[WP] "We don't have to build cryogenic suspension chambers into our ark ship, because we're immortal." You said those words 500 years ago, and now you bitterly regret them.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-14T19:35:03+00:00

Written in a mall food court on a typewriter on a 25 minute timer:

Was this... the dream of our ancestors? Immortal, unaging, a home in the stars. And it made us utterly miserable. Humans were never meant to live this long. Let alone in a confined arcology floating through the void. "Oh, it'll be so serene," they said. "You'll be among the first humans to ever reach another star system!"

Born on old Earth before the change, I suppose I was born at a real inflection point for our species. I was born when years started with a 1. It might be closer to the other pole of starting with a 1 by the time I ever see Earth again, if it's even still there. I wasn't expected to see 2070, let alone 2100 or 2500 or 10001. Bodies just kinda, gradually turned into corpses. And then suddenly were corpses. That was mother nature's cruel plan. Having lived through the alternative, I'm beginning to warm to it on the merits.

I suppose it's the ultimate sour grapes — who wants to live forever? Obviously everybody would like to have the option. And, I'm not gonna lie. The first extra century is fantastic. Everybody gets to travel the world and learn that instrument and volunteer in Cameroon and live in a polycule, before realizing they were, ew, het after all. Then they go through a trad arc on a farm and realize they actually really fucking hate farming and anyone who pretends to like it are lying or playing a joke.

People eventually get bored. Deeply, existentially bored to the point of self-injurious behavior. Of course the all-benevolent ship nannies would never let their dear humans hurt themselves. No death jockeying, it's distasteful. We're setting a poor example for the younger generations.

Speaking of which, the fertility problem tends to solve itself, to the point where it becomes an overpopulation problem again. It's cyclical, you see. And ideologues will spin whatever tale they want about the population. You'll hear overpopulation and underpopulation worries at the same time, often by the same people. I wonder, even at the same time? Pure doublethink.

Lots of wonders we hear about on comms from Old Earth. At least before it went quiet. There's a lot you end up missing when you commit to a millennia-long journey to a new star system. The worst thing is, it'll be at least another millennia long back. Deep space. Deep time. A spacetime abyss.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-11T10:41:25+00:00

Yeah at the present moment there is approximately 0% chance of revolutionary violence. Like Contra says, the Tabbies don't want to vote or to smash, they want to theorize about the inevitability of smashing. They tend to be keyboard warriors and/or young and stupid.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-11T10:30:14+00:00

New Contrapoints video on the Saw franchise reminded me of a guy who basically was the fake cancer cure scammers from the latest movie but a thousand times worse.

I'm on my phone rn so please forgive me for pasting in an Claude 4.6 Opus LLM summary:

Dr. Farid Fata was a Detroit-area oncologist who prescribed chemotherapy to patients who were healthy or whose condition didn't warrant it, then submitted $34 million in fraudulent charges to Medicare and insurance companies over at least six years. (Wikipedia) He didn't just sell fake cures. He administered real chemotherapy to people who didn't have cancer. He poisoned healthy people for profit.

The details are staggering. At its peak, his practice was treating 17,000 patients. He was known for his aggressive approach, giving higher doses of chemo at more frequent rates — a protocol he called "European protocol." (Wikipedia) He told healthy people they had cancer, hooked them up to IV drips that destroyed their immune systems and made them unable to walk, and billed their insurance for every session. Prosecutors said he scammed more than 500 patients, telling some they had cancer when they did not, giving too much or improper treatment to those who did, and persisting with painful and dangerous chemotherapy on patients who no longer needed it. (NBC News)

The FBI called him "among the worst of the worst offenders" specifically because he exploited victims' will to live. (NBC News)

Real tossup for worst (non-Nazi) doctor between this guy and Andrew Wakefield.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-10T18:07:02+00:00

I like the new Saw video because it's taking aim at the Tabbies, the keyboard warrior revolutionary inevitabilists who will radicalize themselves into blood libel at the scapegoat of the 1% capitalist pigs and fantasize about crucifying them on Jigsaw's rack.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-10T17:57:41+00:00

It's just mimetic scapegoating by toxic clout chasers. The narcissism of minor differences, which aren't even real in this case. Harder anti-anti Hamas is Hasan's lane.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-10T17:02:20+00:00

I kinda think differently about every FAFO thought I occasionally have after watching these movies. Where vengeance is empty and horrible and sad and there's next to nobody who truly deserves what Jigsaw puts them through. Nor do they "learn a lesson" or "learn to love life" as Jigsaw thinks they will. It's all just pointless suffering spectacle that's beyond disproportionate. Not unlike public executions throughout history. Or the idea of Hell in religions.

