It’s Super Important
Further to The Blurting, a footnote of sorts:
“My Fox News dad makes everything political” https://t.co/JxaZvPwrSg
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) August 15, 2024
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Update, via the comments:
The above, it seems to me, is not so much a declaration of values as a psychological profile.
As Rafi says in reply,
Not having to deal with such people does have a cash value. If in order to use a communal laser cutter, you first have to “strive to uphold” the notion that sex differences are unrelated to biology, that “meritocracy is a joke,” and that, despite all available evidence, “nonbinary people” somehow aren’t aggravating poseurs… Then, well, buying your own laser cutter seems a much better option.
After all, this life is finite and best not wasted on proximity to wankers.
Oh, and some of that super important intersectionality.
Not so much a declaration of values as a psychological profile.
‘Feminism is good’…? What on earth?!
There comes a point, a level of convolution and question-begging, at which you’re no longer briefly mentioning the house rules – play nicely, use coasters, for instance. Instead, you’re doing… something else.
That kind of thing.
I mean… it’s a bit much.
I’d buy my own laser cutter.
Not understanding the context. If I add:
Am I doing it right?
Not thrilled about the word makerspace either.
Not having to deal with such people does have a cash value.
If in order to use a communal laser cutter, you first have to “strive to uphold” the notion that sex differences are unrelated to biology, that “meritocracy is a joke,” and that, despite all available evidence, “nonbinary people” somehow aren’t aggravating poseurs… Then, well, buying your own fucking laser cutter seems a much better option.
I mean, this life is finite and best not wasted on proximity to wankers.
“Meritocracy is a joke”
Spoken like an envious mediocrity. People got ahead of him by cheating — no other explanation. Couldn’t be that they have talent he’s neurologically unable to detect.
LOL. How do these people even cope with the real world?
I’m not sure they are. Coping, I mean. Maybe that’s why they impose such elaborate conditions on who may bask in their presence. Maybe it’s a continual effort to minimise the dissonance, the laughable air of pretence.
Not thrilled about the word makerspace either
It’s a goddamned workshop, is what it is, it’s just populated by people with so little basic handiness that nailing two bits of wood together makes them think they’ve discovered Atlantis.
I’m reminded of the hipster boutiques in nearby Hamilton that did a brisk business teaching hipster millenniallettes how to sew, as if this were some kind of avant-garde trendy thing instead of basic homemaking.
It’s probably worth noting that the rise of makerspaces has a lot to do with the unaffordability of housing; there’s no room for a workshop or the kind of tools you’d find in one when the most you can afford is a one-bedroom apartment.
“Meritocracy is a joke”
Hey, come on now, without all these people with delusions of adequacy we would be bereft of all the fine art Davis has graciously graced us within these pages. I have no doubts the artisans in the makerspace are turning out works to rival the Pieta.
A little preemptive palate cleansing might be in order:
And a palate cleanser for Dicentra:
The ideal solution, however, is to exclude those wankers from society.
Speaking of wankers:
Nothing in common, he says, haughtily.
Weird flex.
‘Tis rather. Chappie is apparently looking for a roommate, in case you’re tempted, and I’m now wondering if his views on hygiene and signs of social decline also extend to his domestic arrangements.
See, this is what I wasn’t getting. What did I miss there? I was thinking makerspace was some sort of software (because it’s cool and hip and software-y to not capitalize stuff) you needed to log into to use a laser cutter, thus this message popped up or something.
As for nailing two bits of wood together makes them think they’ve discovered Atlantis, curious if you’ve done much hands-on woodworking, construction, or metal working.
Also per I’d buy my own laser cutter…Does using a table saw make me Amish now?
One proudly announced dysfunction almost certainly is a sign of many others. And if you allow him in your home he may leave behind “tiny livestock” which will require an exterminator to remove. Prudent to keep one’s distance from him.
I have heard the term used by actually skilled people doing clever things. Although that does not make it sound any less pretentious. But maybe the pretentiously untalented have now adopted the term.
Ah, but if you’re not happy to wade through piles of food-smeared detritus and human faeces on your way to the shops, he doesn’t want anything to do with you.
Dry those tears.
Depends on whose standards you’re trying to meet.
Or that they’re not always going on about their nethers.
More ‘waylay’ and ‘abuse’ than ‘adopt’.
Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, which is semi-trendy with a relatively high crime rate–although not as high as the west side and south side. Maybe he is hoping to transform it into a complete slum.
Glancing at his substack, he seems to be another philosophy student, which is one of those red flags of personality.
Somewhat off-topic, it’s official.
Lol — with affirmations like that, I don’t think we have anything to worry about from them. It’s a manifesto for the delusional.
I’m sure the lessons they learn from their upcoming collective failure will sink-in and we’ll never see anything like this again! 🙄
the word makerspace
Sounds very Dune-ish.
