kontextmaschine

Alright, needs a bit of surgery before she’s a perfect match for my ex, but it’s a start.

Nathan Fillion wading around this TNT Castle marathon in a blazer the size of a three-ring tent and it’s like you WERE the new Kirk

loreweaver:

loreweaver:

Do you ever look at a frog and just think

this is a predator

this is a creature that has evolved to hunt, kill, and devour other animals for its sustenance

iainsarjeant:

Banff, Aberdeenshire - 04/05/2016

kontextmaschine:

FOR
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
THAT CAN
DESTROY ALL LIFE

(photo by M. Scott Brauer)

iguanamouth:

meet the New Gods ( l i st en i love this prompt generator ok )

coldasaslab:

johnstamostimelessbeauty:

Here’s something to chew on.

about me.jpg

These are the exact same idioms in which I, as a 15-year old boy, was (and as a 33-year old am) angry at the world for not recognizing my ability to inflict and withstand suffering as a mark of social and moral superiority

raggedjackscarlet:

the Rough People, whose pain inspires contempt, learn stoicism by necessity.

the Cute People, whose pain inspires sympathy, believe that stoicism cannot be anything but an affectation.

whatevernatureis:

argumate:

aww yeah, spring weather brings those tits out

those tits (img src) are all right but how about some GREAT tits (img src):

however there are all sorts of tits, including penduline tits (img src):

ohmigawd, Fifth Element is soooo good

reasonableapproximation:

house-carpenter:

shkreli-for-president:

hylleddin:

pirozhok-s-kapustoj:

theungrumpablegrinch:

ozylikes:

socialjusticemunchkin:

socialjusticemunchkin:

I seem to have a Thing of throwing off-hand jokes that later are validated surprisingly well by empirical data, and this time it’s “as queer as a women’s college”

Because I’m screwing around in the diaspora survey results for fun and wow this fits all the unlikely but totally true stereotypes

like, right now I’m googling the statistics on lesbianity and transgenderism in Mount Holyoke because holy shit our hardest core might actually give them a run for their money in queerness

So, the results are in, and…

yes.

I used this data and the four big clusters with useful results (0, 1, 3 and 6) turned out pretty remarkable.

Cluster 0 seems relatively unremarkable; its most distinctive characteristic was skipping the cultural questions and all in all less active answering

6 is roughly identical to 0 in other questions; it has some slight exposure to the culture but seems to be mostly made of “regular people” who somehow ended up on the survey, and by “regular” I mean “still pretty niche but not thoroughly corrupted”; almost half had read Ender’s Game and a third are regulars of SSC and that’s about it. I’m calling the two of them the “ordinarys”

Cluster 3 I’m naming “rationalist-adjacent” because they share a lot of characteristics but aren’t neck deep in the memeplex unlike…

Cluster 1 which is obviously “yudkowskians” because they are basically walking stereotypes

And by stereotypes I mean things like:

Half the women are trans (8% to 9% and most of the enbies (9% in total) are amab as well); r-adjacents have relatively low numbers of trans women but the same amount of enbies, and a quarter is afab instead of 12% of the yudkowskians. But both have more women than the ordinarys, and yudkowskians’ trans team is very strong and makes a valiant effort in closing the gender gap even if the r-adjacents seize a narrow victory in the numbers game.

More people are poly than mono, and heterosexuals are only barely a majority (59% while 29% are bi; the rationalist-adjacents are very close too with 62% and 23% while the ordinarys have 76-78% and 12-14%; homosexuality is relatively constant at 3-5%)

9% of both the yudkowskians and r-adjacents are asexual, compared to 5% of the ordinarys

Half of them work with computers and nobody is going to believe those alleged IQ scores never ever (146, compared to a consistent 136-138 for the rest); they are also the most likely to have only a high school degree while the other groups (especially r-adjacents) beat them in the other education categories

Agnosticism is hilariously unpopular (3% compared to 11-16% for the rest) and they are extremely jewish

Basically everyone reads SSC, and they are the biggest readers of everything else on the list as well (except Xenosystems, where the r-adjacents take the first place in regulars and sometimes-readers)

