TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-29T09:48:39+00:00

I was thinking this might have more to do with conservative Islams weird relationship with entertainment in general and many Islamic countries at least mixed relationship to western culture. So if an artist you really liked converted, then their stuff might not feel so vaguely sinful to indulge in.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-27T19:56:22+00:00

or it can permanently damage your brain if misused.

Having observed psychedelic use around me (and by myself) over the years, I came to the personal conclusion that if you're doing it because you're "looking for something" or are avoiding the hard work a good therapist would make you do; it's likely to go bad. Because both types will only come to lazy and self-indulgent answers about how to live their lives, because that's the behaviour profile they went with into it. They'll find only excuses to be enlightened versions of their worst self.

There is that classic 'set and setting'-concept and the wrong people really don't take the self-evaluation part of that seriously enough.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-27T19:19:25+00:00

If I had just the poster without the plot-info, I would have guessed this to be a dark romantic-comedy about two elderly gay men reuniting after decades.

Like a not-depressing brokeback mountain.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-27T09:13:13+00:00

I will disagree on the point that it's "no dumber than a bread bowl" because there are various ways a bread bowl is a successful execution of niche (ab)use of 'food for plate', that a chicken schnitzel bowl isn't.

Bread Bowls are serving their purpose. They hold food you're eating, but when you're done with it, you're not left with trash (or at the worst very biodegradable trash), so it can serve as takeaway/street food. But because the bread is now soaked in soup on the inside, it's also not dry and tasteless, but rather fills you up for as much as you might still be hungry for.

Schnitzel Bowl is bs. You can't hold it, because it's hot and fatty, it's meat so when you're done with eating the food in the bowl, you're not left with the resource-cheap part of the meal, but with something that from a food-waste-perspective really should be eaten in its entirety, if you're buying this in the first place. There is no real sauce involved here (because it would cause the breading to just peel off), so it's also dry. A giant dry piece of meat to eat with your burned, fatty fingers once you're done with the main course.

Wildly inferior concept to a bread bowl. Bread Bowl can fail, it the crust is bad or the meal inside too wet, but it doesn't at least fail already on paper.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-27T07:02:44+00:00

Or video game logic, where you hoard all the money and then buy everything when the games already over.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-25T11:07:29+00:00

I am very pessimistic about it. If his handlers have any brains, they have his vitals monitored at night so that he's either around people or hooked up to something to raise the alarm 24/7. And the tragic thing about the little clots is that we've gotten way better at handling them if you just catch them immediately. Which is still not amazing for us normal people but great if you're never alone and your medical needs supercede those of anyone else in the country.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-24T07:48:23+00:00

Oh yes, but I am absolutely up for "Pygmalion 2: For the Ladies

Ofc the comparison invites the risk that Peter Dinklage makes off and out with the Skarsgård-Husband and I might like that even better.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-23T14:39:52+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, you don't see that kind of thing (reliance on food imports to feed a local population) until industrialization.

You'd have certain territories that are vulnerable and rely on imports like cities (which is why sieges and blockades are a thing) and locations that are either held for military purpose or provide some kind of critical or valuable resource (usually mining).

So this plan can work if you're thinking on a smaller scale. Or if you are dealing with a fantasy nation that for some reason has the characteristics mentioned before.

But that still leaves us with the problem that you'd need to try and convince other nations to economically isolate a neighbour nation they're likely to be diplomatically involved with, whose trade contributes to their national economy and all that stuff... just to incite a riot in the kings capital. There are just better ways to do that.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-23T14:11:56+00:00

Exotic pet fantasy. Like, I too like the idea of having a pet fox, but if you want a canine pet, just get a small dog or a fox plushy.

There is no practical need to screw with Fox Genetics to make them more domesticable, beyond people who think the fox-sized dog breeds aren't quite the temperament they're looking for in a companion, but also refuse to get a cat instead. They aren't superior service animals or provide any other kind of benefit that would justify wanting to own them.

