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@Lloaf1 That’s the Stalingrad of the tedious historian. I am talking about the esoteric Stalingrad.

Self help program in which trained actors mirror your personality to the point of parody. This is repeated until you’re no longer ashamed of your exaggerated reflection.

There’s a couple more observation to be made here too: Europe and Japan are forced to make their luxury products garish and gaudy to appeal to the juvenile tastes of the “nouveau middle class” of China/Global South. This has acutely manifested in the luxury car sector, with gaudy grills and comically augmented panels (imagine a BBL, but for cars). Also the “nouveau middle class” culturally love to consume luxury products in commodity-volume per capita, as a status symbol. The idea of moderation and refinement is lost on them. It’s not uncommon for rich Chinese to smoke Cohiba Behikes (Cuban cigars worth minimum ~$500) daily. Since all Cuban cigars are only produced by Habanos S.A., an SOE monopolist, overall cigar quality has dropped in their attempt to meet demand.

@jaiddog33 same way Hermann Hesse is youth literature in the best sense.

Camus is good for coming of age males (12-15yrs) and that’s it. There is no other archetype that could possibly benefit from contemplating Sisyphus or Meursault

@PanEuropeanJrnl what can we imagine art and aesthetics "busting" is gonna look like?

This is still, I think, one of the fundamental things that truly separates Europe from the United States. Something like this is simply inconceivable in Europe. Baudrillard was correct when he said that Disneyland was never meant to be entertainment - it was a disguise for the fact that the whole country had already become a theme park. All art serves the same function today: it has been turned into pure spectacle. We merely pretend that aesthetics still occupies a special, bounded space, when in reality it has saturated everything. (In a similar vein sex is everywhere today except in sex). "Art is dead," as some would say - and there is truth to it - but it is precisely because it is "dead" that it is now everywhere. Aesthetics as a principle has collapsed, been completely levelled: kitsch now permeates the entire social body. "Art" and "aesthetics" are everywhere - in society, politics, economics, and the media. The principle of consumption has taken the place of the contemplation of beauty; money has taken the place of the art object. "Art" and "aesthetics" today are like a bloated corpse: still expanding, and soon ready to burst.

@zermatist not to mention he was legit the best graphic designer of his generation in the US.

I really hate the "what have you done for me lately" attitude among social media dorks. Sam Hyde isn't doing his best work now, but what he managed to do as a legitimately persecuted artist is nothing short of inspiring, and people being goldfish-brained about this are useless.

@FistedFoucault european vs. american idea of what constitutes a high living standard diverges so much its comparing apples and oranges. we dont care about suburban drywall palaces and they probably dont care about 6-weeks vacation or public playgrounds

You guys live like shit though. Your country is an absolute shithole compared to Europe overall. So what if you have a 3,000 sq. ft house with paper-thin drywall that you can press a nickel through? You still have to deal with so much garbage that doesn't (or barely) exists here.

(Imagined) European validation of American low culture is like crack cocaine to them, it seems. At first, I found it baffling how Red Americans actually seem to feel nationalistic pride of hamburgers, gas stations and cars rather than their national heroes, achievements etc...

@posta_octavian post WW2 has been the rise of feminine WEIRDness which demonstrably is too vulnerable to relativism. need to assert male WEIRDness again.

I know this is difficult for many people on the right to grasp because it's so dialectical, but many of you are trying to extinguish the flame that makes Europeans world historical and unique. Europeans are WEIRD. WEIRDs are what makes us different from everyone else. The majority of us are uniquely non clan oriented, uniquely tolerant, uniquely universally minded, uniquely cultured. Christianity is an essential part of what made us this way, even if I criticised it the past few days. This culture produces the Gretas. The majority of the problems we are facing with immigration is because of these characteristics. And the more universally minded a nation is, the more problems with immigration (France, England, Ireland, etc) BUT if your solution to it is to destroy liberalism and universalism in Western Europe, you're destroying precisely what is THE MOST EUROPEAN THING EVER. And the EU and the libtards are very much right here when you criticise them for being against "mun values" because they really are our values. Yes, it's precisely these universal values that are destroying Europe from within and are threatening our societies. But if your solution is to destroy the values, then you've achieved the same goal of destroying Europe. You will have saved the "race" but only by destroying the spirit. Who wants that? We cannot go back. We cannot turn back the clock to 1950. We cannot just become tribal and stop caring entirely about some kind of human rights and just deport away. It's just not going to happen. Trump found out the hard way. He gave up on violent deportations when he was opposed by hundreds over hundreds of ... WHITES! Even if you see a poll and it says 50% want mass deportations, the moment it actually happens, the Euros will find it cruel, etc. The only way to get out of this mess is to build something new. The right has to build something universal, uplifting and moral that is inspiring and makes people feel like they're part of a great mission that improves the world — NOT Christianity — but simultaneously allows us to justify our self preservation & acting ruthlessly to protect our continent from threats, ecological, Russian, Islamic and whatever else; these latter things must be done for some kind of higher purpose, because that's just how Europeans are. It's why I also think it's totally vital that the right wing has something to say about Palestine, but that's for another essay...