The closer one is to the hard core of the memeplex, the less conservative (by a significant amount) and the more libertarian (to some degree but not as massively) one is, but neither of them can hold a candle to the massive correlation between exposure to Yudkowsky’s writings and being a trans woman (can’t bother to do the calculations but the connection is absurdly strong)

So this data basically says that the archetypical rationalist is:

• 21-25 years old
• jewish
• trans woman (probably kind of non-binary-ish on some level, but transitioning with hormones)
• polyamorous
• gray-asexual
• bisexual
• an absurdly gifted child with the specific kind of badbrains which is varyingly diagnosed as autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or most likely some combination of them
• studies computer science
• politically left-libertarian
• geeks out on all kinds of weird nerd stuff
• has read all of: Three Worlds Collide, HPMoR, The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
• a regular SSC reader

to calculate your “how stereotypical rationalist am I” score: 1 point for fully matching each, ½ points for getting close; mine is 10/12

eight

what kind of failure rationalist am I

9.5, giving myself half a point for being amab agender.

I am amused by these results.

7, if i count as jewish as a patrilinear jew
i need to step up my game

9.5/12, not a huge surprise

4/12 lol

3/12, beat you

One and four halves.

3 ½
Used to would have been 5 3/2
Used to wanted to have been 10 2/2

It gets better

the slice window turned late-night pizza delivery service run by like, the second-chillest strip club dwarf in Portland, that used to be (and probably still is) pretty indie rock but has been getting weirdly Ethiopian

last three months momentum’s changed, no one thinks we’re going any further left, people are switching stance to prepare for a rightward fight, have you noticed that?

needsmoreresearch:

bunniesandbeheadings:

Preparing the room for two old cousins royalists who have announced their visit for L’Exposition

[source]

This is amazing.

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

thathomestar:

jadethemerman:

did he give her 2 thumbs up?

always thumb up the titties.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Rock Star

Washington crossed the Delaware River
Washington acted like a
Rock Star

Washington made America deliver
Washington tried to be a
Rock Star

But all the fame that he had won
it wasn’t really any fun
soon the people started turning
(woah-oh-oh)

that boy who couldn’t tell a lie
two terms and then he said goodbye
Georgie went back to Mount Vernon
(woooooahhh)

why don’t you just shoot me in the head
‘cause you know I’d be better off dead
if there’s really no place in America
for a celebrity of the first rank

Ladies and gentlemen!
Governor!
Andrew!
Jackson!
(yeeah)

That’s right motherfuckers
Jackson’s back!

one-two-three

John Adams tried to be an American idol
Jefferson tried to be a
Rock Star

Madison tried to make the presidency vital
and James Monroe was a
DOUCHEBAG

the story always ends the same
it’s hard to handle all that fame
if you don’t really have it in you
(woah-oh-oh)

there’s no place in democracy
for your brand of aristocracy
take that shit back to Virginia
(or Massachusetts, beyotch!)

why don’t you just shoot me in the head
‘cause you know I’d be better off dead
if there’s really no place in America
for a celebrity of the first rank

you can’t just be a founding father
(would you like to see my stimulus package?)
when everybody wants you to be their father

you can’t just be a founding father
(I’m gonna fill you with POPULA-JISM!)
when everybody wants you to be their father

why don’t you just shoot me in the head
‘cause you know I’d be better off dead
if there’s really no place in America
for a celebrity of the first rank

(crosstalk medley)

man, can you imagine if this musical was written by an actual songwriter?

Lin-Manuel Miranda rates like one win and two places in the filk competition at an off-season con and look where it got him

youcantcancelquidditch:

someone just alerted me to this “employment myths” page on the CIA’s website and i can’t believe it, i have misinformed the internet on such a massive scale that the CIA actually had to address my claims on their employment website, i feel so alive

Oh yeah that reminds me, with my recent crash and all I should talk up how great motorcycle helmets are!

Like, I t-boned a car with a force of (calculate, calculate) about 12400 Joules, fell and banged my head on hard macadam and skidded for at least 20 feet, and it hurt much less than I remember as a kid falling onto wet grass from a stationary bicycle.

Evel Knievel, the famous ‘70s motorcycle daredevil whose exploits earned him a Guinness Book slot for most bones ever broken, was a huge fan of motorcycle helmets.