A good place to drop a reminder to people that MILLIONS of blue-check twitter users are completely fake, they make American-looking profiles and names and then retweet and post tons of propaganda and rage-bait for engagement, because the couple dollars they make on a successful post is enough to make a living in India, where a majority of these people live.

No hate on India, every country has it’s share of people who are just trying to get by. But for the USA this is really bad because it means we are letting our entire society be influenced by people who have no stake in our future. Elon set this up on purpose because he’s a spiteful, mentally-deficient incel who hates humanity broadly because his tiny dick is broken.

The best thing you can do is tell people to get off Twitter, no matter who they are. Tell conservatives too if you know any, the fact that most users are foreigners in disguise is a good enough real fact that should discourage them from using the site too.

So you’re saying you want a completely AI-powered UI and no mouse? Got it fam. Cutting edge tech comin’ your way.

Or cooling. I don’t know what it is about older laptops, but when they were new they seemed quiet and chill, and as they age they become lap-cookers.

solid state batteries

Also known as, the essential oils and healing crystals of the battery industry.

I think I see a “company” announce at least once a year they cracked solid state. Cue “Can I see it?” - “No.” meme.

Also, any effects we may have on arthropod selective evolution by randomly killing visible spiders is going to be vastly overshadowed by the very rapid and immediate changes we’re making to the environment broadly.

We would need somewhere between centuries or millennia of very predictable and consistent behavior killing visible spiders before we saw any change to their overall behavior, meanwhile we’ve all but destroyed the ecosystem at their scale anyway, which is going to have vastly more dramatic impact on populations and evolution, assuming they survive at all.

When was the last time any of you remember getting your windows covered with bugs after a summer drive?

You’re also made of 30-trillion little microscopic machines with vastly more complexity each than even the most fantastic clockwork we’ve ever devised, that are each working in harmony with each other, creating a vast machine that is continually breaking itself apart and rebuilding itself from parts of its environment as it moves through time and space.

And somehow you can breath either manually or automatically without breaking a stride.

“Where is the Galaxy taking us?”

Towards the andromeda galaxy which is over twice the size of the Milky Way. We are hurtling towards each other at about a quarter millions miles per hour.

For thousands of years after you die, that little fuzzy spot near Cassiopeia will slowly get larger and larger in the sky, and in about a four billion years, long after the Earth’s oceans have dried up and the sun is a giant, reddish monster hovering in the sky, and our magnetic field will have long since died out, our atmosphere will have been mostly stripped away and the weather will feel like being on the highest mountains in an oven, the night sky will be covered with a dazzling display of the Andromeda galaxy overhead, spiral arms visible with the naked eye stretching from horizon to horizon.

We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding most likely, although a good number will be ejected into the emptiness of intergalactic space, and will finally settle into a new shape, and may trigger a new phase of star formation as new clouds of gas and dust collide and collapse in the new super-galaxy.

Until the whaling boats at least.

I just checked and I am still aging rapidly, by nearly a day every day. What else can we try.

This whole post seems like bait for drawing out nationalists.

It utterly ignores the vast, vast spectrum of space exploration and discoveries that many other nations have contributed, as well as the US’s ongoing progress towards a permanent space presence after the USSR collapsed. And all it, from the advancements of Russia in the 60’s and 70’s up through today to India and China and ESA exploring our solar system as the US collapses er, scales back from the frontier of science and exploration. It’s all worth celebrating and being glad happened in our lives so we get to see amazing sights and learn amazing things about our local space neighborhood.

If you take pride in shit you didn’t personally do and feel others are inferior for not achieving your own measure of success, you’re setting yourself up for being a mindless chud and girls will never touch your weewee.

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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e216

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.