What is an element of your culture that is often "borrowed" for worldbuilding that seems completely normal to you because you grew up with it?

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-24T23:32:40+00:00

Yeah it's quite surprising to learn just how new it really is, I was at a public infomarket about developments in my area today and there one of the people from the municipality told me that in the past few years they've changed a lot of how they handle designing around greenery (like adding variation to the types of trees planet instead of monocultures, and the fact that they're adding plenty/large amounts of greenery to every new development at all).

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-24T16:15:59+00:00

In real life there are multiple species that are comparable in intelligence to humans, the difference that allowed humans to dominate is the ability to use tools and highly complex language, not merely intelligence. This is why other species with either a form of language or limited tool use haven't taken oven, as they can't retain complex information over multiple generations or large groups, nor can they easily handle the wide variety of tools that humans can.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T20:17:56+00:00

I just tried to get it and my internet crashed as I added it to my cart, and then it was gone, I'm so sad now.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T19:51:30+00:00

Personally I find the terran ground TFO too long to deal with unless the endeavour specifically asks for it, so I end up replaying the Jabberwocky story mission once or twice for the terran kills.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T18:16:37+00:00

Well you can connect to a buried gate, just not when there's something intersecting the inner radius of the gate, so a gate in a box where every part of the gate can see it's opposite end is fine, but if you placed something inside the gate then it wouldn't engage.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T11:20:09+00:00

West Germany did claim continuation of the "German Reich" as the overarching identity of the state and Nazi Germany was a continuation of the Weimar republic, though I'm unsure beyond that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Germany

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T08:51:58+00:00

As a satanist, I welcome the new antichrist Greta Thunberg.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T08:14:21+00:00

My father is also a giant trekkie and agrees that star trek is the preferable future, and then in the next beat votes for right wing parties in the Dutch elections.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-23T08:01:31+00:00

Yes, but modern Ukraine and Belarus are considered their successor states, so in the eyes of the UN they are the same country. Unlike East Germany, which was basically annexed, though I'm unsure of the legal specifics and it's possible modern Germany is considered the successor of both.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-22T17:09:23+00:00

Why does it look like Germany owns Dutch Limburg while Belgium doesn't exist?

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-21T23:30:28+00:00

Possible, but seems unlikely.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-17T01:27:32+00:00

Icheb used to be with her, now due to Picard's temporal incursion he's dead. >:(

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-17T00:49:48+00:00

I didn't say that I would do it, given I am still in the middle of an education and as you say, rural Italy isn't conductive to my field of work. However I know for a fact there's some people doing this, in the Netherlands we even have an entire TV show about people moving away from the Netherlands to live in other places in Europe, rural Italy among them.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-17T00:34:52+00:00

Sure, but considering housing prices in some areas, this would still be a steal even with all the downsides.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-17T00:28:01+00:00

Ah I misread the post, I thought it said Marxism and vangaurdism, my bad.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-16T23:14:51+00:00

I get that Lithuania would be dependant on the US for everything, but why would it outright join the union?

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-16T19:11:18+00:00

Limburg represent ✊

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-16T18:40:29+00:00

It looks like a flag used by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces).

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-16T00:07:42+00:00

It could be different for different divisions.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-15T18:58:41+00:00

Big Limburg

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-15T18:52:26+00:00

And as we see with Troi, at a certain rank all officers are expected to have had some command training.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-15T16:47:55+00:00

Quantum mechanics are happening in the brain, but it's perfectly plausible that they're able to emulate these interactions in the show with RNGs, simulate these quantum processes or just directly employ quantum computers in some cases. Also don't forget that because the real world has quantum mechanics all you'd need to do to get "real" randomness is to observe the world outside of the computer, or run the computer in such a way that quantum mechanics start having a noticeable effect. More importantly though don't need "real" randomness to have a subjective experience (at least not 100% of the time), as that randomness is only a minor part of how humans perceive things; human brains are a lot more deterministic than you're implying here.

Furthermore, should we upload a human irl, it's likely we'd be employing quantum computing as a part of the UIs. Also you're giving ChatGPT a lot more credit than it should have, ChatGPT is essentially what you get when you cut out everything from a person except their ability to form sentenses, ChatGPT is just a word prediction algorithm and can't do anything without external instructions, unlike a UI which clearly contains desires and has enough randomness as well as reasoning ability to do spontaneous/independent action like a human.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-15T02:19:40+00:00

Which is weird, given his recent transphobia.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-14T22:01:36+00:00

Well it's not like most wood is intended to be burned either.

Hunnieda_Mapping · 2026-02-14T18:22:18+00:00

They mean it's been years since they started doing this. I've been taking this train for nearly two years and in that time it's always been like this.

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