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You heard it here first: you should only fear the market once it becomes a bazinga-imperative robot god. Before then, lazy women keep the worst excesses of the market in check, which Grimes claims is a good if temporary thing... i think? morshupls

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Jesus, imagine just out right being like: "actually feeding human beings into an insatiable machine is good"

What a creepy lady

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

She must have read some Nick Land, and in her "gobble up anything techbros and techbro bootlickers say as very smart" belief system she must have seen the meth-powered old man yelling at clouds as a super genius. i-love-not-thinking

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Selfish and lazy women doing their part to fight capitalism 07

[–] Eldritch@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

She's so painfully idiotic it's no wonder she had kids with melon-musk

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What the hell, you're back?

Thanks for Kissinger.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, it's crazy right. Dirty owl must have summoned him with that post the other day

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Grimes is peak delusional. Everything I seen her say seems like it was said in a fever dream. It is jesse-wtf but irl

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

She's paid a lot to keep bullshitting in a vaguely techbro power fantasy way while LARPing as the average freeze-gamer 's wet dream, so she has no material incentive to stop doing it.

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you make music that sounds like a microwave.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel the same way about Grimes that I do about Kanye West: I didn't like the music to begin with, liked the message/themes of the music even less, and yet there was a great fandom wall of "this is a tormented genius, separate art from artist" immediately erected once they got their cryptofash on.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't follow the first part. I think she's partially figured out the "capitalism as real god" paperclip maximizer thing and is crediting women with keeping it from happening, but doing it in an extremely awkward way.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

I don't think she has any motivation to have a complete or coherent thought: all she has to do is shove techbro fantasy cliches into a vocalizer the way Bill Murray's Hunter S. Thompson crammed random scraps of newspaper into the fax machine to temporarily shut it up.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

che-no regulations protecting us from grime's delusional future by preventing laissez faire capitalism, I think

che-si lazy women protecting us from grime's delusional future

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lazy women protecting us from grime's delusional future

toriel-snooze yes-hahaha-yes-l

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We really do have the best emotes

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net brings the best emotes, folks. The best. Believe me. feast-1 feast-2

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (4 children)

When she finally saw the movie, she realized to her astonishment that this story she’d adored since she was far too young for it, that she knew almost by heart, that inspired her first album—this story was now her story. Specifically Lady Jessica’s story. This goes by fast onscreen, but Jessica (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is not a wife but a concubine. Grimes saw herself in Jessica, and she saw X in Jessica’s son, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). Paul is more than a duke’s son. He’s a chosen one, tasked with becoming a great leader. “When I see X,” she says, “like, I just know X is going to have to go through all this really fucked-up shit that sort of mirrors Paul-type stuff.” Watching it wrecked her. “I was just crying my eyes out the whole movie.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

it's a middling, trite sort of dumbass that thinks their kid is destined to be the savior of all humanity. it takes a very special sort of asshole to claim it publicly and tell a story about how you internalize this notion so hard, you sobbed at a movie.

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[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Grimes: “another day, another banger post”
monkey-typewriter

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if she'll start stacking the pandering props and wear multiple cat ears, elf ears, glitter, light-up neon and quasi-cybernetic props (and costume pieces from recent hit movies) and do it while pretending to be decade-too-late steampunk elf and an uploaded hologram and a robot that attained consciousness and the sapient gestalt of all human communication exclusively through The Everything App Le Epic X Dot Comm all at the same time to try to spike that revenue. brrrrrrrrrrrr

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[–] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Grimes I get that you like Dune but nobody is going to let a bunch of silicon valley dweebs literally become the Tlielaxu and I need you to stop zapping yourself with the bimbofication ray you're already drooling your brain out on the floor for everyone to see and it's fucking embarassing

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't Musk say he was interested in her because she was aware of Roko's basilisk, meaning she was smart? Lmao.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rokos basilisk? What's that? I just wamma watch rokos modern life grillman

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love grimes and elon because they both literally represent the "I've only read the summary at the top of the wikipedia article and will proceed to both horribly misinterpret the topic/subject & also combine it with my own neuroses" class in the US which has historically been underrepresented!

Many of us have probably known. or perhaps even previously been, a proto-Grimes or demi-Elon. The dipshit who used to argue with me about Guantanamo Bay being 'needed' back in 2008 on the bus but, when asked, literally thought it was on US soil? demi-Elon.

The cheerleader who burst into tears in HS when our AP Biology teacher told us in no uncertain terms that we would all have to do an individual presentation on evolution, got fired from her nursing job during the pandemic because she refused to get the vaccine when doctors & nurses were literally dying from treating patients, and since then has been selling Scentsy wax melts on Facebook & constantly posting shit like '"has anyone thought about the fact that during 2020, we had ZERO cases of flu but suddenly there's a 'pandemic'?? WAKE UP!!!"?? Proto-Grimes.

Anyways all this to say I love people like this because I am constantly going "is this slop for me???" and getting into arguments with them because it is always funny

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does she have Havana Syndrome? Her brain don't work too good.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I nonjokingly think extended and intimate exposure to my-hero left a lasting impression, even now, when she is ostensibly opposed to him and trying to get custody of her kids.

It's like how a lot of self described ex-Mormons still have a ton of Mormonism's baggage.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The copious amount of drugs and bazinga technobabble from being in melon-musk's inner circle is probably enough to thoroughly scramble a brain

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've linked about such things before, but there's an entire subsection of Silicon Valley's social structure that's designed around drugging and effectively reprogramming impressionable young women into asymmetrical sexual relationships with rich creepy men, often under the vague promise of money and access to the techbro boys' club.

CW: sexual abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what happened to that Aella lady, right? Grew up in a religious cult, ended up in a secular cult as an adult?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

This is what happened to that Aella lady, right?

Yeah, and she wasn't the only one.

Some never got out and just sort of carried all of the "math pet" brainworms and other creepy techbro indoctrination with them ever afterward.

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

I remember seeing a take that she's a super brilliant intelligence asset (studied biomed at a fed recruiting uni in calgary or sth). Then I see this.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Grimes believes that Cyberpunk 2077 is a documentary and the events took place in real time

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You joke, but she might be bazinga enough to see it as a projection of the imminent future because of the simulation having a time skip because the basilisk was feeling sassy that day morshupls

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Oh, I wasn't joking

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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Every time I think I'm a bit odd I look at Grimes and become embarrassed at the sheer normalcy of my existence.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No wait, let her cook.

Her using the power of horny to convince techbros capitalism is a hostile AI that is out of controll might actually work.

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Middle-aged white stand-up comic like "my wife is so lazy she's part of the bulwark against Roko's Capitalism Basilisk."

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If that joke was workshopped enough, I think it could work.

Well, it'd require the idea that "lazy women are the reason Le Epic Singularity(tm)(r) has been delayed" to propagate more widely than Grimesposting, so I'd rather not think of that future. i-love-not-thinking

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[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

hello to all my twitter followers, just letting you know digital god is around the corner, that's all for now

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait is UlyssesT back

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When Hexbear needed him most, he returned

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

needed him most

What's the emergency?

Didn't "House of the Dragon" already self-destruct into yet another pretentious inability to deliver satisfactory conclusions to story arcs? miyazaki-laugh

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You will always be needed as long as there are Yudkowskyites and bazinga brains

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

yeah it's crazy how "fast" things change. everybody wants pizza at the party and the pizza shows up, but everybody who eats it throws up and says somebody took a shit on it.

now, just hours later, the number of people at the party trying the pizza is down 10%.

truly, this is the end of pizza.

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