Everything I have read about this guy creeps me out or pisses me off.
"Isn't this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!"
From the Small Mercies desk: remember Simone Collins was running for office in Pennsylvania? Well, she lost her campaign. Here's a piece about her from the Inquirer.
Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of "techno-optimism". Setting aside Land's ugly views about everything... I didn't think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.
Apparently deaf people never have kids. Hmm. Alright. Okay.
This guy isn't even the first techbro to suggest recently that if disabled people are allowed to have kids, eventually we will all be disabled. I know very very little about genetics, but I'm still pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
If you were someone who believed in IQ like a religion, but had just made a stupid and costly mistake, I would hope you'd take a second to think. Maybe IQ isn't everything, and it's definitely not the only thing, that makes people successful or unsuccessful.
Instead he busts out a slur and jokes about having an IQ of 26
The actual Vatican seems to use its own .va domain name, which neatly sidesteps the .com vs .org dilemma.....but doesn't explain why they let randomers use catholic.com and catholic.org.
the context for them purchasing an extremely expensive castle is they had a lot of money (no shit)
Ohhh the hypocrisy. Wasn't EA meant to tackle these kind of inefficiencies???
no irritating residents groups on Mars. And no need for an environmental impact report. It really is quite close to early colonialism
maol
joined 2 years ago
Pick one, you can't have both.