the /real/ monument to Lee would be no monument at all
Fking Bruce Lee monument got up and walked away again. I don’t know why we even bother.
Anonymous asked:
This was for you all along. I knew you would send this post in the future, so it was just a matter of making it, so you would send this post, so you could receive it.
Considering that most of the time that my posts gets more than a few notes, it is because @argumate reblogged them, I wonder if my niche in the Tumblr ecosystem is “argumate feeder blog“.
wisdom is knowing that all of Tumblr is argumate feeder blogs
Is your centrality due to joining Tumblr especially early, or to monopolizing the US nighttime posting, or some other reason?
merely because of the anthropic principle, by which I assume that any blog I don’t personally follow can’t actually exist.
It’s true - if you check the followers on any given Tumblr blog, you’ll find that Argumate is the first. This is because the blog did not exist until Argumate visited it.
Proof:
This image was taken from a blog titled @strawberryrationalistgirl just moments ago, which is also the first time it has appeared on the Internet. It hasn’t even been indexed by Google yet.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
hey you can try crossing the Nullarbor on foot, apparently it’s been done
Gonna be real honest, that looks like a First-Pass Render before any of the artists have started adding assets or customizing.
well that makes sense as all the wildlife looks like haphazard customisations of creatures from more polished continents
honestly I’d really appreciate it if people who dislike transhumanism point me in the direction of why
I don’t know if I’d say I ‘dislike’ transhumanism so much as it’s important to keep the general arc of science and medicine in mind.
“Scientists installed robot wings in my back and now I can fly” is awesome. “Scientists installed first-generation robot wings in my back and then I was in unbearable pain because all of my spinal discs prolapsed” is not.
Which is related to my other thought, which is that we just aren’t very good at predicting what life would be like under very different circumstances. On a certain level transhumanism isn’t that different from people saying that we’d have flying cars and robot maids by the year 2000.
yes, although this seems like just avoiding over optimism, even if you think it’s the right direction overall.
Do not underestimate the cyborg equivalent of furries who WOULD endure the lmao prolapsed spine phase of transhumanism
These brave heroes will help bring mankind closer to perfection, and/or test the safety of the secondary backup heart implant before I get it. Truly, our hats go off for these brave Cyberfurs™.
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A typical day on Rationalist Tumblr.
blue-rondo said: This anon thinks that Marxist leftists aren’t also subverted by the CIA lol. Wait til these people discover who funded and backed Marx to begin with.
please don’t tell me the Soviet Union was a CIA plot to conquer Europe
For a short while, I and a few friends of mine joked that Communism was a Western plot to destroy Asia.
Pictured: Tumblr user @argumate and an unknown species of flying creature that KEEPS DYING REPEATEDLY. SERIOUSLY WOULD SOMEONE AT LEAST THINK ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALER FOR ONC-
In retrospect, it looks like Mic’s commitment to social justice was never that deep — which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. (The Outline spoke to 17 current and former staffers who requested anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements.) Mic chanced upon the social justice narrative, discovered it was Facebook gold, and mined away. Now the quarry is nearly dry.
whoever drank that particular flavour of neoliberal koolaid deserved it
Oddly I haven’t missed them. Hell, I didn’t even notice their absence.
I noticed they were gone because Mic actually had me blocked here
Every so often I’d try to comment on some long discussion and I couldn’t because the OP was a shitty Mic article
I was blocked also, but their pandering shit kind of blended into the rest of tumblr I guess.
In a sense Tumblr stole their thing because any self-loathing hubris filled tween could write for them.
Wait a second don’t bury the lede, Mic blocked people on tumblr (as a way of making sure the reblog chains of their official ports-to-tumblr never went through ancaps and were more hugboxy) ??
One more thing I didn’t realize could happen until someone broke a norm and it looked obvious in retrospect. 2017!
Yes, this is fascinating! And I say this as someone quite averse to Anarcho-Capitalism.
doxxing someone based on clearly identifying information: good
doxxing someone based on “this profile picture looks like the guy in this blurry, poorly-lit photo”: bad
in practice people have wildly differing standards for “clearly identifying”, and there have been dozens of false doxxing attempts on Reddit based on pictures taken in perfectly good light.
7.5 billion people on Earth! unless they’re wearing name tags it’s surprisingly easy to mix ‘em up.
the doxxing guy on twitter already got doxxed by /pol/ cuz he saved $10/year on whois protection
“Doxx not, lest ye be doxxed.”
- some religion guy, probably
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.
