Big recommend on that video and Anark’s whole channel.

This is a short clip he put out recently that makes a really good case for building the new world by fixing today’s problems, which makes life better now, which is something people seem to miss.

Like we’re not just rolling the dice that what we do now might pay off for future generations. We’re not just “planting trees in whose shade we will never sit”, we are planting seeds we can reap soon, because we need to eat, so we’re solving that problem.

And satisfyingly, this brings us full-circle to addressing the point of the original post.

As written this guy only has one monkey.

892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.

Like you already got unbelievably lucky.

I think the real answer is that the only people who actually know are the select few astronauts, and their governments are too prudish to ever be open about it, so the astronauts don’t want to admit to such “unprofessional” behaviour. I think until space tourism becomes common enough, we’ll never know.

I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.

“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”

Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.

I should probably read that book, thanks for that.

This definitely plays into something I’ve been thinking about lately - in a conservative worldview, all sex is rape, of a woman by a man. Whether it’s acceptable to them is all about ownership. Does that man have the right kind of ownership over that that woman? If so, they’re fine with it. If not, it’s bad.

This is also related to the idea that no woman ever actually wants sex, and no man ever doesn’t want it. It’s all about when it’s allowable for him to overpower her.

Yes, agreed, but “thousand year prohibition” is so specific. Like that must refer to something, and I’m really curious about what.

I assume they have a reference yeah, which is why it’s so wild that they just throw it out as if it’s common knowledge.

Can anyone explain the phrase “hence thousand year prohibition against it”?

Like, I see the Musk-y tweet style, where apparently articles like “a” and “the” aren’t worth your big boy genius brained time, but what is the prohibition? Dude just drops that like everybody knows what he’s talking about, but what the actual fuck is he talking about?

God, it’s such an arrogant, lazy way of talking, I fucking hate these incel shitheels. They’re actually confused why women won’t touch them? Jesus.

They should call it by its proper English name: “corn chip sandwich.”

Educology.

There’s a point I’ve heard that the kind of slop that gen AI can be used for is good for fascists, because they’re not trying to say anything or make it cohesive, they just want a glut of vague sentiments they’re agreeable to, and gen AI can give them that without having to deal with pesky artists who have thoughts of their own like, “what you want is bad, actually,” “maybe fuck you,” and “I will stab you in the eye with my pencil.”

Iggity-iggit-ig-ig-ig-uhhh, don’t mind the flag.

That’s actually a real strategy that stutterers use to get around hard phrases, they just rephrase what they mean.

There are 10 trillion ways to combine a sequence that long, so I think you would expect to see that exact sequence every 10 trillion digits of a randomly generated decimal sequence on average, which isn’t that many to a modern computer, so almost certainly that has already happened by pure accident.

And randomness can be defined as entropy, which you check statistically. You can never be certain, you can only increase your level of confidence. Here is how random.org does it:

https://www.random.org/analysis/

And this shows you what some of those analyses look like in real time:

https://www.random.org/statistics/

“Secure” doesn’t just mean “defend” or “safeguard”. “Secure” also means “capture”, so it implies you need to go out and get it, like with invasions or something maybe, idk. It’s a lot less passive.

“Existence” means both “survival” and “prosperity”. It implies that both their existence is under threat, while creating the idea that they might be able to make it better. Maybe they could, idk, make america great again, trying to return to some mythical prelapsarian era by beating back the eternal threat.

“A future” does this too, implying they may not have a future at all.

And talking about the “children” brings up the concept of making new people, evoking the idea that non-white races are out-breeding them. It also includes the common “think of the children” idea.

And finally the fact that it’s short and boring comes from the fact that nazis are uninspiring and uninspired, and they need a simple, to the point slogan to repeat without thinking about it too hard. They certainly know how to make a message concise, even at the cost of saying almost nothing of meaning when you think too hard about it.

All of this is classic fascism.

I have absolutely no idea, I’ve barely played it, I just saw an essay about the design and thought it was cool.

I use ctrl-s and ctrl-z for occasions just like this.

Gotcha, so when the boss tells me to “give 110%” I can go ahead and translate that to 55%.

And then not do that either.

Cool thing about rain world is that it has a whole ecosystem of critters that run around and do their own thing independently of you, so this gif might just be of the big guy having a snack and have nothing to do with the player directly.