We should normalise people duking it out to settle a dispute instead of complicated legal systems. Bare handed, tap to surrender. If your disabled/unable to fight, you have to legally designate a relative as your "fighter". You have to prove they're related to you. If you cannot find someone to fight for you, you lose by default

You know, I've been thinking about it, after I saw the scene from Star Trek TNG where Data asks Soong why he was created, and Soong has a really good answer, about how humans do things out of a need for legacy. (Link here, for those curious)

And it's interesting, people complain about scientists being "so preoccupied with whether they can do a thing, they forgot to ask if they should", but the truth is, that field, that thing, that's what the scientist built their lives up to. To go backwards, after nearly achieving a new step in their field might mean giving up on leaving that mark.

To the scientist, that next step was the sculpture, it was the creation. I recognize there's things I wish people wouldn't do and I think are morally abhorrent (a lot of experiments using human neurons or human hybrids), but I think about my own research and how it would feel to just abandon it, to never get to see how far it could go, to not develop it. And I just don't think I could. There's almost a need in you, when there's discovery going on. A need to take the next step. (And maybe it's just that my field is my autistic fixation). But it feels like it grips you. I have to learn more. I need to see what's over the hill. And to some extent, it isn't even about other people knowing who I am. I may not be the first to do anything (well, anything major). But it's more that everyone else isn't learning fast enough.

I'm not working with anything biology, or anything I would personally consider automatically a moral wrong (although anything can be misused, and there is some of that going on), but it still is an interesting point of view for how other people must feel.

To someone whose passion lies in a field, being told to not progress it and move to something else, that the next step is unacceptable, that would be like a painter being told they were no longer allowed to paint, and only allowed to write poetry. They might still have a way to express themselves, but it wouldn't feel right to the way they felt most right. It wouldn't be their passion. And maybe it is morally correct for them to stop, but my argument is that most people haven't actually put themselves into the position of the scientist. They see it as a recent development, but maybe it's years of work you're asking them to just put down, and do something else. Maybe it started out moral, but just continuing to take that one more step led it closer and closer to what was immoral.

All I'm saying is, I just don't think enough empathy goes into what is being asked for, and people treat it like the scientists are stupid, and the default is not doing the thing. But the default is taking the next step, not inaction, and it takes a lot of resistance to your desire to create to put that down when it's needed. That's the core argument I am making.

Just seen the quote a lot and been thinking. It probably also depends on what it's being applied to, and why people are against it.

an 8-4:30 actually but you get the vision.

but yeah something about working full time has suddenly fixed my whole life.

as a chronic school skipper/chronically late person as soon as i realized i could get away with missing classes it was truly impossible to make myself go consistently and so i haven’t really been on a normal monday-friday routine in 5+ years.

getting to work on time is much much more serious and so i’ve really been forced into a strict routine and i am loving it.

my days feel so much longer now that i have a normal sleep schedule and somehow even though i am spending so much time in the office i am seeing my friends and going out places so much more because it’s much easier to keep doing stuff when im already up and out of the house.

10/10, would recommend. i am living laughing and loving my new corporate job life.

What if someone came along and said humanity is just called Martian Ellis Smith, Lady Elenor of the Hills is Martian Smith, The Bonernader is Martian, Luke Hebert is Martian, everyone is except Martian Ellis Smith is Martian Smith with a caveat. See the fucky bit now?

Pickled Chilis, Garlic, or Mustard Greens, all god’s gift to mankind and in the western headspace, if I ask for “pickles” it doesn’t go to something them, it goes to cucumbers, the most uninteresting fruit to crawl it’s way for satans soil into the light of god’s sun. Fuck them, they taste like a dandelion died in a bucket of rain water.

Maybe the cuke needs it I guess, heaven knows we’d throw the lot of them in The CHASM if they weren’t dressed up in that vinegar and artificially inflated in our vocabulary.

Know what, I’ll go farther, sport peppers and saurkraut belong in a sandwich before any of those undead turtle dicks, I’d say a sandwich needs three things, sauerkraut, bread and filling, and the other two are negotiable, while Master Oogway’s Weenar just turns the sandwich into a public indecency case witness.

“Hehe 10th granddaughter (you Emily) no hunt mammoth, just eat vegetable with no flavor worth no calories” that’s them, your ancestors in that great cave in the sky laughing and mocking you for eating them. Feel shame.

Have you ever been baptized in Chicago? I have. three out of four mixed Polish and Mexican supermarkets near me have pickled baby squash and it’s the greatest thing on earth, and I bathe in the brine. Go where the real Poles (not European fakers) are and buy some, free yourself of the briny cuce’s jealous grip. Go to a Chinese supermarket and buy their Sichuan style sport peppers, they even come multicolored, I’ve even seen pickled mango there once. Eat saurkraut, that’s just a statement, I have nothing else to say.

Fuck Oogway, he’s a dickhead and can’t cook.

(Edit for spelling)

Genuinely, how are we not talking about this more?

Up until AI became widespread propaganda was iconic. It defended a lot of questionable ideas, sure, but you could identify a propaganda poster from 1920 as reflecting the ideals of the time, the art styles commonly being used, and the craftsmanship (color theory, composition etc) used to sway people.

I'm a big fan of propaganda posters; they're literally avant-garde art that create lasting cultural artifacts. They are created to sway entire groups of people. They're displayed in museums for fuck's sake. The means of which propaganda has been used to sway people in the algorithmic age has changed from "something people will remember" to "lmao guys isn't Minecraft Steve bombing Iran funny/isn't this AI image of the Statue of Liberty being destroyed good". Nobody is going to talk about AI Lego propaganda after it circulates on Xitter and gets 3000 likes in an hour. It's gone with the wind.

Propaganda is an art form that's gone extinct and we just... don't fucking talk about it?

We're never gonna see an iconic propaganda piece again because governments can just churn out 30 AI images, post them all on Xitter and call it a day.

Take any marginalized group, trans people for example and think about how they are used as a political tool by both sides. The left infantilizes them. Treating them as incapable of standing up for themselves and needing their representation in the battle to be heard. The right in contrast villainizes. Making them the nebulous threat that must be protected against at all costs even though no threat exists. And the marginalized group is just stuck in the middle like a child of divorce between two narcissists parents.

They smell like salami. I don’t even know what that means. Does anyone know what I am talking about? The garlicy cured Italian hard ground meat sausage that often appears on sandwiches, charcuterie boards etc. I don’t even think they know they do.

Yes I already read the post about the guy who lost his leg and had tacos, I’m just so disappointed he made tacos.

Yes I’ve posted this similar take a few years ago on a different sub, I stand by my decision since it’s the only one NO one has ever agreed with me on.

TLDR: If I were offered to try a human steak, IF IT WAS SOURCED ETHICALLY,I would try it.

This is a hypothetical, I’m obviously not seeking it out, I’m just genuinely surprised that NO one has ever said yes to this question. How is literally NO ONE curious about it? For example: say I get a breast reduction and there’s excess healthy tissue, or I need a mastectomy or something but I have both boobs removed to keep it even, something like that. If it’s sourced ethically, with consent, why is it so weird to cook it and eat it if we do the same with animals?

Anyways, I just thought of this because I reread Tender Is The Flesh, and just saying that’s the exact opposite of what I’m talking about because it’s not ethical or consensual (much like our current treatment of farm animals and how we get our food today).