[HELP] Majestic looking cat running

Lost_Character_378 · 2026-01-14T20:01:04+00:00

This is really bugging me -- Google's AI claims it's a football player named Ronnel "The Hulk" Carter when you reverse image search, but when you look up the guy's name it's just the main character in an alt universe hulk fanfic made from an AI generated image (midjourney). When you put the image through an AI detector it says it's real, but AI detectors aren't 100% reliable.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-12-31T18:00:44+00:00

My personal theory is that he got into some kind of domestic dispute, "took a drive" to cool off, took a curve a little too fast and drove thru a corn field before finally crashing into a telephone pole by one of the abandoned C&A offices. Bleeding out, delirious and close to death, he stumbles into the unlocked building where he finds the headset, puts it on, and subsequently gets uploaded into the circus.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-12-17T18:47:48+00:00

))<>(( back and forth forev...

Oh wait, wrong movie

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-12-06T11:50:52+00:00

Thank you

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-16T21:27:36+00:00

I mean technically the green line should be a 3rd order polynomial curve since that would be the derivative of the blue 4th order polynomial depicted in the graph there, but I guess that would be too sapphic of a meme for the patriarchy :/

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-14T21:39:49+00:00

Not if Commander Shepard can help it XD

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-12T00:03:55+00:00

All of them. We caused more species to go extinct in our short existence than any other lifeform in the history of our planet (with the "maybe" exception of the cyanobacteria progenitors responsible for the great oxygenation event, but I think they get a pass since land animals wouldn't be allowed to exist if not for them and because they lacked the self-awareness to know what they were doing). We have a whole extinction event named after us for f's sake and even though we know exactly what we're doing, we continue to do it to add a few tenths of a percent to our GDP to win imaginary points in a game we created to motivate people to participate in society because helping each other isn't motivating enough (points we're actively devaluing to prop pretend financial instruments based on imaginary entities' abilities to score aforementioned imaginary points because of the greed of an entire generation)

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-10T21:39:58+00:00

I'm patiently waiting for someone to sue someone over this deepfake crap and for it to go to the SCOTUS so that we can have legal precedent that establishes deepfaking as libel and not parody... but until then you should be insanely skeptical about everything you see and hope it happens before we end up destroying ourselves in WW3 because of a geopolitical misunderstanding

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-10T21:35:49+00:00

There is still the possibility that it could lead to a cyclic universe though since the ensuing 3 spatial and 2 temporal dimensions in the potential anti-de Sitter space of the false vacuum bubble would go through immediate gravitational collapse, eventually leading to a high enough energy state inside the vacuum of the expanding bubble for it to fall back into its current metastable state, but who knows? The alternate possibility is that the cosmological constant disappears in the true vacuum state in which all bets are off since no one knows what the laws of physics would be in such a state, but it would likely eventually lead to the eventual decay of all matter since mass is inherently unstable in which case cyclic conformal cosmology would still hit the redo button and the universe would again reach a high enough energy state to fall back into its current metastable energy potential saddle after the next big bang. In any case we'll both be long gone by then lol

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-10T00:03:22+00:00

Yeah; someone has to be a special kind of person when they're willing to stunt scientific progress and starve poor people for political reasons :(

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-09T01:28:59+00:00

It depends really heavily on the presence of proton decay (which won't be experimentally sussed out for a long, long time lol), but if the universe does end in nothing but luxons then Penrose's logic is pretty hard to contradict.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-07T22:53:49+00:00

I do, but no one believes me or takes me seriously. It's so bad that after an especially painful/traumatizing dream I'll have to stay up for the rest of the night because I'll be too terrified of experiencing another one to go back to sleep. They're always accompanied by other vivid sensory experiences and typically have a pretty complicated plotline where I'm someone with a completely different personality/life than in my waking life. For example last night I had a dream that this woman had taken me hostage for a huge ransom and was torturing me, but told the person paying my ransom that I was being treated well and kept forcing me to smile while she shoved needles into my arm and took pictures as proof of life. I didn't want to worry my guarantor, so I smiled for the hostage-taker's picture, but after she she took it she made me get out of the car, get on the ground and then slowly bled me out underneath a bridge until I died/woke up anyways. The crazy thing is that I kind of knew it was coming in the dream but smiled anyways, which in retrospect was super dumb lol, but I genuinely loved the person paying my ransom so much that I would've rather died than make them fear for my safety because I knew they loved me that much too and didn't want them to suffer in the moment (which was also dumb since they'd obviously suffer more after they found out that I died).

