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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

by toomuchtodo 10mo ago

kenrose 10mo ago
At 10:25am ET, HN is more up-to-date than Wikipedia (article hasn't been updated yet to reflect his passing).
- deleted 10mo ago
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- vidarh 10mo ago
  Which is at it should be. Wikipedia isn't a news source, and especially for something like this should be careful about allowing edits to stand until they can cite sources.
  - someothherguyy 10mo ago
    However, it is a decent news aggregator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- throwawaysleep 10mo ago
  Wikipedia is waiting for news sources to confirm things.
sabellito 10mo ago
> After a 2022 mass shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son. That's something.
- thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
  Both things can be true. Dilbert was a great comic strip and Scott Adams was a piece of shit.
  - nosianu 10mo ago
    Regardless of the truthiness of that statement, that sentence at most makes him say something wrong. How on earth is that sentence making him a "PoS"??? At worst, he sees a tragic binary option where others see better and more. Some of his other public statements, sure, but this one?
    - thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
      It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions. The only options for boys with issues is to let them kill people or kill them. It's simply not possible the parents are doing something wrong or that we hold young men accountable. It contributes to how extremely fragile a scary percentage of young men are these days. Everything must revolve around them or violence is expected and understood. It's all this and much more from him.
      - nosianu 10mo ago
        > It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. What on earth??? There is not a trace in that statement that fist that description! Stop making stuff up that is not there. The text is right in front of you, no need to invent words never said or written. > Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions. Even more insane. None of that is anywhere in that sentence, not even with an "interpretation". In threads like these, some people are reacting to the shadows found in their own mind. Why don't you just stick to the mentioned statement? "Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son." Nothing you said can be found in there. That is all something you added ("interpreted" does not quite fit it when you hallucinate something new entirely into existence).
        thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
        I did. You just didn't like the correct response of me pointing out his typical right-wing views on men. I'm not interpreting anything. That's what is views are.
DustinBrett 10mo ago
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- mrbombastic 10mo ago
  this is still a thing?
- ThePowerOfFuet 10mo ago
  Why?
  - DustinBrett 10mo ago
    [flagged]
wnevets 10mo ago
> Later (incorrect) predictions repeatedly featured in Politico magazine's annual lists of "Worst Predictions", including that one of Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden would die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020,[98] that "Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election > In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research. Jesus christ.
- JBiserkov 10mo ago
  > Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".
  - pjc50 10mo ago
    Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.
    - tremon 10mo ago
      It's not about assumptions, it's rationalization. The tribal playbook requires one to demonize the enemy in order to justify what they want to do to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

kenrose 10mo ago

At 10:25am ET, HN is more up-to-date than Wikipedia (article hasn't been updated yet to reflect his passing).

deleted 10mo ago
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vidarh 10mo ago
Which is at it should be. Wikipedia isn't a news source, and especially for something like this should be careful about allowing edits to stand until they can cite sources.
- someothherguyy 10mo ago
  However, it is a decent news aggregator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
throwawaysleep 10mo ago
Wikipedia is waiting for news sources to confirm things.

sabellito 10mo ago

> After a 2022 mass shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son. That's something.

thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
Both things can be true. Dilbert was a great comic strip and Scott Adams was a piece of shit.
- nosianu 10mo ago
  Regardless of the truthiness of that statement, that sentence at most makes him say something wrong. How on earth is that sentence making him a "PoS"??? At worst, he sees a tragic binary option where others see better and more. Some of his other public statements, sure, but this one?
  - thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
    It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions. The only options for boys with issues is to let them kill people or kill them. It's simply not possible the parents are doing something wrong or that we hold young men accountable. It contributes to how extremely fragile a scary percentage of young men are these days. Everything must revolve around them or violence is expected and understood. It's all this and much more from him.
    - nosianu 10mo ago
      > It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. What on earth??? There is not a trace in that statement that fist that description! Stop making stuff up that is not there. The text is right in front of you, no need to invent words never said or written. > Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions. Even more insane. None of that is anywhere in that sentence, not even with an "interpretation". In threads like these, some people are reacting to the shadows found in their own mind. Why don't you just stick to the mentioned statement? "Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son." Nothing you said can be found in there. That is all something you added ("interpreted" does not quite fit it when you hallucinate something new entirely into existence).
      - thinkingtoilet 10mo ago
        I did. You just didn't like the correct response of me pointing out his typical right-wing views on men. I'm not interpreting anything. That's what is views are.

DustinBrett 10mo ago

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mrbombastic 10mo ago
this is still a thing?
ThePowerOfFuet 10mo ago
Why?
- DustinBrett 10mo ago
  [flagged]

wnevets 10mo ago

> Later (incorrect) predictions repeatedly featured in Politico magazine's annual lists of "Worst Predictions", including that one of Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden would die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020,[98] that "Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election > In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research. Jesus christ.

JBiserkov 10mo ago
> Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".
- pjc50 10mo ago
  Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.
  - tremon 10mo ago
    It's not about assumptions, it's rationalization. The tribal playbook requires one to demonize the enemy in order to justify what they want to do to them.