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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)

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The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Valley Forge, PA

Yep, checks out.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (9 children)

hmm I don't actually know the context here, mind sharing?

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

City very much in the heart of Pennsyl-Tucky

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

(fwiw this reply was only like 0.01% more informative than the original thing, but from other people's comments I got to figure things out. please try to remember that there is more world out there than just eaglegunscountry)

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@Kata1yst

Not really? It's just the Philadelphia suburbs. 14 miles northwest of where I saw Fishbone and Primus.

Pennsylvania gets a looooot more Pennsyl-tucky than that.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Suburbs of Philadelphia” is pretty funny to me - it’s a 2:15+h car ride there from Philly. Americans might consider 100 miles a short commute, but dang. When does a part of PA stop being a Philly suburb and start being a Pittsburgh suburb?

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

@antifuchs

50 miles, not 100 miles.

25 miles each way is not that big of a deal. In college I spent six months commuting 40 minutes each way (traffic gods willing it wouldn't be longer) from 31st street to Springhouse, PA.

Valley Forge is definitely at the limits of what I'd put up with though, unless there's good train service.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering if we are looking at the same map, and then it turns out there are two Valley Forges: one is a neighborhood in (yep!) the Philly suburbs, the other is a township next to York, PA. The latter is what I was referring to!

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@antifuchs

Ah, that explains it. I wonder which one they live in.

Actually it's probably the York one because “Valley Forge" by Philadelphia apparently isn't really a town in its own right.

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

Fair. I always thought of Pennsyl-Tucky was more a state of mind/politics rather than an area, but I'm not a local and haven't been in the area for years so I'm inclined to believe you.

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