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@[email protected] Flickr is not in the same category as Instagram. It has publicly available APIs and feeds, and can be accessed without using an official slot-machine-style zuckerpump app (indeed, its official app leaves much to be desired). The engagement-farming age has passed Flickr by.

@gerikson @cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”

OTOH, she also has said things like that she’s a socialist but believes in free markets rather than government intervention, so it’s probably fair to say that she’s not the sharpest egg in the attic

Isn’t he the one that the US Religious Right used as a rationalisation for a philandering president being an instrument of God?

As the old adage goes, a libertarian is someone who knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction

The Just World Fallacy is doing a lot of load-bearing duty there

Also, the premier thirstfluencer of the Rationalist Right.

If you could harness the unrequitable longing of her numerous incel followers and convert it to energy, you could bootstrap the Basilisk off it, even allowing for losses due to no-fap covenant violations.

The other possible exemplar could be Vatican City. Which, granted, is more ambitious, though what history shows is that having sympathetic fascists in power in the host country can go a long way.

Maybe they’re counting on it being like San Marino only more Galty

In his book on psychedelics, David Nutt suggests that it is likely that the observed benefits of microdosing are just the placebo effect.

To be fair, amphetamine is as different from psychedelics (such as LSD and psilocybin) as cocaine is.

It’s like percussive maintenance, only for the mind