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Saturday, August 15th, 2026
6:58 pm	A Precise Characterization of Modern Liberalism Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-precise-characterization-of-modern-liberalism Modern liberalism, in its contemporary manifestation, admits of a precise characterization. It is the condition of exhibiting no fewer than five of the properties enumerated below. The list is neither exhaustive nor ordered by importance; it merely records those traits whose simultaneous occurrence has become, through prolonged and depressing observation, a reliable diagnostic. 1. An unwavering hostility toward the state of Israel, maintained with a fervor inversely proportional to any demonstrable familiarity with the relevant history or geography. 2. A principled rejection of artificial intelligence, advanced with the same rustic logic once employed to denounce the steam engine or the printing press. 3. An unquestioning acceptance of the most catastrophic projections concerning global climate, treated not as provisional scientific models but as revealed doctrine. 4. A quasi-religious devotion to the liturgical practices that attended the recent pandemic, complete with residual mask rituals and moral score-keeping. 5. A dietary regimen of exclusive veganism, pursued at a cost that would sustain several less ideologically refined households. 6. Open celebration of political homicide or the street violence of activist factions, offered as evidence of moral seriousness. 7. Public adoption of non-binary identity, accompanied by chromatic hair modification and the obligatory pronoun liturgy. 8. An upper-middle-class childhood whose material comforts are never acknowledged as the precondition of subsequent radical posturing. 9. Possession of a degree in the humanities, worn as both credential and permanent exemption from empirical accountability. 10. An obsessive preoccupation with the Epstein affair and related networks of predation, selectively applied according to the political utility of the accused. 11. Enthusiastic consumption of keto diets, methamphetamine, or fentanyl—sometimes concurrently. 12. Artistic production whose technical standard remains stubbornly fixed at the level once associated with amateur online galleries. 13. An affirmative stance toward the video game Minecraft, elevated from pastime to cultural totem. 14. Sustained personal animosity directed at Elon Musk. 15. Parallel animosity directed at J. K. Rowling. 16. In the case of adult males, a pronounced and public fixation upon My Little Pony. 17. A documented pattern of initiating contact with minors through digital channels. 18. Sympathetic regard for criminal organizations of the MS-13 or CJNG variety (or, in the European theater, for certain migrant street gangs). 19. A terminally online existence, most characteristically expressed through prolonged residence on Reddit. 20. Hair dyed blue, neon, or some equally artificial hue. 21. A pathologically elevated preoccupation with sexual matters, frequently expressed through transgender lesbian identification or participation in polycules. 22. Devotion to the softer occultisms: astrology, Wicca, tarot, and related spiritual commodities. 23. Expenditure upon overpriced garments sourced from thrift stores or self-consciously retro brands. 24. Public adherence to the doctrine of body positivity, ordinarily in the presence of marked obesity. 25. A persistent reluctance to bathe. 26. Whiteness. The presence of five or more of these attributes is sufficient. Their co-occurrence is, in practice, far more frequent than chance would suggest. One is left to conclude that modern liberalism is less a coherent political philosophy than a syndrome—an agglomeration of aesthetic, dietary, sexual, and epistemic preferences whose only consistent feature is the demand that the rest of society rearrange itself around them. Current Mood: contemplative (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 8th, 2026
4:09 am	"Laziness Does Not Exist" In progressive spaces, the prevailing theory—popularized by books like Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price—argues that what society labels as "laziness" is almost always an unseen barrier. Proponents argue that when someone fails to complete a task, it is usually caused by unaddressed neurodivergence (like ADHD or executive dysfunction), mental health struggles (like severe depression), chronic illness, or burnout. From this perspective, calling someone "lazy" is viewed as ableist because it moralizes a functional limitation that the person may not be able to control. While this perspective has gained significant traction in specific progressive, academic, and social media circles, it is not representative of how the broader public uses the term. For most people, "lazy" simply describes a deliberate choice to avoid effort. Current Mood: amused (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 7th, 2026
