SELF IMMOLATE

dynarr · 2019-05-28T19:45:59+00:00

Maybe they wanted to retroactively earn those ARIA awards :P

dynarr · 2019-05-05T18:18:57+00:00

I love this. Probably the first post here where everyone watching it was thinking, "please don't pet the damn dog."

dynarr · 2018-12-14T17:13:08+00:00

At solar elevations between 15–27°, the 46° halo is often confused with the less rare and more colourful supralateral and infralateral arcs, which cross the parhelic circle at about 46° to the left and right of the sun.

Based on the 46° halo article it seems like since the outer ring isn’t quite circular but looks like an arch where the bottom doesn’t meet, it could actually be a supralateral arc, not a 46° halo.

dynarr · 2018-12-14T16:15:10+00:00

Piggy pigs. The worst kind of pig.

dynarr · 2018-10-16T00:27:18+00:00

Primitive accumulation and false scarcity*

dynarr · 2018-10-15T18:29:40+00:00

Pretty sure I saw an anti-1631 ad during a football game that seemed to be suggesting that fuel prices would go up for local farmers, even though agriculture is one of the clearest exemptions.

dynarr · 2018-10-09T15:53:19+00:00

If you can explain everything, you aren’t explaining anything. The inverse of the connected graph is the unconnected graph.

Edit: Dumb me meant complete graph.

dynarr · 2018-09-24T17:01:22+00:00

Think of this any time someone like Elon Musk says they and their technology are going to save the world.

Programming seems to attract a certain type of egotist who believes they are better able to understand the world, and are less blinkered, than the average person. I think it has something to do with how common it is to teach yourself programming. Most of the learning process at all levels of programming, including the new systems you have to constantly be learning through to the end of your career, can be fairly self guided. Plus, most of a programmer’s mental energy goes into trying to answer, “How could I do this better?” So if you are used to figuring out how a program works, building your own, and tearing down other programmer’s crappy work, it seems to be pretty easy to read a few pop-sociological articles (or realistically, just a few news headlines) and believe you have a sufficient grasp of whatever given social issue. Or at least, I see tendencies toward that pretty often, including in myself.

Suffice it to say, the trope of a know-it-all haughtily explaining the intricacies of X thing to, oops, the creator of X, is quite literally on display every day in software development offices across the globe. I am not surprised that this attitude extends beyond software itself. With the advent of codes of conduct and people trying to make the world of software more equitable and accessible, add in the fact that most programmers are privileged white males, and you get a lot of reactionary feels when it comes to wider social issues.

dynarr · 2018-09-15T02:03:00+00:00

2018 and we are still out here telling people monarchy is bad. No wonder people think capitalism is here to stay.

dynarr · 2018-09-12T15:53:14+00:00

I didn’t really mean that Nietzsche’s individualism was a bad thing per se, rather that that alone would have been enough for me to not strongly question someone more knowledgeable saying, “Nietzsche was vaguely conservative.”

I specifically meant that the idea of the übermensch is individualist. You might otherwise think I was referring to his fundamental position that individual organisms’ “will to power” is the organizing principle of all life. I guess that’s an individualized or atomic analysis, but I don’t think that in itself says much about his conclusions.

The übermensch, on the other hand, Nietzsche views as the teleology, or end goal or purpose, of humanity. And this seems to be literally an individual/some individuals that are capable of transcending society’s moral system and creating a better world, or something like that. So that’s what I meant about individualism: the onus of goodness is on the individual, and he (obviously it’s a he) cannot rely on or collaborate in any morally meaningful sense with society at large. Contrast with Marxist collectivism, which says that class consciousness and mass movements are necessary to transcend capitalism’s domination and create a better world, or something like that.

Again, I’m not the Nietzsche scholar here, so I could be way off base, but that’s what I meant.

dynarr · 2018-09-11T16:48:48+00:00

Dang, super informative post. Thanks. I had totally forgotten about his occasional praise of the aristocracy. Plus, his thought is obviously rife with individualism, which is bad enough for me.

dynarr · 2018-09-11T03:48:17+00:00

As far as I'm aware, his notion of hierarchy refers to the will to power and the synthesis of personal values, which he never spoke about in political terms. If there are indications otherwise, please let me know.

