The things that never happen are happening right now but our collective attention spans have been dulled to the point that you can’t recognize the actual swing of history as it’s unfolding. Everyone just gets used to incremental changes to life so that it feels like nothing changes, because time isn’t real and your memory is malleable.

Honestly, true.

We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes to society broadly.

But they will take place over such timespans that most people are just going to get used to things being shitty and the death-tolls from storms, flooding, starvation, forced-migration… it will just be more dull noise in the background for decades and decades.

The “nothing ever happens” shitheads are in the middle of things happening, but our attention-spans have been so thoroughly eroded that people don’t think anything is real unless it literally shakes them out of their bed.

I’ll deliver this reply in Choose Your Own Adventure Format:

If you want to make a reference to Donald Trump being at his birthday parade and thus exposed, vulnerable and in the open and presently not looking up, turn to page 89.

If you rather make a reference to how we should leave the Devil be because the Devil himself is more respectable and honorable than any of these monstrous despots who murder out of spite and wrap themselves in scripture, turn to page 322.

I love how almost every societal complaint or struggle can be traced back to the idea that there are a small number of people trying to take the money from a large number of other people for as unfair of an exchange as physically possible.

BONMO~'s Kickstarter campaign turned out to be a scam, no refunds for existing investors, sowwy.

Anyway, now that the only alternative to BONTO! is dead, BONTO! merged with [weirdly popular social media company that you never paid attention to] and BONTO! is offering new subscription plans that give great deals if you pay for three years ahead of time for the low, low price of $450. Also, where will BONTO! be in 3 years? ¯\__(ツ)_/¯

This memey post isn’t about Email as a concept, it’s about the state of commercial communication companies and the way we access having email.

This is what happens to your body when you obtain infinite resources and have zero mental discipline.

Not shown: pants pissing and chemical-induced schizophrenia.

The truck blew up before it could reach the tower.

You are absolutely right, just look at the popular investment subreddits, they don’t talk about long-term goals and successful investment strategies for retirement, etc. They talk about what the latest fast-buck is going to be, what the newest short or pump-and-dump is doing, they report on when a rug gets pulled or a bubble bursts so that their buddies can stop working in inflating it.

It’s an entire industry of scams and cons, from crypto to the stock-market broadly, it’s all about short-term rewards at any cost.

My one regret is that I will never be able to find all the really stubborn, dimwitted assholes on reddit who were screaming bloody death-threats at me for warning people that NFT’s were a scam, and be able to just verbally ream them out, fucking rub their faces in their own shit.

I bet some of them are out there, reading this maybe, maybe they even recognize me.

If so… hi. How you doin? 😊

can you hold the tiger’s tail just long enough

The answer to this is also usually “no” because the people who set up the scamcoin usually don’t like to leave things to chance and have a plan for when to time their rug-pull.

Trying to get in on these grifts is like spotting a bank-robbery in-progress and trying to join the crew and get paid. Sure it can happen, but you’re not exactly playing with the best odds of success.

Uh oh, you’ve offended the people who are prone to falling for scams and grifts. Across multiple generations.

the “bug hate” meme is entirely a product of meat industries worried about people actually embracing alternatives.

I can describe cow and chicken meat with equally disgusting terminology, eating living things in any capacity is objectively weird and gross, we’re just more used to eating some living things over others.

Sooner or later we’re all going to be eating things like cultured meats and processed insects, it’s just a matter of how many people are going to resist and struggle against changes to the way we stay alive.

Even in the deepest suburbs it’s not that hard to form community and connection with your neighbors. Hold a few yard sales, make small talk, greet people walking their dogs, get to know who lives where. That’s literally all it takes, that and actually going out.

We complain endlessly, particularly on sites like Lemmy, about the US’s lack of “walkable cities” and other systemic obstacles to having better sense of community and social contact, but we hardly ever see people doing something about it.

I get that it’s less “fun” to go out and make friends if you don’t got a riverwalk and cafes, but the most important ingredient is still there, which is other people you just need to step up and make things happen.

I haven’t watched the movies in depth, but the premise alone speaks to me of a subtext that leads to this understanding about our world.

I believe it’s coming to light that this ancient device was both not that accurate, and not entirely unique and “out of time” and that there was a lot of detailed bronze-working being done at the time with gears and clockwork, it’s just that very few of them would have survived, as they usually got sunk in shipwrecks or looted and melted down over the centuries.

I mean, it only makes sense that the tools and mechanisms already existed to manufacture something like this. They didn’t learn how to make gears and solder bronze plates JUST ONE TIME. This was an art and many people have experimented with engineering over the ages, it’s just that we tend to forget just how vast the scale of time is and how much it buries. If we all disappeared tomorrow, in a few thousand years it would be a huge challenge figuring out a lot of our technology remnants. Metals oxidize, valuable parts are recycled over and over. People repurpose things, and over long enough scales in history, you can think of the surface of the earth like a rolling ocean. Waves of earth’s crust lap at the shores of ruined cities and artifacts drown into the mire.

The most interesting thing about the antikythera mechanism to me is that it survived at all, that we somehow found it and it hadn’t completely oxidized. Because it offers a unique window in the lost arts and artifacts that we probably will never know about. (No “ancient technology conspiracy historians” you’re not invited. Don’t make me point to the sign.)

They don’t need a purge night to commit tax fraud, the do it every day, for vast, vast sums of wealth.

If they had a purge night in real life, they would quickly amend it to just “murder” night. Lest the poors get an idea that they too could exploit the system.

Then they would amend it again because they don’t want to get murdered. So it will be “Murdering approved people and groups night” but that also has a chance of backfiring if someone wealthy or the people protecting them could be at risk, so they will just change it to “The police get to murder you night” and then they will shrug and remove the nightly restriction, and then there you go… our current system.

Within 4 hours of announcing that a “purge night” was a thing, they would have to revise it to just call it “murder night” and even then, it will get further modified to “Murder of sanctioned people and groups night” and even THEN they will have to further amend it until it finally says “The police get to murder you night” and then they will want to remove the nightly restriction and then BAM you have what we have now.

A lot of males or kids raised masculine have that habit broken real fast.

For the majority of the western world, it’s still considered cute and more than acceptable for women to have stuffed toys into adulthood, or that it’s feminizing in some way. Try that as a guy past a certain age though and you’re more likely to flip a coin on social acceptance from friends, family and strangers alike.

It’s a funny example how social pressure to conform to arbitrary standards and social norms is generational even if it makes no objective sense.

(For the dense out there, if you’re here to reply arguing about the acceptability of having a teddy bear as a man or woman because of your personal story/kink, you’re missing the leading subtext.)

I think it’s saying you can factor out the zero because it’s zero and we’re looking for “base sets” which for us 1’s? Factoring every number system down to whatever their base set is equivalent to that original 1’s relationship with zero?

It seems a little more esoteric than the practical reality that an alien might just count on it’s digits which could be any base number, and we should understand that, particularly if it gets so bad on Earth we have to leave soon.

I haven’t taken math in a very long time.