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Batshit doomerism, you sound like one of those religious nuts expecting the rapture any minute. You don’t have some privileged insight into ‘how bad things are gonna get’ or whatever hypothetical revolution you’ve conjectured, yet you presume to lecture others about it. Please, tell me again about narcissism and what it consists of.

I guess you had a pretty unpleasant life so far? Not everybody’s has sucked. But I don’t think I need to form a coherent argument against 'all reproduction is inherently morally bankrupt ’ - it’s such deliberate bait that it rejects good faith discussion off-hand.

Is there a more coherent argument to be made against hyper-natalists? Yes, I think that could plausibly be upheld. But that would be a more nuanced stance. The world, despite its trajectory, is not a hellscape.

Absolutely unhinged

Yeah tbh I just thought the --json option was pretty neat - I hadn’t known about it until fairly recently

... -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'? No. Why would you do that when you can just do ... --json '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'. Yeah curl is awesome.

Oh really? Well you’ve made me think about the issues I split out into sides:

• climate change: it’s bad / fuck it
• trans ppl: they cool / they’re a perversion of gods design
• God: idk whatever / The Christian God
• guns: dangerous! Restrict! / I need guns
• immigration: ok / not ok
• women: human / subhuman
• state funded healthcare: yes plz / no tnx
• public transport: love it / hate it
• bikes: I am literally a bike / I literally just killed a bike

These aren’t all aligned. Probably not all of them are a left/right divide to you. They’re probably not even all 100% applicable to your lived reality - not everybody has spent much time thinking about God - but I am curious where you think you’re left and where you think you’re right, or what I’m missing from my incredibly glib yet serious list.

You got downvoted because everyone on the left thinks ‘I’m centrist’ is just something ppl say to disguise themselves whilst they say a bunch a right-wing shit; everyone on the right thinks the war has already begun, you gotta nail your flag to the mast, and why hide how you really feel; and everyone who’s actually in the centre gave up discussing politics on social media years ago because it’s detrimental to your mental health.

As a thought experiment I guess.

Not very good as a novel, though. Same as Aldous Huxley, the characters barely exist, it’s just a platform for pontification. Give me George Eliot or William Faulkner any day of the week.

Well I mean if it can be reduced then it should be removed, lol, that one doesn’t belong in the list.

Wow that’s… Aggressive. You’ve just demeaned your entire species. What do you gain from that?

Male pattern baldness has something to do with testosterone I think? Like, ppl w/ more testosterone tend to lose more hair or summat

Oh my God. You didn’t even recognise that bit as being ripped straight from the matrix did you. I’m so old.

What is a meme? How do you define ‘meme’? If you’re talking about what you can repost, what you can shitpost, what you can share and upvote, then ‘meme’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

Tbh I have always had limited sympathy for people who want to be ‘developers’ but can’t be arsed to actually learn how to do the job. Will it suck for them? Yeah, probably. I kinda think they deserve it though.

It was already like that! Before it was vibe coding, it was dissembling in interview, leaning on your colleagues, and switching job every 3-6 months. But let’s not pretend there won’t also always be a class of people who actually find the challenge of programming to be interesting. People aren’t gonna suddenly change their nature just because there are new tools to inflate yourself with. An analogy might be that nobody knows how to calculate trig fns from first principles any more because calculators exist - this is patently false.

What bit did you worry I hadn’t read? Was it an answer you posted in another thread, perhaps, that you’re talking about? I don’t believe there was anything in my reply that suggested I hadn’t comprehended anything relevant up to that point…

It’s not really that straightforward though, is it? Firstly is it a mean or a median average? What counts as an empire? When do we date the rise and fall of specific empires? These are not questions with straightforwards answers. Would Hitler’s Germany count as an empire? How many Roman empires were there?

No, you must have the courage of your convictions. Leave your hot takes up, even if they are trash and embarrass you later. We must all learn.

Yes. A lost of people didn’t vote in the US elections last year. The ones who don’t live there make up the largest contingent. They’re unlikely to blame themselves.