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Does something technical in the Boston (MA, US) area. He/him.

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  • This inspires the feeling of hating both sides of a fight and hoping that they do as much damage to each other as possible before it ends.

  • Nah, they all consider themselves justified in sociopathic behavior.

  • Worm is great at what it does, which is to lure in people wanting to read power fantasies about being a superhero and then smashing every trope. (All the powers involve deep trauma. Everyone needs a therapist. Very few get any therapy. The world ends because we can't take care of each other nicely.)

  • Every competent apocalyptic cult leader knows that committing to hard dates is wrong because if the grift survives that long, you'll need to come up with a new story.

    Luckily, these folks have spicy autocomplete to do their thinking!

    I was going to make a comparison to Elron, but... oh, too late.

  • Convincing people in San Francisco Bay Area that you’re about to invent Star Trek technology is basically the national pastime there.

    Ding! Ding! Ding! Upvote.

  • "Rationalism" is to normal logical thinking what blindfolded multi-board speed chess is to tic-tac-toe: you can only see in retrospect how anyone could get there from here. The things which occupy a Rationalist's mind are completely divorced from ordinary concerns like ethics. Nobody would or could have predicted this quantity or quality of lunacy.

  • Explanatory spoiler for those who don't want to read Worm, a million words of deconstruction/reconstruction of superhero comics:

  • Sure, but then you have to generate all that crap and store it with them. Preumably Github will eventually decide that you are wasting their space and bandwidth and... no, never mind, they're Microsoft now. Competence isn't in their vocabulary.