Oceans Yet to Burn

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

so what are we all getting mad about next

[mitigatedchaos]

I’m really upset that my favorite ship in Strawberry Rationalist Girl RenegadeAngles-san isn’t official in the new season and I’m planning to hold the government of Sapporo hostage in the name of queer spider-cyborg representation and morphological freedom until the studio agrees to make it canon.

I’ve got three airsoft rifles, a crew of fifteen dedicated hardcore brotakus, and a tank.  I really think we can pull this off.  You in?

[argumate]

please god tell me brotaku isn’t a real thing

[mitigatedchaos]

“There are only two things in life that are valuable.  Anime, and sick gainz.”
- some Japanese guy, probably

The Brotaku School of anime-style martial arts goes back to the year of 1994, in a small town on the outskirts of San Francisco, California.  I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of it, since it’s pretty obscure.  Few even know it exists, much less the power of its techniques.  It’s quite brutal, but it has to be - the Brotaku School exists to break the will of the neckbeard so that they can be transformed and elevated to a new level of Man, seeking both perfection of mind and of body.  

Not all of them survive.  Those that do make a vow of voluntary celibacy in order to prove their loyalty to the 2D Ideal.

Of course, I don’t really hold to the 2D Ideal myself, different school of martial arts and beliefs and all that, but they embody a kind of aspect of the national will and we kind of deeply connected over sharing tips to unlock all the endings of Discourse Beach and then we decided to overthrow the government.

But eventually we realized that was too much work and settled for getting RenegadeAngles fixed.

So are you coming or what?

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

so what are we all getting mad about next

[mitigatedchaos]

I’m really upset that my favorite ship in Strawberry Rationalist Girl RenegadeAngles-san isn’t official in the new season and I’m planning to hold the government of Sapporo hostage in the name of queer spider-cyborg representation and morphological freedom until the studio agrees to make it canon.

I’ve got three airsoft rifles, a crew of fifteen dedicated hardcore brotakus, and a tank.  I really think we can pull this off.  You in?

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Anonymous asked:

Are Brexit and Trump the first signs that the Dire Problem is coming to a head? What political upheavals will we see when Google perfects the self-driving car and the TruckApocalypse comes?

slatestarscratchpad answered:

If the Dire Problem is supposed to be job automation, most of the best studies I’ve seen suggest that job automation isn’t having real effects right now (yes, everyone is confused about this, but the studies are pretty unanimous). I don’t know whether that will continue past the Truckpocalypse (<– correct form, your portmanteau is way too unwieldy).

My guess is Trump and Brexit have more to do with income inequality caused by other stuff, increased class differences coming from the income inequality, and various social stuff coming out of those class differences.

[slatestarscratchpad]

1109514775 writes:

Nah, I think anon has it. Try rapping it. You don’t want that “ck” right against the “p”, the “a” in between makes it flow. “truck-uh-pock-uh-lips” is delicious.

But if the Truckpocalypse is related to the Trumpocalypse, we want parallel -ocalypse structures to make them more easily comparable.

“The Trumpocalypse caused the Truckpocalypse” sounds good,

“The Trumpocalypse caused the TruckApocalypse” is just ridiculous.

[discoursedrome]

“Truckapocalypse” sounds better absent context but the meter and consonance mean that I can’t stop thinking of “Snuffleupagus” and “Papadopoulos” when I hear it.

[mitigatedchaos]

You fuckers have it completely wrong.

“Truckpocalypse” and “Truck Apocalypse” are two DIFFERENT supervillains.  You can’t go mixing them up like this. There was a court case about it and everything - it’s fucking trademarked.  You could get sued.

