/getting-to-gnome-mode https://archive.ph/kSCa2

Conclusion: Beyond the hard surface of a turd, there is a different color of feces.

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