If you've lived with roommates you've probably thought about how much better life could be if people were graded on their cohabitational skills like a pokemon card or something so you have a heads up on people you're going to be sharing personal space with

The thought that brought this up is my idea for an art piece actually. Someone that wants to release a series of art, 39 premade versions and a 40th that incorporates blood or something from their death. Then only allowing all of them to be released at the same time, posthumously.

every so often we experience some chemical reactions inside of us that make us wish for contact with other beings of our same nature to get in the same act that serves as a way to preserve our species, and our personalities suffer subtle changes that favour that to happen

after that we return to our usual (and sometimes shyer) self until time pases and the cycle repeats

This would stop the currently exponential pace of growth from outpacing what society, and regulation, can adapt to. Thus avoiding the inevitable crash that will happen when we lose control of the exponentially accelerating train of technology, and it flies off the rails.

The stardust is a given. As for sunlight, all the energy including somewhat arguably geothermal (using the suns gravity to help form the earth and I guess radioactive material being formed by other stars) comes from the sun and gets converted into chemical energy you eat so you're stardust animated by sunlight (mainly).

So you know how some mushrooms can control brains of ants they attach to?

What if you found out your pet cat or birb was being controlled by one since one week before you adopted them?

Would you go get it removed or is it like the fungal hivemind is your pet now?

Beach parties and orgies are the obvious exceptions

Plus, I doubt the person making the threat would wait for any actual preparations such as canceling various subscriptions. And I don't think they'd allow for the necessary witnesses required while I'm writing my will.

Just a matter of time.

you know matrix chat? it's supposed to be end-to-end encrypted. the same goes for whatsapp and other chat applications.

(technical note: if alice wants to send a message to bob with end-to-end encryption, then alice signs the message with her private key and bob's public key. then bob can read the message with alice's public key and his private key. so bob knows that the message actually comes from alice, and nobody can read it but bob.)

here's the problem: the public keys are all stored on someone else's (3rd party) server. for whatsapp, they're stored on whatsapp's server. so if bob gets a message from alice, he has to read that message with alice's public key, but he gets the key from whatsapp's server. so whatsapp can do a man-in-the-middle attack quite easily by giving out a fake alice's public key.

actual effective end-to-end communication is only possible if alice and bob exchange public keys in real life. this circumvents a 3rd party server. and this is what needs to be implemented in chat applications such as matrix chat. (you can pass the public key with a QR code or sth like that)

Assume everything else, like the quality of the content, would stay the same as now

This would tell us if social media content behaves like & should be treated as a commodity (just like magazines & DVDs), or something completely different like waste or like a public good