Looks like the right to bear arms doesn’t prevent tyranny after all. Huh, who’da thunk it?

Hm, it’s been a while since I’ve been active in this space, I’m quoting from memory. I’ll look up some stuff.

There are five grades of FGM; MGM is equivalent to hoodectomy, which is grade III.

The worst FGM is much, much worse that MGM, but the least-worst FGM is much less-worse than MGM.

• space

• time

We’ve been producing noticeable radio waves for a matter of decades. We’ve been capable of detecting even super-powerful, super-deliberate, super-targeted broadcasts for even less time.

And on top of that, it doesn’t look as though our civilisation is going to exist for more than a handful more decades, in any detectable-from-light-years-away form.

The chances of that onionskin-thin slice of lightcone intersecting with that of any other civilisation out there seems ludicrously remote.

Yeah, I’m totally clicking on a url that ends in fgsfds.link

Could this count as a hate crime?

Look, murder all the children you want, but don’t you ever claim we didn’t help you do it!

It’s not hubris, it’s neediness. Some people have a desperate need to be speshul, not just matter, not just a process, but something magical and ineffable and inherently intractable. They want their non-overlapping magisteria back, and they use ‘quantum’ as a little reservation it can hide on.

Could is maybe-can: I bet I could jump over that car [if I wanted to].

As opposed to I bet I can jump over that car [and I’m going to try].

Would is maybe-will: If you saw an alligator, would you run away?

Would is also ‘did’, for habitual actions. When I was young, I would wait by the window for my father to come home.

Fully automated luxury war slavery

What do you think an algorithm is?

He says, on social media

free onion ring

You think slaves weren’t fed?

Ah yes, slavery.

Dude you need to try throat singing. Kargyraa is fun.

I don’t want to interact with drunk people kthx.

They’re unpredictable, potentially aggressive, and I just want to avoid the entire situation.

In a word, fuckyeah.

For the benefits of the lurkers - this one comes up quite a bit - balls sit way higher / further forward than you think they do. All our stuff pretty much hangs off the pubic bone, and dangles down from there. We have to lean way forward to actually squish anything from underneath.

This has never made sense to me; a full bladder doesn’t give you an erection when you’re not asleep.