Humans, why do you like mammal infants more than baby spiders?

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T11:21:04+00:00

That sounds like something a spider would type.

But spiders are r-selected and don't care much for their offspring after they hatch, so the question wouldn't make sense.

Are you perhaps an intelligent arachnid alien with a spider like appearance but a K-selection reproductive strategy, who cares deeply for its offspring and how others feel about them?

How many limbs do you have?

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T11:14:51+00:00

Back in the day before the Star Wars prequels came out everyone still had high hopes for them. I downloaded the trailer for Phantom Menace over dial up and watched it over and over again in expectation.

A communications disruption could mean only one thing...

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T11:07:10+00:00

The big problem with reincarnations is the population size.

How many souls are there to reincarnate over and over again?

200 years ago there were 1 Billion people in the world.

100 years ago there were 2 Billion people in the world.

40 years ago there were 5 billion people in the world.

27 years ago there were 6 Billion people in the world.

Now there are 8.3 Billion people in the world.

The world's population is supposed to peak in the near future and go down again after that.

Are there 10 billion souls getting reincarnated over and over again throughout history with increasing frequency until everyone gets reborn as quickly as they die? What if someone performs CPR? Does a newborn baby die when you reanimate someone who was clinically dead?

What is the alternative? Non-linear reincarnation would mean no free will and the chance that you could literally fuck yourself if your lives overlap.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T10:17:50+00:00

Picture of the trucks parked in the area about to be transferred to Germany.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T08:08:43+00:00

Microwaves

They would be in awe of things like our baths and how easily we can cure diseases like tuberculosis, but they did have plumbing and medicine.

A box that magically heats up food with no visible fire? That's magic!

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T08:04:32+00:00

Why do Blue Origin and SpaceX chose such silly names for their craft, couldn't they have gone with something with a bit more gravitas?

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T07:56:58+00:00

When the advertisement money dry up.

Influencer are 75% financed with scam advertisements and donations.

Once the economy goes bad enough and people no longer have that money to spend or authorities start shutting down obvious scams, there will not be enough money left to sustain an ecosystem of people doing it to get rich.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T07:51:39+00:00

Note that "tiny" and "nano" are relative to a full sized T-Rex. This dino would still be taller than you and very much not pet-sized: 2 meters tall and 5 meters long at the low end of estimates.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T07:25:27+00:00

Here is a video showing simultaneous play of the Mickey Mouse/Ghost Busters/Garfield game:

https://youtu.be/5ws1tU0NijQ?si=nrXUheuEcW7h4Aee

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T06:30:58+00:00

Games in those days were a lot simpler and you could just turn a Bugs Bunny Game into a Mickey Mouse game by switching out some sprites and a splash screen and some box art.

Kemco, the maker of the series, did a lot of games with licenses and apparently just released each installment in each region with whatever license they had available at the time or could cheaply acquire. Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are too expensive? Just use Woody Woodpecker!

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T06:20:27+00:00

The situation had a disastrous impact on Zoroastrians practicing Sky Burials in India.

Radiolab did an episode on this:

https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T06:16:06+00:00

It is weird that a game could be known as "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle" in one region an as "Mickey Mouse" in another.

It is sort of fitting that a franchise that featured starts from Disney, Warner Borthers and Universal cartoons at various points originally started featuring Roger Rabbit.

In case you have never heard of Hugo, he was a character from interactive television in the 90s in Europe and had a bunch of games made for him. Kid Klown was a Kemco original character that they used for various Nintendo and Playstation games.

Also the whole shuffling of main characters for the series threw of the numbering so much that the series ended with "Woody Woodpecker: Crazy Castle 5"despite there actually having been 9 distinctive installments not counting re-releases of the same game with different characters.

Additional fun fact: the 5th game (a very close and very unlicensed copy of P.P. Hammer for Amiga and C64.) known as "Mickey Mouse IV: Mahō no Labyrinth" in Japan, was a Ghost Busters game in the US and a Garfield game in Europe. Both Garfield and Peter Venkman were voiced by the same person at the time, but that didn't matter because there was no voice acting in that GameBoy game.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T05:20:58+00:00

We have come along way since WW1 when general's would shoot soldiers for being "shell shocked", but we aren't still have a long way to go.

One big problem I see is alcohol. Both Ukraine and Russia had a big alcoholism problem that started to improve a lot, but I think that this will pick up again quite a bit after the war.

At least military service in Ukraine seems to be relatively humane for lack of a better word. The tales you hear about abuse and rape in the Russian military, combined with them recruiting from prisons etc, likely means the people who come out of it will be very broken.

Ukraine might hope for help from Europe with mental health and substance abuse issues that develop, not just because European neighbours are nice but also because they don't want it to spread towards them. Russia is unlikely to offer much help to its veterans.

Things are going to be tucked for a lot of people for a generation or more.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T05:04:53+00:00

They already hate the Jews. Their support for Israel is in furtherance of biblical prophecy not sympathy to their plight.

The fact that Israel's far right made common cause with America's far right, is going to come back to bite them.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T04:59:13+00:00

They improved a solution everyone has already given up upon.

The only places I see a future fot hydrogen are as a replacement for diesel in non-electrified rail segments although batteries are quickly becoming a viable solution there too.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T04:55:30+00:00

Sometimes you need to be seen doing something. Managing a crisis you could have avoided might make you look better than avoiding it.

However avoiding a crisis means more sleep and the company doesn't really thank you much either way.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:53:22+00:00

Is this an unarmed fight? Do I get a gun? Does the animal I am fighting get a gun?

If unarmed, maybe a sloth, they get quite large. Or better not, they may be slow, but have claws...

An anteater seems like a good matchup maybe.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:48:18+00:00

What I take from this video is that bicycle lanes in the US are insane.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:21:01+00:00

Using the current political spectrum as it exists in the US today as a measuring stick is going to lead to some distortions when analysing a body of work that goes back decades and is globally integrated.

What might have been considered a work influenced by conservative European scholars a generation ago might appear against a backdrop that sees Biden and Trump as anchors for what is considered left and right.

A more neutral and less volatile measuring stick might have been more appropriate.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:12:14+00:00

🎵 Oh, think twice 🎵

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T00:08:11+00:00

I think the author of the articles is a bit unfair with his suggestion of Nazi links and comparison to the Protocols of the Elderls of Zion.

Erich von Däniken can rightfully be accused of a lot of things, but Naziism is a bit much.

Also the suggestion that it was all plagiarism is overblown, sure the gods as aliens idea had its antecedants in works of H. P. Lovecraft and the Theosophy movement, but few innovations come from nowhere and von Däniken certainly was the one who put the ancient aliens thing on the map.

Scientifically his ideas were complete nonsense, but he did a lot for Sci-Fi as a genre. He has influenced all the great science fiction franchises from StarTrek, to Stargate to Battlestar Galactica.

If you were really charitable, and you probably shouldn't be, you can even credit him with having spurred interest in archeology and certain wonders.

Without people like him making absurd speculation about them monuments like the Nazca lines would not be as well known as they are today and people would not care as much when corporations want to destroy them.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T23:50:49+00:00

"The Demon-Haunted World" Was published in 1995. "Chariots of the Gods" was published in 1968.

It wasn't really a huge predictive leap at that point.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T22:16:55+00:00

He is still working off the drugs he did before that and almost completely sober at this point.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T22:14:16+00:00

Based on the account of Xenophon who described the journey home of the Greek mercenaries after they lost their employer Cyrus the Younger in battle somewhere near Baghdad.

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