I love the phrase ego death because everyone I’ve heard describe the experience sounds like the most egotistical mf in the universe with how impressed they are by their own self-enlightenment.

It seems really common for words for factuality to become intensifiers. I just used the word “really” as an intensifier, thought it really means things occurring in reality. “Very” had the same thing happen to it, as it originally meant “truthfully” (as in “verify” or “verity”). If I say something is “truly massive”, am I likely specifying the massiveness is not imaginary in some sense, or am I trying to convey massiveness beyond the lower bounds of “massive”? Is a “proper banger” of a tune distinct from an improper banger or is it just a highly bangerful banger?

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She wants to be a martyr so bad, doesn’t she? She desperately needs to be punished for the sake of her beliefs (and the things she did made others do). All for the great cause of… uh… y’know, the important thing she’s being silenced for. Things like that.

People who dislike C’thlaglthorp tend to come in two camps: the ones that prefer significant whitespace and the ones that don’t.

Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of potion that makes you talk like a conservative bullshit artist and said “Have you ever heard of Chesterton’s fence, Potter?” Harry, hearing a genetive case proper noun spoken as a part of two word noun phrase suddenly realized he was no longer talking to a strawman of a simpleton. “The burden of proof is in fact on you, the reformer, to first make a strong case for status quo to prove you understand why things are the way they are before you can even begin to challenge the state of things.” Harry was immediately convinced quidditch is good as is and voted Tory twice.

Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of instant death potion (known to muggles as cyanide) and force fed it to Harry Potter. He was rewarded with accolades, wealth and fame and lived happily ever after.

Does that represent the 🤏 (pinching fingers or “tiny”) hand gesture that makes some Korean men really mad?

Woman good at science? Must have a man brain. Send tweet.

Oops forgot to be weird about jews lemme amend that white jews can also be smart even if they have girl brains.

How briefly do you have to attend college to still be this clueless about how citations work?

It’s a logarithmic plot to begin with and they still feel the need to make the curve exponential lol.

I’m sure they have a rigorous and objective metric for what coding tasks take how long at what success rate for humans.

Yea good luck, I am a mediocre white man and the providence didn’t even grant me the confidence.

Actually the emperor’s clothes look amazing if you’re smart enough to see them.

My “Will not confirm or deny whether involved in human trafficking” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

I have never experienced semantic satiation immediately after encountering a word for the first time in my life, but the word “glomarize” somehow made it happen.

indefensible: voting for laws
sensible: gambling for laws

DEEZ nuts!

David
Eugine
Émile
Ziz is nuts.

I was about to ask, in what way are you a former member of the rationality community who has invested a lot, whatever that means?

Ah, the site requires me to agree to “Data processing by advertising providers including personalised advertising with profilingConsent” and that this is “required for free use”. A blatant GDPR violation, love-lyy!

“Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with GEMA.”

“What about side by side with a friend?”

“Lol good one get fucked.”