Wirlocke

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

I feel like an average person or group of people are of average intelligence.

But huge masses of people? They begin to adopt emergent traits that cancel out individual intelligence. It's why foot traffic can be modelled as a liquid. Or why the entire field of economics can exist.

This makes large public masses have predictable behavior that's exploitable by grifters, demagogues, and propaganda.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If he was that competent why would he resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.

He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn't make him a good puppet master.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure he gave an outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it's stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.

I don't think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it's value to come back and buy it on the cheap.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are multiple cases where pure chance and human hesitation prevented all out nuclear bombardment in the Cold War.

So for that alone we are extremely lucky.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ultimately I believe you can't claim to be an activist if you are promoting inaction.

If voting doesn't matter then vote and do more. Doing less to change things is functionally conservative no matter how you spin it.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

This would he concerning if I wasn't convince that Walz would sit him down and correct him like a disappointed father.

If anyone could make a politician seem like a child to their face it'd be him, and especially if that politician is Vance.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 months ago

Humans have advanced far but hardly changed.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

I don't find them funny but more amazed that we've distilled the concept into an immortal simple symbol.

Like kilroy or the cool S, loss will ironically never be lost ~~:.|:;~~

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I feel the specificity is to drive home the point to the target of this message. You can generalize advice to be more accurate and apply to more people, but it'll be as wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle.

People are really great at excluding themselves from general advice like "don't worry about judgement", they need to feel like the message is tailored to their own experiences.

You can definitely recycle the message with a male or gender neutral tone, but that'll lead to different conversations. Sometimes people don't want to speak out to a generic broad audience, they want a more specific conversation.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I for one believe Bugs is Cis and thus is the worlds biggest drag queen icon.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

Hopefully the loopholes of executive power that enabled that crackpot plan will be closed up by then...

Yeah I know, a lot to ask for.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 6 months ago

It was, infact, not all good there.

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