maol

joined 2 years ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of this bloke's approach to teaching swimming.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Oh my gahhhhd. "Most child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?"

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

I started (but didn't finish) a degree in city planning, and we literally spent a lot of the first year learning about why planned cities are usually a bad idea. Siskind's a schmuck

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

Ah, the idea that merely living in the same country as some rich people means that you yourself are rich.

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

His glowing reference to the "aggro Scots Irish" reminded me that the "Scots Irish" are descended from Ulster Protestants, and that it wasn't fun being an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland for much of the 20th century. Ian Paisley famously said that Catholics "breed like rabbits".

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

"If you zoom in on an upward trend, it looks smaller. I am very smart. A genius, even"

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

Not sexist at all!

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

I guess he doesn't realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

commenter on Shtetl-Optimized talks about the rapey “nice guys” she suffered at college

Not just that, but one of very few feminist commenters in an aggressively anti-feminist comments section on a blogpost about how it's wrong that MIT pulled Walter Lewin's online lecture videos after he was accused of sexually harrassing a student. Scott Aaronson, Friend To All Women, felt no need to intervene as his fans trashed the very notion of online sexual harrassment - only when a woman made an uncharitable remark about nerd men.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'd love to know what he thinks they should play.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

What's driving me mad at the moment is the plague of bands, artists, organizations using linktr.ee instead of a website (or even if they have a website). That's what your website is for!

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

The only way to use twitter.

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