𝐿𝒢𝓃𝒢 "not yet begun to fight"Apr 23
I'm going to say this in the most diplomatic possible way that doesn't actively hide the truth. We are being ruled by the dumbest fucking inbred morons who ever ate a raccoon penis.
Show threadRevK 

@Lana I simply cannot make sense of that at all. I mean we know it is wrong, but at first I thought he was considering percentage of the reduced amount, i.e. he sees increasing something 600% and then decreasing it 600% gets the same number, but that does not even make sense...

$10 increase to $600 is increase by 5900% or increase to 6000% of original.

$600 to $10 is decrease by 98β…“%

600% does not come in to it!

Apr 24 at 8:32amWeb
Show threadpoleguy looking for lost toolsApr 24

@revk @Lana https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/why-redacted-wins

It makes sense with a Bayesian interpretation.

Thanks to
@iris_meredith
my eyes are open.

Why wank wins | deadSimpleTech

My 2025 article An essay on wank proved to be startlingly widely read. It made its way around a large part of the internet, sparked quite a lot of discussion and still garners quite a few readers, even now. It was, to my mind, not too bad an article, but as is quite often the case with the first inceptions of an idea, a bit scattershot and often not very tight argumentatively. What this is to say is that there are a bunch of gaps in the article which, as of April 2026, are kind of annoying me. There is also considerable demand for more analysis on wank theory, and as the quantity of wank that we deal with has only increased since I wrote the last article, extending the argument and making it more rigorous seems like it might be a good idea.

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Show threadpoleguy looking for lost toolsApr 24
@revk @Lana @iris_meredith although this particular line is simple BS. But he just won the large portion of his base who hated math in school.
Show threadSzymon SokΓ³Ε‚ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Apr 24
@revk @Lana Well, I think he enhanced a logic error ("60*price" is 6000% more expensive, so "price/60" is %6000 cheaper) with a typing error (one zero lost).
Show threadRevK Apr 24
@blotosmetek @Lana well possibly, though 60*price is 5900% more expensive but he has no clue either way.