gerikson

This all reads as a very elitist and privileged perspective.

Dude look where you’re commenting

I haven't experienced the situation you're describing myself, but it feels very plausible.

Similarly, all developed societies depend on a number of people selflessly working in positions of elected or non-elected authority (local councils, HOAs, school boards) and treating them like people who cannot afford to make any mistakes is not a recipe for increased democratic engagement.

Anyway, so far no-one has commented, negatively or otherwise, and I think most LWers are treating it as harmless fun.

It's not making me any more interested in coming more than 200 feet from any of these people, and neither is this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZKzWgAqWrE2tXrQ/contra-dance-at-lessonline, but maybe that's just me being mean.

Are you worried about AI taking over the world and killing everyone? Fear not, the people who can stop it are collecting hats. Surely everything is under control.

someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

CW M:tG weirdo Zvi's slobsack + Xhitter references, but he accuses an OpenAI / Palantir-funded PAC boosting a fake "AI doomer" account calling for violence:

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-171-false-flag?open=false#%C2%A7openai-pac-engaged-in-false-flag-advocacy-for-violence

"seeded ladies" I see what you did there

George Santos got reported(!) for insider trading on Kalshi:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/prodigal-son

FWIW, Rsync dev has written this blog post from his point of view: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

brb updating my web source code

check out this beaut it has subsections and a folded "spoiler" section https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HaH9mTdKt8pcNAtYn/comment-on-banning-said-achmiz?commentId=kEsLavWGNtkrqaAY2

don't recognize commenter but they seem to be a big cheese in the rat sphere

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" - Kant[1]

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[1] it's worse in German, weirdly - "Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden"

The normal way for people like Achmiz and Davis to reconcile their differences with a mod team is to set up their own forum, with hookers and beer, and entice the audience thither. But they both know it would be a sad empty shell of a place inhabited by those 2 windbags.