I break things. Then I put them back together. Then I break them again. Just to show I mean business.
Yeah the cringe factor on that one is pretty high unless you come up with something unique.
The Maxwell field equations stand on their own in their beauty I think, but you kind of have to have some tangential relation for it not to just be ugh.
Or maybe nah that is cringe.
A good anti cringe factor is humor. If you can find something that’s both meaningful and funny then that always works.
Fear? I’m already at the acceptance level for not having done shit with my life, and I’m fine with that. I have been happy and I’ve seen the world and I’ve done all the things and if other people gonna judge me because I didn’t do the same dumb shit that they did and now hate their lives and are massively in debt and worked their whole existence away, too bad.
At least it’s genuine.
If social media is a massive night club, this is the local dive bar, and that’s exactly how I like it.
Birds aren’t real is another joke that people starting taking seriously like flat Earth.
I remember when both were joke subreddits. Then it turns out that if you have enough people pretending ridiculous shit some of them will take it seriously.
The KKK has a similar origin story.
Also the Levellers! Very cool group of people. Can’t write about it now bc dying phone but look them up!
The political faction not the band although the band is great too
Capitalism and the commodification of human existence.
There you go.
Honestly, India.
It has just an insanity and intensity to it that you won’t find anywhere else. The drawbacks are real, the filth and trash is on another level, the poverty can be emotionally paralyzing to witness, the food just spectacular, but first and foremost the nature and the pure adventure that you can still find in spite of the social mediafication and digitalization of everything.
I was there 25 years ago so before the forced digital enema that took over the world, and it was a once in a lifetime experience I deeply cherish to this day.
I went there last year again and while much of the mystery is lost because of the above, India is simply so massive and diverse that it still gives that culture shock arriving from a Western country.
If we can’t say “retarded” then we also can’t use the word “idiot”. Nobody cares if you say idiot, therefore retarded is also ok.
Is this the only mode of existence you possess? Is hating men the only aspect of your character? Is that your whole personality- blaming people and admonishing them? It’s fucking sad.
Fucking thank you. It’s ok to have eyes and look at people.
Or just talk and not “adjust” shit. It’s sad that every conversation over anything mentioning women without fail derails into complaints about men and total misandry.
Stop saying pervy as if humans aren’t thoroughly sexual creatures constantly looking to hook up. It’s normal.
It’s not perverse to have basic human emotions.
It’s like nobody online has ever left their basements or something and are morally outraged that others around them have actual normal healthy social lives.
It’s a perfectly innocuous question. What is with the constant gatekeeping, of you even mention women you’re always gonna get some rando trying to wedge themselves in and calling people sexist or whatever. It’s ok to talk about things, if they don’t like it why don’t they just fuck off?
I can’t believe you went through the trouble answering that shit.
We are allowed to ask whatever we want without being instantly accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever else is the Outrage Du Jour by fucking snowflakes who have to admonish others all the time because that is their whole identity.
I would just make a fort out of them and live in there.
Right? Let’s build world class long term storage, it’s like a parking garage, a scam old as time, just rent out space to whoever can’t or don’t wanna deal with their shit and cash that check monthly. And we can enrich and be lords, of course there are some political obstacles to say the least but what are we if we don’t dare to dream
Maybe I’m thinking about the whole thing in a SimCity 2000 kind of way but that’s just how I was brought up.
I am extremely pro. Hear me out. For instance in Scandinavia, we have some of the largest uranium deposits in the world. Yet we import most of our fissile material from Australia. By boat.
The Scandes (mountain range) happens to be one of the best places to store spent fissile material on the planet.
We also have a highly educated workforce, and some of the best universities and colleges in the world.
We also have regional depopulation in the areas where this would be relevant, and suffer from brain drain, because there is more money to be made abroad for the whole range of academic disciplines, so the smartest people, and a fair chunk of the lesser smart people, move abroad. Because lack of opportunities and money.
Furthermore we are addicted to not only fossil fuels like carbon and gas, we (Europe) import most of our energy from Russia (famously). And we are making a lot of geopolitical concessions for the privilege (Nordstream springs to mind).
My proposition is that we expand nuclear power in the nordics, massively. We mine our own uranium deposits, store the spent fuel in our own mountains (think Moria, Nords would make for great LOTR dwarves), create a massive surplus of energy, then sell it off to the rest of Europe, creating basically an energy export hegemony. The energy basket of Europe.
We’d be fucking kings.
Then we’d create a Nordic Union, and get nukes, but that’s a different story.
(Just as a fun fact, Sweden had one of the worlds most advanced nuke programs after WW2. They got talked out of it bc USA)
Exploding a data center has way higher efficacy.