Posts by Lanny

2015-09-12 at 2:19 AM UTC in Mark311 is dead

Lanny Bird of Courage

I remember his hitchhiking stories always being pretty great. I think I drew a picture of him once. Yup, I did

http://i.imgur.com/0ExxK.jpg

anyway, RIP in peace yung nigga

2015-09-11 at 6:15 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

You have nothing but yourself and your thoughts and you can't run away from them anymore, eventually they destroy you.

I like that way of putting it. I can definitely feel that when I'm like at the DMV or something, stuck in a place I can't do anything stimulating, the feeling of turning inwards, turning hyper-critical, needing something to direct your energies towards and coming up totally empty. Feels almost like suffocating. Sometimes I think "what's malice's problem? He's got it good" because I feel like I could self stimulate with a computer with an internet connection for the rest of my life but like if I imagine not having the interests I do, or not getting the same level of satisfaction from them, I can see how it could do that to a person.

Also, since i'm talking to you anyway. I was thinking of becoming more active on reddit. Are there any subreddits you would recommend? I'm thinking /anarcho-capitalism, and /netsec any other good ones?

I know you didn't ask me but since you've mentioned liking EDM before you might enjoy r/futurebeats. It's a bit more left-field/experimental than r/EDM but it's not like it's full on Oval-jerkers (heu heu heu) and fewer E-tards.

Also r/badphilosophy is my only real regular haunt on reddit. If you're into philosophy you should check it out. It was originally the academic posters from r/philosophy and r/askphilosophy that got tired of constantly arguing with children and high bitches and made a half-joking cool kids sub. It's since turned into basically a raid sub for calling out stupid/funny philosophy related posts but there's a lot of other hijinx that goes on and it's just a cool community IMO. The author of existential comics posts there so there's that.

I'm not really happy with any of reddit's tech subs personally. r/compsci is generally better than r/computerscience in that sense that there are more competent posters, the posts aren't as much of a deluge of highschool students asking poorly formed questions (not that there's anything wrong with that, god knows I was there once, but it just stops being interesting after a while and I'm not sure it was ever educational. You're better off being in over your head and struggling to keep up with a community than a big fish in a small pond). r/programming is pretty blue collar but not bad for keeping an ear to the ground. I still think HN and lobste.rs are both better for general tech news, there's sort of this core community of movers and shakers in the programming world who have stuck, for the most part, together (with individuals coming and going) since the usenet days and HN was still in its prime when reddit was getting big so that's not really where the big hitters are today. The language-specific subs are pretty good, r/lisp is nice, r/clojure is slow but has smart people, I've heard good things about the haskell sub and there's some gruff old niggas floating around CPP that know their shit, but then for any of these subs to be interesting you have to have an interest in that language. I know python has a couple subs but I don't know anything about them. I'm not sure any of that really matters to you but that's my take on general technology communities in 2015.

2015-09-11 at 5:38 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Think through the chain. Open borders is estimated to double global GDP, you know. To give an example of the increase in welfare (utility) that can occur, on average their wages increase 20-fold, 2000%.

Do you mean closed borders? Because you've been complaining about european open border policy for years.

You must choose between the best possible, realistic, options available, not ideals that have no feasible way of coming about.

No doubt. But then american libertarians are the most idealistic niggers this country has next to neo nazis or something. The US has been on a one way flight towards statism since the new deal era and arguably since well before then. We may not arrive at empirical aristocracy tomorrow but it's certainly no less likely than the magical government that enforces nothing except the handful of near-totalitarian policy (immigration, military policy, property law) that the right holds close to their blackened little hearts.

What is that? Seems to be an off combination of nationalist and socialist policies. National…socialism…now where have I heard that term before? Modern leftists, progressive, really are illiberal in the original, true, sense of the word.

Fine, sure. Using an ugly slur like fascism does exactly nothingto change the fact that control by a competent state is fully justified to anyone interested in human well being. You can dribble on about horseshoe theory all your like, it doesn't change the fact that net human well being is the first duty of all agents, individual or state, and one governmental framework supports this endeavor better than other, a priori, because the statist worldview enables a proper superset of libertarian policy which is, categorically, better equipped to serve human interests.

Right-libertarianism is the most humanitarian ideology of all.

Humanitarianism is the most humanitarian ideology of all, your delusions of efficacy don't change that.

Rotten Tomatoes is infuriating me. This is exactly the kind of taste I would expect from stereotypical film critics, and unlike most people I don't hope people I generally dislike or disagree with will have these negative qualities and conform to stereotypes, but by god do they do so consistently.

Rotten tomatoes is like the opposite of popular opinion among trained film critics. It's tremendously low brow.

