Taleb to me feels like a decently more hinged Peterson with a different set of interesting little ideas that have been extrapolated into a disproportionate reverence.

Discussing pop philosophy on here feels weird enough, but what do you like about the guy? He feels like Ayn Rand if she was made in a lab to appeal to my 19 year old shithead self. I feel like the fact that he feels the need to be a quippy Twitter person is a pretty big indicator that he doesn’t actually believe in any of the big picture thinking that first made me want to go read his work.

I don’t think he’s as insidious, but I don’t trust this guy.

I work with a lot of people who are based in India and I quietly edit out all the cums they insist on writing.

I could just explain to them that most of us only see that assemblage of letters in one context, but I’d really not get into this conversation. So I have to be the cumming police, as it turns out.

Interesting how language drifts. I just wish they’d stop writing cum everywhere, their English is perfectly fine otherwise.

This might be the most I’ve ever used the word, enjoy.

When I was a kid, every taxi was an old Mercedes. The new ones’ electronics systems seem like they’re purposely designed to be as unnecessarily convoluted as possible with no benefit at all.

Just make a reliable engine that sounds nice and put durable, nice leather on the seats (with a nice cloth option). The irony of describing what I think a luxury car should be on fucking Hexbear of all places is not lost on me, but seriously. Back in the day if you had something nice it meant it could do anything, it meant it was made well, it meant you could use it for years and pass it on to your kids. It meant it could do its service for some rich fuck for a few years and then taxi on mountain roads for 900,000 km.

90% is too generous. 99% of the “features” are gaudy bullshit or offensively impractical gimmicks. My favorite ones are the bullshit eco features. You want to know what’s more sustainable than miserable modern engines? Not manufacturing and shipping and buying a whole ass car.

I don’t even know why I’m this mad. If they made a coaster I couldn’t afford it. But fucks sake. Cars are a marvel of engineering regardless of whether we deface our environment for their access. This upsets me a lot for some reason.

oh this is satire

oh there’s a lot going on. Is twitter really so far gone that this is good satire of the discourse?

oh no no no no