Notices by ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)

Far too few people understand the true secret to surviving social media with your sanity intact:

Don’t feed the trolls.

The idea is simple: If you’re not going to get anything beneficial out of continuing a conversation then don’t continue it. Don’t engage. Don’t reply. Let the idiot get the last word in. It’s no sweat off your balls.

I feel silly for giving such obvious advice, but the number of y’all who clearly don’t understand this is staggering.

(And of course, as a sometimes-troll myself, I thank you all for being so obtuse)

I just heard a programmer utter, unironically, the sentiment that “We can’t fix bugs until users find them.”

This is the current state of software development. In 2025, most programmers are not old enough to remember a time when developers tested their software before shipping it to end users. When software had to be as good as possible before release, because you couldn’t just patch it the next day.

Nowadays, end users have been conditioned that all software is more or less buggy shit. They crave updates like a junkie for the next fix - hoping that this time, this time maybe the update will fix more bugs than it introduces.

This is the current state of software development.

Not sure who needs this reminder, but…

Stereotyping (and its specialized variants such as nationalism, sexism, racism, etc) is a powerful human instinct, which happens to have been correct just often enough to be passed down through evolution.

Do NOT mistake it for logic.

• “I observe a member of group X to have Y trait or behavior”
• “It seems like a lot of members of group X have Y trait”
• “We can prove that a majority of group X members have Y trait”

These statements have varying levels of confidence which may allow you to make a stastitical inference about an arbitrary member of group X, but NONE of them is sufficient to prove the commonly assumed syllogism:

• α is a member of group X, therefore α has trait Y

This simple fallacious formulation is very often used as the basis for “othering” huge populations of individuals, and, I believe, is the source of most of the injustice in the modern world.

@freemo

HOLY FUCK, DUDE.

Seriously, I never once lost respect for you for being a rabid foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Trump NPC, but right now, right now….

Dude, your TDS is showing badly. Please go back and read what you wrote and try to understand why you’re bringing this much emotion into this conversation.

I was gonna try to write up a point by point refutation of all the hyperbole and dogwhistle fallacies in this thread, but honestly, once you crossed into wishing death on people with whom you disagree politically, there isn’t really much point in trying to engage rationally here.

My suggestion for you is to log out for a little while, and try to analyze what is causing you to put so much emotion into a random internet conversation about events that, very likely, don’t even touch your life directly.

@realcaseyrollins @lnxw37a2

I’ve been accused of being Republican, and I want to set the record straight.

I criticize Democrats far more often than I criticize Republicans. But there is a reason. As you may know, most politics are local. In my local state and region, the following is true:

• Every politician is corrupt

• Every politician is a Democrat

There are no Republicans here on the left coast; only Democrats spanning from full-on communist to somewhat-moderate (meaning they still like taxing the middle class into poverty, but might have an objection to one or two spending projects)

So, in my defense, the simple reason that I don’t criticize Republican politicians as often is that I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one.

My state has been ruined by overtaxation, overregulation, and overspending of government, and there’s only one party available to take the blame. It is very very difficult not to assume causation.

Q: Should the government create a new program to fund … ?

A: No

Q: What about $(new thing) that an activist says we need?

A: No

Q: But surely we need more …

A: No

This message brought to you by the people who are unwillingly paying for all of the crap the government already funds

Q: BuT wHo wIlL BuILd tHE rOaDS!?

A: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-will-build-roads-anyone-who-stands-benefit-them

When you see the skyrocketing price of eggs today, you will be told that it’s because of the bird flu. This is fake news.

The egg prices you’re seeing today is indeed because hundreds of thousands of chickens have died, but NOT due to the bird flu. The flu has killed less than 100 chickens across the country.

Instead, hundreds of thousands of chickens have been culled - murdered by their owners and by the government for no reason - because of people overreacting to the hysterical bird flu stories.