#asciilifeform | 2020-07-07

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I've started tweeting pro-Trump and American stuff on twitter, and have amassed 1K followers in abt day. Any ideas for good trolls once the numbers increase?

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shinohai: what's your handle on there?

11:55

billymg: @SatoshiShinohai. Don't out me yet, I'm having too much fun.

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shinohai: no worries, just wanted to follow for the occasional lulz

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I do in fact hate socialism, so most of 'em eat *that* up. I just think it would be hilarious to amass a few thousand conservative trumpateers then start tweeting porn or something.

12:04

And omg the "QAnon" folks are absolutely Luke-Jr style batshit insane.

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shinohai: i don't know how you have the stomach for it. it's something i regrettably check now and then, out of a sort of habit/addiction, to see what the current hysteria is, but extended exposure is noticeably corrosive

12:08

I'm pretty used to sifting through internet dumpsters ... twitter fortunately still works under bitlbee so don't have to load all those dumb images and stuff, is also easily greppable.

12:08

reddit actually makes me more nauseated than twitter. True story.

12:10

i quit checking reddit completely around five years ago, agree it's much worse

12:12

there's still some sane individuals on twitter, but every couple of months twitter purges a few more of them

12:14

speaking of the ever-creeping insanity, had to buy and then wear a mask for the first time yesterday simply to get into a nice grocery store

12:21

srsly? Haven't encountered no mask, no entry store yet but most *do* limit # of ppl that can be inside.

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shinohai: yeah, this particular store, in a heavy gringo tourist area, has been especially draconian in their policy since the whole thing started. also for whatever reason the "ministry of health" here has been amping up the fear lately

12:25

though even by their own numbers only a 0.4% mortality rate, and of those mostly elderly/sick

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but the chart of cumulative cases sure looks scary

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to idiots

12:29

Mayor of Atlanta here conveniently became COVID stat after NatGuard called in. (See BingoBoingo 's latest article)

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http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-07-07#1015910 << asciilifeform reads neither, wtf, life is too short to bathe in liquishit

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snsabot

Logged on 2020-07-07 12:08:44 shinohai: reddit actually makes me more nauseated than twitter. True story.

12:46

I forgot to mention ycombinator, where nothing exists if not "muh rust, mug golang".

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shinohai: lol, quit reading that entirely as well, don't even skim the headlines anymore

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asciilifeform: i dunno what it is about twitter, it's an unhealthy addiction for sure

12:51

i think i check it mostly to see how the culture war is going

12:52

and as my grocery store example points out: like violence, even if you're not interested in it, it is interested in you

12:53

I suppose it is for me too. I've noticed I can make 1 controversial statement, in come the lefties to hate on me then right wing joins the mosh pit against them. It's hilarious.

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I never even have to say another word and I get entertainment for 1/2 day

12:53

shinohai: lol

12:53

imho approx. as appealing as burning ants w/ magnifying glass. but to each his own, i guess

12:57

asciilifeform: sure, but what happens when place where asciilifeform earns his bread announces mandatory "anti-racism training" or whatever. do you keep your dignity and quit, or submit and continue collecting salary?

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billymg: i've been to just about erry kind of salt mine. the usg contractor types had not only 'anti-sex' but 'anti-terrorist' and even 'anti-software-piracy' 'trainings'. these were multiple-choice www quiz things, baked by specialized law firm. and erry time they were announced it was a party, cuz was much moar fun than work..

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'click on all the pictures of people who will get fragged if a grenade were to fall from the window'

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asciilifeform: i've done the anti-"harassment" ones as well, agree it's just test taking

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they were hilarious, and a sort of comic relief from otherwise unimaginable snoar

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That's mainly the point of twitter thing, comic relief in sea of unimaginable idiocy.

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the twatter folx, near as i can tell, are serious tho

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( whereas the quiz firm people were quite obviously mocking whole process even as they 'usg-certified' 9000 ways )

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asciilifeform: hrm, at least in my situation, though the quiz material was bordering on satire, no employee dared openly joke about it

13:07

hey trinque , deedbot has headache ?

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to return to http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-07-07#1015931 -- the 1 time really did end up 'cannot digest this, here's my resignation' was the place where the brass one day summoned asciilifeform to throne room, and unveiled : 'we have great honour for you! you will get 'top seekrit'(tm)(r) !'

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snsabot

Logged on 2020-07-07 12:57:59 billymg: asciilifeform: sure, but what happens when place where asciilifeform earns his bread announces mandatory "anti-racism training" or whatever. do you keep your dignity and quit, or submit and continue collecting salary?

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( for non-usa folx : extremely unpleasant and irreversible 'join mafia' process, a la sovok, with numerous down sides and 0 corresponding increase in pay. but for some reason 'life dream' of just about erry galley slave. )

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iirc at 1 time, you couldn't be nominated if you had creditors or habitually took dope. which funnily enuff disqualified 90% of native usa folx.

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http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-07-07#1015922 << last saw it, had progressed to 'mah start^H^H^H^Hpyramid scheme!'

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snsabot

Logged on 2020-07-07 12:46:57 shinohai: I forgot to mention ycombinator, where nothing exists if not "muh rust, mug golang".

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