I'm sure we'll do this all again soon enough.
Soyweiser
joined 1 year ago
Puritan America values strike again.
Just got an acausal message from the future. 2025 will be shocking, we have seen nothing yet. And sadly I don't think we in Europe have it in us to do a D-day to save the USA from the fascists.
Contained such wonders as : H2O12
Well time to build a large golden statue of a shopkeeper.
Also fits in with the 'quantum' grifters who believe in some spirit energy from the pyramids and tell you to build your own (fancy minerals optional) because of the quantum energy states. 'a piece of meat doesn't spoil under the pyramid!' For example
Fantasy PnP RPG Capitalisation.
Human Flourishing
This term was already very iffy, but this cements it into being full on red flag territory.
When your party platform is just a long-form weird tweet that you wrote after bong rips with Elon Musk.
Wouldnt be surpised if we discover he is behind it, the whole manufacturing things in space (yes I also played SMAX Musk) has his smell over it. What makes this a bit more funny is that Musk has also been hired to help safely crash down the ISS into the sea (Personally considering the cost of lifting stuff out of our gravity I would try to keep it up there, if I wanted to build more things in space, but due to capitalism we cannot (really, the ISS is going to be trashed because figuring out who own what part and resolving all that is too hard, capital says no)). Which brings up a fantastic opportunity for a random person on twitter who has Musks ear. We can now put a city at risk of being crushed by the ISS by tweeting 'hey musk, make the ISS do a barrel roll'.
Slander! MSDS will tell you to use the right one (“appropriate respirator”), it’s your job to figure out what it is
I lolled.
Not just promptheads but the entire conspiratorial right is already way into not understanding how these functions and organizations work. There is a weird group of them who thinks that blackrock is a group of woke people (some of them are even saying it is 'THEM') behind everything. Because they confused a talk about 'we need to tell organisations to focus more on diversity' as a pro-diversity stance and not a 'we need to make sure the companies we invest in don't get sued, which causes a drop in share price'.
Tweet (Xcancel) from Ed Zitron: "This report is damning. Goldman Sachs's Head of Global Equity Research doesn't believe that generative AI is capable of solving complex problems, and says the tech industry "is too complacent in its assumptions that costs will decline substantially"", more in the quote tweet.
Subliming
Somebody in the comments points this out and he gets annoyed with this as some sort of literary device to not do the hard transhumanist work or something.
Which is odd, as subliming is fine as if this wasn't there humans minds and mind minds could do a singularity style intelligence explosion afterwards you couldn't describe things because of the singularity style event. And Banks wrote science fiction which is always about humans, and not 'the period after beings become so powerful we cannot really tell what is going on anymore as the increase of intelligence has reached infinity'
Subliming sidesteps this problem because it wants to be interesting fiction, and not weird gobbledygook of incomprehensible alien minds. Yud basically forgets that The Culture is science fiction written for real human beings who live now.
The comments are quite a selection of typical things. 'harassing innocent IQ researchers' 'the sneerclubbers are all losers who hate crypto' etc etc. Hitting the familiar beats.