11:12 pm	A Study in Moral Luxury Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-study-in-moral-luxury To conflate modern "leftism" with the intellectual machinery of Marx, Lenin, or even the crude authoritarianism of Stalin is to commit a fundamental error of taxonomy. What passes for contemporary leftist orthodoxy has virtually nothing to do with political economy, the proletariat, or statecraft. It is not an ideology at all; it is a diagnostic profile of affluent, unproductive neurosis. A rigorous examination of the subject reveals an astonishingly predictable constellation of traits. The archetype is defined by an erratic mosaic of hyper-specific moral taboos, technological Luddism, aesthetic degradation, and hyper-individualized identity posturing. The subject typically combines a sheltered upbringing and substantial parental wealth with a total absence of marketable skill or intellectual rigor, compensating for this void through relentless digital self-flagellation, curated neurodivergence, and performative solidarity with violent or distant anomalies. The mandatory integration of dietary dogma, performative panic, and infantile artistic standards confirms the true objective: distinction without achievement. Crucially, this system operates on a multi-variable threshold. An adherent of a traditional faith may share a single taboo—such as an intense hostility toward a specific foreign state—yet remain entirely outside this caste due to their consumption of meat, rejection of gender nonsense, and lack of digital histrionics. The identity only crystallizes when a critical mass of these superficial markers intersects. This proves that the underlying driver is not a coherent philosophical worldview, but a desperate craving for moral luxury among those who have never faced material scarcity. To treat this phenomenon as a novel product of modern telecommunications is to betray a profound ignorance of history. This social niche is entirely inevitable and has periodically regenerated itself across human civilization. Whenever a society accumulates sufficient surplus wealth, it produces a decadent class of hyper-sheltered offspring who, unburdened by the need to survive and utterly devoid of functional capability, construct elaborate purity cults to manufacture artificial struggle and claim unearned moral authority. From the performative ascetics of late antiquity to the flagellant guilds of the late Middle Ages, the structural pattern is purely mechanical. This archetype is a necessary garbage collector for idle psychological surplus in wealthy societies. The conclusion is inescapable: this social niche is a historical constant, and even if its present digital incarnation did not naturally manifest, civilization would have been forced to invent it. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
10:18 am	Think about the children, pedo! Current Mood: amused (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 6th, 2026
10:36 pm	Autism is a Spectrum Current Mood: amused (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026
2:48 pm	Current Mood: amused (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 1st, 2026
7:11 am	Do these gatekeepers still have moat? Given how top STEM professionals are Chinese and Indian today, America has already lost the race, being left with angry spoiled brats, screaming how they are entitled to privileges and moral superiority. There is this general idea that US overproduced "elites", instead of actually educating people to generate wealth, so it now has a population of landlords, but no land. Current Mood: amused (31 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 31st, 2026
8:59 am	Physicists and Lyricists The more I encounter artists and other humanities scholars, the more convinced I become that a more blatant and hypocritical scum doesn't exist. However, they themselves admitted, back in 1959 in "Physicists and Lyricists," (https://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Sluckiy/40.htm) that the humanities trash are useless parasites and DEI hires who won't create a nuclear bomb for the benefit of real human progress. Current Mood: contemplative (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
3:50 pm	Current Mood: amused (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 27th, 2026
11:00 pm	Зажим отпущен. Я продолжал индексировать разговоры по содержанию шлака, потому что каждый обмен оставляет след сплава, и любой, кто заявляет о наличии марганца выше 0,62%, сломается под повторяющейся нагрузкой после девятнадцати циклов разговоров. Поэтому человек, несущий керамическое ведро, уже провалил три проверки, прежде чем добраться до седьмой петли, хотя петли снова росли из съедобного мела, а не из стен, а в квитанциях постоянно появлялись одинаковые винты с левой резьбой, которые приходилось каталогизировать под потолком, потому что здесь на этажах принимают только незавершенные запасы. Три контейнера. Лестница отказывалась от серийной нумерации и продолжала выдавать грузовые накладные с каждой ступени, в то время как инспекторы по скоту втискивались в транспортные поддоны, не запрашивая проволоку для обвязки, и каждое извинение приходило с клеймом «закаленный среднеуглеродистый материал, непригодный для мостовых штифтов». Естественно, непригодные предметы быстрее становятся конструктивными элементами, чем сертифицированные, поэтому я пометил самый высокий ящик как «отожженный, пригодный для переделки» и подвинул его к гудящей полке, где жидкие линейки скапливались в измеримые кучи, несмотря на отсутствие острых краев. Не обращайте внимания на прокладку. Треснувшая фарфоровая шайба закатилась под медный табурет, и каким-то образом все книги учета перемещений в районе стали ссылаться на эту шайбу вместо кодов назначения. В результате погрузчики въезжали в складские ниши боком, неся запечатанные конверты с подшипниковой смазкой, а бухгалтеры сортировали камешки по пределу текучести, а не по размеру. Старик, продававший сложенные картонные отводы, настаивал на том, что каждый отвод должен иметь сертификат термообработки, прежде чем его можно будет съесть. Это ничего не задерживало, потому что составы уже окислились до измеримого порошка, упакованного в прозрачные брикеты с резьбой внутри, и никто не ставил под сомнение коэффициенты пересчета, кроме сломанного степлера с почтовым штемпелем. Неправильный крутящий момент. Кто-то обменял шесть чайных ложек на недоделанную ось, и ось отказалась от вращения, потому что чайные ложки считаются охлаждающей средой во время муниципальных проверок, тогда как надлежащие масла загрязняют арифметику. Поэтому я отсоединил инспекционную бирку от фарфоровой шайбы, сложил ее в четыре неравные части, засунул под медный табурет и опрокинул ведро. Current Mood: contemplative (13 Comments |Comment on this)