Even Shai Hulud is entitled to his own space.
Very much related: British policing – the state of it:
Onwards, comrades!
Very much related: British policing – the state of it:
And yet they have plenty of time/energy/resources to go after online Wrongthink, even in other countries!
The purpose of a system is what it does. (AKA anarchotyranny in action.)
“feminism is good”–but doesn’t feminism advocate for female-only spaces? Oh, right, trans women are “real women”, even when they show women their erection…how silly of me.
It seems unlikely Sir Robert would much appreciate the current constabulary being referred to as ‘bobbies’.
The anarchy is justification for establishing the police state.
I wonder if this is the intersectionality that they say is “super important.”
LOL. Bring back shunning.
I’ve run into people like that. I wasn’t always sure if they consciously preferred squalor or if they were so psychologically damaged that they could not even keep their rooms clean.
I wonder if this is the intersectionality that they say is “super important.”
If so they just demonstrated once again that intersections are where the worst wrecks happen.
squalor: it is my perception that the squalor is like a snapshot of their mental processes–disorganized and lazy. There is a reason Peterson’s first of 12 rules is “clean your room”.
Those intersections are in desperate need of traffic control.
Regarding British policing and free speech, Blackadder has thoughts.
My understanding is that living in squalor can be a spiral: Caused by depression and then itself leading to more depression.
The problems of polyamory: a thread.
“Polyamorists enjoy writing complex rules for their various relationships and then rewriting the rules. They like having “difficult conversations” and breaking social norms.”
I don’t know how accurate that observation is, but it reminds me of Sheldon Cooper.
And the polyamorists I’ve known were physically rather unattractive and psychologically rather messed up.
“But I don’t like spending a lot of my time thinking about sex — how to acquire it, who to have it with.”
One gay sf writer said that he worked in the mornings but spent his afternoons cruising for anonymous sex. Unhealthy in multiple ways, but I got the impression we weren’t supposed to judge.
So, progressives with the naughty bits on display.
Awww. Just for me?
Inability to impose order on chaos in your own space is a symptom of depression and mental dysfunction, yes. I know what it’s like to not have the mental energy to deal with a pile of clutter, to be so overwhelmed by the task that I never can do it, and then it just gets worse and worse.
I have maid service every 2 weeks for most of my house, and a few months ago I asked my sister and her hubs to redo my room. First task was getting all the clutter out of it, and we tossed many things, then came paint and wallpaper and new shelving.
With the new starting place (clean) I can better handle chaos when it begins to creep in, and yet there are plenty of corners elsewhere in the yard and house where there’s just a lot of STUFF, and I can’t deal with it.
At least I know it’s a problem with me and not with society’s expectations.
Not having enough storage space can make a big difference: If it’s a chore to put things away in an organized fashion, then chaos is more likely to creep in.
Not necessarily on display–literally or figuratively. Most of the polyamorists I’ve known were not exhibitionistic, just messed up in other ways. And Sheldon Cooper may be funny on TV (sometimes) but I would find him impossible to deal with in real life, not least with his Relationship Agreements.
[ Remembers sense of Herculean triumph after clearing out hallway closet. ]
[ Checks state of hallway closet. ]
I’m such a sweetie.
But maybe you can let David look occasionally.
What was that old radio show with the recurring gag about the closet so full that opening the door resulted in an avalanch?
“Where the hell are those boots I’ve never worn?”
“They’re in there somewhere…”
[ Muttering, sounds of ironing board being dragged from closet into hallway. ]
#TrueStory
Is that hallway closet David’s very own Augean Stables?
The words heroic feat would not be unwarranted.
[ trumpet fanfare ]
What was that old radio show with the recurring gag about the closet so full that opening the door resulted in an avalanche?
Fibber McGee and Molly.
Among the many, many items stuffed in there, in numerous teetering piles, often for reasons that escape me, was a crate of 12″ singles.
I haven’t owned a turntable since 1993.
[ Looks up the International Obsessive Audiophiles’ snitch line. ]
Regarding British policing and free speech, Blackadder has thoughts
That video has been making the rounds, but it’s from the 2012 Reform Section 5 campaign, which was successful in 2013.
I expect Atkinson’s views on the subject today would be exactly the same, but no one’s asked him.
I don’t know how accurate that observation is, but it reminds me of Sheldon Cooper
Polyamorists are of a piece with the blank-slate, novy sovetsky chelovek types who think they are supremely rational above all other human beings, and not at all driven by deep-rooted emotional responses to stimuli encoded by thousands of years of evolution.
I noticed one of the commenters zeroed in on the “100% of people like Aella were sexually abused as children” phenomenon.
They do seem to often think of themselves as super-rational.
Just occurred to me that nearly all the polyamorists I have known did not have children. A possibly significant datum.