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Angry_Autist (he/him) @ Angry_Autist @lemmy.world
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  • Oh plenty of things:

    having respect for others

    being honest

    helping the needy

    fair pay for fair work

    honestly considering others' perspectives

    loyalty

    Basically every virtue I was ever told was worthy to embody has been used against me as a weapon or a tool

    And of the hundreds of people I know IRL less than 10% give any of these internal value or even attempted to put into practice

    And here I've been a sucker all my life doing the proper social contract thing because I don't like the way the world is shaping up and getting CONSTANTLY bent over for it

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  • 3000 years of dreaming would radically warp your sense of reality I think. Laying down all those repeating neuron paths century over century I doubt anything would be left of your recollection of the waking world

    Waking up would be like being born, nothing would make sense

    Aaaand now I have a new story idea

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  • macguffins are always just to drive the plot forward, their satisfaction as a solution is usually secondary.

    In simpler terms, they paint the cover of the comic book first and sometimes overbid for the purpose of sensationalism, so sometimes Superman has to pretend to punch Lois Lane

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  • FTL coms are a concession to the story, it would have been terrible without it

    IRL quantum entanglement can't ever provide causality breaking info. In very simple terms, you need correlation to know when the data stream began as just observing the resulting spins still seem just as random before and after the event.

    In even more simple terms: Whatever message they can send even if pre-agreed on seems like random heat results until you know the exact moment the transmission began, as confirmed by a light lagged message.

    In less simple terms, the misunderstanding comes from treating the metaphor of 'flipping the spin north switch' as a literal thing instead of a less-than ideal 'lies to children' of what is actually happening to particles that experience spin transition, and the meaning of 'entangled' is both less and more strange than people understand.

    But again, 3 body problem would have been a terrible story without it,t hat's why it's science fiction

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  • Nice nice, and in the 3000 intervening years they've developed alpha particle cannons that shred your entire swarm of rocks and puny physical spaceship to white hot quantum loops as they sip megachampagne on their continent sized airships as they watch your fleet unwillingly transition to light

    The gun that fired the barrage was the size of a juice box floating somewhere in orbit, they have millions of them

    You didn't even get a chance to pull your finger off of the mass driver button

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  • FTL isn't possible, ERBs would pastafy any matter passing through them and there is no way to control the other end, and take Kardashev scale 3 civ at least (and that's even pretending the Kardashev scale isn't the purest daydream fantasy)

  • A lot of your assumptions aren't correct. I respect your enthusiasm though

    1. Billionaires aren't 'enmeshed' in the system, they are literally the free-est and least constrained people on the planet. They DICTATE the system and there is none of the 'locked in' feeling you are going on about in the billionaire club. The only exception may be the Muskrat's recent nazi speedrun, I think he's regretting that now
    2. Survival bunkers aren't to resolve an inner contradiction at all, they are literally what they say on the package: A last holdout when things go off the cliff. And this isn't a new thing
    3. I have no idea what the fuck you are going on about with AI and the ecosystem

    he bunker stuff is just a slightly more grounded delusion than the AI pipe-dream

    Ok it's pretty clear you don't actually know what you are talking about. This conversation is over

  • Something that will make your confusion less: The rich can live quite a long time without any ecology at all, and they have paid very skilled think tanks to provide them with all the necessary plans and manpower.

    For the last decade survival estates for the ultra wealthy have cropped up everywhere.

    The wealthy could choose to cease their exploitation at any moment but that means less for them to hunker down with. They know about ecologic and economic collapse just as they loudly shout it it's possible and they are exploiting even harder to get the last dregs before the mass riots.

    So yes, there are people controlling it. Just that there is no motivation on heaven and earth to convince them not to destroy the world for their own luxurious survival. And they will pay our brothers and sisters to hold us down as they do it.