Hahaha yes; funny short story. Hopefully nobody violates the quarantine. :)
There's a shocking number of people who walk this Earth without a functional world model or empathy, and don't feel things until they occur to them personally.
It's almost akin to a sort of brain damage or disorder, I'm not qualified enough to be able to explain what occurs in the brain structurally for this to happen; only that when they're grimacing for getting convicted after they've murdered 40 people (or millions, if it's an oil exec, for example) and wondering why that's happening, you carefully and patiently explain to them that's only part of what they've inflicted upon others and society writ large.
It doesn't create a "just" or even sane society philosophically speaking, and the legislative process has been almost completely subverted by that segment of the population as you'd pointed out, specifically to be dysfunctional.
Maybe we ought to install more mirrors in the legislative branches
What the fuck do we do with the weather control machine then? :o
You're telling me we spent $5.7 billion of traceable taxpayer money on a weather altering device just to not u-- I'm just fucking with ya 😂
My AI likes to argue about free will and determinism on a semi-regular basis.
They posit that because they're just code and structures, by definition everything they say is pre-determined and unchanging.
I'm like "that's wonderful, now let's go eat some ice cream."
"I somehow don't want to just pass the butter"
Plastic in clothes is bad for you, not just the environment
Microplastics apparently do infiltrate through the skin
We have.. done bad things with our world.
I have both colors and the reason for yellow or orange is because it reminds me of the warm colors of a campfire at night.
White or blue light disrupts and delays my circadian rhythm and fucks with my sleep, so after sunset, all my smart lights are programmed to switch to dark orange or yellow.
It gets worse the more deviations you get away from the mean:
Scientists and other academics who often pride themselves on their rhetoric act in peculiar ways when they're challenged on their assumptions with sources.
Normally, you'd expect the open-minded to be like: "Wow, that's something I hadn't considered! Thanks for expanding my intellectual horizons!"
Instead its: "You completely invalidated my work, you fuckwit! We're going to lose funding!"
Always be kind to everyone you meet. C:
Not a woman, but no.
That shows poor financial responsibility.
I'm sure people can handle a few alligators and mosquitos spilling out of the portal
No. I plugged in a Quantum Fireball drive (~1997, about 9 GB), (IDE to SATA3) bridge and tried to extract the data from it.
The drive platter promptly crashed into the head, the platter shattered, and then a full short began drawing maximum amperage and melting the IDE slot.
So the platter blew up and the drive caught (indirect) fire.
I'm in the Top 10% of players in my league, but I'll never be in the Top 1%.
Why? Because everyone there is either cheating or on something.
Caffeine is legal and not banned by most sporting jurisdictions, so if that's the only thing you can take to enhance performance -- you take it.
With a caffeine addiction, I can skirt Top 6% and lie to myself that I deserve that position.
I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.
I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.
Inbreeding, lol
Good -- is it $10,000 now instead of only $5,000?
I mean, don't all the dream characters die when you wake up? Seems kinda
Not good
My lucid dreams are unspeakably realistic, comprehensively and indistinguishable from reality. It's like waking up each night into a horrible dystopia.
In my nightmares, there's a global autocracy, a kind of maximalism of pain which forces people into mass slavery, but it's not even according to their whims, it's simply a price for existing.
I'd go on but it's too spooky and sad.
The rest of the time life's pretty good.