You'll sit in a capsule for all that time in interplanetary space or abandoned on the surface of some celestial body. Pray that there's no life support mods installed. In any case, you'll go mad

RDR2 for me as well. At least there's options. I would probably play it safe by ditching the gang before I contract tuberculosis and just live as a hunter up in the mountains. The mechanics of the game would make that quite easy compared to IRL.

Alternatively, the epilogue does seem nice.

Your description makes it like they're edible as well.

This comment here had a much more grounded explanation

AI has huge potential for surveilance. Palantir exists.

To continue on the nuclear analogy: Yes it resulted in bombs that can kill us all multiple times over, but nuclear energy isn't completely neutral either. It encourages centralization of infrastructure and the dangers associated with it result in regulation by governments. Both of these shaped societies.

To quote a piece of text I read just recently that I feel put this quite neatly:

We are told that "guns don't kill people, people do", or that a component is just a component, indifferent to what its combinatorial potential is. This is a convenient lie. It serves only to allow the builders to wash their hands of responsibility.

But we know better now. We know that architecture is politics, and politics is control. The way you build a system determines how it will be used. If you build a system optimized for mass surveillance, you will get a panopticon. If you build a system optimized for centralized control, you will get a dictatorship. If you build a system optimized for extraction, you will get a parasite.

• The zen of reticulum

The current LLM boom is primed to deskill current and especially future workers and the biggest business case is to invade the workplace with even more technological feudalism through subscription services than is already in place.

My guess would be that plants optimize also for absorbing a significant amount of the light they receive from the blue sky, so they still get some when direct sunlight isn't available.

Nobody was talking about vegetables

if all nutritional needs are met

That's what the comment you replied to said. Artificial meat substitutes and stuff like that. There's nothing magically special about meat that would be impossible to recreate via other means. As long as all the nutritional stuff is in there and the stuff can be digested by the cat, I can't imagine a problem with it. The cat isn't going to read the side of the packaging and get mad about a lack of real meat.

To reiterate: There’s nothing magically special about meat that would be impossible to recreate via other means. That also includes the taste. I don't claim that something like this exists currently. I don't own a cat and probably never will. My understanding is that the vast majority of cat food is already quite far from the look and feel of the actual meat that goes into it. I'm just saying that I don't see a problem why artificial meat couldn't be improved to meet the same standard.

The so called middle class was created so that a portion of the working class would have enough wealth to consume products at a rate necessary to fuel the ongoing growth of the economy. In fulfilling this function (partly due to the influence of marketing propaganda), the middle class is also complicit. Not as complicit, but still.

Musk isn't even the founder of tesla though.

Good meme regardless.

Ai generated imagery.

(The lines on the road all conveniently end when they are behind someone)

This has nothing to say about anarchism itself. It just assumes that coercive authority would be required for industrial medicine production and large scale agriculture. Anarchism does not mean a lack of organization, just a lack of coercion and unjust hierarchy.

The man’s only recollection of a possible exposure was eating raw snake meat during military service 50 years prior.

Based

I think that's not actually Pangea (the past supercontinent), but a rendition of Pangea Proxima (the future supercontinent). So just gotta wait a while...

The twitter user is an actual commercial pilot, and ACARS messages do look like that. Not sure what's up with SKW2438/SKY2438 but otherwise it seems legit. I think faking it would be harder than actually doing this.

Edit: Here's a picture of a much longer message in a more professional, non furry rp context:

I'm not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.

IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.

Edit: Link to a study

Reminded me of a quote from The Expanse:

My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.

• Chrisjen Avasarala, Babylons ashes by James S.A. Corey.

I need to get me one of those bicycle accessories.

It's the experience of a toothbrush collecting data about your daily routines to sell for profit.