Random Thoughts

[Silver]

Goodbye, AD, may you prosper along your misguided sense of adventure.

[Angrboda]

[Silver]

[Silver]

Going to lose my damn mind tonight, I swear.

[The Valkyrie]

Going to lose my damn mind tonight, I swear.

Check under the rug.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Things I've had just about enough of, in no particular order:

-the use of 'fraught' as a stand alone word.

-ninjas.

-people who keep livestock as pets.

-portmanteau couple names (looking at you, Brangelina).

-'miracle' foods.

-pasta salad.

-zombies.

-the seemingly never ending series of new 'Star Trek' incarnations.

-customers who shout at the service people.

-the smugness of Scandinavians.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

Like the skunkfuck that called wanting to sell me an extended car warranty.

And the "newest" car we own is old enough to vote.

Got one of those calls a couple days ago.  I told the woman I don't have a car in my name so I really didn't think that was a good purchase on my part.

I try to fuck with them, but they never want to give me an extended warranty on a '58 Plymouth Fury that I like to call Chrissy.

[Sal]

The robustness of my convictions are in direct correlation (I have to keep in the back of my mind that correlation doesn't imply causation) with the quality of those convictions. It is the difference between fragility and robustness; between dropping a conjecture on a moments notice at the slightest fact based push-back compared to a well-established, well-researched, multiple unassociated and individually confirmed experimentations/observations, high fidelity falsifiability, universal - yet acutely specific - theory being able to withstand sustained critique, tests, opinionated derision & assailment, despite who, from cranks & amateurs all the way to experts with overwhelming authority in both experience and knowledge in that field (although I might easily discount what a crank says, I'll probably listen more closely to an expert, so).

If some of my held convictions are easily changed, just means that those probably weren't valuable to begin with.

[...]

-the smugness of Scandinavians.

Boru

I guess it's our ridiculous Viking heritage. That, and the fools who have the audacity of actually being proud of descending from a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes. We need the law of Jante now more than ever here. Because of this, I'd argue evil, culture, I think the more people are more aware how contemptible it is to be proud of being descended from Vikings might show them how these malignant values, both human and ideological, just might be bad in and of themself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

Here, the rules of what not to do think about yourself, grounds yourself and makes you appreciative, albeit admittedly perversely, about a collective existence in a society, both as an individual and in social norms with other people in that environment. That is quintessential Scandinavian. The law of Jante were meant as a sarcastic critique of society, but the author behind it captured almost perfectly the Scandinavian spirit.

The perverse individualism of thinking we're so fucking great because we're from Viking ancestors (as-if that meant anything today, pfffft) stands in stark contrast to the Law of Jante. Good. Fight fire with fire, I say.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The robustness of my convictions are in direct correlation (I have to keep in the back of my mind that correlation doesn't imply causation) with the quality of those convictions. It is the difference between fragility and robustness; between dropping a conjecture on a moments notice at the slightest fact based push-back compared to a well-established, well-researched, multiple unassociated and individually confirmed experimentations/observations, high fidelity falsifiability, universal - yet acutely specific - theory being able to withstand sustained critique, tests, opinionated derision & assailment, despite who, from cranks & amateurs all the way to experts with overwhelming authority in both experience and knowledge in that field (although I might easily discount what a crank says, I'll probably listen more closely to an expert, so).

If some of my held convictions are easily changed, just means that those probably weren't valuable to begin with.

[...]

-the smugness of Scandinavians.

Boru

I guess it's our ridiculous Viking heritage. That, and the fools who have the audacity of actually being proud of descending from a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes. We need the law of Jante now more than ever here. Because of this, I'd argue evil, culture, I think the more people are more aware how contemptible it is to be proud of being descended from Vikings might show them how these malignant values, both human and ideological, just might be bad in and of themself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

Here, the rules of what not to do think about yourself, grounds yourself and makes you appreciative, albeit admittedly perversely, about a collective existence in a society, both as an individual and in social norms with other people in that environment. That is quintessential Scandinavian. The law of Jante were meant as a sarcastic critique of society, but the author behind it captured almost perfectly the Scandinavian spirit.

The perverse individualism of thinking we're so fucking great because we're from Viking ancestors (as-if that meant anything today, pfffft) stands in stark contrast to the Law of Jante. Good. Fight fire with fire, I say.

Very informative, but I was thinking more of the social safety net. These poor people don't realize that they're trapped in a socialist nightmare.



Boru

[Sal]

LOL, that's what I get for my textual blindspot for irony.