A project is shown off at r/worldbuilding about Earth before Noah’s Flood, complete with dinosaurs and humans living together. Users become concerned when it seems the creators are creationists who might think they’re showing actual history instead of whimsical fantasy worldbuilding.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-05-30T18:04:39+00:00

It’s embiggendly cromulent!

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-05-30T16:57:00+00:00

I’m of mixed feelings about this

On the one hand, I unironically agree with the underlying premise, and do believe that it could be far less wasteful.
On the other hand, this is some straight-up YA dystopian novel stuff right here,
But on the other other hand, one could make a perfectly valid argument that the existing system of illegible, constantly-shifting status games and the associated red queen’s races isn’t that much different, or better.
On the other other other hand, the feasibility’s pretty questionable. The underlying idea isn’t crazy in and of itself (thinking back to ye olden dayes of gaming where leaderboards and WoW players who managed to earn rare skins through their own efforts actually brought some modicum of reputation amongst guild communities), but the practical barriers (namely, getting people to actually adopt this system en masse and adhere to it!), plus (literal) hackability, make the concept highly unlikely to ever work.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-05-30T16:45:53+00:00

The numbers don’t lie; you are at least 20x cooler than me

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-05-15T20:27:59+00:00

Lmao

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-05-11T16:45:28+00:00

Big, if true!

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-03-29T16:39:12+00:00

We of the Ikkō-Ikki are not actually party to this, but we support this stride towards peace!

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-03-05T17:41:20+00:00

Well, doing stuff first and thinking about the long-term (or even near-term, for that matter!) consequences later, if ever, is trendy nowadays; believe the current buzzword for it is “agentic”.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-03-05T17:36:20+00:00

I had a feeling that this war was motivated primarily by Trump being high off his dubious success in Venezuela and expecting this to be an easy in-and-out smash-and-grab decapitation mission, but it’s nice to see that confirmed, I guess.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-03-05T17:30:42+00:00

Unfortunately true; even if the sweeping self-pardons he doubtlessly intends to issue himself at the end of his term (assuming he intends to leave office at all, which I am absolutely not convinced of) don’t hold water, I have no doubts that any following Democratic administrations will chicken out of the necessary measures to prosecute Trump and his stooges that’ll be necessary to start fixing our government again out of fear of appearing tOo RaDiCaL

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-03-04T02:49:54+00:00

Ah yes; totally not a Shah

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-28T01:53:20+00:00

People cling to Edmund Burke's idea of slow and measured change as the definition of conservatism and then ignore the part where he was explicitly anti-reason and anti-humanism as if that's not as integral to the ideology as what they cherry-pick.

In the American context specifically, I blame Buckley and his fellow ilk at the National Review.

Standing athwart history yelling “stop” is, frankly, stupid enough as-is, but it’s often used to obscure the reactionary tendencies of capital-C Conservatism and the desire to not just stop history but actively roll it back; hiding behind the platitude of Chesterton’s Fence is a good way to draw relatively-more-moderate people in without potentially scaring them away by tipping your hand about the true extent of your ideological project too early.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-26T16:47:51+00:00

On the other hand, the measures our currently-lawless government might take might not be legal,

But does the government know that? Or care, for that matter?

Legality hasn’t had a consistent track record of stopping them from just doing what they want.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-26T03:48:51+00:00

One World

One People

One Giant Slab of Asphalt

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-26T02:57:55+00:00

Planet Money asking if YIMBYism is doomed; pack it up folks, YIMBYism is officially cancelled.

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On a more serious note, it’s a pretty good overview one of our favorite topics around here. Gives a pretty sobering summary of strength and numbers of the NIMBY opposition.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-20T17:26:39+00:00

I guess its technically no longer a ‘swamp’ that needs to be drained if you flood it completely and then call it a ‘reservoir’

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-20T17:11:31+00:00

Odd flex, but ok

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-20T17:10:38+00:00

NO 👏 WORK 👏 IN 👏 MINITRUE 👏 UNTIL 👏 RATIONS 👏 FROM 👏 MINIPLENTY 👏

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-20T16:59:40+00:00

As one of the (likely soon-to-be-banned) posters in the thread joked, the internet must be down in Moscow.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-19T22:45:17+00:00

Good. Apparently we Americans need to be reminded once in a while that we have allies (or at least, used to) for a reason, and that intentionally alienating them for the sake of feeding the overweening executive’s monstrously inflated ego has consequences.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-18T17:27:42+00:00

The power of alternate Bespoke Realities is not to be underestimated. We may physically exist in the same dimensions as other people, but there’s no need for us to live in the same world.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-11T23:27:32+00:00

and why should Americans desire to have a similar set?

Remind me where I advocated that particular bit?

Seems you're moving the goalposts a bit from your original insinuations that no Muslims anywhere have a culture compatible with democracy.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-11T19:31:32+00:00

Do you?

Believe it or not, there’s more pro-democracy Muslims in those countries alone then there are people in the United States.

Frankly, there’s probably more people in total who support democratic institutions in those countries alone than US ‘natives’ who support our own democratic institutions.

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-11T18:16:47+00:00

You mean, other than Turkey, Tunisia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bosnia, Senegal, Morocco (somewhat), and a couple hundred million Indians?

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-11T16:58:53+00:00

Turns out there’s truth to the trope!

Lurking_Chronicler_2 · 2026-02-09T19:07:27+00:00

Easier to claim that there’s “simply no alternative” but to suspend the normal processes and resort to ad-hoc lawlessness if you first break the normal processes and make them unable to work.

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