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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Would love the "rationalists" to give one example of a rationally plausible mechanism through which AI destroys humanity

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This whole AI safety thing has genuinely gotten so weird that it's not even interesting to hear about anymore, it just feels gross and offputting to even think about it

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People talk about "patronage systems" but I honestly think that exists just fine without the need for frats and that they're kept around because of genuine demand for institutions that validate group recklessness and bad behavior

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Made funnier by the fact that if you go to r/grilledcheese the posts are basically all grilled cheeses per this guys stickler definition

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Most attentive research showcase audience member

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I feel like most gravitate towards California due to the dialect-flattening effect of entertainment media

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Shrinking, yes--because they're becoming upper-middle class

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vice President of the United States btw

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The racial subtext of this is jarring lol

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Even in absence of basically any other context, it is flatly inconceivable that a UM grad who grew up in Michigan would not know this. Not even baseline plausible that he got this wrong

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I get one of these posts a month as a treat

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great example of sanewashing. He disputes the poll, sure, but the dispute is totally baseless! He never profeers any explanation for why the polls are supposedly wrong. I think that's very fair to include! And he "rejected" stories about allies' primary losses? What does that even mean

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The President's heart is in the right place" meanwhile Trump has not once in his life thought about the wellbeing of cattle farmers for a nanosecond

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah hate to go with the classic "what if a Democrat" but like come the fuck on, on the literal same issue no less

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Straight up fuck these people. They clearly understand exactly how women are harmed by their rhetoric because the second a shadow of it appears on the other side they know just what to say to pounce on it

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ok cool. The People have spoken and now our representatives in Congress are Real People, warts and all. Breaking the glass ceiling on individuals in active mental health crises serving in the House. Now what

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm afraid we are already in Woke 2 and it consists of centering the lived experiences of racist rural white ppl and tough on crime urban black voters. Meaning its woke but racistly and rightishly

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Might be because stepping in earlier may not have worked the way they wanted it to--see Maine. Not to mention the deluge of criticism around the popular narrative that party elites pick winners before the fact and that primaries surface the best candidates almost per se

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'd love for one of those critics to explain exactly how this is any different from, say, a French-trained chef of Chinese origin making a French cookbook--without lapsing into equivocation or obfuscatory recitals

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

...may well do us in. So that's a fair argument. But do not buy the idea that rich ppl will never feel the impact of climate change. Totally false

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

...avoid the negative impacts." But the thing is, neither makes much sense, because adaptation without any mitigation won't work. And yet this view tends to persist and probably stifles climate action/advocacy which is a shame. That said, the failed *attempts* of the super-rich at adaptation...

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This has become a weird two-sides-of-the-same-coin kind of doomerist cope: Rich people saying "oh we don't have to care about climate, we'll just go inside, use air purifiers, go abroad" etc., and climate doomers are like "we can't get people to care about climate because rich ppl will just...

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Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a position that has been articulated by some parts of the left for some time. A tendency to rely on doctrinaire statements and claims that diplomacy hasn't been seriously attempted. Beyond the obvious (Putin not seriously interested in negotiations), much diplomacy has been attempted (1/n)

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

They literally have the same exact position Trump had. "We should just make them figure it out! It can't be that hard."

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sorry to engage with the bait but why does it make more sense to have to pay taxes while you're also paying off the mortgage vs after you become the property owner. Not seeing that one

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah its definitely the "liberal elites" who are self-absorbed man. Not you at all

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

She's really caught up on this, lol

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The "Trump is a businessman" shit is so annoying in part because he never actually fucking talks shop about business at all. Just right wing nutjob nonsense. Fair to say there's something else going on (probably gender)

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Depressing when you realize she's probably talking about like LGBT rights and GMO crops and not the actual abomination of fossil fuel combustion

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Guy who is literally a politics reporter: Man it's tough deciding who to support politically. No one side gets everything right 😕

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's a good example of how deranged the politics-news media complex has become. Look at clips of Miller on e.g. CNN, any other individual saying the same thing on TV about their DV charges/allegations would be rightly tarred and feathered, but because he's running for office they let him say it

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's so funny to watch him slowly losing it, like this is such a slam dunk but he can't even stop himself from rriffing and starts going on about how "he could be the greatest communist" like dude what?? Lmao

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I mean based on this clip it would be hard for her to deny that she does literally want to cancel thanksgiving

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think that's right, not very good theater though is it. They already ran the "IRS deal off" headline

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Didn't they already do this whole schtick? The fund was on, then it was off, then back on again, now we're supposed to believe it's off for good? Come on

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In a way, this is really just a story about a guy who kept compromising on his values and kept making more money as a result, all the while fighting to maintain the delusion that he was in control the whole time

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Why was he so effortlessly nice with it

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lemme take a stab. Digital communications tech and widespread literacy has led to a heightened consciousness (qua ambient awareness) of how dynamic the modern world has become and brought people face to face with radical difference. The global right wing surge is a reaction to that

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Huge bummer how high the USA is for all these. Swear to god pre-Trump we would be nowhere close to where we are now

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey, we're kinda cooking with seeing political extremism as the real driver here. No other country really rated that one either. Go us

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Holy shit thats a new low. She can hardly even sputter it out cause she knows its so vile

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Love how the "evil" Santana accuses his girlfriend of is basically inviting her friends over and keeping the lights off to conserve energy

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That only makes me value that little, fleeting bit of autonomy even greater. Should be careful not to let the (valid) critique of childish individualism collapse into a (dangerous) critique of agency

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's actually insane how left wing psychos will endlessly moralize about their chosen pet international affairs issues then a split second later just casually disclaim a universally accepted bedrock principle of fair conduct between nations like self-determination

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Should give each of them $1m and follow them around with cameras seeing how they spend it

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Trump is hilarious cause he's literally the biggest liar and bullshitter in the entire world but reckons guys like Putin and Xi don't do that kind of thing with him

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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Would be cool to have politics that's not Oops! All shibboleth and symbolic economy sometime soon

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