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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] mii@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Proof that pasta doesn't exist:

  • An atom isn't pasta.
  • Adding an atom to something that isn't pasta doesn't make it pasta.
  • Therefore nothing is pasta.
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

omg, I'm not real.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

I wonder if we can start requiring history of science, philosophy, and literary & artistic theory classes in secondary school (or at least before giving out doctorates), just to limit incredibly annoying adults who think they're geniuses. I also thought I invented brain-in-a-vat thought experiments when I was ten, but I don't opine on them reinvented from first principles.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

maybe you're referring to when i brought it up in last week's thread? and yeah, this is basically the same

can't wait for AI bros to invent the trolley problem

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

twice as fast trolleys, with ChatGPT driving

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

new thing for the next little while: anytime a promptfondler claims a prompt has ~intelligence~, "oh yeah so why do you have to ask it things? why isn't it here having a beer with us?" for the 3 minutes of entertainment it may provide

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

making that subscript was not intentional, but rofl. gj lemmy

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

This is the proof by induction method for the people who don't know btw.