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[mitigatedchaos]

mitigatedextras sideblog for stuff that doesn’t make the cut for the main blog exists, if that’s your thing, dear readers

[argumate]

can you imagine if I had a sideblog for things that I thought weren’t good enough for this one

[mitigatedchaos]

Mathematically, assuming a uniform distribution in the Tumblr space, as the number t of Tumblrs goes to infinity, the probability of a blog with the same contents as argumateextras existing approaches 1.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

broke: more women should work for Google

woke: no one should work for Google

[argumate]

abstractagamid said: Google should work for us

nice

[mitigatedchaos]

“woke”: no one should work for Google

woke: everyone should work for Google, then the diversity of Google’s workforce achieves perfect representation

[argumate]

you may just have a point

[mitigatedchaos]

i cannot be held responsible for what happens when Google achieves Corporate Diversity Nirvana and transcends on the golden path to the ultimate state of multicultural being, okay

like, it isn’t my fault when they do this and ascend to the pantheon just because i pointed it out first

the fault of the immortal godmind of the ultimate corporate body of social justice manifesting physically is your fault for reblogging me

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

broke: more women should work for Google

woke: no one should work for Google

[argumate]

abstractagamid said: Google should work for us

nice

[mitigatedchaos]

“woke”: no one should work for Google

woke: everyone should work for Google, then the diversity of Google’s workforce achieves perfect representation

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

You see, a suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their friends have ulterior motives for defending them. But a really suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their enemies have ulterior motives for attacking them.

[mitigatedchaos]

I’m just trying to bring about World Revolution!  Why doesn’t anyone believe me?!

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[fierceawakening]

Weird question time: what does it mean not to have a stable sense of self?

I ask because I am not sure I’ve experienced that. Every time I’ve felt something that I can imagine describing that way, it hasn’t been about not knowing what my self was, it’s been about being ashamed. Like, being convinced that what I know is important to me is bad and trying to disavow it and feeling unmoored in response because nothing I tried to replace it with felt right.

Is that what not having a stable sense of self is? Or does not having a stable sense of self mean literally not being sure what you like and want, rather than just not being sure it’s ok to want or like those things?

[cromulentenough]

I don’t know if i have a stable sense of self, but like, i feel that i get easily convinced or swayed by people and I pick up mannerisms from people i like and talk to or hang out with a lot, i feel like i don’t have very much of a personality. I do have likes and opinions and aesthetics that i like, but not that many that are strong and i feel like it’s hugely affected by people i like around me or that i respect or follow online. I find it hard to decide whether i like something a lot of the time when it comes to things like media.

[mitigatedchaos]

Yessssss,

just keep reading this blog and start believing that we need to replace the government with the thing that comes after what happens when you fuse think tanks, political parties, a hypothetical National Utility Function, and stock markets, wearing uniforms from old governments whose era long since passed, and preparing for the final robot war to seize control of the Moon

nothing could possibly go wrong

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[ranma-official]

I now have a Twitter (which is to say, I remembered the e-mail for my old Twitter), and I don’t understand how to use it.

do i just… start posting things no one has any capability of seeing in the first place? i replied to people, but it doesn’t show on my timeline and “joins in on already existing twitter war” is a niche clearly filled

[mitigatedchaos]

I thought you enjoyed yelling at people that you think are doing politics stupidly, as a recreational activity? Wouldn’t Soldier in the Great Twitter War be perfect?

[ranma-official]

140 character limit is like a noose

“Your beliefs are a like a religion. Suicide and self-harm are still incredibly high after HRT & GRS.” “In fact, transgenderism is much worse than religion. At least religion saves people from suicide.”

“Interesting thought! Interesting thought. But no. What’s actually true is” and i have no more space

[mitigatedchaos]

Ugh, you are so unimaginative, Ranma.  All you have to do is post strings of (X/140) tweets and then get accused of “manthreading” by a shtty BuzzHuff writer that has no idea what your gender is.

I don’t know why anyone would think Twitter is an inherently limiting platform that promotes bad discourse norms by its very form, lol.

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Anonymous asked:

Beheading Mount Olympus: Mountaintop Removal Mining As Strategy In The Global War On Gods (2034), Journal Of The Society Of Effective Atheism

Oh sht, do you have it?  I haven’t been able to read it because it’s behind a paywall and my religion prohibits me from buying access to overpriced science journals.