VulcanTourist

Founder of the Society of Insouciant Candor.

Displaced secular humanist Vulcan with a hatred of self-delusion, tribalism, and selfishness. Promoter of democratic socialism as an unobtainable ideal. FULLY independent (non-tribalistic) thinker: don't expect me to defend or support you merely because you profess liberal ethics if you fail to demonstrate them. Ad hominem is NEVER acceptable.

My mind is a rough draft.

Twice gifted; agnostic atheist. #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #OCD #HSP #Mensa

Social Oncologist: (thanks to @aral)
What's Right is Right: I'm the waterboy for everyone else's principles that they can't be bothered with.
Facebook account: in the bonfire of Hell
Twitter/X account: in the bonfire of Hell

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2025-12-08 06:05:37 UTC

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> But regardless of my despair, that's how you overthrow tyranny: people get together, directly aid each other, form alliances, and the supply of slaves for the oligarchs dries right up.
I've said it differently, but This Is The Way. The real power of the One Percent isn't their wealth, it's our dependency upon them: for (a) employment and (b) the products of the mass production that they control! They get us coming and going.
We have to break that dependency, and the ONLY way to do that is to form interlocking support networks, teach people to be dependent upon each other instead of the One Percent.
Then perhaps we don't have to put them under the guillotine as in the past, and instead just let them quietly - or loudly, who cares? - fuck off to their private islands and good luck finding hired help.

2025-12-07 23:40:21 UTC

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> The downtrodden and forgotten majority will not put up with this imbalance for long.
I do hope you're right. I've been waiting my entire 6+ decades of life for the long overdue Second Revolution. It's never appeared, and every beginning of one - so-called recessions - has been quashed before it could get its legs under it.

2025-12-05 10:00:50 UTC

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Cloudflare is about the same as the electrical line coming into your house. We have ooodles of single points of failure that we just don't think about... until they fail.

2025-12-05 00:02:09 UTC

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> Each and everyone of these individuals have self identified as people who carry the malignant tendency to be cruel, no matter what
In other words, they're conservative: malignantly selfish, tribal, nationalist, racist, closed-minded, intolerant, Machiavellian, fascist, violent.

2025-12-04 00:40:59 UTC

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I suppose I need to clarify: I have no difficulty speaking unscripted at all and doing so very articulately and coherently. I can ad lib with the best of them.
The ONLY times that I rehearse are instances where I need to confront someone because I need something from them, whether that be a thing or a change in behavior (most often) or some form of justice. In other words, I need to rehearse situations where the outcome is very much uncertain and every nuance could matter.

2025-12-03 05:37:10 UTC

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What would make you interpret my comment in that fashion? It was advocacy for France and the EU to do MUCH MORE than they have thus far to help Ukraine survive intact. Now if you have no taste for that advocacy, then I suppose that I will just fuck off.

2025-12-03 02:05:17 UTC

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I have spent YEARS rehearsing certain interactions that still haven't happened.

2025-12-02 15:54:09 UTC

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Dear France (and EU):
Celebrating Ukrainian culture will hardly matter if Ukraine ceases to exist. Whatcha gonna do? Do you want these four months to become a retrospective memorial to an erased culture and people?

2025-11-30 19:11:05 UTC

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Any relation to @npub1vc3…axsh, I wonder?

2025-11-02 14:23:18 UTC

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I wanna see a hermit crab conga line where they trade up condos.

2025-10-28 06:48:56 UTC

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Insane Clown Posse...?

2025-10-25 23:08:04 UTC

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It's a rainbow-colored Hot Wheels race track!

2025-10-23 23:40:00 UTC

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Why did I first see the word "voting" as "vomiting"?

2025-09-22 00:19:31 UTC

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And if you'd had a gem with you, we wouldn't be reading about your experience, eh?

2025-09-18 14:34:29 UTC

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> I've had enough of the Left only thinking we will defund them, prosecute them, lock them up and dismantle their power for generations to come. It just needs to happen.
It's getting ominously close to a preemptive kill-or-be-killed predicament, isn't it?

