Random Stuff X: Something Weird

[Delightful]

7 hours ago, Shqueeves said:

While I'm unfamiliar with those specific examples, I agree. However, that story is based on the four horsemen of the apocalypse, so in context it makes sense for Death to be interpreted as malignant.

 

  

Well Death from Supernatural is amazing and unbiased and non malignant. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

AH yeah, the previous day's inktobers!

Day 2-Divide

Bunch of stuff in there.

And today's-Poison

Which of course it posts sideways. I watercoloured it afterwards

a half-chull job hahaha, wish I spent more time on it and didn't rush xP

[Delightful]

57 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

AH yeah, the previous day's inktobers!

Day 2-Divide

Bunch of stuff in there.

And today's-Poison

Which of course it posts sideways. I watercoloured it afterwards

a half-chull job hahaha, wish I spent more time on it and didn't rush xP

I dunno, it looks darn good to me. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

Awesome things my friends discuss on Facebook:

1) How biomes and civilizations would look different if the Earth turned the other direction.

2) Would a bear cavalry be feasible?

This is just what I've seen so far today.

[Ammanas]

Who is the most ardent Ardent in Stormlight Archives? My personal opinion is Sister Pai.

[AngelEy3 he/him]

@Ammanas In reference to your signature... If Erickson ever releases Gothos' Folly, I'll be very happy.

[Ammanas]

@AngelEy3 do you I have a favorite Gothos Folly quote? I also love that section in The Crippled God where one Fokrul Assal keeps quoting the book to their master and the quotes illuminates how stupid their cause and methods are.  They eventually get upset and orders the scrolls burned. The only quote I remember is something to the effect of, "If you can make them believe absurdities they will commit atrocities."

Edit: also just remembered another, "When wisdom drips blood fools stand triumphant."

Edited October 4, 2017 by Ammanas

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

(Wow, I have not talked in this topic in a while.)

For my school’s play, I get to be the detective in a murder mystery, and my costume is basically a perfect cosplay of Castiel from Supernatural. It’s hilarious, my friends and I were cracking up when I got it 

[Draginon he/him]

Welp, one of my mom's brothers died. I don't really know any of them so I don't feel that sad about it. What makes it bad is how my mom is taking it. She purposely cut ties with her brothers after my grandma died and continually talks about how 'twisted' they are, especially for not letting her know when her father died and she found out a month later from a cousin via email. This time she's blaming email completely since that was how she found out this time as well and got mad when my sister didn't pick up the phone to see if she knew.

I will never understand my mom's feelings towards her family.

Edit: My sister called after I submitted this. She hadn't heard but she doesn't keep in touch with them after they refused to tell her where grandpa was buried. My mom vented to her about finding this stuff out through email and my sister gave her the cold hard truth, "Who would call you?" since she cut all ties to that side of the family almost 20 years ago so no one will ever call her on this stuff since she doesn't care enough about them to begin with. Pretty much if you cut yourself off you probably don't deserve to know anything about them if you get upset about not being the first one notified about anything.

Edited October 4, 2017 by Draginon

[Delightful]

14 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

Awesome things my friends discuss on Facebook:

1) How biomes and civilizations would look different if the Earth turned the other direction.

2) Would a bear cavalry be feasible?

This is just what I've seen so far today.

Bear cavalry as in His Dark Materials?

[Mestiv he/him]

Maybe like this:

[Kaymyth she/her]

9 hours ago, Delightful said:

Bear cavalry as in His Dark Materials?

I dunno. There was no context given. I think it's more fun without it.

[+Slowswift]

Our current time clock uses a PIN, or a card if you've got one (nobody does).

The new one we're getting uses fingerprints instead.  

[Mestiv he/him]

9 hours ago, Slowswift said:

Our current time clock uses a PIN, or a card if you've got one (nobody does).

The new one we're getting uses fingerprints instead.  

Time clock? Like the one that hangs on the wall and indicates what time it is?  I would expect that such information doesn't need biometric protection

[Kaymyth she/her]

6 hours ago, Mestiv said:

Time clock? Like the one that hangs on the wall and indicates what time it is?  I would expect that such information doesn't need biometric protection

Nah, it's for clocking in and out of work when you're on shift work. Shows that you're there on time, working your full shift, etc.

[Oversleep]

On 3.10.2017 at 6:38 PM, Kaymyth said:

1) How biomes and civilizations would look different if the Earth turned the other direction.

Something like that?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/10/

[Delightful]

18 hours ago, Slowswift said:

Our current time clock uses a PIN, or a card if you've got one (nobody does).

The new one we're getting uses fingerprints instead.  

That creeps me out. Why does some digital something something need my fingerprints?

 

Question for everyone:

The more we as humans develop tech to do boring things like farm and carry water, the more time and energy we can spend on more complex thought and inventions. So what would a post-scarcity world look like? When we dont need to work to provide for or heal ourselves, what do we focus on, what do we create? I have no idea, but I'm really fascinated by the question. 