I want the most elitist site there is, but without the art school/university educated generic leftist/bobo mentality that's bound to plague the vast majority of them.

What's that? Leftists have an apparent monopoly on education, intelligence, and good taste?

Unsurprising.

2015-09-11 at 4:48 AM UTC in Shitty Technical Jokes

Lanny Bird of Courage

Guy's got fucking moon craters and asteroids named after him for crying out loud, but yeah, I didn't laugh and I didn't get it other than the inferred mathematician reference.

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I don't even know if that's supposed to be serious or sarcastic

2015-09-11 at 4:43 AM UTC in Native Americans weren't so great

Lanny Bird of Courage

Morons tout them as proto-ecological hippies but the fact is they wanted to reap the land just like we do, except they sucked at it.

I'm fully willing to agree that various native american peoples engaged in violent barbaric acts and that some groups engaged in environmentally unsustainable practices, but if your aim is to justify their genocide I don't think it follows from that that white niggas now own the land they occupied for centuries.

2015-09-11 at 4:38 AM UTC in Everything I learned in metaphysics university in one picture

Lanny Bird of Courage

Every time a new age faggot misuses the term "metaphysics" a thing in itself dies.

2015-09-11 at 4:35 AM UTC in What are you on?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Beer and weed. And noodles.

booze before and grass and all that rhyming shit i can never remember

2015-09-11 at 4:32 AM UTC in Hey LanMan, make the forums looks like this

Lanny Bird of Courage

I really do want to add thanks I've just been a lazy niggerdick and haven't gotten around to it. Remind me on a saturday, it's the only day I'm all three of online, not drunk after work, and not tripping on sundays.

2015-09-11 at 4:30 AM UTC in Most hillarious numbers

Lanny Bird of Courage

I was subway 11ths with my grandmas ashes which I was marajuanaing

2015-09-11 at 4:03 AM UTC in Hey LanMan, make the forums looks like this

Lanny Bird of Courage

I like Left, Reich, and Center and 99 problems, I'm taking those. Good shit.

The font remains sans because this isn't the 90s anymore and short form web content should be sans.

No merges because it's dumb button fiddling that accomplishes nothing.

2015-09-10 at 5:38 PM UTC in The Sleep of Reason

Lanny Bird of Courage

If this is true then why has Africa always been a shithole even before slavery.

Again, my thesis is that civilization is advanced by a small number of exceptional people who happen to have power. If a culture doesn't produce exceptional people, or fails to endow them with appropriate power, I'll argue it is unlikely to advance. Consider the infrastructure needed to produce meaningful advancement in the west. You don't get Plato without rich patrons, you don't get Wilkes without universities and you don't get democracy without someone who believes in it having comparable power to a monarch. We can fully explain differences in outcomes without ever posting a dependence on greater or lesser mean intelligence of populations.

2015-09-10 at 5:30 PM UTC in Most hillarious numbers

Lanny Bird of Courage

Thee Oh Sees is bretty good. A little too dad-rockish for my tastes but their noisier tracks are good.

Also 8008135

2015-09-10 at 7:50 AM UTC in The Sleep of Reason

Lanny Bird of Courage

" Can we even say they think much more deeply about the nature of their experience and world than their impoverished african counterpart? "

Yes! Hopefully you can control your leftist predispositions and the effects of that destructive culture long enough to be honest with yourself.

I mean, come on, have you ever had the experience of trying to have an intelligent conversation, explain certain concepts, to the average black person? The average white person is dumb as shit, but my god are most brown people far worse. The on average differences are immense and there's so much data to support this. It isn't simply due to a lack of giants by any means.

Is there a difference between the mean intelligence of the two populations? The answer is yes for almost any pairing but that's not the relevant question. The question you're faced with is if that delta exists, is it large enough to explain differences in outcomes? I mean if every person with an IQ under 100 became 10 points smarter would that get us anywhere, on a civilizational level, any faster? The fact remains that our civilization is advanced by a small number of exceptional individuals. No number of slightly-better-than-average members of the general population are going to invent calculus or create a masterwork of art.

Besides, I'm still not convinced there's any greater depth to the thought process of your typical westerner than your typical african. Even if americans can do significantly more arithmetic or logic puzzles or what have you, this establishes nothing about their relative ability to engage with more sophisticated concepts required for moral philosophy, as is the relevant quality here.

2015-09-09 at 7:23 AM UTC in Shitty Technical Jokes

Lanny Bird of Courage

That last one if fucking comedy gold but I can hardly ever find people who laugh at it. Feels bad man, feels bad.

