This is not funny. My best friend died of whatever. If y'all didn't hate saltman so much maybe he'd still be here with us.
bitofhope
joined 2 years ago
Beanie Babies are real and generally increase in value.
You probably felt really smart when wrtiting that comment, and that's totally normal and valid. Everyone has lapses in reading comprehension sometimes.
I know the GNU Infant Manipulation Program can be a little unintuitive and clunky sometimes, but it is quite powerful when you get used to it. Also why does everyone always look at me weird when I say that?
Surely not, their whole dev team is made of 11x programmers!
In a way every bubble economy is already a meta-bubble in that they don't just aim to generate hype about tulips, but also to generate hype about hype about tulips.
And like @YourNetworkIsHaunted pointed out, it's a pretty good description of private equity in general. More abstractly, every stock market crash is a consequence of some first-order bubble winning the meta-bubble race.
It's when you combine sex toys with remote control, typically over the internet.
Applications include obvious things such as synchronizing a vibrator to the action in an adult video to enhance immersion, kinky play like letting a partner or audience member control a tactically placed vibe, or even humorously creative stuff like using an artificial vagina as a video game controller. There is some quite interesting and fun work being done in the area, such as the Buttplug protocol.
Based on your username you might already be familiar with all this, though.
Can we make "low-background media" a thing?
Works as a flex I guess. Does this government agency budget statement really include a multi-million dollar line for "arming fascist death squads to destabilize countries most of us couldn't find on a map"? Why yes it does, what are you going to do about it!
The world was not quite ready for the FleshLathe.
I listened to parts 2—4 today and even with an above-average familiarity with rationalist weirdness it was a wild fucking ride.
Kinda wild to have a community of vegan trans women whose most notable victims are a border patrol agent and a landlord and who are still the baddies in this situation.
The HPMOR/LW parts and to a lesser extent bits of CFAR were absolutely familiar (and all the more cringeworthy for it). Never quite realized exactly how obviously psychologically torturous cult shit CFAR event were about.
The headline is a bit of a crash blossom, but if you read the article, the comments in this thread, or even the title itself carefully enough, you should be able to parse it. If not, I'll help:
A startup company named "11x", whose business model is AI sales, claims to have customers for its software (which incidentally doesn't work), who in fact are not their customers.