anyone would be able to ping the whole group like this !foids

also feel free to suggest additional ping groups

Encountered an aggressive dramatard and after discovering we lived pretty close to each other we decided to settle our differences in person. The fight should be in about an hour. Currently filling up at McDonald's before I start making my way over. I'm pretty excited because most of my recent combat experience has been against skinny twinks who can't handle my girth and women in bjj class.

Not sure if @yolomeister is just going to do the "Haha you drove there for no reason" bit, but I already have other fun things to do instead so even if he does that it won't be a win.

I also am bringing two masks, gloves, and I can record if he's down (that's what the masks are for)

Edit: omw. will update when I arrive

Edit 2: Here. No sign of @yolomeister

Edit 3: Have delivered proof to a few trusted dramatards. Still waiting on any pictures of the park from @yolomeister that are actually from today.

idea by @brzl

EDIT: YOU CAN ALSO SUGGEST NEW EMOJI TAGS HERE

@Garry_Chess I tried, tell me if you want anything (or everything) changed.

"now that's everyone" you might say. who really likes getting dunked on?

but getting dunked on is like the point of going to the Internet, a perfectly terrible honesty factory at heart.

that's why I dunk on the slow kids who don't really get it, I expect good dunks if I come here, this is supposed to be the top troll's nest.

but the kind of people that never really made this adjustment, of having their views critically examined by a hostile audience, they're the kind of people that end up at TheMotte. You can see it in that ban log that was posted the other day.

Now you have to learn to read TheMotte's ban log. I'll interpret, I don't know the names but you don't have to. I'm not even going to click through to see the post or the reasoning behind the ban.

/u/SSCEnjoyer - permaban - /u/Amadanb

Someone's alt.

/u/BrimThrown - 3 days - /u/Amadanb

An idiot posting there seriously who said something mildly rude.

/u/KulakRevolt - 30 days - /u/Amadanb

A regular known for some spicy takes.

/u/meleemottechess - 2 days - escalated to permaban after raging out in modmail - /u/Amadanb

An alt.

/u/SuspeciousSam - 7 days - /u/Amadanb

An idiot posting there seriously.

/u/JTarrou - 7 days - /u/Amadanb

The idiot posting there seriously, someone so neurodivergent I feel a tiny little bit bad for having dunked on him, but he had it coming.

/u/PmMeClassicMemes - 7 days - /u/naraburns

Someone fighting the good fight of dunking on the idiots in defiance of the law.

/u/lilymotherofmonsters - 3 days - /u/naraburns

An idiot posting there seriously, but it's naraburns, so it could also be someone fighting the good fight.

/u/remzem - 2 days - /u/Amadanb

An idiot posting there seriously

/u/ChadLord78 - 7 days - /u/Amadanb

Possibly a troll based on the name.

/u/autoantinatalist - permaban - /u/Amadanb

Someone going deep into true radical centrism.

/u/CertainlyDisposable - 90 days - /u/Amadanb

90 days means it was a regular, possibly someone fighting the good fight of dunking on the idiots

... you get the general idea. How'd I do?

This lineage of Reddit subreddits, which is to say:

Scott Alexander's blog comments section, the part that lived on Reddit, quarantined all of its political conversation in one weekly thread, which was the location of the biggest Fascist Masquerade on Reddit. Being comprised of people who had the political understanding of novices and higher-than-usual levels of autism, the polite fascists had their way with the community.

But Scott Alexander also wrote praise of blogger and harry potter villain Mencius Moldbug, who is a total wack job. Scott Alexander had some good bits. Moldbug repackaged Fox News talking points for an online audience and doesn't even know, to my knowledge, that this is what he has done. And fair's fair I guess: any amount of influence is success. But the monarchism: it is the wistful romance of a white male dreaming power plays born of grandiose delusions.

These are the people who had a power play about the importance of being dunked on as a central tenet of their culture, because Scott Alexander is of the first online distributed cult: the SFBA Rationalists. (How does an online cult end up with a center? They didn't really plan it out as an online distributed cult. It can't really be done for reasons that either will or won't surprise you. Hint: founder drama. Speaking of, the SFBA Rationalists have some founder drama that lies uninvestigated. I'd love to hear more from any dramanauts willing to make the journey.) The fan fiction that comprises part of this cult's scripture (yes, seriously) has a chapter in which the main character is forcibly instructed in being dunked on. But they still never managed to really internalize it.

When Scott Alexander wrote about Moldbug, he was self-consciously running a maximization algorithm on engagement. He wrote some emails detailing his writing strategy. His community therefore was intentionally driven towards bringing in neoreactionaries, and his communities were infested with actual racism as a result.

TheMotte is a parable to me in so many ways.

• Online writers need an editor.
• Even if you identify your faults, you may not be able to do anything about them.
• Middling intellects are far, far stupider than normal people with average IQs. There's a pseudo-intellectual uncanny gap where you are smart enough to know more things but not better things and utter confusion is the result.

I am not a Mottoid, they kept their permaban on me when they moved from Scott Alexander's subreddit. They don't like me because I've dunked on them too much. And they view my dunks as anti-social behavior, which... well, yes, but that's the whole point of online discussion, getting to see people's uncensored thoughts.

An online politics forum built on anonymous polite speech is missing the point, but lmao the problem specifically with TheMotte is:

They view their entire purpose as to provide a place to air views which are anti-social in many common contexts and they forbid any anti-social views in response.

This is the outcome of a fastidious and overbearing focus on fact as the prevailing power in argument, literal readers who struggle to understand social context. Too neurodivergent for politics.

The resulting bubble is this deluded ship of fools who legit believe the left is out to get them specifically. Free speech idealism twisted around to say "no you can't say that." It's the most insane thing. The least functional political forum.

They won't come here to rdrama because the whole point of the Internet is to summon your Jungian shadow, right? And they're hiding from any honest reflection of their views.

Why do I post this?

Because in all honesty, I used to believe in the power of online discourse. Scott Alexander and his community broke me of that belief. They are such active and strong-willed participants in the artifice of their self-delusion that I gave up on true seriousposting.

Shitposting and dunking and deprecating reflection on world events; that's the r drama dot net way.

@Szia_uram who could had predicted that all those fortification are as real as billion Czech shells ?

Would this honest man that looks like caricature of corrupt bank owner ever steal ?

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/massive-fortification-efforts-underway-in-kharkiv-region/

Quake boomers!

मानवीय विकास विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग से ही संभव है। मानविकी दर्शन राह दिखाता है लेकिन समस्याओं का निदान और जीवन की गुणवत्ता में इजाफा तकनीक से ही संभव है

सीमित संसाधनों के लिए निरंतर संघर्ष से आज सतत नई value creation तक का सफर विज्ञान से ही संभव हो सका है#NationalTechnologyDay pic.twitter.com/h8cYcimUFa

— Anjali Kataria, DSP 🇮🇳 (@AnjaliKataria19) May 11, 2024

"Human development is possible only through science and engineering. Humanistic philosophy shows the way but solving problems and improving the quality of life is possible only through technology.

The journey from constant struggle for limited resources to continuous new value creation today has been possible only through science" - her tweet

!bharatiya !codecels take a look at her code. She should have learnt some more to simplify the code to use a loop otherwise she wouldn't have to print each letter one by one.

var = "HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY"

for i in var:

    print (i)

Lmao look at the hidden replies:

1st guy is asking her to clean her laptop frequently

2nd guy asking her to use loops

5th guy calls her code shit, says it can be done with 4 lines