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New comment by yew in "An almost catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it"

yew — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:04:00 +0000

> I am well past the point in my life where I engage with that sort of noise in any good faith[.]

One must certainly agree that there's no point engaging with this in good faith.

New comment by yew in "The world of Japan's PC-98 computer"

yew — Sat, 24 May 2025 02:19:53 +0000

Nah. The people writing racist fanfiction on AO3 are equally beardy, and those are mostly women. It's just the standard weirdos/creeps problem.

New comment by yew in "Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws"

yew — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:23:13 +0000

Fictional things can't lose elections, silly.

New comment by yew in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

yew — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:51:18 +0000

> Power corrupts...

"And absolute power is kind of neat."

New comment by yew in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

yew — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:25:44 +0000

Evidence is socially constructed. It's the view of the public that neckbeards and debate-bros should be expunged. This isn't a debate.

New comment by yew in "I heard the full story of the woman jailed for two years for a tweet"

yew — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:30:52 +0000

Sounds like Pearson here needs a few years to cool off, reconsider getting involved with this kind of provocative troublemaking.

New comment by yew in "Meritocracy doesn't exist and believing it does is bad for you (2019)"

yew — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:45:13 +0000

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I'm not advocating group solidarity.

("Group" and "solidarity" are such fuzzily broad terms. But I think, not in the sense you intend. Real humans are, of course, social creatures.)

New comment by yew in "Meritocracy doesn't exist and believing it does is bad for you (2019)"

yew — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:59:36 +0000

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New comment by yew in "Meritocracy doesn't exist and believing it does is bad for you (2019)"

yew — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:40:43 +0000

Meritocracy isn't real and hard work doesn't work, but there are lots of real factors under your control. Vote in your own best interest. Get involved in politics. Favor class, gender, ethnic interests. Sharpen your social skills.

That's a real internal locus of control. Shaping society is just another job, and a lot more rewarding to learn.

Get out, touch grass, do real things, meet real people, help your friends, let them help you. (Confound your enemies.)

New comment by yew in "Hey Democrats, wake the f–k up"

yew — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:14:44 +0000

"No, John. You are the neckbeards." And then John was an incel.

New comment by yew in ""Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired"

yew — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:06:11 +0000

I think we should probably ban reading old books. They seem to infect people with bad ideas.

New comment by yew in "Men overestimate women's preference for masculinity"

yew — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:19:08 +0000

> "How Americans edit sex out of my writing"

Reading, I would say that the author isn't really "European" but rather a sex pest trying to sell an American audience the exoticism of "Europe."

(See Neil Gaiman and the rest of that gang for recent more specificity.)

The representation isn't genuine but assumed. I'm not sure you picked the best example.

New comment by yew in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

yew — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:49:14 +0000

(Unsafety and fear always motivate silence and action. You might expect certain people to understand that better than most.)

New comment by yew in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

yew — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:34:59 +0000

Not particularly. The matter is no longer up for discussion. Silence and action are best.

New comment by yew in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

yew — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:37:52 +0000

Hm. I see them as connected - "we must confront our problems domestically before we fight them abroad."

New comment by yew in "The Internet Is Killing Science Too"

yew — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:10:45 +0000

> The progressive left’s recent deviation into science-mongering is so hot and heavy with irony that it can be difficult to hold onto it long enough for serious examination. We may at least say that it represents desperation, and a tragic descent into dogmatism. It’s always been hard for our Editorial Board at least to hear “Trust the Science” as demanding anything other than: “Trust us”. If asked why one should do so, the only truly plausible answer is the one that none who mouth this phrase could ever actually give: “Trust the science because we are the ones in power, or because it is through our claims to a knowledge-monopoly that we hope to retain power, or better to secure it.”

> We may imagine that it was in some measure this intervention on ALC’s part that led some months later to that similarly acronymous New York woman-to-watch AOC’s removal, just this past week, of the pronouns from her social-media bios. We doubt this removal will lead to any confusion or social faux-pas, as we presume that more or less everyone has the “trained judgment” necessary to “sex” AOC as she would prefer.

Whoever wrote this is a truly towering idiot.

New comment by yew in "Elite misinformation is an underrated problem"

yew — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:50:27 +0000

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New comment by yew in "They don't make readers like they used to"

yew — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:19:47 +0000

Everyone who ever read that stuff needs the Larry Garfield treatment...

New comment by yew in "They don't make readers like they used to"

yew — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:11:12 +0000

Meh. The neckbeards deserve it.

New comment by yew in "The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want"

yew — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:35:36 +0000

He collected the cars and wrote about the (non-fictional) drugs. He wasn't an exhibitionist, as far as I know, so you'll have to infer what you like about the middle one from his writing.

Some related reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/may/20/fiction.scienc...

https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-iain-banks-a-merger-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/iain-banks-274-v16n12/