BoingBoomTschak

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Comment · 11 hours ago

"Though they like to fancy themselves independent thinkers, the intellectuals are (allowing for individual exceptions) the most oversocialized, the most conformist, the tamest and most domesticated, the most pampered, dependent, and spineless group in America today."

Comment · 11 hours ago

> but the vast majority of people in academia are just regular people with families and interests outside of academia

If most people realized that, we would have much less problems: academics are often shrouded in an aura of virtue and wisdom they don't deserve in the least. Like what you see in this thread, that their narrow (or worse, illusory) knowledge will somehow help them being good rulers/leaders.

Comment · 1 day ago

I did that yesterday after updating from macOS 14 to 15 on my work laptop; well, added "10.0.0.0/8" too. Spent a few hours trying to understand that that new permission thing simply couldn't work with my Emacs launch agent (service)... fucking Apple treating CLI users like dirt.

Comment · 6 days ago

"Democracy Just Werks^tm" is starting to look like "The Free Market will solve it" more and more with each passing day...

Comment · 6 days ago

Someone never tried shoegaze...

Comment · 6 days ago

The unspoken question here is "can a species with an aversion to harmony form a civilization, something requiring some form of strong and extended cooperation?".

Comment · 11 days ago

I pretend to have a modicum of taste and while I didn't find it boring on the whole, there's a much smaller yet better novel that could be extracted from it. It's just way too self-indulgent and meandering at times.

Comment · 15 days ago

Well, they call it a pure "driver's car" but it's really too fussy to be that. A Miata or Elise/Exige would be what I'd put that label on.