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Post by throwaway5752 »

mrweasel wrote: post #182

I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's wo…

Aging is lonelier and more stressful than ever. The aging brain is already less flexible and there is a net loss of synapses and brain mass.

The internet has become a more unkind and manipulative place that ever. It is making people into the worst version of themselves, to serve the ends of groups that benefit from division.

I mourn many things with this news today. RIP Scott Adams.

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Post by DonHopkins »

RajT88 wrote: post #393
spankalee wrote: post #290

I don't get "avoiding the ugliness" when someone dies. We need to acknowledge the ugliness and try to do better. Acting like "oh, he was trolling", or "it was just a small amount of hating Black people and women" is exactly how you get Steven Miller in the fucking White House. We need to make it shameful to be bigoted again, and that means calling out the bigotry even in death.

The thinking is that not "speaking ill of the dead" is not just respect, but doing anything else is pointless. You will not change them, and everyone present already made up their mind on their behavior.

The mendacious speaking that Scott Adams did of the living was a hell of a lot worse that speaking factually about him after he died.

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Post by S_Bear »

rsynnott wrote: post #249
mrweasel wrote: post #182

I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's wo…

I read one of his books once, written in the 90s or so. It included the idea that affirmations could literally change reality ("law of attraction"), and an _alternative theory of gravity_. At the time, I thought that these were probably attempts at jokes that didn't land very well, but... Once you believe one thing which is totally outside the pale, it is often very easy to start believing others.

That book killed Dilbert for me. I enjoyed every Dilbert book up until that one, then it just faded away for me.

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Post by pcthrowaway »

yamal4321 wrote: post #693

I did a quick look at Wikipedia - he has racist views, a vaccine denier, and to top it all off, of course, a Holocaust denier... I tried reading his comics—just some run-of-the-mill jumble for a corporate audience. So who is he? And why are there so much praise in the comments?

> In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in The Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research

This is probably a result of contracting brainrot by adjacency, but I wouldn't outright call this holocaust denial.

Dilbert is an iconic comic, and perhaps the most culturally impactful "office humor"

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Post by macbem »

scioto wrote: post #642
Waterluvian wrote: post #144

I got to interact with Scott just once on Twitter. I shared one of his strips in response to a tweet he made. My intent was tongue-in-cheek and very inline with the themes of his work, but he reacted very aggressively and then blocked me. It was a bit of a crushing moment because inside my head I was thinking, "I know and love this guy's work. Surely if I just engage him at his level without being a jackass, we can a…

As John Scalzi once said, "The failure mode of clever is asshole." [1] That has prevented me from posting what I thought was a clever or cheeky response in case it didn't come across the way I wanted. --- [1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...

thanks for sharing, I think I needed to read this

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Post by aidenn0 »

scioto wrote: post #642
Waterluvian wrote: post #144

I got to interact with Scott just once on Twitter. I shared one of his strips in response to a tweet he made. My intent was tongue-in-cheek and very inline with the themes of his work, but he reacted very aggressively and then blocked me. It was a bit of a crushing moment because inside my head I was thinking, "I know and love this guy's work. Surely if I just engage him at his level without being a jackass, we can a…

As John Scalzi once said, "The failure mode of clever is asshole." [1] That has prevented me from posting what I thought was a clever or cheeky response in case it didn't come across the way I wanted. --- [1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...

That's a great quote; over the years I've internalized something similar which is why I try to be less clever on the internet than in person.
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