2025-09-15 02:53:30 UTC

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> does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace
Actually it DOES: it places the onus on those Israeli filmmakers to take up the fight themselves or risk being effectively blackballed for inaction.

2025-09-11 16:44:54 UTC

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The media needs to stop calling those people "conservatives" and begin using the far more descriptive word "hypocrites".

2025-08-28 02:22:50 UTC

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There's still good reason to be paranoid, so don't bin it just yet. There's fully 30% of humanity that would rather you not exist except on their terms. Paranoia is still fashionable. Wear it like a neck scarf.

2025-08-26 21:11:30 UTC

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I confess I'll wander off if I have nothing else useful to contribute, and especially so if I'm distracted.
Someone who seems to always reply - at least when one is warranted - is @npub1xw7…r9m5. Most often I see him talking about politics, but I suspect that he might not be a bot and have actual hobbies and interests outside of that and I'm simply not paying close enough attention to notice.
@npub1xeq…e8nv also notices when he's being engaged. Many of the neurodivergent folk do.

2025-08-26 18:37:55 UTC

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If a person makes poor choices in who to Follow, then it might result in what you describe.
HOWEVER, wise choices made in who to Follow results in a more interactive dynamic which you attribute exclusively to Bluesky. How do I know this? Why, because I "engage" with people - and get responses - in Mastodon all the time.
If that is not your Mastodon experience, the cause is the choices you've made, not the medium. Make different choices. Follow PEOPLE rather than organizations or "talking heads".
@npub1xeq…e8nv

2025-08-17 14:05:58 UTC

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The entire point of being a billionaire is "winning", of DENYING material resources from everyone else. That is their goal, even if it's neither consciously thought nor said aloud.

2025-08-11 14:17:06 UTC

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My joy with horticulture came not from "managing" plants according to my own conceit or convenience but rather enjoying watching *as an observer* what they do in my absence (as much as possible).

2025-08-11 14:13:27 UTC

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I know how it's done. I have more horticultural books than most people, including a $55 one devoted to nothing but ferns.

2025-08-11 13:54:11 UTC

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Oh, those poor pear trees....

2025-08-09 09:36:29 UTC

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"Allotments" in the U.K. are what Americans might call community gardens?

2025-08-09 07:02:49 UTC

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Anti-fascists won't lie, cheat, steal, or break or subvert the law to achieve their goal. That is why it's so easy for them to lose ground until conditions become extreme and obvious, because they won't "fight dirty".
Fascists and even conservatives have, can, and do.

2025-08-09 01:54:07 UTC

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Hey, Down Under has had its own Mini-Me right-wing drama to watch. I've been watching it with dismay from afar myself since the time of John Howard. Remember him?
Say, whatever happened to that grand socialistic plan for the Australian people to buy back ownership of the physical network? Didn't go as planned, did it?

2025-08-07 04:52:03 UTC

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It's Netflix: they released four episodes today. The final four release on September 3rd.
Me, my wife and I are reluctant to watch anything unless we can binge-watch it without a lapse of a week or more. My recall is and always has been poor, so my comprehension suffers with lapses. It's the same reason I always read novels straight through non-stop.
So we'll wait until September 3rd, just as we're waiting for half a dozen other seasons to wrap up....

2025-07-30 02:16:22 UTC

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Do cats comprehend the meaning of laughter? I've wondered about that (and what else they do or don't comprehend).

2025-07-29 09:01:08 UTC

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Indeed, listen to @pluralistic:
> The method is designed as a process of continual refinement, where new evidence is continuously brought forward and evaluated, and where cherished ideas that are invalidated by new evidence are discarded and replaced with new ideas.

2025-07-10 14:23:15 UTC

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I voluntarily agreed to baptism as an early teen as a last resort to understand, but when that failed to grant me special insight it was all over.

