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Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin @ PhlubbaDubba @lemm.ee
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  • Say what you will about the brutalist architecture

    <insert commieblock joke here>

    , but the eastern block also had some pretty interesting bits of, well now retro, futurist design in their public works.

  • What if?

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  • Not even the wackiest scenario he's done.

    Bro legit took this one incredibly seriously and talked about the consequences of having to explain sudden freak accident deaths to pre-schoolers and how conspiracy theories would proliferate about Reagan being responsible because supposedly he had pushed for the launch to stay on schedule even when issues came up because the plan was for him to make s phone call to the crew of the ship from the SotU address that year.

    Basically Reagan would go down in pop culture canon as being the man who murdered big bird, and whatever consequences that sprung from that would be the biggest shift vs present timeline instead of the obvious fact that big bird would be canonically dead since all the normal viewers would have seen him go up in a fireball and die.

  • It would take multiple galaxies of matter to pull the material together, but if you're planning on building a megastructure of this scale that's probably not any trouble for you

  • Every time I see these ultramassive black holes all I see is the megastructure uber planet you can build around them, or if organic life has gone out of fashion at that point, the megastructure uber computer.

  • Software Engineering, and it was more intended as a build project than as an academic venture. We would basically have been setting out to strip out all the addiction features Social Media is built with and see what can be built with what's left and what new ideas can make it a good experience for the user without queuing them for ranked rage fest matches against whoever else is in the comment section they clicked on in the rage bait article.

  • I mean that sounds pretty cruel but a lot of the time people accused of witchcraft were genuinely neuro divergent folks.

    Might not have been perfect but being placed in a committed care facility is definitely a step up from being drowned because the peasants decided only drowning could prove your innocence.

  • I actually had an offer from my advisor to study for a PhD under him by basically taking on a major coding project to develop a non toxic format of social media, or at least to get as close to that as possible. I also remember it involving some non crypto uses of blockchain software potentially but my prof was more interested in the complex web development aspects of it and actually got my web design professor in on pitching the potential for it to me.

    We had me enroll in a master's level web design class to trial run it, and it turned out I wasn't the webcode wunderkind they thought I might be given my good web design work for my courses so far. I'm creative but not a savant basically. We all agreed that my PhD potential was best sought after more design experience got under my belt.

  • If you feel like money is a corrupting factor then don't hire a sex worker.

    For my part, they're some of the chillest people I've gotten to know, and they're not hurting anyone just by their existence.

    Not to mention that literally every action that even tangentially ostracizes or criminalizes sex work has horrifying blowback against victims of human trafficking and against sex workers in positions of vulnerability.

    The Craigslist purge for example led to waaaaaaaay more dangerous working conditions for sex workers since it removed one of the few tools they had to reliably vet possible clients.

    There's literally no approach to sex work other than just letting them fucking be that doesn't end up causing exponentially more harm to completely innocent people than could ever morally justify doing anything except just letting them fucking be.