Between the censoring of “fuck” the usage of “anw” and the font changing inexplicably for the word “calculus” the meme’s potential at humor was basically thrown in the garbage. If formatting and spelling makes you stumble that much trying to read it you lose comedic timing.

In your lifetime you’re going to see the biggest changes to social systems that we’ve ever seen in our world, however, it bears remembering that we’ve been doing this for over 40,000 years (that we know of) and we continue to survive, we continue to find things worth living and fighting for. It’s part of the deal.

And you are right, that community is our way forward. It’s what’s helped us survive through climate changes before, it helped us survive plagues and wars and days of darkness and violence unlike anything we can imagine today. Our world is built on a mountain of skulls, but the long arc of history has only moved up and out of the tribulations and even if we see a lot of really bad shit in the next century, it’s still going to be an improvement from barbarism and suffering that our ancestors endured, and the chances of you being born now, in this time of miracles and wonders, is like winning the goddamn lottery. Do the absolute best you can with it, remember us, tell our stories to our granddroids.

If you study history you see just how fleeting the reign of the rich and powerful really is. Our story is littered with forgotten bones of people who once commanded armies or held vast swaths of dirt they claimed to “own.”

Everything changes, the world turns over, everything is recycled. Including those who think themselves great or mighty or worth listening to. The world changes, climates change, species change, life goes on.

At least until the carbon cycle expires, but that’s a long way off.

Humanity is fucked isn’t it?

Yeah, but we’ve always been and we keep surviving.

Our species can be defined by states of how fucked we’ve been and what we did as a species to overcome that fuckedness.

Advertisement is fine on its own, as long as we live in a goods/exchange/services world, you will need to display your wares somehow so people will buy or trade for them.

The problem is lack of limits or regulation on how far a company can go with that advertising. We’re so, so far beyond intrusive commercials or annoying jingles that it’s lethally depressing. We have companies who know and understand how to change your feelings, to implant ideas in your mind, to rob you of your free will.

And even if you’re someone who says “I block every ad and don’t buy from that company” like most people commenting in this post, advertisers already have accounted for you. They’re playing the numbers game and they don’t give a shit how much you scream you hate their slop and propaganda or how many ad-blockers you install, they aren’t targeting you directly, they’re going for the percentage of people who do stare at the screen or people who are more mentally compromised first. If they can get enough of the vulnerable class to build momentum, they have gone from a product to a movement and then even the cynical people like those in this post will start to see Product X more like a normal staple than an annoying intrusion in their lives.

See: the Trump effect.

Too many people don’t believe in tomorrow.

Odds are, whoever you are reading this, you also have that feeling to some degree. We see it glaringly and absurdly when people cite Christian rapture fantasies or rich assholes spewing transhumanist bullshit, but there is a vast portion of moderate/progressive youth who have that stereotypical attitude of “I don’t plan on living past forty” when asked about their future plans and worries.

Ya’ll are contributing this. If you saw yourselves in that world of tomorrow realistically, you would be fighting harder for a better future instead of doomscrolling and bitterly replying to faceless notes on the internet calling that out. You know it’s right because it makes you pissed to read. Direct that anger where it belongs.

“What can one person do anyway?” Well that’s your problem, you don’t feel connected to others, no sense of community, large or small. Go out, socialize, make friends, get better at something you suck at, plan for tomorrow. Ask others their plans for tomorrow too, because you’re all going to be there without “us” and you won’t have anyone else to turn to.

At some point, you or your peers are going to be the ones holding the keys and making the decisions.

Okay, but what exactly are we trying to get to? Ya’ll think there’s frosting and gummy bears down there? Ancient pirate treasure? Mole people to establish trade with?

There’s no sharp cutoff point, at a certain point the crushing hot rock that flows like bread dough starts to flow more like syrup, then just down for thousands more miles of more heat and more pressure.

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Because of this comment, I learned that e216.com is for sale for around 3k USD. Holy carp, when did obscure, meaningless domain names get so expensive.

(It’s e621 . com that puts canine dicks on everything, including cats, most definitely NSFW)

This gives me the vibe of a meme someone would share on their midwest neighborhood’s Facebook group to “prove” that Medical academia is a scam, right next to a list of “chemicals” they put in your shampoo or pet food or something.

It’s a funny little snippet but doesn’t “mean” anything. Words are silly and names for things can be hard to invent.

Basically American medical academia in the next 10 years.

The Moon is so far from the surface of Earth you can comfortably fit every single planet in the solar system between Earth and the Moon.

This would lead to a cataclysm and people would generally disapprove of you doing this, but the point is there’s space in space.

I had a slew of therapists in my adult life, some were amazing, some were… less so.

My last therapist had me down for 30 minutes a month, and spent the majority of every session telling me what his unique, special “approach” to therapy was, his tenants and his approaches, and then how he covers it in detail in his upcoming book and new Youtube channel.

My parents and life growing up was more than a disaster, it was a cult-like situation, but it’s very hard to find anyone who wants to talk about it or address it, I assume because it’s complicated and difficult to find an entry for in the DSM5.

“Dead Lesbian Syndrome”

JFC

As a cishet man, even I’ve noticed a jarring trope with LGBTQ+ representation across media.

I don’t want to get lost in TV tropes (again) to see if this is a “thing” but what stone tablet has it been written that gay characters, particularly lesbians, have to all have tragic love stories that end with death or disaster?

“Sure, we can show lesbians kiss, that’s hot, but we can NEVER allow them to live happily, that would be unnatural!” - Some movie studio board of investors.

Once you define what’s actually happening, it becomes a lot less mysterious why “observation” changes the results.

Yes and no.

The essence of what you’re saying is correct, but there’s still a “black box” area that we can’t measure, because if it was just a matter of a billiard ball deflecting another billiard ball, we could theoretically build finer-scale devices that could cause less interference of find ways of inferring what’s happening before waveform collapse.

This is what Heisenberg worked out that crushed physics a century ago, it’s not just a matter of making a precise enough measuring device, the nature and behavior of the particle is fundamentally unpredictable, meaning that you can even manipulate it by using information you don’t have.

Example: let’s say you want to teleport some percentage of photons across a barrier. You simply measure their velocity with greater precision, thus making their position less defined, and BAM some of them start popping into existence across the barrier. And you can do the opposite. This is how many of our electronics and measuring devices work today.

Uncertainty is a fundamental property of all these waves as they propagate through space.

Since like, everyone gets all their understanding of the world from goddamn memes now, I think it’s worth pushing back on or clarifying.

I couldn’t imagine a therapist this involved and passionate about minor cases of apathy and dark fantasies, which lets face it, is pretty much everyone right now.

My last therapist used our 30 minutes a month to push his youtube channel and book.

I could have said “I’ve imagined taking a flamethrower into my old workplace” and he would have said. “Wow, that reminds me of the topic of chapter twelve where we talk about motivational inputs and…”

(I’ve also had great therapists, go get therapy you fucking losers, it helps, you will get better if you do the hard shit.)

“Door” too.

“Loam” gets funnier the more you say it. Try it, say it until you stop seeing the letters and just hear the noise it makes coming out of your mouth.