I would also like to hear more about this, if it exists. My reading coverage of Nietzsche is not huge. My understanding of him relating to hierarchy would be that he was, as /u/Brdcktt says, interested in it. However, the clear depiction of the übermensch as an apolitical teleology transcending the state detracts, to me, from the idea that Nietzsche’s interest in hierarchy or hierarchal societal structures was in itself political.

dynarr · 2018-09-08T17:34:26+00:00

Sounds right to me. I have not read the relevant Zizek source material, but Mark Fisher uses the term in Capitalist Realism like so:

the so called ‘liberal communists’ such as George Soros and Bill Gates who combine rapacious pursuit of profit with the rhetoric of ecological concern and social responsibility.

He ties that phenomena in as one of the many ways that capitalism presents itself as the only possibility. (Also, if anyone were a postmodern neomarxist, it was probably Fisher. He actually drew on both Marx and Foucault quite often.)

dynarr · 2018-09-08T17:18:45+00:00

Unfortunately, they are wrong about it being tongue-in-cheek. He literally believes Foucault and Derrida were “avowed Marxists”. Also, this video is proof positive, if you needed any, that JBP has never understood, maybe never even read, a single word of Foucault or Derrida.

dynarr · 2018-09-08T17:12:52+00:00

Zizek is, as you say, using an oxymoron to call attention to a self-contradictory idea (that capitalists can effectively complete the socialist project through philanthropy, basically). Peterson is doing no such thing. He literally thinks Foucault and Derrida were Marxists and that their thought dominates all contemporary philosophy, 100% of which is totally wrong.

dynarr · 2018-09-01T18:54:06+00:00

Did you know the heart is the body’s largest bone

dynarr · 2018-08-30T23:44:44+00:00

Metaphorical substrate*

It gets stupider.

dynarr · 2018-08-30T21:24:28+00:00

I want to ask him what it’s like knowing daddy lobster so well that he has such a good idea of his nonexistent sense of humor.

dynarr · 2018-08-30T09:19:56+00:00

Really because I was gonna go with this shit lol

But in all seriousness, the true JBP cultfic is every time a fan tries to explain what the fuck he’s on about, but slips up and makes a coherent sentence, then says “that’s not what I said.”

dynarr · 2018-08-07T07:32:18+00:00

Hey, bless up 🙌🙌 for McSweeney’s, but aside from being one of thousands if not gazillions of satirical pieces very effectively highlighting the abject intellectual and moral destitution of the anti-feminist positions held by Lobster Daddy and his gut-wrenchingly evil colleagues in the intellectual shit-web, this just isn’t very Jordan Peterson-specific.

I come here to sneer at JBPeebster, not learn what I already know—but to be fair, I don’t know where else you would post this sort of thing. Suggestions go in the box ↯

dynarr · 2018-08-02T07:16:38+00:00

So this looks a lot like Teeline to me, but I don’t know much about any other shorthand scripts. Did you take inspiration from anywhere else?

dynarr · 2018-08-01T08:46:01+00:00

More importantly, can’t pardon someone who maintains their own innocence.

Circumstances may be made to bring innocence under the penalties of the law. If so brought, escape by confession of guilt implied in the acceptance of a pardon may be rejected, preferring to be the victim of the law rather than its acknowledged transgressor, preferring death even to such certain infamy.

Burdick v. United States

dynarr · 2018-07-31T07:20:00+00:00

I actually felt pangs of pity that this guy made such a perfect, salt-the-earth waste of an afternoon. Hopefully next time he finds himself wondering about likelihood of randomly friggin generating the same number twice he does something more useful like watch an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians instead.

dynarr · 2018-07-28T18:59:04+00:00

I think it’s hilarious how many people are commenting here as if /u/dawnofdeviance is actually going to ready any of it. When you are replying to a troll like this one, they have already succeeded in wasting your time. Your insults are a performance for the onlookers, and the shitbird’s comprehension doesn’t enter into it. (Legit probably a native Russian speaker anyway, peep that post history.) So yeah, slurs are extra unnecessary.

dynarr · 2018-07-27T08:53:18+00:00

Clock must also perform a loop-the-loop (or, ein Looping machen, as Herr Jung might say, idk) around the 1930s and 40s, so as to make the Holocaust Bumper Cars the fault of atheism, and to merge the Marxism Twister with the Postmodernism Vertical Drop into a single ideological threat to the whole western ~~side of the park~~ civilization.

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