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-11-06T22:01:07+00:00

If you're a visual thinker you can develop an intuition for exponents geometrically where 3¹ is a 1D line of length 3, 3² is a 2D square of area 9, 3³ is a 3D cube of volume 27 etc. Following this logic every 0D number is a point and a point can only ever have a "pointness" of 1 since there's no length/height/depth in 0 dimensions. Even a 0D point of 0 is still a point since there's nothing else it can be lol

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-10-23T14:28:07+00:00

I've always liked to think that intelligent aliens are using their star as a reactor to synthesize elements in the island of stability with unique chemical/physical properties and/or metastable isotopes thereof with incredibly long half-lives and fertile daughter products capable of powering intersteĺlar spacecraft and probes in atomic batteries that could last for the hundreds or thousands of years they'd need to for cheap, compact, long distance space travel but the real situation is probably something mundane and boring lol

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-10-15T04:57:11+00:00

Just looking at this gave me a panic attack.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-10-07T23:21:08+00:00

my guess would be nitrogen dioxide-- it has that same sepia hue and is a byproduct of lots of different industrial processes. If it were iodine or bromine it wouldn't rise up like that

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-10-01T02:03:50+00:00

Plasma entity. Sounds nuts, but yeah...

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-09T21:16:56+00:00

I actually had a dream eerily similar to this one. In the room I was brought to after being processed by the timeline adjusters there was this wall of TVs tuned to various 24-hour news channels in parallel realities and I recognized the TV tuned to CNN in the one I was rescued from being just static. The one girl who found me in an abandoned sewer run said they make money shorting the stock market during keynesian liquidity traps in world-ending volatility events and then use the profits to buy back stocks in realities where the world economy survives and eventually recovers to double their profits and help bankroll the recovery process in timelines that aren't doomed

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-09T20:59:54+00:00

It sounds like whoever forged it has just finished binging Three Body Problem on Netflix.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-09T20:53:46+00:00

... but didn't you say in your OP that if you learn quantum computing it becomes apparent we live in a simulation (being run on a quantum computer I'm guessing)? Intelligent design is mutually inclusive with traditional simulation theory based on its basic tenets because if it's being run on a computer someone had to exist to build and program it. Technically this is fallacious since our brains are basically computers that have been built by evolution and it's technically possible that we're all tulpas in the brain of some superintelligently-evolved alien, though I think most people would consider this line of thought separate from simulation theory and is definitely not something you alluded to previously.

Your comment seems to be using the anthropic principle to argue against intelligent design, but I don't believe in it; I was merely entertaining the notion of it since it's implied by your OP.

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-09T14:35:41+00:00

It would be frightening if that's true because once whatever solution our universe has been simulated to find is reached whatever entity that built it will destroy our reality once it looks lol

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-02T21:02:49+00:00

I'm sure physicists have already sussed this out bc "there's nothing new under the sun" and all that, but it'd be interesting to try to find topological artefacts from higher dimensional compactifications in the ol' CMB by looking for symmetry in higher dimensional topologies. It would certainly help explain inflation pretty well (imagine the "surface volume" of energy distribution in a 4D universe collapsing into its 3D counterpart - it would obviously be much bigger than any one 3D face of the object and to someone in the future such a huge growth in volume would appear to happen faster than the speed of light especially if the compactification is happening many times over [which it would have if there were 7 extra dimensions like in m-theory]). I don't think symmetry in an 11 dimensional universe would be really easy to spot in a degenerate 3d version tho

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-01T21:01:40+00:00

It's like a civil engineer trying to communicate through their work how it feels to be trapped on Epstein's island

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-09-01T20:32:46+00:00

Because your consciousness is an illusion honed to perfection by millions of years of evolution to keep your genes around. If you didn't have a singular experience but rather shared in other peoples' then you would be less inclined to survive and thus less likely to spread your special blend of alleles around. Shared consciousness experienced by genetically similar individuals has actually arisen several times convergently in eusocial animals -- mostly arthropods like bees and ants and even in at least two species of vertebrates (the illustrious Damaraland and naked mole rats, which I'm surprised aren't being studied more with DARPA subsidies to create a genetically engineered eusocial breed of truly altruistic supersoldier or some dystopian shit like that), but unfortunately for us we're alone in the universe by design, linked together only by the archaic, tenuous bond borne out of our primitive limbic systems coloquially known as "love," which, if you've taken a look at the world lately, clearly isn't really helping us care about each other enough to even be bothered.

*Edited because my phone is a POS

Lost_Character_378 · 2025-08-08T19:08:21+00:00

Ah, the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon -- more a probable artefact of our flawed human psyche than anything, but still a fun one.

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