2025-07-10 11:52:28 UTC

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I think perhaps "twice-exceptional" high-functioning autistic people are less prone to self-delusion as well?
I myself am immune to just about anything resembling propaganda absent objectivity, including corporate advertising that appeals to emotion rather than reason. (My all-time favorite of the latter was a Clorox bleach commercial that tried to convince people that THEIR brand of 5% sodium hypochlorite solution was more effective than every other brand of 5% sodium hypochlorite solution!)
Because of that, the intense effort during my childhood to make a Christian out of me failed spectacularly. I do know a couple religious autistic people, but are they the rule and instead me the exception?

2025-07-10 01:49:34 UTC

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I've been suggesting that #AuDHD traits might be the beginning of a speciation event for almost 20 years now. Such an event takes much time to come to fruition, and we won't live to see it, but it's fun to consider that we might be the vanguard (well, not ME, since I didn't procreate).

2025-07-02 21:03:56 UTC

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It was and is.

2025-07-02 20:47:33 UTC

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I was speaking specifically to him as an autistic person that I know somewhat.

2025-07-02 20:39:49 UTC

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Take a step back to regain your emotional footing....

2025-06-23 13:44:45 UTC

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High - and dangerously gusty - winds are indeed an issue here. I had one permanent welded iron canopy rendered impermanent by them.

2025-06-23 13:40:30 UTC

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They would. I wouldn't have considered them at the time because the cost would have been substantially more than what I considered instead for passive cooling.

2025-06-23 06:17:41 UTC

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Then there's this (from the article):
“Pilot projects are very interesting as experiments,” says Curro Oñate, a biologist and president of Red Sevilla por el Clima, a citizen group that advocates for more climate measures in the city. “But they are totally insufficient because they benefit a very small share of the city’s population — and usually the most privileged.”
It goes on to detail how Seville's poorest neighborhood doesn't even get trees, much less ingenious public works like CartujaQanat.
This mirrors my own experience living in one of the ghettos of my own city, where large shade-giving trees are a rare occurrence and most of the trees that were here when I first moved here have been cut down AND NOT REPLACED. This is in a city that is nicknamed The City of Trees because its affluent downtown area is virtually covered by them.
There is nothing egalitarian about projects like this one.

2025-06-23 05:48:38 UTC

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Similar but not nearly so efficient: in the desert of southern California, there was a population that lived in corrugated metal structures, and they would drape burlap over them and then dribble water slowly over the burlap. The evaporative effect lowered interior temperatures dramatically.

2025-03-05 03:26:45 UTC

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I'm staying here until I leave for another more democratic country. No spoilers which one, don't want the real estate prices to skyrocket before I get there.

2025-03-05 03:22:09 UTC

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I chose no party at all. At least the Democrats in California will still let me vote in their primaries. Of course the Republican Party will not. Don't recall for certain, but I don't think the other parties allow it either. The Democratic Party at least doesn't demand that I be a Kool-Aid-drinking acolyte to vote for their primary candidates.

2025-03-02 13:17:50 UTC

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I stopped having anything to do with theaters long before smartphones or even cellphones existed. Before those things became potential public disturbances, people found other ways to callously create them, like bringing their ill-behaved children to ruin others' experience.
I say this as a means to highlight that this civil disrespect is not a new phenomenon and has been common throughout my entire lifetime, over six decades. It's probably been true for much longer than that.

2025-03-01 03:57:49 UTC

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Our conditions are closely comparable, save that I've never ever masked and I'm merely skeptical of authority and expect it to be earned. I don't know what "level 2" autism is, though. The effects of ADD and IQ are more front-and-center for me. I don't use the ADHD acronym because the "H" was absent from my eventual diagnosis. My issue is impulsivity (boy, is it ever).

