I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you’ve highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.

I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.

Social media doesn’t often reward kindness, but that’s what is needed. Show kindness to young men, when you can. They need better guidance.

There’s an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.

Sup dood

Hate this take but love the energy,

This cat looks hard to hit (defensive illusion magic doesn’t work on me but I like cats)

I already got to hold one at the Cal Academy of Sciences. That was a sick Halloween party.

Some bots do more hardcore living in one comment chain than I do in six months

Imagine if Vivaldi became a right wing meth addict internet troll; variations on a theme

OP said “what if the present was meta”

Sorry someone had a mental breakdown on your post

I’ve never been impressed with my fellow Americans who talk shit on the French. We have mostly let go of our revolutionary spirit, and they never did. We would do well to pick up where we left off at Blair mountain.

The fact that this didn’t result in a revolution ended my hopes for the country

I’m a basic little shit so, I basically use a correct horse + number password for my PW manager

Rainbow tables and presumably newer stuff I haven’t heard of make this sort of thing weaker than it used to be

Don’t feel bad about owning their stock, as you say they’re basically in every big ETF, and the price discovery mechanisms for ETFs are lousy anyway so you never affected their shareholder value in any case.

I would straight up rather not have most things than give money to Amazon at this point. They’re only going to get worse.

That’s the neat part, you don’t!

I deadname corporations run by transphobes