I found it via reverse image search, it appears to be by an artist named Mark Ferrari, specifically one of his older works.

You can see it in action here, it’s the “Highland Ruins - Rain” option.

Apparently he’s worked on Lucasfilm games like Loom and the original Monkey Island, so I’ve inadvertently been a fan of his for a long time.

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Maintaining continuity of consciousness is the only thing that would make me feel comfortable with converting myself to a machine intelligence.

From memes cant, this translates to “always has been,” though case and tense may vary.

Well have fun, maybe you’ll see me some other year.

Well that’s cool. If you pop by in 2-3 weeks (we go the last two weeks, once with kids and one without) and see a guy with a beard in old skiing goggle sunglasses and pseudo-Viking regalia feel free to say hi and I’ll know I met a fellow weird nerd from Lemmy lol.

Maryland Renfest? We go there in a couple weeks, it’s always a good time. Love to see everyone’s fun costumes and drink mead.

Victor’s creation’s name was Adam. Adam Frankenstein.

Never dehumanize fascists or fascist-sympathizers (redundant but ok), it’s always important to remember that bad faith actors or their stooges are human and cannot be entirely eliminated from society, which is why people that fight for positive change have to set the rules such that bad faith actors’ actions are either quickly recognized and mitigated, or have society structured such that even those motivated solely by unempathetic selfishness can only achieve status by masking and contributing positively anyway.

Alternatively, as a form of scrotal elephantiasis, it could be a parasitic infection, swollen lymph nodes from either disease or medical procedures like radiotherapy, or more rarely a hernia that causes the intestines to drop into the scrotum.

Ah yes, the classic sign and countersign in memes cant.

Yep, my point being that a trans man (AFAB) and a cis man (AMAB) both have their bed nucleus of the stria terminalis roughly the same size, twice the size of a woman’s. A woman’s is half the size of a man’s, regardless of whether she’s trans (AMAB) or cis (AFAB). So regardless of what the gender is assigned at birth, the relative size of the bed nucleus predicts the gender that the individual feels most comfortable as.

Their bed nucleus of the stria terminalis should be twice as large as a woman’s, and that’s what guided their gender identities. Not that I’m a biological determinist, just a strict physicalist with no belief in metaphysical choice superceding determinism, but a lot of times the brain’s development has recursive feedback loops such that smaller choices early on can alter the size of brain structures along with sex hormones and the development environment in the womb or even outside of it for a while, the earlier the more significant. All I know is that the size of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is pretty consistently twice the size in men as it is in women regardless of the gender assigned at birth.

As long as we’re coming up with overly convoluted reasons that a minor plot device from a fantasy space opera makes sense in a rigorous scientific way, why not assume that they were genetically engineered specifically as a torturous punishment for the Hutt syndicate? Bioengineering is apparently canon, so there’s in-universe justification.

ℑ𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔫𝔬𝔴. 𝔓𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔬 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔱.

I call it asocial media, personally.

Roger Stone’s tattoo, right? Definitely one of the trashiest I’ve seen.

Isn’t post-quantum cryptography already a thing? Probably not implemented in anything meaningful yet, but still.

Is the reference frame the CMB? You’d think you could just choose the reference frame at that point and move however you want, but arguing the physics of hypothetical metaphysical beings probably doesn’t make much sense.

I mean, you can still do that with https, your dns requests will likely still be in the clear unless you’re using dns over tls or dns over https.

I would agree with you that something similar to metric would eventually arise, but I would consider duodecimal to make more sense than decimal, as 12 is a superior highly composite number and the terminating representation is much shorter for more commonly used fractions (e.g. 1⁄4 would be represented as 0.3, 1⁄3 as 0.4, 1⁄2 as 0.6, etc). I would also argue that groupings in powers of 12² make more sense than 10³.

I would also argue that it would make more sense for measurements to be based on natural units (such as Planck length) for all the basic measurements (second, metre, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela), such that the anthropic unit (the one you’d most commonly refer to without prefixes) would be some multiple of 12 away from the natural unit.