[-] acb@mastodon.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@gerikson @cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”

[-] acb@mastodon.social 38 points 10 months ago

OTOH, she also has said things like that she’s a socialist but believes in free markets rather than government intervention, so it’s probably fair to say that she’s not the sharpest egg in the attic

[-] acb@mastodon.social 13 points 10 months ago

Isn’t he the one that the US Religious Right used as a rationalisation for a philandering president being an instrument of God?

[-] acb@mastodon.social 49 points 11 months ago

As the old adage goes, a libertarian is someone who knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction

[-] acb@mastodon.social 10 points 11 months ago

The Just World Fallacy is doing a lot of load-bearing duty there

[-] acb@mastodon.social 12 points 11 months ago

Also, the premier thirstfluencer of the Rationalist Right.

If you could harness the unrequitable longing of her numerous incel followers and convert it to energy, you could bootstrap the Basilisk off it, even allowing for losses due to no-fap covenant violations.

[-] acb@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago

The other possible exemplar could be Vatican City. Which, granted, is more ambitious, though what history shows is that having sympathetic fascists in power in the host country can go a long way.

[-] acb@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe they’re counting on it being like San Marino only more Galty

[-] acb@mastodon.social 11 points 1 year ago

In his book on psychedelics, David Nutt suggests that it is likely that the observed benefits of microdosing are just the placebo effect.

[-] acb@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, amphetamine is as different from psychedelics (such as LSD and psilocybin) as cocaine is.

[-] acb@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

It’s like percussive maintenance, only for the mind

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