Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

PS - If you've recently had the urge to shit all over anything within six degrees of Elon, yes, I'm talking about *you*.

The true miracle of Elon Musk is not becoming an eminently dislikeable raging asshole; anyone can do that.

It's transmuting his critics into eminently dislikeable raging assholes, too.

(Politics isn't just the mind-killer, it's also the soul-killer.)

My urge to colonize Mars dwindles in proportion to my realization that there will also have to be other people there.

Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility - in the Emperor's name!

As it's evidently time for the ZOMG WWIII ONOZ discourse again, this is today's reminder that it is not the job of Ukraine or Ukrainians to lie down and die because y'all can't find a single gonad between the lot of you.

Once, I used to be disinclined to participate in politics because I actively disliked everyone’s ideas.

Now, I’m disinclined to participate in politics because I can’t even with everyone’s mental illness.

I do not think this is an actual improvement.

If there is a kind of eugenics I unquestionably support, it's finding the allele responsible for flagrant misuse of the word "eugenics" and having all its carriers sterilized.

100. No matter how wearied you are by the incompetent fools surrounding you, you may not spray knowledge-bearing nanites from high-flying aircraft.

No-one will care that they aren't technically chemtrails.

- _145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds_

#eldraeverse

bend down to check the hot end

inhale a lungful of the warm, sweet smell of hot PLA

sigh in pleasure

"ahhh,,, the delicious scent of productivity!"

#3dprinting #weirdkinks

Today's Musical Discovery -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJPlyAZvmQI

Fictional event of the day: On this day, at 2:14 am, Skynet becomes self-aware. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Real moral of the day: Trying to murder sufficiently smart children gets you all nuked, hunted down, and killed.

#ai

Favorite German word of the day: Maulwurf.

Which means "mole".

See, to me, moles are associated with weak vision, and good housekeeping, and nice cups of tea, and at this point I must admit that everything I learned about moles came from _The Wind in the Willows_.

"Maulwurf", on the other hand, sounds ridiculously badass.

Like, if someone told me they'd seen a maulwurf in the garden, I'd be all "Get my shotgun. And maybe the flammenwerfer."

This disconnect is entirely too amusing.

Everyone talks about election interference, but no-one talks about proposed policies so self-evidently self-destructive that they should be presumed evidence of working for a hostile power.