Given how much our online behaviour is mined and catalogued, that might easily be enough

Part of it is I don’t know how skin particles will act inside a space station. Are there static electricity forces that would make it stick to surfaces, or does it remain suspended in air until the filtration gets to it?

Dust comes from human skin flakes.

I think along similar lines, but I’ve taken a third descriptor onboard: disaster-prone. A mirthless history professor once told me that “history is a litany of unintended consequences”. Everything about the world and our history makes so much more sense if you mentally allow for the fact that we as a species tend to make rather absurd mistakes at scale, and now at the height of our global culture, our powers at their greatest, our need for common sense, tolerance, and cooperation at their most urgent in history due to impending climate collapse, geopolitical tension, and wealth inequality, the most powerful nation in history elected, twice, the most foolish, wicked man alive.

A single person is still intelligent and prosocial. I sincerely agree. But humanity i think has a critical mass at which point all of that is hidden behind layers of systematically disastrous behaviour.

It’s too fresh, too undigested.

This is a foodpost.

Some people just don’t like highbrow art

I’m quite prejudiced, having lost a lifelong friend to racialist bullshit he picked up on /pol/. I used to enjoy a bit of /tg/, over a decade ago, but I have better ways to spend my time these days.

I think we are regardless, but then again my whole life has been a series of mounting realisations of how fucked we are, so maybe don’t take me too seriously. Who was it that said “don’t let the bastards grind you down”?

Why bother to distinguish between two different flavours of shit?

It takes a lot to make a lapsed Discordian gnostic atheist feel like saying “church is free”, but I guess everyone really does have a secret super-power

The older I get, the more times I failed to realise I was being flirted with become clear to me.

I’d have never had time to beat all the Mega Mans if I noticed them all, though. I like to think they’d be proud of me.

The FBI published a report that a huge number of police unions across the country were effectively run by KKK types, and all that happened was an expansion of the 1033 program and Killology seminars. Each and every cop is an enemy to whatever form of justice you hope for.

Of course not. And when we say their real job is to protect property, we don’t mean “poor people’s property” - perish the thought.

Freely admitted the size thing is purely a messy heuristic that sprang into my mind unbidden, backed by nothing and entirely unprovable. And yet, just as too much money tends to ruin things, I think too much land and labour under one roof might have a similar effect, or the same effect by proxy.

I’m comfortable liking (the idea of, if not its reality) rule of law, while also hating cops.

Get ready for the next distraction

After hundreds of hours, last weekend I finally beat StS1. Just Ascension level 1, but I was still super happy. Finally had enough luck and discipline at the same time to clinch it.

This was necessary for me to give myself emotional permission to start the sequel. I’d have already begun but I’m still savouring the W.

I think if it’s ever gonna happen, the one thing that could push him to try would be news articles like this accurately shaming him.

I hope it he tries, the military just does a coup already.

still uses 4chan

Blind leading the blind as per usual

The problem is cars themselves. Bad technology overall, imo