>do nothing
>enemies delete their soft power

fragmentizing global manufacturing by cementing the “hey if this ever touches the supply chain of an adversarial nation-state your head asplode” precedent, thank you nato, thank you pissrael

“sir, this Earth, it’s a Limited Preorder Seasonal Event Alter. XSSR 5* Misprint Polychrome Australium. top of the line. from the oldest vault.”

“What is this, a gilded turd? I wanted the one with the big mountains. the biggest mountains. nobody’s seen mountains bigger. come back when you have mountains. and trees. big trees.”

the way he says it—rare earths—I know he means rare earth metals but it sounds like he’s doing gacha for planets

new Bobby Tables opportunity just dropped

Vriska-kinnie Charles Manson

oh my fucking god there’s killings in the real world connected to Parahumans and bad Harry Potter fanfiction

basilisk as in you look at it (become aware of it) and it kills you (tortures your tiny clone for eternity)

hypothetically, in the future, humanity builds an AI that is so advanced and so powerful it is able to reform the consciousnesses of those who were aware of its possibility yet did not contribute to its existence and eternally torture those consciousnesses.

the “wait aren’t you lot supposed to be thinking about this kind of stuff constantly” problems:

• are we resurrecting or is my tiny clone being tortured
• is consciousness a value or a reference? am i the payload or am i the pointer
• how do we know that there isn’t just an inherent barrier between biology and bits. what if consciousness transfer just cannot occur. what if we are bound to our flesh mechs.

the otherwise obvious problems:

• what if it doesnt happen
• why would it do that
• is it different and rational if your religious deity is a gundam
• death robot operates on chain email logic

okay, but for real, if we’re actually thinking rationally, this is a possibility that cannot be reasonably accounted for due to its inability to be modeled in the framework of “reality as it is now and/or seems to allow for as we currently understand it.” I could just as easily say “what if the earth splits in two and the northern hemisphere is jettisoned into the sun” but no one’s expecting you to prepare for that. It’s the same reason why being a prepper for the zombie apocalypse is understood to be irrational – it does not conform to reality, it’s an obsession with a fictional scenario that remains unrealized.

he died, mack… brain cancer…

as Brace put it and I had to rewrite out of my post because he said it after I thought it, this is people who believe they are the modern equivalent to Socrates falling for chain emails

one of my synagogue friends getting sent home from camp early for shooting at one of the Israeli counselors (inactive-duty tyrant larper) with a longbow (he missed) (beast mode anyhow)

accidentally snipping off my eyebrow trying to pantomime what someone else in my cabin did (snip off their eyebrow)

making an ant village out of sticks at my summer camp and genuinely being distraught when it collapsed after it rained

never actually bothered to identify it

fishing a big teal rock out of a tree in the schoolyard (someone elses yard that intersected into it) and thinking it was aquamarine so we broke it into pieces between us three. the one guy in the mix got too cocky and tried to threaten us to call the cops which would make us give him our rocks (he thought he deserved them) but we just stopped talking to him. still have the rock.

yelling at the TV in my foyer with a friend, trying to sing along to the skylanders drill bot. we kept hearing it because we sucked at the fight

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my dad (trying to advocate for me) having a 4-hour long conversation with a teacher about my accommodations that played out like when a chatbot gets caught in a dead-end and refuses to iterate

also duping the Terra Blade for this friend on Terraria Mobile with the old chest glitch