maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

like if I tried to end global poverty by becoming really, really rich.

I have some exciting news for you. Have you ever heard of "effective altruism"?

[–] maol@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean in this article they claim that girlfriend will be able to have seven kids, spaced a year and a half apart, and homeschool them, and still keep her career. They're obviously not too concerned about contradictory statements.

[–] maol@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really really don't get how wearing a corset* while you're pregnant is somehow the most rational option

*Don't come @ me corset fans, I'm sure they are very comfortable, but while you're pregnant? Eight months pregnant?

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had never heard of Girlyman until this morning, and now I've seen two references in one day.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Telefís). His solo album Black River Falls is beautiful (The Ghost of Limehouse Cut, Black River Falls, Frankfurt Cowboy Yodel)... To say nothing of Microdisney or the Fatima Mansions.

Actually one of the songs on his last album with Telefís was a mockery of TESCREAL beliefs. Space Is Us: "I will live forever in those racks of tin"

[–] maol@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, these people have not planned anything at all. They're going to homeschool all 7+ kids? And go into politics, a job that infamously has long, unsociable hours?

[–] maol@awful.systems 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They bought this house and the one next door for $575,000; they allow their neighbours to live in the second house rent free, in exchange for childcare.

Seems normal !

[–] maol@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

Everyone's least favourite rationalist couple

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about evolution or genetics, and I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't either. Why would everyone become disabled because more disabled people survive and pass on their genes to their kids? We don't stone gingers to death and yet we are not all having red-headed kids.

The repeated use of the word "weak" (as opposed to "sick" or "disabled") seems revealing.

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago

Damn, these guys really hate Stephen Jay Gould don't they.

[–] maol@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

I thought Thatcher on Acid was a band from the 80s, not the EAies' approach to economic policy

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Praying that someday Elon Musk stops posting through it

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