Sherman McCoy
@wasphyxiation
Moderate Republican. I just want the trains to run on time
My latest for Substack. Is the cyberpunk genre still relevant? I discuss how cyberpunk is basically "Fallout for the 1980s" at this point, and how an alternative take on the genre is more meaningful for our world. Plug into "Cyberflunk 2077" to find out! waspergers.substack.com/p/cyberflunk-2…
UK Asylum seekers are not the most vulnerable people in the world. They are mostly military age males who have the resources to come all the way there. There are many far more vulnerable women, children and elderly around the world. Asylum seekers cost countries cost European…
What we can't do is blame asylum seekers for our failing public services. These are the most vulnerable people in our world and they have no safe or legal routes to this country and also have no choice over where the Home Office puts them.
Mrs. JODIE FOSTER you have aged more gracefully and with more dignity than the trollop Jane "HANOI WHORE" Fonda. CONGRATULATIONS. I liked
Just committed genocide (used mouthwash to kill the billions of bacteria in my mouth)
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Me to Hitler: 1. Me 2. George W. Bush 3. Elizabeth II 4. Edward VIII 5. Hitler
Me to Hitler: 1. Me 2. Great-grandfather 3. Charles Lindbergh 4. Hitler
Living in a hot place that requires AC but little heat is way better for overall energy consumption than a cold place the requires heat but little AC. It feels insane but it’s true, and no one can have a real conversation on the topic until they get their heads around this!
Rail is best used for freight while humans should fly through the sky at 500 miles per hour because they value their time.
Hard to believe how much of an _institution_ late night talk shows were. Everyone followed gossip about Leno v Letterman, Leno v Conan. A whole generation of young people got their news from The Daily Show. The Colbert saga, like the dockworker strike, feels like a last hurrah
✅️ distinctive, three-dimensional logo ✅️ clear explanation of what the website is ✅️ links to all of the major pages on the site ✅️ treats the desktop user like a desktop user and not like a retarded dinosaur with a 30-inch phone "UI designers" should learn from this!
Backend dev: frontend is so easy! The frontend:
I killed them. I killed them all. they're all dead. all 10^100 of them. and not just the shrimps but the shrimpettes and shrimplings too.
Halo was right
It’s darkly funny that sci fi invariably imagined AI as pure logic machines and the reality is they’re hallucinatory language imitators which become schizophrenic even more readily than people do
The most “X” decision ever made is implementing a TikTok-like slop video tab but omitting the thing that actually makes TikTok engaging (being forced to swipe instead of autoplay fools your brain into thinking it’s doing physical work)
With the H-1B lottery set to be replaced by something non-random, firms acting as middlemen and flooding the system with lottery entries are going to lose their niche and disappear. Good!
Funny thing about universalist utilitarianism is that it implies that we should sacrifice vast, maybe even infinite, numbers of lives to protect the only group who consistently instantiates universalism: Anglos.
You should save 10^100 shrimp instead of one human, because 10^100 is a very big number. If you are 99.9999999999999% sure that shrimp feel 0 pain, and .00000000000001% sure that shrimp feel a 1/10000000th the pain humans do, this would still be an easy decision
Looking back at the “long 2010s” (2009 - end of Covid), all cultural mistakes (sixty weeks to slow the spread, “wokeness”, collapse of IRL dating) can be traced to neuroticism. How did we wind up selecting for it, and how can we reverse it?
Today I wrote about how the misanthropic quirks of a small group of people became a generalization that all women never wanted men to talk to them, and why this narrative got so big in the 2010s. Link in replies.