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BillyTheMage

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About BillyTheMage

Metamagical artificer on a quest to identify and integrate the Epistemological Primes into the Knowledgecore and then to finally defeat the Omnarch.

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    Well I'm sure not listening to them

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    Comment #45195842

    They've known there's aliens for years, they just have to boil us like frogs so they don't lose their power when we "find out"

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    Comment #45190978

    Perhaps we could do it gradually enough where nobody has to starve, we get rid of the "REPRODUCE REPRODUCE REPRODUCE" propaganda, and we just naturally end up back near a natural p…

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    Comment #45181222

    Thanks for the rabbit hole, the Perry Index is my new thing for the next few months I guess

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    Comment #45143587

    > oh geez oh no how can we possibly survive without poisoning everything we touch?

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    Comment #45143047

    Something something Epstein Files something something distraction

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    Comment #45071764

    I really don't like that phrase. It should be "reality has a progressive bias". Progressive is the opposite of conservative. "Liberal" is a specific ideology, and will end up in a …

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    Comment #44949455

    Why are they saying "on our way" to something that's already here? We even have a name for it: the Anthropocene Extinction Event . Seems dishonest for them to ask that question and…

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    Comment #44911620

    there were bunnies, they were jumping on a trampoline...

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    Comment #44765701

    This seems to relate to my quest as a metamage "to identify and assemble the Epistemological Primes into the Knowledgecore and use it to defeat the Omnarch" . I'm taking a somewhat…

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    Comment #44715644

    This relies on false definitions of capitalism and communism, definitions which I believe are carefully crafted to preclude you from having certain thoughts. You seem to understand…

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    Comment #44701085

    It's a totalitarian nightmare right now too, what rock are you living under? Why would one group of the same ideology be tyrants and not the other, just because they have a few dif…

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    Comment #44688999

    I think hitting your kid is okay only if they put themselves or others in danger. Kid putting a fork into the breaker box? Smack the stupid out of em. You need to associate mortal …

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    Comment #44638336

    > You can almost imagine it sobbing in between sentences, can't you? No, that's not the image I had in my head. My head canon is more like: "Oh wow, oh no, oh jeez (hands on head i…

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    Comment #44638235

    Yes, it's certainly a successful distraction. I wonder what big evil thing the shadow people are doing while the coast is clear...

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    Comment #44588721

    While I am led to believe that all currently existing billionaires are members of the parasite class, an exact arbitrary amount of money isn't what makes someone a parasite. There …

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    Comment #44587672

    It's the economic equivalent of a biological parasite. The class of people who get a free ride on the worker's backs. Those include, but are not limited to: non-worker shareholders…

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    Comment #44587626

    AI will create more jobs because here in a few years we're all going to have to unfuck all this middle-manager-vibe-coded "software"

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    Comment #44587552

    Misnomers and simply choosing the wrong words are what caused it to fail. Everyone says "climate change" and "global warming", not "global poisoning" or "extinction event". Who car…

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    Comment #44542348

    OP needs to read a bit about "Domain-specific Languages", maybe design a few of their own. If SQL is so bad, make a new one that's better. To some people that might sound like a bi…

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    Comment #44542334

    What you are fundamentally arguing is that you should be able to do something without learning how to do it. You mentioned you simply want to slap stuff into a box and never think …

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    Comment #44542239

    Dig slightly deeper into all this realm of right-wing software stuff. The X11 thing led me down a rabbit hole. All sorts of nonsense. I found a CODE_OF_ETHICS that's full of Christ…

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    Comment #44542125

    As a cat owner, the big red button is kinda scary. Maybe 2 big red buttons on opposite sides of the desk...

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    Comment #44542119

    I second this, and even as a person who doesn't have a phone, I feel that thing deep down sometimes that makes me feel like I need to be doing something. I think it ties both into …