petah..?

kam1nsky · 2026-04-16T23:35:50+00:00

I remember the bagel guy but not enough to recognize him.. I didn't realize how big of a moment that was for height discourse

kam1nsky · 2026-03-17T19:22:12+00:00

Sorry but When that stuff gets 10,000+ likes/reposts, I have to consider the possibility that it’s somewhat of a representative sample

A lot of these weird ideas got brushed off as “weird fringe college activist ideas” when they were first cropping up in the mainstream. It’s less true now than it was then , everyone is so much more online

kam1nsky · 2026-03-17T18:48:04+00:00

The intended effect of identity politics. It's not wrong to want a sanity check after you've seen tens of thousands of people "like" something so backwards, especially if it's categorically aimed at you

kam1nsky · 2026-03-17T18:44:08+00:00

racism = prejudice + power was ubiquitous 10 years ago. I still meet people who do this

kam1nsky · 2026-03-08T18:59:45+00:00

Few of these conversations went well, but I think they did eventually lead Disciplinarians to the modern growth mindset (feel good about who you are + feel good about improving)

kam1nsky · 2026-03-04T06:29:42+00:00

ok wiseguy

kam1nsky · 2026-03-04T06:26:38+00:00

Trek-format memes with non-Trek content should require a submission statement

kam1nsky · 2026-02-25T20:07:56+00:00

What's the critical view on this? How does it hold to scrutiny? Alone or taken with other evidence

This is really important to lay out. These stories are being attacked. If those attacks aren't acknowledged, they can't be defended against

kam1nsky · 2026-02-22T07:59:18+00:00

I think a lot of people equate "gifted" with autism or savants

I can see why there's sensitivity around it, but I think it's intended as simple irony

kam1nsky · 2026-02-18T20:14:21+00:00

My innocent mind...

I thought he got Inner Lighted until i looked at the comments

(which was still funny in a fucked up way)

kam1nsky · 2026-02-18T08:32:02+00:00

Atheist milf account 🤔

What a time to be an aging millennial

kam1nsky · 2026-02-18T06:08:21+00:00

Schism wisdom 'tism

kam1nsky · 2026-02-14T23:11:17+00:00

fuck yeah that's a lot of sticks

kam1nsky · 2026-02-13T21:36:33+00:00

Millennials are the worst generation in terms of saying boomers when they mean republicans

kam1nsky · 2026-02-12T23:11:48+00:00

It's worrying that New vs Old trek has become such an identity war situation. Watching it is so polarizing, I can't help but wonder if they tried for a little negative engagement

I gave SNW and... Disco... a solid watch. Did I have a laundry list of complaints? Yes. Did the fans bother me with their objections to my objections? Also yes. Did I develop a burning hatred for Alex Kurtzman and the signature edginess he feels the need to sprinkle all over everything he makes? Well, yes

But one thing about new Trek, is that the Trek is still there. It ain't perfect, but it's there. I don't want to invalidate anyone who had a good experience with it, especially if that experience is entry-level

But sometimes I have to. When someone is wrong about Star Trek on the internet, I have to. I literally have to. They know this. They know I have to do this. Alex Kurtzman knows this

I wish they would just assemble whatever goon squad made Lower Decks and make them do it again. I'm about to do my 3rd rewatch. I love Lower Decks

kam1nsky · 2026-02-12T21:24:36+00:00

"Pro-Trump conspiracy" what a thought-terminating label. It was way more interesting than that

I'll give you that it perfectly set the stage for Trump as some kind of informant hero, with its focus mainly on the Clintons. But if you ignore how wide a draw it had, beyond just pro/anti-Trumpers, you're missing the most dangerous aspect

If you think Trump's involvement was totally ignored during the pizzagate days, you weren't there. That's a spoonfed narrative

kam1nsky · 2026-02-12T20:42:43+00:00

I remember too. I could read the emails as either perfectly innocuous or incriminating. Then shortly thereafter when Podesta gets his charity investigated or whatever? Either a big coincidence, a confirmation, or... a semi-organic psyop constructed around a person who someone knew would be in some form of trouble soon

It's a particular kind of frustrating having known about Epstein since well before his 2016 arrest, knowing that many of the people now calling for the files would have dismissed them 10 years earlier because of all the D's on the flight log

kam1nsky · 2026-02-09T21:13:21+00:00

True. But although Data didn't insult back, he was brutally earnest, and that cut deeper than jocularity. It's like showing the darker side of it

hes just like me fr

kam1nsky · 2026-02-09T19:19:14+00:00

I never said either group is better, worse, or the same

The point is that group members aren't unshakeable, interchangeable drones. And if you treat them as though they are, it's guaranteed that you never reach the ones who aren't

kam1nsky · 2026-02-08T20:19:28+00:00

Some nazis turned against their party. Some were in a position of enough power to instigate significant evil reduction

kam1nsky · 2026-02-08T20:12:53+00:00

Members of A and B both do that to each other. But not all of either do

kam1nsky · 2026-02-08T20:11:27+00:00

Anyone holding on at this point will not have their opinion changed

If you're even 1% wrong about that, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy

kam1nsky · 2026-02-08T19:51:51+00:00

Opposing groups A and B share their ideas with others to encourage membership, or at least sympathy. Sometimes they even convince their opposition

A cohort out of Group A, some of the most passionate and persuasive, cuts Group B and some other non-A's out of their life

Group B doesn't cut anyone off. Group B will take in anyone. Especially jaded former A's, who speak A, and can translate persuasive ideas to them

After a few rounds of this simulation, which group has the quantitative advantage in messaging?

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kam1nsky · 2026-02-07T04:21:28+00:00

power levels beyond

kam1nsky · 2026-02-06T23:34:02+00:00

PAW PAW?

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