Comments on: ... but do y'all really still believe in coincidences?

By: C++ et alia, or: how even crappy software tends to get better with use « The Tar Pit

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:58:13 +0000

[...] that this will usher in a golden age where each tiny object is composable with another, a sort of destructuring applied in the field of computing. This misguided idea leads of course to unmaintainable piles of [...]

By: Sibiu, cca. 2023 « The Tar Pit

Sibiu, cca. 2023 « The Tar Pit — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:19:12 +0000

[...] warm, friendly people. One can only hope that they remain this way through the undergoing wave of destructuring washing over [...]

By: What is a social network? « The Tar Pit

What is a social network? « The Tar Pit — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:39:34 +0000

[...] couldn't, since he knows someone who knows someone who... you get the idea. Knowing someone, albeit not fashionable today, always was and will remain a [...]

By: WarGames « The Tar Pit

WarGames « The Tar Pit — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:03:20 +0000

[...] living in a social environment undergoing a slow decay, having to cope with the latter's inevitable destructuring. He is indeed labeled, I quote, an "underachiever, alienated from his parents", but this [...]

By: The crisis of identity « The Tar Pit

The crisis of identity « The Tar Pit — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:05:59 +0000

[...] any two distinct objects, identity may then be confused with uniqueness! That is, by the way, how atomization works: convince a mass of arbitrary people that they are each unique and thus paradoxically you [...]

By: The Platform « The Tar Pit

The Platform « The Tar Pit — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:45:02 +0000

[...] "community standards"? For the most part, all these whys follow the purpose of atomization and destructuring, itself done for the purpose of totalitarian control, itself sought because these days you don't [...]

By: The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit

The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:23:42 +0000

[...] loops of the so-called democracy, or otherwise the network effects where everyone and their dog move to a town near you, driving electric scooters and shitting where they eat, those are devastating to civilization [...]

By: Bucharest transport services, cca. 2021 « The Tar Pit

Bucharest transport services, cca. 2021 « The Tar Pit — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:27:37 +0000

[...] in times such as the twenty-first century, the same aspect decoupled from social and cultural cohesion has lead poor humans to some interesting paradoxes. One of these many paradoxes, which I briefly [...]

By: On the tangled ball of music that is rock « The Tar Pit

On the tangled ball of music that is rock « The Tar Pit — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:43:14 +0000

[...] around this rock "genre" weren't accidental, nor were they arbitrary: postmodern music, in all its destructuring, has made classification not only impractical, but counter-productive, in a sense: the blending of [...]

By: This September « The Tar Pit

This September « The Tar Pit — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:55:17 +0000

[...] September went by in the blink of an eye... and in an unexpected contrast to my story just a few blinks ago, I can't muster the energy, nor do I even believe it would be wise at all to try describing my [...]