Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Well, okay, first I am amazed at either the chutzpah or the intellectual deficiency involved in saying "it doesn't excuse it".

Of course it excuses it. Things that are inevitable, if you actually meant that, have no ethical significance because _they're fucking inevitable_ . It's like trying to make moral claims about the actions of gravity or the electroweak interaction. They are what they are and it is literally impossible for them to be anything different.

I continue to be amazed that people can say things like this -

"You can understand that massacring civilians undermines the cause but also understand is the inevitable result of violence inflicted for decades by the genocidal occupation.

It doesn't excuse or justify it. The futile brutality is simply a consequences of brutal systems."

and think they are making a supportive statement.

Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? You have sat too long for any good you are doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of Liberty, go!"

To borrow a line or two from Cromwell:

"It is high time to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. You are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would sell your last principle for a mess of pottage.

Yes, the Libertarian Party and the rest of the so-called "anti-war libertarians" disagree with me on this. That's because they interpret "personal freedom" to mean "as long as I have my freedom, fuck you and yours".

Which is to say, because they have the ethical principles of an intestinal parasite and the moral backbone of a deliquescent jellyfish.

Peripatetic reminder that there is only one correct libertarian position for murdering, raping, slaving shitheads:

To wit, _decomposing_.

(This rule has no exceptions.)

I mean, say what you will about TIME CUBE, but Gene Ray put some serious creative effort into his cray-cray...

Incidentally, since this is exactly the sort of literally pointless plot development you get from a large language model and since no-one is willing to accept the demotion of large swaths of humanity from the ranks of intelligent beings any time soon, I think we can take this as essentially proof that LLMs are true AI.

(Or AS, anyway, which is a much more realistic kind of hominin mind emulation.)

So in things I have learned about the emergency broadcast test today is that it will use 5G signals to activate the microchips in the vaccines to make the Marburg virus infections go active, turning people into zombies.

Man, where have all the good conspiracy theorists gone? These days, they just string shitty memes together and call it good enough.

#conspiracyTheorists

Hot take: whatever the eventual outcome of $NEW_TECH_X, it is always correct to take a strong position against doomspooge, since history demonstrates that doomspooging is invariant across all forms of significant novelty and their outcomes.

Also, doomspooge is an excellent word that accords the described memes the appropriate level of seriousness.

Heh heh heh. Doomspooge.

#doomspooge

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#tmux #WindowsTerminal

For the purposes of hull classification, the boundary between ‘warmoon’ and ‘dirigible battle planet’ is set, approximately, to “Oh, gods, my Roche limit!”

#eldraeverse

Played enough #Starfield at this point to be convinced that Chunks are probably the greatest food innovation in the history of ever.

Flag of the day:

A fortress whose design is distilled from the standard and characteristic features of all fortresses, readily used to represent them all.

I shall call it… Eigengard.

Be right back, teaching a microcontroller to recognize common profanities and respond "You have been fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."

#demolitionMan

Alternatively, you could replicate Earth and go with entirely tree-based life support, which replaces "machines fail, everyone dies" as a failure mode with "colony develops druidic cult, offworlders and excess population sacrificed to Great Tree in wicker man-based rituals".

Although the latter is at least more interesting to the SF writer, or ought to be.

I am also wondering, now, if the "fragile space habitats" meme is a result of improper extrapolation from the sensitive, thoroughbred, handbuilt-specifically-to-task life support systems we've been using on space stations, etc., up to now.

'Cause Cydonia People's Air Plant #1 ain't gonna be like that in almost any particular, kinda like how a highly-tuned custom-built sports car engine is not a whole lot like a marine diesel power plant, or hell, a steam one.