THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: curly on July 10, 2020, 08:39:23 PM
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I'm sick of it no more tv books movies videogames or talking we're getting rid of culture in 2020 year zero baby let's go
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Thinking kideo games are a part of culture :girlaff
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you: haha epic kanye 2020 memes
me: researching methods to forget how to read
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I'm canceling curly.
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Curly, do something nice for yourself and order some items from Taco Bell tomorrow for lunch.
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You may not think you need culture but if you're not taking policies in the Rationalism tree you're going to get screwed on tech.
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Bullshit term. It's not a real thing.
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CANadian CELibate Culture :cancry
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https://twitter.com/dannolan/status/1281712437935276032
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Thinking kideo games are a part of culture :girlaff
Kideo Ho(e)jima. :ohhh
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Disney+ is our culture now.
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Disney+ is our culture now.
Canceled that after the free trial, so I successfully canceled culture. :pimp
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The time for cancelling tv shows is over!!
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CANCEL THE BORE MODS
AND KILL THEM
:juche
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CANCEL THE BORE MODS
AND KILL THEM
:juche
Dumpster custodians
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https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1280924706867081216
:salute
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(https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/261/26109.gif)
Twitter Wars 2016, colorized
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You're see me now a veteran of a thousand twitter wars.
My inbox is full at last, and my checkmark is destroyed.
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https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1282426167648292864
I rest my case
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You may not think you need culture but if you're not taking policies in the Rationalism tree you're going to get screwed on tech.
In Civ VI you literally cannot advance in technology without producing culture and this curly feller is out here wanting to cancel production completely. ::)
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Civ2>civ6
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https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1282426167648292864
I rest my case
In a court of law this would be known as 'leading the witness'. It is phrased in a way that Chomsky is inevitably going to agree with to some extent. He is going to agree with it because he has said that is what happens. Does Chomsky believe the right use certain tactics to delegitimise the left? Yes. Does Chomsky believe in the sentiment of the letter he signed? It's a different question. Because he believes the former, does not automatically mean he does not think there is a section of the left with authoritarian and censorious tendencies. The two can be true at the same time.
I will also point out that Glenn Greenwald knows Chomsky personally. You could say Chomsky has been somewhat of a mentor to Greenwald.
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I like that "The Letter" has taken on a mythical quality, like "The Secret", "The Decision", and "The Look". :bobby
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Jerry signing The Letter would be an episode in a Seinfeld reboot.
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Does Chomsky believe in the sentiment of the letter he signed? It's a different question.
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I will also point out that Glenn Greenwald knows Chomsky personally. You could say Chomsky has been somewhat of a mentor to Greenwald.
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Shosta, why don't you actually say what you're thinking.
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Please stop posting words in this thread... this is not the thread for words
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When you sign an open letter, the implication is generally that you endorse its content. Doubly so if it's designed to be run by the media and provoke some public debate.
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What I'm thinking is that your brain is beautiful. I just want to pick it up and run my fingers ever so gently over the smooth and lustrous exterior.
In other words, you don't actually want to commit to saying anything. You're never wrong that way.
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When you sign an open letter that will be run very publically, the implication is generally that you endorse its content.
It is. And the argument would then be that Chomsky never actually read or understood the context of the letter he signed. Which for someone like Chomsky, seems unlikely.
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What I'm thinking is that your brain is beautiful. I just want to pick it up and run my fingers ever so gently over the smooth and lustrous exterior.
In other words, you don't actually want to commit to saying anything. You're never wrong that way.
Can’t believe it took this long to understand how online discourse works.
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Why type out long ass careposts no one really reads or engages with anyway, if you get the same results by posting
:no1curr or :umad ?
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I get something from it.
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https://twitter.com/imjustscooby43/status/1282476561505980416
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When you sign an open letter that will be run very publically, the implication is generally that you endorse its content.
It is. And the argument would then be that Chomsky never actually read or understood the context of the letter he signed. Which for someone like Chomsky, seems unlikely.