2025-03-01 03:43:18 UTC

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I guess you both never heard of Unforgettable? Both of these seem like a retread of that concept, and the lead is even (still) a redhead! They just pivot it to a comedy so they don't even have to maintain a facade of accuracy.
I don't expect any movie or series to ever accurately reflect the outcomes of advanced intelligence. I can't recall ever seeing one. The reason for that is simple: no one who is isn't themselves well above the 98% Percentile can comprehend the outcomes of a 160 IQ. So, since the creative team is absent such people and the prospective audience is also almost entirely absent them, there's no reason to even make the effort!

2025-02-27 00:39:13 UTC

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SOME people eagerly answer "yes" to that question, and those people are now in control of our government.

2025-01-07 03:02:52 UTC

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It does suck.

2025-01-07 03:01:23 UTC

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No, and I can't: I have neuropathy in my feet that leads to pain. I'm also narrow-footed and pronated, the narrow-footedness probably being the root cause of the originating Morton's Neuroma that progressed. Having the same longitudinal bones as everyone else but crammed more tightly together was not a help for the nerves that ran between.
If my feet aren't cushioned and supported in good boots, I'm probably not walking.

2025-01-07 02:56:16 UTC

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I don't toe-walk, but the balls of my feet always get first dibs on the ground.

2025-01-02 10:45:15 UTC

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Self-delusion rules. Has it ruled in every age or has something fundamental changed in the last two or three decades? What could have changed that makes people so desperate to maintain comfort and certainty - "vibes" - that facts can now be discarded?

2024-12-29 11:45:03 UTC

Another idol smashed:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/christmas-song-jingle-bells-history/

2024-12-29 07:56:59 UTC

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Hell, Ray Bradbury anticipated/predicted that future America much much earlier than 1986 in one of his novels! I'll leave it as a reader exercise to determine which one. 🙂

2024-12-21 06:42:11 UTC

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> It appears… Putin is going to find himself in history's poo-tin.
How long have you kept that card hidden in your sleeve?

2024-11-29 11:06:25 UTC

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You mind if I borrow that on occasion? That's a neat turn of phrase that makes readers think.

2024-11-27 04:50:54 UTC

There's a lot of talk about #passkeys, but there seems to be significant detriments to the concept, unless I'm misunderstanding the technology. It seems to rely on creating device-specific authentication. That's great, and it may speed logins on that device, but... what happens when you need to log in from a different device or the time comes to replace the device? What happens to all those device-specific passkeys? Do you have to reinvent the wheel again and again for every device?

2024-11-02 21:22:49 UTC

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Did that update preserve the original graphics? I had it in mind that it be moderized to reflect current hardware capabilities, a "reboot" that preserves fundamental gameplay.

2024-11-02 19:33:21 UTC

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Perhaps someone will modernize it, assuming that EA isn't greedily clinging to the IP in 2024 and blocking such an effort.

2024-10-24 23:40:44 UTC

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Yes, Olaf, let's wait until they've become an unwilling vassal of Mother Russia yet again before deciding to posthumously open the doors and greet no one left at the door with open arms... right, Olaf?

2024-10-24 21:52:58 UTC

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Unless the subtitling is wrong in translation - and one person confirmed it's not - then I already knew what was said, and that is what I restated. I'm autistic, and I'm not that literal, even I can read through the thin line of what was said to divine the intent.

2024-10-24 19:06:03 UTC

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Yes, and "terrorists" as a metaphor for all Arabs, whom she addressed specifically. You're wagging the dog, here.

2024-10-24 18:22:23 UTC

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Yet she specifically addresses Arab viewers when she speaks of dogs "generally". That's a rather oddly specific generalization, no?

2024-10-22 22:03:50 UTC

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And yet, near the end of the article, it reveals one strain apparently doing just that, controlling human behavior!
> "Cryptococcus neoformans can spread outside the lungs into the central nervous system and cause symptoms such as neck stiffness, vomiting and sensitivity to light."
SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT: disincentivizing a victim from exposure to sunlight and UV radiation, which can be deadly to fungi....

2024-10-21 22:52:35 UTC

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I once relished doing things like that, but I now lack the "spoons" to do the same any more from scratch when there's much study and research and experimentation involved. I once self-hosted a blog before they were even called blogs, but those spoons are gone.
That said, the host of my current instance is a superstar and I don't regret abandoning mastodon.social.