2015-09-09 at 7:22 AM UTC in Shitty Technical Jokes

Lanny Bird of Courage

One day an elementary math teacher wants to read the paper so he gives his students a task he expects to take a while, he asks them to sum all the numbers between 1 and 100 inclusive. Most the students set to work right away, adding up large columns of numbers. One student however sits for a moment, thinks about the problem, then raises his hand. "I have the answer" he says. Incredulous, as no one could add 100 numbers that quickly, the teacher asks him what it is. He answers 5050, correctly. The teacher is astonished "how did you do that so quickly?" he asks.

The student smiles and says simply "It was just a lucky Gauss"

2015-09-09 at 7:17 AM UTC in Shitty Technical Jokes

Lanny Bird of Courage

Did you hear Lady Gaga hired a priority queue to write songs for her?

It's because their pop is logRythmic

2015-09-09 at 7:16 AM UTC in Shitty Technical Jokes

Lanny Bird of Courage

Why do ebony trees never fall in autumn?

Well, being red-black trees they're self balancing.

2015-09-09 at 7:12 AM UTC in The Sleep of Reason

Lanny Bird of Courage

Do you really think the barbarism we see in those places is a product of the populace failing to be reasonable though? I mean is your typical midwest american blue collar worker really the mental force behind the achievements of western civilization and our paragon of reason? Can we even say they think much more deeply about the nature of their experience and world than their impoverished african counterpart? Our culture has almost always been advanced through the efforts a fairly small number of people who came into some amount of power, either their own or by force of their ideas. Newton talked about standing on the shoulders of giants, but even for all the giants the west has produced the vast majority of us stand exactly no taller than we are raised up. The same can be said of all peoples. If the proletariat fails to see farther it is not for a lack of stature but for a lack of giants.

2015-09-09 at 6:59 AM UTC in Homeopathy conference in Germany disrupted by people trippin.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Damn. I need to go to more homeopathy events if not simply to try and score free hallucinogenz.

This lol. Like when niggas be talking about people giving out candy at halloween with LSD in it, like shit, where's that house because I'm going back for seconds.

2015-09-09 at 6:57 AM UTC in The Sleep of Reason

Lanny Bird of Courage

Dear god, a discussion on ethics and art interpretation in drunk wigger mode…

Do you ever feel ashamed when you've sobered up?

Not usually. Like I might cringe a little or something but for the most part I type what I think, just talking like a G.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CAT? The guy sleeping or whatever he's doing, he doesn't even give a fuck, like he's not looking up trying to swat 'em away or making an angry or startled face or anything for that matter he's just in no fucks given mode, but that kitty cat down in the corner is all surprised like the owls just woke him/her awake from a nice dream and he doesn't even know what's going on, and the owls don't know that the man doesn't give a shit so they're gonna keep trying to bother him when in reality, it's not him that's being bothered but the cat, so I think WHAT IT ALL RELLEH MEENS MAN, is that there's three typa people on this planet- the owls (and bats I guess), the men, and the cats. The owl typa people are always trying to stir shit up and maybe even awaken people to the truths and all that, but they focus on the 'men' typa people who are just like, they just want to be left alone and not be bothered and they have mastered the art of apathy, so it's essentially futile just the owls coming at the men. I mean you have to respect their persistence I guess but at the end of the day it just doesn't do anything as far as what the owls are trying to accomplish goes anyway, but then you have the cats of the world that are down in the corner TRYING to sleep and just trying to do their own thing, but they unlike the men-people cannot just turn a blind eye to the truths that the owls are trying to bring, so even though they don't want to listen they are pretty much forced to because of their mental construction. Basically the cats want to not give a fuck but they end up absolutely giving a fuck insofar as the owls remain persistent, but ironically the owls aren't even trying to get the cat-people to care (I don't know why) but instead are focused on the men-people. I think the cat people slowly turn into owl-people without the owl-people even knowing, thus the owl flock grows larger and larger and maybe that's the point is that without knowing it, the persistence of the owls turns the cats into owls and they are so busy pecking at the men-people that they don't even notice their owl-herd is growing because of the cat-people's conversion and eventually, finally, just MAYBE, the owl-people's flock is large enough to awaken the men-people but at that point climate change will have us living in a Water World and it won't really matter anymore. :(

mang, I noticed that cat too and he kinds bugs me. I was just settled on it being poorly drawn owl but then the painting isn't called "The Sleep of Reason Produces Strictly Flighted Animals And Here's a Cat With No Apparent Role in the Scene" so I'll buy it.

I guess the moral of the story is stick to your guns on not giving a fuck or you'll become an annoying ass owl? Or is it that if you harass niggas enough you'll never convince them but might convince someone else you weren't really thinking about in the first place? I kinda like the second one more.

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