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by card_zero 57 days ago
Sangfroid, even.

I wonder what criticisms could be leveled at the virtues of proactive energy, passion, and incessant curiosity. I notice that they make me feel slightly nauseous. This is something I'm curious about. What really is a dork?

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>What really is a dork?

Someone who might not be very smart per se, but whose mind has not yet been murdered and replaced by a sort of mandatory prosthesis made out of complex conditioned responses (after the operation, they'd be more properly an ork).

Yeah, turns out the uncanny valley effect works in both directions.

Found the dork 8)

j/k we're all dorks here

Nah, the majority of y'all are jocks or worse.
> What really is a dork?

Well, it's not a whale penis. https://whalerescueteam.org/is-a-whale-penis-called-a-dork/

That article has several pictures of whales, but not a single photo of a whale penis (or a dork).