2024-10-07 05:56:42 UTC

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By itself it would be an improvement, but keeping people thinking about what-else or what-next helps to discourage complacency. We can still do better, and best not to forget it.

2024-10-07 05:49:48 UTC

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Yes, the final tallies would be communicative enough. I was picturing them knowing *your* personal choice(s).

2024-10-07 05:44:58 UTC

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Ranked-choice or not, the first round of selection needs to be random, as with jury selection. We trust that randomized jurisprudent system with literal life-and-death decisions.
Now imagine for just a moment if we did that any other way that created a popularity contest? If you think our system of justice is imperfect now... it would be MUCH worse if we handled that like we do elections for so-called public servants.
Ranked-choice alone doesn't get the system where it needs to be.

2024-10-07 05:37:54 UTC

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> ... and then the Labor party knows I would like them more if they were more like the Greens.
Now how would they know that unless you plan to make all these ranked-choice votes a matter of public record?

2024-10-07 05:28:31 UTC

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I wrote about ranked-choice earlier today. By itself it won't resolve the current state of affairs. It's only part of the solution.
https://autistics.life/@VulcanTourist/113263258395790632

2024-10-07 05:10:30 UTC

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Harris is not the LEADER that we deserve. She will just be the one that we get because the type of leader we deserve lacks the ambition to endure everything our meat grinder of a system demands. It's specifically engineered to exclude the very best of us. Being able to survive and outlast that meat grinder is not evidence of a leader.
We will vote for Kamala Harris while remembering the bargain being struck and what we're sacrificing to avoid a worse consequence.
The emotion we will feel won't be elation, it will be relief.

2024-10-02 22:55:18 UTC

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Want to live in there....

2024-09-30 21:31:32 UTC

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But it's not tragedy we're discussing in that context: it's humans insulting and emotionally harming each other in a contest to have the last word and "win".
"Creatively lazy" is an extreme understatement. They exploit the psychology of viewers mercilessly.

2024-09-30 21:12:44 UTC

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Which was of course my point. They're abusing a formula to cheese their way into netting and keeping viewers. Look at our so-called "sitcoms": most of them consist of characters verbally assaulting and sparring with each other. Even comedy from conflict!?

2024-09-30 21:00:08 UTC

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"PvP" as a stand-in for "human versus human"... in shows that should have simply been about human versus environment.

2024-09-30 16:19:23 UTC

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Just so you know, when I said "Even programs that are ostensibly about a PvE conflict inevitably always have a PvP element introduced", I was referring to television "programs" and movies.

2024-09-30 07:02:48 UTC

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There's a reason that developers are so hellbent to include multiplayer and especially PvP in their games: the other players are free content that they didn't have to simulate, and it scratches that awful human instinctive itch.
You've of course noticed that the same behavior is rampant in other media. Even programs that are ostensibly about a PvE conflict inevitably always have a PvP element introduced.

2024-09-27 23:37:25 UTC

Rich One Percenter and real estate hoarder John Powers Middleton says: "What’s happened to my property is criminal and I hope everyone caught will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No one in Los Angeles should have to put up with squatters and vandalism that are out of control."
NO, you greedy asshole, you have it rather backwards: no one in Los Angeles should have to watch people going homeless while you have large amounts of unused real estate that could house them!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/hollywood-hills-mansion-graffiti-vandalism-arrest

2024-09-25 19:07:37 UTC

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Indeed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044230/
Happy housewives and apple pie for all.

2024-09-25 18:57:14 UTC

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So... any chance that show about the Nelsons was deliberate propaganda, you think?

2024-09-23 06:01:00 UTC

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There's that 500 million value again, but then he quickly shoots even that down further with qualifications. No one in the developed world will want to live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, even if we could keep our cellphones (not).
My head hurts.

