JohnBierce

joined 1 year ago
[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

How delightfully ineffective

(Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)

[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

As someone who made decent money off that site back in the day, fuck Steemit. Realizing that my earnings came from Korean folks losing their life savings turned me against crypto for life.

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

As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.

I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?

[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Solid post, already shared this a few times.

[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

...The vast majority of guys I know who have been in a lot of fights (me included) are quite happy never getting in a fight again? Like, there's definitely a few weirdos and dudes with anger issues who love fighting, but the shine wears off pretty damn quick for most people, and they'd rather avoid the fight in the first place? I really don't think real-life arenas and duels would work the way this guy thinks.

(I used to work as a bouncer in a bar, haven't been in a fight since then, I prefer keeping it that way. Also, fair notice, I wasn't actually a very good fighter- I was the average-sized, unintimidating bouncer, my job was to head off fights before they happened, so the bigger bouncers and bartenders didn't have to intervene, and I was good at talking drunks down. I wrestled a decent number of drunks when I had to, but that did not an impressive fighter make, I'd suck at Colosseum fights, lol.)

[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm John Bierce, cheesy fantasy novelist (both in the sense of writing cheesy books, and in the sense of being full of the literal dairy product), and I was on SneerClub (using various accounts) since around... 2019, 2020? I've missed it since it fled Reddit, especially with all the rampant, stupid AI hype and TESCREAL bullshit running rampant right now.

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