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Nah it’s neat.

What sucks is when they make media that assumes everyone else knows which goofy accent belongs to which corner of their country and what pile of stereotypes they have against each other.

After parkouring halfway across the city while chased by cops, right as you’re about to make your final escape down a shallow ramp, one of the cops suddenly tangles your feet together with a bolas.

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Russia is AI-generated.

hello Wilson

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Meh, they’re mostly echoing whatever views have been pumped into their heads by conservative talk radio, fox news, AI meme facebook, et all. A few years of some Joe Rogan esque jock telling them how cool it is to eat seitan and they’ll all be vegans.

It’d be nice if they all became luminaries of proletarian thought or whatever (and a handful probably will), but that’s not actually necessary. Don’t let anyone rebuild the capitalist propaganda machine, and the threat is neutered. Invest in better education for future generations.

It’s the 90s and you’re a business ghoul trying to claw your way up to entrench yourself further and claw your way up above your peers. You shop around for fringe ideologues whose ideas would end up advancing your position, and invest some money to get them into into think tanks, advertising firms, talk shows, and the like. The reach of broadcast media explodes, the industry expands and everyone who got in early rises to the top, including your useful idiots. The propaganda industry gets better at its job, and you’re still listening to the TV. You bought these messages because they were convenient to you, but they’re so good at their job now that they’ve convinced you too. You’re now a true believer in whatever nonsense was tactically convenient to you 30 years ago.

(As fun as this narrative is, I’d like to point out that adding more details makes a story less likely to be true while making it sound more likely to be true.)

I think it would be neat if horses did have feathers, though.

As funny as this is, it’s also wrong. China’s top imports from the US are fossil fuels and turbines. Then agricultural products. Optical and medical equipment, airplane parts, and circuits are also high up there.

Brickwork ahead? I sure hope it does

Here’s a primer on the zizians, which you can read if you’d like your eyebrows to get stuck one tick higher for the rest of the day.

The tl;dr is that they’re a cult orbiting around an offshoot of the SF Bay area “rationalist” scene. The SF Bay is a brutally alienating grifter hellscape. The rationalist scene is a disorganized counterculture highly concerned with morality*. This naturally attracts confused young adults who are in weird places in their life; that’s just what a moral counterculture does. Ziz targeted particularly vulnerable people from this pool, particularly trans people, with a cluster of techniques out of the usual cult playbook, notably including a novel type of sleep deprivation.

* Whether these ideas are right or wrong are irrelevant, but if you want my take: a stopped clock is right twice a day, but a clock that’s spinning around really really fast is right way more often.

oh my goodness it’s the squid from Dicey Dungeons

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Going for that One Punch Man workout routine?

The unending ambiguity of how to pay at an unfamiliar transit system.

You don’t all have to use the same system but it’d be nice if your websites all actually said it somewhere easy to find. And said it at all.