2024-09-23 05:41:17 UTC

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All of the images and graphs in his article were broken for me, but that visualizes part of the Thermodynamics article. I'm gonna choose not to think about it too much. I have dysthymia issues already.

2024-09-23 05:23:03 UTC

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I found him on Facebook... and I noticed that you did also.

2024-09-23 05:12:57 UTC

@npub19af…pq9e
Reading more of Chefurka:
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Fermi.html
He did it again, reached almost precisely the same conclusion that I did!
The way I've been phrasing it is that aliens squandered their fossil fuels before they'd developed comparable renewable sources and established an off-world presence, and THEN got trapped on their little rock because they had no more massive stored energy to finish the work of getting to the stars or at least other planets. Definitely no Dyson Sphere, not even a Halo Ring....
I was for a long time worried that would be US. Seeing how quickly we can now migrate to (sorta) renewable sources, however, I wonder if we might still escape that fate. Although... we'll likely need fusion to fuel a mass migration to other planets or stars.

2024-09-23 02:46:09 UTC

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The more I consider his name, the more I'm certain that I've encountered this article or another of his; I *know* that name Chefurka, it's too uncommon not to be noteworthy.
Nothing thus far is surprising, though. I'm the antithesis of the subjective humans he describes, and have always been. I was aware of what he describes even as a teenager. I instinctively reason objectively; I may get emotionally angry or happy about the conclusion, but the emotional need for some result is never an influence on the process. I am (almost) delusion-free.

2024-09-23 02:24:40 UTC

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Malapropisms are indeed part of my newfound curse. I've stopped being as editorial in the moment as I once was, and I miss those mistakes that were once unthinkable. If someone favorites or boosts a post and I revisit it, then I'm likely to notice them.

2024-09-23 02:20:24 UTC

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He inadvertently (?) also mocks the economists' obsession with "growth" in just the first few paragraphs.

2024-09-23 02:13:47 UTC

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That's a MUCH lower estimate than I've heard before. Obviously I've never encountered his writing. It's got its own browser window now until I can digest it.
If I become a nun you have to help me find a monastery.

2024-09-23 02:08:13 UTC

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I wasn't fully certain which part of my comment specifically you were replying-to, whether being oblivious or being correcterly. 😕

2024-09-23 02:05:04 UTC

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I would always do it in good faith. The point is excellence and improvement, not condescension.
I would want people to point them out, though I still seem to notice most eventually. What's disturbing is that this is a recent phenom, where in the past I *never ever* swapped words and *always* knew that I had misspelled a word before I was even done typing it. Now it's like I'm developing some word salad dyslexia out of nowhere, my left-handedness finally catching up with me.

2024-09-23 01:56:43 UTC

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Me and my big mouth....

2024-09-23 01:54:29 UTC

I certainly hope everyone else is oblivious to my spelling and grammar lapses today. My deterioration is disturbing the hell outta me. Well... I hope somebody would notice *and tell me* if I don't correct them myself quickly.

2024-09-22 22:57:08 UTC

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> It's actually hilarious how many plants we cultivate specifically for their defense mechanisms
You have NO IDEA how very much this resonates! And you didn't even mention tobacco and nicotine.
Stupid humans, imbibing and inhaling neurotoxins and poisons for fun!

2024-09-22 19:34:29 UTC

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I happen to *be* an American, so make it a double.

2024-09-22 19:31:24 UTC

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A little more candor would be appreciated by neurodivergent folks. Not only is it harder for us to read between those misdirected lines, we're more often than not the ones being misunderstood for *being* candid when no one else is.

2024-09-22 19:18:09 UTC

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I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who once estimated the Earth's *sustainable* human carrying capacity - at our current technological footprint - at 500,000,000. We're many times beyond that carrying capacity, if remotely accurate. No one wants to even talk about overpopulation, but it's the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Pollution wouldn't even be "pollution" for us with fewer numbers, if the Earth had time and space to heal itself.
Humans have been the pandemic, both perpetrator and victim.