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If we made it 16, you’d say the same about 15. And so on. There is a reason society implemented the age of consent.
If we made it 16, you’d say the same about 15. And so on. There is a reason society implemented the age of consent.
Why would a pervert pretend to change genders (not talking about trans!) instead of simply joining the clergy, becoming a cop, or running for a conservative public office?
That’s the thing. It wasn’t a joke in the first place. You either couldn’t tell that, or you had some kind of agenda.
Sounds more like you can’t make one.
The Hubble Deep Field image struck the first major blow against my childhood indoctrination in young earth creationism.
Nope. I’ve definitely thought about it, but I’d have to put up with living under my parents again, and that would drive me into some very dark places. I’d also feel like a horrible creep if I tried dating again with all my adult experiences. No, reliving high school is not worth it to me.
Well a horse is a horse.
I have friends I can talk to, a therapist, and medication.
I still have a lot of difficulty communicating what’s rattling around my head, and I’m still not doing great.
You just gotta keep your eyes on the prize.
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If only.
Sorry, thought the quote was more obvious.
Lies, gentlemen.
To get more specific, I think it would be fun to build out a single O’Neill Cylinder within a Dyson Swarm. For multiplayer, just give everybody their own cylinder. But I definitely don’t just want an overhead view. I want to build a little world that can fully explore in first person. And no damn microtransactions! The only exception I’d accept would be paying for other people’s models.
I want to build various types of orbital and planetary megastructures like Isaac Arthur describes. Ixion has been the closest fix for me, but I want much larger structures than just a Stanford Torus. No idea how Ixion ends yet. But I’d like to see a lot more interior space available, vastly more green spaces, and experimentation with other styles of governance than capitalism. I want to walk and fly around whatever I build, preferably in VR. And while I wouldn’t object to the option, I don’t really care about fighting in this setting. I just want to build out a Dyson Sphere.
Pretty easy actually. Just watch the oxygen levels drop below 16%. Just kill the rest of the insects and trees. That’ll do us in.
It’s not there for you to save the house. It’s a tool for you to save yourself by preventing it getting larger, or by clearing a temporary path.
A bunch of you might not like it, but every heartwarming story about an Israeli and a Palestinian finding love and friendship is because they did exactly this. They clearly need more of it.
Palestine is an Anglicisation. In Arabic it’s pronounced Philistine. They have been at each other’s throats like this since the Bronze Age. They’ve had millennia to put the past behind them. This is an ancient, stupid quarrel. Through a continuous vengeance cycle, they made it get this bad. I’m fully aware that European colonialism and American interference (same bloody thing really) only made it worse. I’m sure volumes are written about all I don’t understand here.
I wasn’t suggesting that a simple policy change of “love your enemy” would fix this complex shitstorm. If I thought I had a solution, I’d write something much longer and still be rightly called stupid, because I’m nobody. I was expressing exasperation with this whole damned situation. I’ve got nothing else.
They’ve had 2500 years to work this shit out. The past is dead men’s baggage. Stop carrying it.
Funerals don’t imply religion. Religionists like to pretend that it’s the only reason people care about each other. But that’s silly, isn’t it?