urshanabi @urshanabi@schelling.pt

@blueberry even better: https://www.timeanddate.com/

@tomosaigon @urusan @nytpu the robots don't want to kill you, it's just that you're made of atoms that could be put to better use

@weird_hell@cybre.space @urusan they are simply obeying the movie director's implicit order to sympathize with the rebels

@urusan it's a useful skill, but the way obedience is usually taught destroys people's ability to not obey, which is probably worse than not being able to properly obey in the first place

@urusan although, i was under the impression that the right answer to "is your wife smarter than you?" was "yes of course you are honey"

@urusan do you care enough to spend however much time & money it will cost to take an iq test, with whatever caveats about iq tests you think are relevant?

@cnx a good, solid color along with the size

bigger berries with brighter colors are usually sweeter and more flavorful

@martijnbraam oh man those are some tasty looking berries

@natecull computer's haunted

@natecull @urusan are you familiar with futarchy?

the basic idea is that we decide on a set of policy goals, then set up prediction markets to guess the likelihood of any specific policy meeting the goals

@urusan that's an impressive feat

duckduckgo appears to be censoring images related to the tiananmen square protests

@jameschip ...how hard is it to remove an astroturf lawn and replace it with real plants?

@jdp hmm i wonder how well this maps on to simulacra levels

at first glance it seems to work pretty well

@jdp something similar to this has been bouncing around in my head, but not articulated this well

i'm pretty sure that queer stuff isn't the only degenerate end though, see also the power fantasies that fill bad manga/fanfiction

some threads to pull on here:

-what circumstances lead to people abandoning reality? has this happened before?

-what's the deal with the current attractor state(s)? why is it compelling, what void is it filling, how can we channel this in a more interesting way?

@blueberry navigating in straight lines makes life easier

hexagons are cool for other reasons but right angles are easier to deal with most of the time

the vaccine microchips seem to be malfunctioning, i hate windows more since i took it