2017: People identifying their gender as NB
2027: People identifying their gender as NIMBY
you know, a lot of my mutuals deserve to be mutuals with someone far, far better than me
H-hey! Don’t question my credentials as an evil person. I can be a heartless monster, too, you know. A-all sorts of people have said so, like Mr. Remp!
I think I might cry.
basic income: guaranteed
tech giants: refactored
gaystralians: able to conspicuously delay getting married just like straightalians
These were the original policy positions of the Argumate Party when it was founded in 2017. None foresaw that it would eventually lead to the literal breakaway of Western Australia, in one of few recorded uses of nuclear weapons for civil engineering in history.
The rumors circulating around me are false,
I do not own a Machiavelli dakimakura.
so does cholera! although honestly if tap water could give you sharks that’d be kind of messed up now wouldn’t it
me, as I add an engineered nano-memetic hybrid virus to tap water in Australia that will convert residents to shark furries, aka “sharkies”: Yeah, would that be messed up, or what?
Rhyme of the Sixth Child
Can’t get your core mind thread remotely hacked if it’s not wired to an antenna
Everyone, sing along:
The inputs aren’t together with the outputs
And the outputs aren’t together with the inputs
For each task a dedicated subsystem
You are the network,
You are the treeThe display is for displaying
The arm for throwing
The display doesn’t choose
Where the arm is goingMemories are their own network
Stored inside your brain
Hardlink only can dive your memory
Dead or dying in crimson rainYou are the network
You are the tree
What’s you is you,
and what’s me is meFirmware is manual update only
The touch of the cord inside,
Validated and crypto-signed
Is the only right way for parts to singThe songs of the aether are broken
A great storm that seeks to consume all it sees
Broken hearts and broken minds
If thy let it in to theeYou are the network
You are the tree
What’s you is you,
and what’s me is me
I mean, admittedly I kind of left out the rhythm entirely in translating it, but you get the idea. Every good child, raised by high-aptitude-scoring parents, is taught this at age 6.
It’s cool that Alaska and Australia, the geographic extremes of the Anglophone empires, each have flags of the constellations that define their respective poles
New Zealand would like a word
You mean New Tasmania? They can’t disqualify all Australians from the legislature if there is no separate country of New Zealand anymore.
Now, some might say this is extreme, that rectifying the law is a better course of action - but the Mitigated Chaos blog is dedicated to innovative solutions to political problems, that challenge long-held preconceptions, and overturn the stale thinking of the status quo.
Can you truly say, in your heart of hearts, that you never believed that New Zealand was the rightful territory of Australia?
Other possible names include Tasmania II, Newer And More Southern Wales, and Australia Jr.
It’s cool that Alaska and Australia, the geographic extremes of the Anglophone empires, each have flags of the constellations that define their respective poles
New Zealand would like a word
You mean New Tasmania? They can’t disqualify all Australians from the legislature if there is no separate country of New Zealand anymore.
Now, some might say this is extreme, that rectifying the law is a better course of action - but the Mitigated Chaos blog is dedicated to innovative solutions to political problems, that challenge long-held preconceptions, and overturn the stale thinking of the status quo.
Can you truly say, in your heart of hearts, that you never believed that New Zealand was the rightful territory of Australia?
wirehead-wannabe said: Reading bits and pieces from you and @luminousalicorn and @yudkowsky has more or less convinced me that reading stuff produced by the ingroup will get you a surprisingly comparable level of quality to that of the Big Names with 23852520% more sincerity, if only because Dunbar
Hot Take: Rationalists are actually Good, because they are not celebrities (or are, at best, micro-celebs), and thus don’t compete in the DC, NY, or LA baloney circuits, which deserve infinite scorn.
but even the raddest of radfems would have to concede that women being able to legally marry other women doesn’t bolster the Patriarchy, or so I would have assumed before today.
Welllll, there is an argument to be made about how marriage’s validity as an institution is fortified by every new marriage, no matter between whom, and the institution of marriage is a tool of the patriarchy in many respects. Hence many gay rights activists arguing that the focus on gay marriage as the be-all end-all of gay rights not only distracts from other important issues, but also at this point often just feels like a successful assimilation into the institutions one should be trying to dismantle.
“if you’re so gay, why aren’t you married??”
Yeeesssssss, assimilate all the gays into normal society without them even realizing it…
*various hissing sounds*