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as alive as you need me to be

  • Time to mandate every car's steering column has a 1.5ft razor sharp spike sticking out of it.

  • ... this is basically a FarSide one panel.

  • Aka, that's some powerful stupid.

  • Fuck around, find out, dumbass.

    Hope your wife realizes you are too stupid to be trusted with decision making.

  • The captured picture is incredible.

    Verdict: Extremely obviously guilty.

    Sentence: One whole week of only dry food.

    bad kitty!

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  • You really, really can accurately judge a lot about people by whether or not they return the shopping cart, how they treat "the help".

  • I think that it just goes on forever.

    Sufficiently sized black hole in our universe?

    Thats a white hole, a big bang, a pocket dimension unto itself.

    Thus we live in some kind of... meta-system of universes, probably no real way to transit between them intact, but... destruction begets a new kind of creation, that you can literally never experience, yet it is real, and it also most likely never 'stops'.

    Hyperdimensional Matryoshka dolls, all the way down. ... and up.

    No way to know 'where' you are in all that.

  • You've heard of Quantum Immortality... but have you heard of Quantum Silver Tongued Devil?

    Quantum Hostage Negotiator?

    Quantum Worst Possible Yet Most Persuasive Advice Ever Giver?

    I've always found this kind of stuff mostly nonsensical.

    ... what about building a nano (pico? much much smaller?) scale device that takes advantage of the Casimir effect to say, generate ... actually random numbers, not pseudo random numbers?

    Much more practical.

  • "Rage against the dying of the light"...

    ... can look like being the best person you can be, for your own sense of morality/justice, for whatever you believe in, for whatever you feel is what, and how, a decent person should be.

    Even if someone says that altruism is nonsensical or strictly meaningless/impossible, the fact that somebody even aimed toward it is remarkable nonetheless.

    I'm gonna do it, I'm bustin' out the Architect scene:

    Neo walks to the door on his left chooses to reject the false dichotomy he has been presented.

    The Architect: Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

    Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don’t meet again.

    The Architect: We won’t.

  • God, that reminds me of my family.

    I've not had kids, probably never going to, I am at least aware that my model of what a family is supposed to look like is utterly fucked...

    But oh dear lord I know that kind of infuriating bullshit, the utter, total disrespect.

    Me just reading that story gives me half a mind to perform an unauthorized dental procedure with a blunt object on an uninformed patient, goddamnit...

    But, again, this is why I at the very least know that I am not currently ready for taking on responsibilities that... would greatly anger me if they were ... interfered with, disrespected, belittled, etc.

    I got a degree in econ, my dumbfuck dad ruined his finances with booze and duis, oh and then apparently, after i ghosted them...

    ... he retired and bought a fucking house at the actual peak of the housing market.

    He raised me on Limbaugh, you see, piqued my interest enough that I went on to study econ. and poli sci.

    ... and learn that near everything a dittohead believes is fundamentally wrong, misconstrued, or short sighted and lacking the ability to consider systemic complexity.

    Oh well. I tried to give him advice, he never listened, despite forcing his "advice" onto me... my career was in database analytics and management, I worked for a world class import export company, wrote software, produced the top level reports for C Suite.

    But uh, nope, nope. Dad knows economy better than me.

    ... At this point, I'm still genuienly planning on taking a sledgehammer to his gravestone, after he dies.

    ... ... ... assuming he can even afford one.

  • Seeing as I basically no longer consider MAGATs to be truly sentient, much less sapient:

    She was going to go super deep into the research route until she learned she was violently allergic to the rats then life just kinda happened from there.

    That's the real tragedy here, damn, that fucking sucks.

    EDIT:

    Uh, anyway, yeah I'm an autist too, don't have a degree in psych or pharma, but I do have pattern recognition, curiosity, analytical skills... and a whole fuckton of (c)PTSD from my own truly astoundingly dysfunctional family.

    As in: I ghosted them / went no contact with them so hard that they very probably think I am dead.

  • Indifferent.

    I've been through things that should have killed me.

    I'm just happy the ride isn't over yet.

    Being stardust that can think about what stardust is, is pretty neat.

    ... Maybe I'll try to make an apple pie sometime soon...

  • Your uncle?

    This is what you call Oppositional Defiance Disorder, plus also being in a death cult.

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-defiant-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20375831

    Even the best-behaved children can be difficult and challenging at times. But oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) includes a frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures. ODD also includes being spiteful and seeking revenge, a behavior called vindictiveness.

    These emotional and behavioral issues cause serious problems with family life, social activities, school and work. But as a parent, you don't have to try to manage a child with ODD alone. Your health care provider, a mental health professional and a child development expert can help.

    These are adults with an adult version of a pathological vindictiveness that is generally seen in 'problem children'.

    They literally are whiny, pissy, adult toddlers.

  • I've done that, and found the same.

    But, this person asked for less unethical.

    Not 'and also, of similar competence.'

    At this point I really do think we need to be forming something like Mondragon-esque, worker governed co-ops, collectives.

    Unions aren't enough, back to anarcho-syndicalism, but digital this time!

  • Yeah I mean, at this point, I can very easily see someone saying that either very genuienly, or very sarcastically.

    Hence why I asked / phrased it as a two pronged response.

    Glad to know you were indeed doing a bit, but uh yeah, I'm autistic enough that I just ask, because I have encountered a large number of people who would just ssy things like that, entirely seriously.

  • No.

    We won't.

    We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization ... pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through... and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.

    That's very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.

    We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.

    ... there won't be any money for things that cause people to maybe actually think!

    You want to program compliance and shame into people, not curiosity, not disobedience.

    Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier... than a psycho-social critique of basically all of society.

    Fight Club is an anomaly.

  • You might try some kind of open source non profit.

    No guarantees, but likely at least less evil.

  • Correct.

    A person who knows about evil and continues to participate in perpetuating it?

    That is the definition of complicit.

    You either quit, become a hypocrite and coward, or embrace and justify the evil.

    Left, liberal, conservative.

    Thats pretty much how USAmerican terminology for politics/society works.

  • "I'm just a willing cog in the machine that produces death and destruction, for my own personal benefit."

    "I'm just doing what I have to do to get by."

    I very much hope you are joking / doing this as a bit, because if you are serious, you are a hypocrite and a coward.