Really cool Futurama shoutout. I recognized it as well, when they are doing a rotating shot of the Planet Express building. Family Guy was quick to pick ut up as well. Kinda jarring, but also quite cool.

Don’t worry, it’ll start getting better and that feeling will not stop. It’s worth sticking out, maybe even trying a few flavors (Mint is a tasty one, though).

I’ve been FOSSing it up since just before the pandemic, and I have yet to utilize most of the convenience Linux provides. Maybe the best way to put it, is that I didn’t realize that I was in a cramped clown car back in my windows days, and now I’m still in that wierd, double-up position in my new, solarpunk limousine. I rarely touch the cli (maybe even less than the cmd tool in the start menu in Windows), but am slowly coming to terms with the possibilities.

The memes definitely hit harder.

I do understand. I find myself having to regularly check myself to look for miscommunication instead of malice (or stupidity for that matter).

The whole thing is whack, and anyone with two cents of mind and some compassion is just gaping at the horrors being casually thrown around and equally horrifying misdirections.

Thanks to the internet the only way to hide stuff is to drown it out, but we all have our trusted sources (who in turn distort reality in an infotaining world, but that’s where we’re at). This means we can more or less put the big picture together (or at least the players) and make fairly solid guesstimates.

I tell myself this is an all or nothing attempt by the ruling class to legitimize a strangle hold before any major resource wars break out and that people are really wisening up to their shenanigans. I feel ‘doomerism’ is an aspect where they can easily get me. Don’t let them win.

I do appreciate the time and effort you put into the comment, but I am not arguing against what you are saying.

Since Kinsey &co and the summer of love, the movement didn’t evaporate, it perforated society and mutated. I don’t think I’d be going too far by stating, that the sexual revolution couldn’t have happened without the suffragettes. I see the queer movement as a spearhead in the same direction.

I only had qualm with you saying anything has been undone (sorry if I’m paraphrasing). Yeah, using ‘woke’ as a pejorative for anyone craving progress is a thing now, but that doesn’t mean most of us want nothing more than to love each other freely.

Was it erased? We are more comfortable with porn than ever (which I wouldn’t say is okay, but definitely not prudish), and after the jews, the biggest boogie man out there is the gender lobby.

I say we’re in the next phase, and moderators (Visa, Mastercard) need to buckle up for what’s coming.

Well, teleporting is more like the move function where you delete the original copy.

I had a similar argument with a friend, and I think he won that time. It came out of left field and rephrases the whole thought experiment.

Instead of me defending the argument, how would you interpret a clone incident? Would you get ‘the other feed’ as well? We have the sleep cycle where we don’t actively get input (even though our conciousness is present during dreams to a certain extent). So if a transporter clone incident rebuilds the person on the other side, but an original instant could go on experiencing a life that wouldn’t be if the transporter functioned correctly.

Hopefully that took the soul out of your argument!

Yeah, there definitely are some waved away elements that are basically magic. I’m just binging TNG now, but I saw the Lower Decks tribute to many-a transporter incidents.

I mean if you can transport and not at the same time (the copy version), it is not hard to think that once that buffer is cleared on the one side, it’s game over man.

And some even got the cyberpunkiness almost right (Johnny Nmemonic swung so hard!). I think for every visionary piece, we have 100 lost contemporary ‘trash’ (not trash, more like a picture of the spirit of the time) that has already been lost.

I mean Star Trek was pretty wickedly ahead of it’s time for all of the creator’s shortcomings. Still can’t believe that teleporting doesn’t kill you every time.

I don’t consider anything true aviation before the squirrel suit.