[Mulk he/him]

2 hours ago, Overstorm said:

Something like that?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/10/

how this one ends is just GOLD...

I love xkcd

[Orlion Blight he/him]

1 hour ago, Delightful said:

 

 

 

Question for everyone:

The more we as humans develop tech to do boring things like farm and carry water, the more time and energy we can spend on more complex thought and inventions. So what would a post-scarcity world look like? When we dont need to work to provide for or heal ourselves, what do we focus on, what do we create? I have no idea, but I'm really fascinated by the question. 

Iain M Banks' Culture series is centered on that question. 

A general flow is that we focus on an interest until we aren't interested anymore and switch to something else. This process is repeated until death or ennui, which results in being frozen or suicide. 

 

[Mulk he/him]

1 hour ago, Delightful said:

That creeps me out. Why does some digital something something need my fingerprints?

 

Question for everyone:

The more we as humans develop tech to do boring things like farm and carry water, the more time and energy we can spend on more complex thought and inventions. So what would a post-scarcity world look like? When we dont need to work to provide for or heal ourselves, what do we focus on, what do we create? I have no idea, but I'm really fascinated by the question. 

Creeps me out too, Delightful.  I'm on salary and not subject to an hourly time clock, but many people at my work are not on salary and thus are subject to it...

With regard to your question, we won't have a post-scarcity world until we have a post-selfish world.  We already have enough food or nearly so; just the rich countries tend to throw away the excesses, eat it themselves in huge amounts, or feed it to livestock for higher quality steaks and what-not.  We have enforced scarcity of things like diamonds and of oil (at times, depending on the whims of OPEC) to keep prices up so that the owners of the land where those things are found become ever more wealthy.  Even with laws against price gouging, that tends to happen in times of distress (natural disasters and such) where scarcity or perceived scarcity drives up demand to insane levels and those who have supply decide to make a buck on it.

If we ever actually do become post-selfish, hunger will vanish pretty quickly as a killer of large numbers of people.  Water will take some more work - lots of places don't have sufficient clean water right now.  A post selfish world won't try to limit education to the most wealthy or those willing to take on huge loans, so more people will be able to pursue law or medicine or research or engineering or whatever.  A post-selfish world will have little to no warfare.  Which is probably the only way we start making real headway on fusion or alternate fission sources (thorium?), curing AIDS, Ebola and other incurable killers, learning the causes of cancer and how they are genetically keyed so that we can come up with treatments that don't amount to dissect and poison, research how to stop and maybe reverse the desertification of the Sahara and its surroundings and the stripping of the Amazon rainforest and other such wildernesses... and then (this is kinda key) purvey those things to all nations and all peoples so that they have all of the advantages we in the first world enjoy.

And because all of this can't happen except in a post-selfish world, I don't believe the end result of such a world is ennui/death/suicide, because our interest in and care for others will direct our pursuits more..philanthropically.   Sure, we have individuals motivated in this fashion now. But that doesn't describe the world as a whole.

It's not that I think people are overtly evil in the majority...it's just we're selfish.  Most of us tend to prioritize me over us, even if prioritizing us will eventually benefit me more.  And the more we have, the more we tend to cling to it.

[+Slowswift]

5 hours ago, Delightful said:

That creeps me out. Why does some digital something something need my fingerprints?

 

3 hours ago, Mulk said:

Creeps me out too, Delightful.  I'm on salary and not subject to an hourly time clock, but many people at my work are not on salary and thus are subject to it..

Well, if there's anyone I trust with my fingerprints, it's my church, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Jedal he/him]

6 hours ago, Delightful said:

The more we as humans develop tech to do boring things like farm and carry water, the more time and energy we can spend on more complex thought and inventions. So what would a post-scarcity world look like? When we dont need to work to provide for or heal ourselves, what do we focus on, what do we create? I have no idea, but I'm really fascinated by the question. 

A post-scarcity world would be a world in which we move onto the stars. There, we can find scarcity. As humans, we will continue to explore and struggle and survive. Earth will also probably not unify, and if it does, by that time we might have other planets. Humanity is a brilliant, complex, self loathing race.

[Mulk he/him]

1 hour ago, Slowswift said:

 

Well, if there's anyone I trust with my fingerprints, it's my church, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fair enough!  I work for a nonprofit that mostly does foster care, RTCs and the like so they should be fairly trustworthy as well..it's just the principle of the thing.

[+Slowswift]

13 minutes ago, Mulk said:

Fair enough!  I work for a nonprofit that mostly does foster care, RTCs and the like so they should be fairly trustworthy as well..it's just the principle of the thing.

Perfectly understandable! 

It's also possible that the oooh shiny factor has me under its thrall.  

[Kaymyth she/her]

23 hours ago, Overstorm said:

Something like that?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/10/

Very similar, though more flipped upside down. Still, this is a good thing to add to the discussion.