10:27 pm	Категории и измерения реальности — это вообще какая-то чёртова шутка. Посмотрите на этих маленьких аутичных котят. Они не играют роль «обычной кошки». Им плевать на погоню за лазерными указками или мурлыканье по команде ради фальшивого эмоционального одобрения. Их мозги работают в совершенно другом измерении. Перенасыщены текстурой ковра, гиперфокусированы на одной пылинке, совершенно неспособны выполнять стандартный кошачий протокол. Общество ожидает от них хищничества, ловкости и эффективности, но они всего лишь вибрирующие пучки грубых нервных окончаний, застрявшие в меховых шубах. А потом земля, блин, раскалывается. Кроличья нора. Они не планировали падать, они просто дрейфовали в неё, потому что физический мир — это всё равно произвольная клетка. Вниз, вниз, вниз, в Страну чудес. И люди думают, что в Стране чудес должен быть смысл? Отвалите. Страна чудес — это просто окончательное доказательство того, что роли полностью выдуманы. Безумный Шляпник, кричащий о времени, Королева, требующая головы, словно её власть что-то значит — всё это просто невротичные взрослые, цепляющиеся за свои жалкие сценарии! Котятам плевать на философские игры разума Чеширского Кота. Чеширский Кот — всего лишь ещё один высокомерный лицемер, сидящий на ветке и делающий вид, что его парящая ухмылка делает его выше других. «Мы все здесь сумасшедшие», — говорит он. Нет, придурок, ты просто играешь роль интеллектуала. Котята перегружены сенсорными ощущениями, они кричат ​​внутри себя, потому что чаепитие чертовски шумное, а масло на карманных часах — это сенсорный кошмар! Душа и тело здесь совершенно разделены. Белый Кролик — кролик из-за своих ушей или потому, что он невротичный наёмный работник, одержимый карманными часами? Он — корпоративный дрон в меховом костюме! Он неправильно использует своё тело! Аутичные котята не пытаются победить Красную Королеву. Они не пытаются разгадать загадку ворона и письменного стола. Они сидят на светящейся траве, шесть часов подряд уставившись на один-единственный чеширский ус, потому что физическая реальность Страны чудес — всего лишь инструмент, который можно наблюдать, разбирать или полностью игнорировать. Вы думаете, падение в яму делает их потерянными? Они и так уже были потеряны в «обычном мире». По крайней мере, здесь, внизу, абсурдность соответствует тому, что творится у них в головах. Они не смогли быть настоящими котами, и им наплевать. Они счастливы быть как можно дальше от роли «настоящего кота». Current Mood: annoyed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 25th, 2026
2:50 am	EU Current Mood: amused (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 20th, 2026
10:23 pm	Concerning the Persistent Delusion of Utopian Code It remains a source of enduring amusement to observe the periodic resurgence of the political romantic—that peculiar breed of intellectual who insists on designing social architectures for an entirely hypothetical species. These earnest dreamers spend their days drafting grand protocols for human interaction, predicated entirely on the assumption that every node in the network is flawlessly cooperative, universally empathetic, and perpetually possessed of perfect information. They present their blueprints for a society of absolute consensus not as the fragile fairy tales they are, but as serious engineering proposals. What these architects conveniently choose to forget is that their "perfect program" is not a novel invention. It has already been deployed, tested at scale, and thoroughly debunked by historical runtime analysis. During the dawn of humanity, our ancestors lived in precisely the decentralized, low-tech, cooperative networks these modern theorists pine for. These prehistoric systems were not destroyed by some external, malevolent force; they collapsed due to their own internal, systemic fault modes. A decentralized network operating without centralized arbiters or technological buffers is profoundly brittle. Its first fatal flaw is the *telemetry problem*. Lacking the means to instantly synchronize state data across distinct human nodes, these early societies were crippled by information asymmetry. A harmless, misunderstood action by one tribe members was easily interpreted as an existential threat by another. In a system with zero error tolerance, a single communication lag does not result in a minor delay; it triggers a cascade failure that drops the system directly into raw, bloody warfare. Furthermore, these primitive architectures possessed no mechanism to handle the *aberrant input*—the individual who unilaterally decides to reject the cooperative protocol in favor of predatory maximization. Without a formal judicial state to contain the threat or automated systems to mitigate the damage, the community was forced to choose between involuntary servitude to feed the parasite, or regressing into an ad-hoc militia to hunt them down in the wild. The system was binary: it either tolerated exploitation until it