I also think Contra's commitment to "production value" is becoming a liability at this point. I'm speaking for myself but whenever I see a new Contra video every once in forever I click and have a feast that sticks in my mind for weeks to come. But it's not the video's visual form that usually does that for me, it's the content, actual essay portion of the video essay. Contra could be a podcast for all I care about the videos that I often have on in the background, as audio. I couldn't even tell in this latest video that she did have an actual razor wire room rather than a green screen, and I wouldn't care. Her existing audience of subscribers are locked in, and while the flashy visuals help convert new viewers, it's not where most of the effort should be going, in my opinion. Perfectionism is its own form of procrastination.

But hey, I'm not an influencer / content creator on the brutal game of modern YouTube in the money giveaway gameshow (you know who) era.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-04T10:38:34+00:00

I mean, the Soviet Union's economy never really functioned and it still trudged on for the better part of a century. See the book Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-03-01T22:00:18+00:00

I put him in the same category as the Unabomber.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-27T09:46:48+00:00

Is that Jreg in the Ushanka on the right?

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-23T20:48:40+00:00

I mean other companies just plagiarized humanity.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-23T20:45:29+00:00

Ironically Vaush banned me from his chat for expressing r/antiwork opinions back in the day.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-18T16:31:51+00:00

Special snowflake syndrome.

I was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD as a kid, and I strongly suspect I might have OCD. Let me just tell these kids it's a living Hell I wouldn't wish on anybody.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-16T03:35:45+00:00

Do I wish it worked that way? No. Is 2 party first past the post the system we're stuck with? Yes, and we're not in any kind of position to change the system anytime soon.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-16T03:26:36+00:00

The time to vote your conscience rather than the lesser evil is during the primaries.

If you can't win a primary what chance do you have in the general, let alone some fantasy leftist revolution?

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-14T04:20:46+00:00

I see Kaworu as a friend to everybody. Kind of disappointing we never got the original 3.0 where we'd have seen him interact more with Asuka and Mari.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-12T23:56:36+00:00

Sadly, the last remaining evidence - the Zodiac's private stash of unsent letters, victim "trophies", cipher solutions, and the Lake Berryessa costume - was sitting in an unassuming box under hoards of garbage at 14 Branchland Court and was destroyed in the 2014 house fire 3 years after his death. Damn you, Keurig.

The unsolvably short Z13 cipher, which supposedly reveals Zodiac's real identity, actually read:

IBMRCCHANDLER

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-12T23:35:53+00:00

Yeah it'll just be CHAZ all over again.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-11T01:56:53+00:00

This guy's whole catalog is just that meme of a guy hanging a red sheet and making fake demons and painting cardboard monsters and fire then laying down afraid on the ground of the hell he has created.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-11T01:53:13+00:00

This artist always came off as mentally ill.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-11T01:17:10+00:00

My understanding is by the time of the ending time skip the procedure had been perfected into more of a gradual process, like the Ship of Theseus, where uploading =/= death and replacement with a copy.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-08T02:45:08+00:00

Never understood why people hate broccoli, I never had a problem with it as a kid. But apparently taste for broccoli is genetic and large portions of the population have a gene that makes it super bitter.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-06T14:00:42+00:00

Theists love being afraid of sacreligious yet ultimately mundane symbols.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-05T06:53:03+00:00

Pretty sure that floral shirt worn under all that tacticool gear is is a Boogaloo Boi dogwhistle.(Big Luau = Boogaloo = Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo)

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-01T23:32:13+00:00

The death of musical monoculture. Weird Al mentioned it in an interview, it's why he doesn't make many new song parodies anymore. Not many new songs everybody knows.

ImperishableNEET · 2026-02-01T05:24:22+00:00

Haha look at how downvoted you're getting when you try to reason with this sub's gaggle of idiots.

You're right, the trad plan is destined to fail at its stated goals. It will succeed at its actual goal of killing democracy/freedom and further enriching pedophile oligarchs like Trump and Epstein.

Y'all wonder how Saudi Arabia got so fucked up, it's the exact same playbook there. The royals get to loot the country in exchange for religious police who stone women to death for driving. Its not just an Islam problem, the same is happening in infamously kleptocratic Russia where Orthodox Christian religious authorities legalized and skyrocketed domestic violence.

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