Swedneck

i see it like food: stuffing yourself with greasy pizza is lovely, but if you do it for every single meal then you end up spherical and in somewhat suboptimal spirits.

It’s not that modern stuff is inherently bad, we just also need the old stuff to keep us “calibrated” so to say.

truly tolkien is the patron saint of modern urbanists, he hated cars and wrote entire books about people walking.

i saw it said somewhere, i think some random youtube essay, that actors aren’t really allowed to be “ugly” these days.
Everyone’s gotta be pretty, everyone’s gotta be a marketable individual who can do ads for stuff.

There’s a place for the big name actors, but that place is stuff like Morgan Freeman playing the role of god, or jim carrey being in a comedy movie.

that’s not true, sometimes things explode for no good reason

bollocks, bollocks, BOLLOOOOOOCKS

filthy rich, and access to the world’s best sports science and putting in some effort to use it.
So he has at least one single actual merit: He did exercise.

and with pregnant batman vs pregnant joker

i mean you can just remember the words “keys are on the kitchen table”, it’s not exactly rocket science.

But personally i have a sort of pseudo-visualization, best comparison i’ve come up with is like a computer without a monitor: the information is there but it’s just not properly presented visually. It also kinda uses the sense of knowing where your limbs are (proprioception), so i sorta “feel” things in my mental projection and just know what colours and stuff they should have.

A wireframe view like this should very very broadly get the idea across, i don’t literally see this but it’s closer than regular visualization:
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trains are just arthropods with wheels instead of legs.

• Body consists of a hard shell rather than a skeleton ✅
• Multiple locomotory limbs ✅
• Small limbs at the front of the face ✅
• Smooth top, greebles on the bottom ✅

hell yeah, i hate how normal it is to have everything built into the same device, it’s so inflexible for basically no reason!
Much better to have things separate, so you can replace them independently or maybe skip the oven entirely and just put the cooktop on, say, the dishwasher.

Wow, really makes you wonder what values this ‘Christ’ fellow espoused, he must have been really big on violence and not cared about forgiveness (especially towards those you hate)!

Are they extinct? Many people have a fairly significant amount of neanderthal DNA.

but that applies to most human remains, there is no sensible descendant for people who died more than like… 2000 years ago.

I just don’t see how the species makes any difference, we’re all equally people.

why would species have anything whatsoever to do with this?

thanks for adding context to this context

they really just drag on and on and on

does poo burn particularly well?

Prometheus

i’m curious how many inventions we just passively consider advanced or accidental were in fact people going “this copper stuff is great but it’s pretty hard to find, there’s green rock all around it so… let’s try melting that? wuhey it worked! Now we have access to way more copper! Hm, wonder if other rocks melt into something neat…”

me and the bro platonically raising our kids together

I maintain that the most realistically usable artificial global language would be something inspired by toki pona, but with actual effort put into picking words that are maximally understandable and pronounceable by as many people as possible and is designed to be incredibly difficult to mangle beyond intelligibility.

No even remotely complex rules, nothing fancy whatsoever, just an engineered caveman speech that literally anyone can learn from a pamphlet and reliably use to communicate basic normal things with anyone else. Like the way you end up talking when you just barely know a language and need to communicate “i’m allergic to shellfish, can you guarantee that my food won’t have touched any part of an animal with a shell?”

oh sure, i bet punjabi speakers find esperanto trivial to learn, and the latin script it’s written in just feels so familiar to them.

I agree but i think we also need to accept that the majority of humans live in asia and should have their own influence on the language, rather than trying to keep it from changing by associating it to specific countries where it’s native.

If “international english” turns into a creole of basically every major language, and everyone makes an effort to learn or at least become familiar with languages unrelated to their native one; then it becomes vastly more fair and useful as a lingua franca.

all languages are clusterfucks, have you seen japanese?

I’d love to split off a timeline where we just teach the basics of as many languages and scripts to kids as possible, it’d be a great experiment

yeah people love to imagine that “20 year lifespan” means the panel fucking vanish into the ether on the day of, just like with “best by” dates on food…

Can we get solar panel manufacturers to use the same wording as food companies do these days? “Best before, often good after: 2045-01-23. Look, smell, taste before throwing away.”

the hypothesis that tickles my brain the best is that it’s just severe generational trauma from when the sealevel rose and flooded doggerland

Like, imagine if the netherlands gradually started being swallowed by the ocean and all of europe had to adjust to the loss of some of the most productive farmland on the continent. It would suck so hard.
“I remember my great-grandfather talking about buying tomatoes for 4€/kg in the winter, maybe one day you kids will get to know what they taste like..”

it got swallowed by the ocean 😔

guys, i think- i think murder might be bad
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There’s a story on royalroad called Emergence, about a victorian-ish era dude who ends up shipwrecked alone on an island filled with dragons: I love that the story treats penicillin as one of the most powerful things he has access to, along with stuff like the radio.
Like yeah sure guns are scary, but so are massive claws. The ability to cure what has hitherto been utterly untreatable guaranteed wasting death, however? Basically the power of a god.

Another story, Delve, is about a guy being isekai’d into stock fantasy world with DnD-esque mechanics and going “well that’s fucking terrifying, i’m starting a union and inventing OSHA”.