bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

You articulate well why the "clanker" shit rubs me the wrong way. Disdain for the machines and the way they're being used and sold is perfectly valid, but it would be nice if expressions of that disdain were not modeled after actual bigotry. Calling a computer a piece of junk implies it's merely an object, but calling one a science fiction version of the N-word grants it animacy. Second class citizens are still, in some way, citizens.

The ones that are clearly riffing on real racial slurs are extra cringe. It's OK to say w***back if you're talking about robots, huh? Or is that one specifically for Mexican robots? Is it finally the time that white people get to start practicing how to say the word without the hard r, but only with inanimate objects?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Creator of NaCl publishes something even saltier.

"Am I being detained?" I scream as IETF politely asks me to stop throwing a tantrum over the concept of having moderation policy.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

I love it giving the temperature in Europe. Down to a decimal, even.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

for ä in epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I gotta scroll down all the way to hell to see these comments. I really really don't feel like I should have to defend this stupid platform that seems specifically tailored to kill decentralized alternatives, but so far I've seen mostly healthy disdain for various fascist bullshit, including our Very Good Friends.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Ooh, what a terrible fate! What horrid crimes you must have committed to make our beloved jannies punish you with admin bits! :D

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tempted to make that my bio on some socmed site

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, officer. This one right here.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The beautiful process of dialectics has taken place on the butterfly site, and we have reached a breakthrough in moral philosophy. Only a few more questions remain before we can finally declare ethics a solved problem. The most important among them is, when an omnipotent and omnibenevolent basilisk simulates Roko Mijic getting kicked in a nuts eternally by a girl with blue hair and piercings, would the girl be barefoot or wearing heavy, steel-toed boots? Which kind of footwear of lack thereof would optimize the utility generated?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  • Accelerationism
  • Consequentialism
  • Conservatism
  • Orthodoxy
  • Rationalism
  • Disestablishmentarianism
  • Intellectualism
  • Natalism
  • Galileianism
  • Transhumanism
  • Outside the box thinking
  • Anti-empiricism
  • Laissez-faire
  • LaVeyan Satanism
  • Kantian deontology
  • Nationalism
  • Orgasm denial
  • Western chauvinism
  • Neo-Aristotelianism
  • Longtermism
  • Altruism
  • White supremacy
  • Sinophobia
  • Orientalism…
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