@witte_sergei indians definitely took the hardest hit to their self esteem in modernity. imagine going from this to getting "land acknowledged" by corporate HR girlbosses in less than two centuries.

The Comanche attack from Blood Meridian is what it feels like to go to Costco these days

@DawsonSWilliams one of the quirks of heidegger scholarship is translators annotating the german for commonplace adverbs and phrases as though they might secretly harbor a conceptual significance. thus creating endless heideggerianisms.

@escapefrommelos lacks goyslop. shut it down

americans blindly idolize “european cuisine”, but the reality is that outside france and italy and spain, the whole swathe of europe, from england and the low countries into the german lands and all the way to the far baltic and endless slavdom, *this* is the norm

@godvvinslaw you too are a normie to someone.

@QiaochuYuan the algorithm has no voice of its own, it has to assemble its communication from second hand content. like a letter made from newspaper cutouts.

Further unraveling the meeting of Daseinanalysis and Freudian Psychology (in the Zollikon Seminars.)

Normies are not interesting. Normies do not need to be studied. Normies do not need to be discussed or understood

@lichtstifter socialism with low body fat characteristics

Sowjetisches Anreizsystem: Wenn du nicht arbeitest bekommst du Schläge und zu wenig zu essen um zu leben, wenn du mehr arbeitest, bekommst du mehr Essen, aber der kalorische Zuschlag ist geringer als der Verlust durch die zusätzliche Arbeit. Geschichte ist pure Inspiration.

@cranialfissure @razibkhan is the pope catholic?

@razibkhan The deeper question: are LLMs Jewish?

dario is jewish dumbass

this was already true before LLMs but at this point you really should not think of social media as a place where individual people go to express their opinions. the algorithm defines an optimization target (engagement) and people and LLMs work together to optimize it. we have built a machine for inferring what the audiences of different platforms want to see and hear and extruding textslop and imageslop and videoslop conforming to the shape of that desire as quickly and efficiently as possible when you read a viral post you think you are reading the thoughts of a person. you are reading the thoughts of the algorithm. out of the churning mass of nonsense constantly being posted, that specific post was selected to ascend to virality by an evolutionary process, and that process is the actual agent in the situation. the individual author barely matters, we are simply approximating the infinite monkey theorem here. at this point it barely even matters whether the author was technically human or an LLM, LLMs are just an additional source of monkeys

@lichtstifter Es dauert (auf der Erde) im Durchschnitt 15 Jahre von der ersten Entdeckung einer Eisenerzlagerstätte bis zur Inbetriebnahme der Mine.

One of these is not like the others. Wir werden NIEMALS durch inkrementelle Verbesserung und Anwendung bestehender Technologie in ein Stadium versetzte werden, in welchem wir Asteroiden wirtschaftlich von ihren Metallen befreien. Entweder wir sehen offensichtliche, radikale wissenschaftliche Grundlagenneuerungen, die keiner Spekulation bedürfen, um zu überzeugen, oder es wird nichts. Jede Firma, die etwas anderes in Aussicht stellt, erntet Hypeschafe ab. Metall ist nicht genug wert, Metall ist schwer, Metall muss unter hohem Energieaufwand und mit schweren Maschinen gewonnen werden, Die Ware muss schonend zurück gebracht werden, Asteroiden kommen der Erde nur für sehr kurze Zeit nahe, Asteroiden der entsprechenden Größe kommen der Erde meist deutlich weniger nahe als der Mond, das All ist kalt und voller Strahlung, die energetischen Minimalkosten zur Beförderung von Nutzlast in den Weltraum sind hoch. Es dauert 8 Jahre um auf der Erde einen Kernreaktor zu bauen, wie lange dauert es, um einen auf dem Mond zu errichten? Das wären die Minimalvoraussetzung um irgendetwas größeres im All zu machen und jede schnelle Überschlagrechnung kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Errichtung eines einzigen dieser Dinger im GW Bereich dort oben tausende von Milliarden kosten würde. In Deutschland können wir die Stahlindustrie nicht halten, weil die Kosten nicht konkurrenzfähig sind, verlegen wir den Betrieb doch einfach eine Millionen Kilometer ins All, dann wird's bestimmt was.