But falling for a cheap rhetorical trap is? So now we flip a coin on whether he misunderstood the letter or the email.
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When you sign an open letter that will be run very publically, the implication is generally that you endorse its content.
It is. And the argument would then be that Chomsky never actually read or understood the context of the letter he signed. Which for someone like Chomsky, seems unlikely.
But falling for a cheap rhetorical trap is? So now we flip a coin on whether he misunderstood the letter or the email.
Possibly. Or maybe he misunderstood neither. And that's the thing. The letter refers to a lecture Chomsky did in which he stated that the right resort to 'hysterics' to delegitimise specific groups. He then goes on to ask whether he still believes they are doing it now. To which Chomsky replied, 'it is happening from Trump down'.
The problem with the argument you're making, or at least the way I perceive it, is it seems like you're saying there is no room for nuance. That if you believe the right use arguments about political correctness to delegitimise their opponents, then that must mean he automatically believes everything the left does is perfectly legitimate. That everything is a zero sum game.
There's something else I know. I'm not sure if you're aware that there was another letter circulating around the same time as the Harper's letter. It was a letter attempting to get Steven Pinker 'cancelled'. Chomsky stated he did not sign this letter and explained his reasons why.
Someone asked him about why he didn't sign this letter. He replied with this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcG3NoyWsAIPVpP?format=png&name=large)
You notice this response is very nuanced.
Here's the thing: The person who wrote to Chomsky about the Harper's letter could have asked him directly what the reason was for him signing the letter instead of doing it in such a roundabout way. I'm sure Chomsky would have given him a reason. He instead wrote about a lecture Chomsky done and basically asked him if he still agreed with that now. And Chomsky seemed to agree. Of course it was a safe bet Chomsky would agree when framed in that way.
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Hmmm tried reading that Leadbelly post but could not force the words to stick together in any sensible pattern. . maybe this unlearning language thing is working
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Hmmm tried reading that Leadbelly post but could not force the words to stick together in any sensible pattern. . maybe this unlearning language thing is working
You can't understand basic sentences, so I guess it must be. :p
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What
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Emailing Noam Chomsky asking him the secret to devolution. Aiming to become an orangutan
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someone once described leadbelly as "too low-energy"
I can see why
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Civ2>civ6
Anyone who liked this is old and not hip.
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I like to discuss things... :/
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Jerry signing The Letter would be an episode in a Seinfeld reboot.
https://twitter.com/SamuraiCorndog/status/1164888000800710657
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=lgrDfyUi8Kk
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The problem with the argument you're making, or at least the way I perceive it, is it seems like you're saying there is no room for nuance.
No, I'm just poking a finger at what looks like a contradiction. The reason it looks like what you're thinking is because I didn't even read the email he was replying to.
Don't write long careposts in response to lazy reparteé, wrap a salient point into a 'dunk' and yuk along. None of this shit matters.
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"time to write some bigass careposts" thought leadbelly, confident he had gauged the tone and tenor of the thread
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I was going to get mad about it when I realized misreading the thread is actually the entire purpose of the thread... from the mouth of babes...
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Curly,
We spoke already at the office but I just want to make sure everything went alright with your operation... watch this and tell me what you hear
https://youtu.be/P6QzJfMV4bY
Best,
Dr. shosta
SpecOps The Line is really well written. :obama
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"time to write some bigass careposts" thought leadbelly, confident he had gauged the tone and tenor of the thread
I didn't gauge the tone of the thread. :p
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What I'm thinking is that your brain is beautiful. I just want to pick it up and run my fingers ever so gently over the smooth and lustrous exterior.
In other words, you don't actually want to commit to saying anything. You're never wrong that way.
This is all described in detail in Mandark’s Big Book of Cowardice. I recommend not giving it a read.
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Struggle solidarity brehs
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283483809464242176
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Ironically, after being tricked by him to read something, I'm starting to come around to curly's anti-knowledge stance... I should be emptying my brain, not putting stuff in it. #DevolutionNow
Marie Kondo your mind.
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