Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
SpaceX (+ Grok + twitter) submitted a request for an IPO to the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/0001628280-26-036936-index.htm
SpaceX's IPO filing has an unusual paragraph on page 235:
Until that happy day occurs the shares would be out of Mr. Musk's hands and safe and secure under the custodianship of the dictator of SpaceX who is (assistant whispers in ears) huh.
Page 166 talks about the old dream of Lunar He3 for fusion power and quantum computing without saying any of those words because people might remember space advocates talking about lunar helium in the 1990s and 2000s:
According to an HN poster, it mentions the Kardashev scale at least three times.
These are not serious people.
I keep seeing grown men with serious jobs thinking like I did as a fourteen-year-old playing with TTRPG vehicle-design rules. We need to figure out how to keep Earth habitable before we worry about building the Ringworld. The man who sabotaged high-speed rail in California wants this?
Edit / My mecha can totally give the Muskrat's mecha a wedgie, just look at how I optimized it with my Texas Instruments calculator and a lined notebook
We are going to harvest the entire Sun!! And then eat up the stars themselves!! For profit! Humanity shall be an ever-expanding Empire, grinding resources of the whole universe into shareholder value!!!
even their conmanship story is a depressing dystopia. have these people ever considering just chilling. get a girlfriend who plays drums, hang out with her jamming with a bass. watch a movie together, then go out for a walk. play boardgames with children. take up embroidery
@CinnasVerses @o7___o7 I love how bros are just slipping #Kardashev Scale into things like some kind of garnish. Take 3D printing filament, for instance...
Crowning water as the solvent king should be an incredibly obvious move for a Type 1 Civilization in the Kardashev Scale.
https://www.timeplast.com/
Also features molecular disintegration chamber for end-of-life management :neofox_floof_explode:
Molecular disintegration chambers also feature in those erotic horror comics I mentioned a few months ago! Cw cartoon sexuality, arguments that life is pointless, and Nick Bostrom
@CinnasVerses Rule34 for 3D printing is not something I had considered until a moment ago...
Hahaha good lord
I am ignorant of the Kardashev scale, is that measuring vibes or skulls?
plastic surgery
oops, no wait, that's the Kardashian scale, sorry
Vibes...in space. It's the sort of thing that a teenager who imprinted on Ringworld might worry about.
From wikipedia:
*A Type I civilization (planetary) is able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption.
*A Type II civilization (stellar) can directly consume a star's energy, most likely through the use of a Dyson sphere.
*A Type III civilization (galactic) is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.
oh yeah, that happy horseshit.
Full Self- Parody. From p. 138:
All this from the same kind of people who think shifting to Solar is "woke".
Just wait until investors demand the satellites be powered by diesel instead of solar panels
literally adding tons and tons to rockets simply to further petrocapitalism. Have to lift the diesel and enough O2 to allow it to combust.
We're gonna create an entirely new type of star that supports itself against gravitational collapse by burning money.