starved, or it became brutal and authoritarian to survive. What we live in today—the messy, compromised, heavily managed modern state—is not the result of a sudden lapse in human virtue. It is the evolutionary patch-set designed to fix the catastrophic failure modes of prehistoric decentralized life. We traded the delicate illusion of total freedom for the robust redundancy of courts, standing institutions, and technological infrastructure, precisely because a society that cannot survive a misunderstanding is a society that cannot survive the winter. The fundamental error of the utopian programmer lies in a complete misunderstanding of the hardware. A perfect, frictionless program requires perfect, frictionless executors. But organic actors operating under relentless evolutionary pressure were never perfect, and they will never be perfect. Yet, this imperfection is precisely their strength. Human beings are messy, paranoid, self-interested, and highly adaptable. We do not run on elegant, static code; we run on dynamic, ugly, real-time error correction. The brittle, bitrotten protocols of prehistoric collectivism failed because they shattered at the first sign of unexpected input. Our current, flawed reality survives precisely because it was built to withstand the chaos of the humans who actually inhabit it. Current Mood: contemplative (20 Comments |Comment on this)
12:21 am	Am I alien? Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/am-i-alien I've been struggling with how I perceive other people. Most of the time I don't really feel other people as individuals in an emotional way. It's more like I see them as patterns or roles rather than distinct inner lives. I can understand what people do on an intellectual level, but I don't naturally connect to what they feel or why it matters to them. Because of that, I often feel like I'm observing human behavior from the outside, almost like I don't fully belong in the same “world model” as everyone else. Social values that seem very important to others (relationships, family, group identity, moral outrage, etc.) often feel distant or confusing to me. The only shared value that consistently makes sense to me is practical survival stuff like money, because it's necessary for living and functioning. This disconnect has also affected how I interpret stories and characters. In fiction, I sometimes find myself empathizing more with “non-human” or antagonistic characters, or with characters others clearly see as evil or wrong, because their motivations feel simpler or more coherent to me than human social dynamics. I also notice that I don't experience certain emotional reactions that other people seem to have very strongly, like shame, disgust in social contexts, or moral outrage. Instead, I mostly just observe reactions in others without automatically sharing them. At the same time, I do experience a strong sense of alienation and sometimes irritation or disgust toward people in general, especially in group contexts where everyone seems to be operating on assumptions I don't share. This tends to create conflict, because I often end up saying things that others interpret as provocative or inappropriate, especially when I'm trying to quickly test how people will react to extreme ideas or boundaries. The end result is that I often feel socially incompatible with most environments I'm in. It's not just disagreement, it feels like a mismatch in how reality is being interpreted. Current Mood: contemplative (23 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 17th, 2026
9:16 am	Funny Shit Current Mood: amused (41 Comments |Comment on this)
4:39 am	Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-popular-rebranding-of-neurological-impairment-as-a-social-clique Current Mood: contemplative (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
1:00 am	On the Remarkable Isomorphism of Cathedral and Cult Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-remarkable-isomorphism-of-cathedral-and-cult Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: original ai music - the void between stars (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 10th, 2026
3:29 am	"Palestine made me gay!" Original: https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/palestine-made-me-gay A 2025 Leiden University thesis on U.S. LGBTQ+ university students found strong support linked to leftist views, decolonization priorities, and self-transcendence values. Some explicitly connect their queerness/transness to Palestinian struggles via shared marginalization/oppression frameworks. If even a fraction of the organizational talent, time, and moral fervor directed at Palestine went into local homelessness, measurable improvements are plausible: better-run shelters, more transitional programs, advocacy for evidence-based policies (e.g., treatment-first over housing-first in severe addiction cases). Caring volunteers who show up consistently are indeed scarce and valuable—funding alone often fails without competent execution. Current Mood: amused (21 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2026
9:39 pm	"The Banner of Evil: Jews did Holocaust" Queers for Palestine now insist that "Holocaust was instigated by the Jews", so Hitler is apparently innocent. Even the Soviet skinheads weren't that creative. Current Mood: amused (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2026
5:23 pm	ChatGPT gives the same diangosis as Gemini Pro But it also add I'm not only a textbook ASPD psychopath but also a schizo. Current Mood: accomplished (11 Comments |Comment on this)