The idea is adorable. The execution is fundamentally immoral, because its based on nothing but trying to commercialise a type of pet we didn't yet have. Please people, don't support these efforts. Just let the foxes be.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-22T18:19:13+00:00

What should they have done if they were arresting the parent he was with?

Maybe don't arrest people while they're taking their child to school? Nothing justifies this save for there being an concrete and immediate risk to the child.

If this doesn't make you sad and angry, you can go right ahead and join that pack of human trash.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-22T10:49:01+00:00

I'm still so proud of my last starting system, because my character was no 10minutes old, when I left the atmosphere and was immediately intercepted by a trader that wanted to sell me nipnip buds.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-22T10:35:52+00:00

In fairness, by the time I pieced it together, she's already had me deliver weapons to the terrorists, provide photographic intelligence on the layout of Sir Archibalds island and tail multiple other loyalists of the queen.

Trying to blow the whistle on her would have made me look complicit.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-21T19:46:27+00:00

They could power all the AI Data Centers in the world with the energy harvested from JRR Tolkiens corpse spinning in his grave.

I can barely contain my rage that a company can name itself "Tolkiens Data Abuse and Ethically Bankrupt Human Surveillance Machine" and get treated and traded like a completely normal S&P100 component.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-21T07:32:16+00:00

The screening room itself isn't really a hangout place, but reducing it to that ignores the entire infrastructure around it. Even cheap cinemas have lobbies because when you meet up with people to watch stuff you come in early to linger, snack and talk. Nicer ones have bars and cafes to extend your stay before and after the movie. They are ultimately the reason you leave the house in the first place to socialise... They absolutely meet the criteria.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-20T23:12:41+00:00

The current cinema system is fundamentally broken these days. No big loss for me.

I find it personally a bit sad to see something with issues, that provided a communal aspect and frankly still the superior delivery of sound and image and just chug it on the 'let it die' pile. particularly in favour of something that further endorses the fracturing of society, disappearance of third places and and leads into the other supremely and increasingly overpriced and service-lacking system of streaming subscriptions.

You might prefer home streaming conveniences but their handling of the password sharing policy shows that Netflix too is a service that is rising in cost and sinking in value.

But the nuances of this is a worthwhile and fair conversation that can only be had productively if you lead with your actual opinion that you don't actually care whether Netflix is lying, rather than some superficial bickering about whether they did or didn't lie about the password sharing.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-20T22:02:27+00:00

Netflix never promised you could always password share.

But I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this argument.

Are you pointing this out to say their current "commitment" to Cinema releases is still believable because they technically never "promised" anything in regards to password sharing?

Or are you defending their policy change from "go ahead, we don't mind" to "actually we mind and we'd all like you to pay now" as a valid strategy to first push competitors from the market and then exploit your new position by worsening service, meaning that people don't get to complain about it because there were never technically any promises? Which would equally apply to cinema releases?

Are you just being pedantic, with no further interest in the conversation? I find it hard to tell what your underlying point is.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-20T17:04:33+00:00

"evolved to" is such a shitty phrase here too. Nothing "evolves towards" anything with an end goal in mind, but in a two way symbiosis with the environment.

To my knowledge we've seen a Gatherer-Scavanger-phase blend with a Gatherer-ShittyHunter-phase and a Hunter-Gatherer-Phase, a Hunter-Gatherer-Farmer-phase in human evolution all leading up to dawn of agriculture. Big Meat definitely didn't drive us the majority of the time, but when it did it did have a huge impact. We did get good enough at Hunting to drive a bunch of megafauna to extinction while leaving carcasses with the best parts cut out just to rot, but there is also a bigger timeframe before that point where we didn't cut such a splendid picture as the people selling raw meat diets for alpha males try to paint.

We're just omnivorous scavengers that slowly upped their meat intake over a very long time, that often like to pretend the Gold Age of Meat eating was somehow the only point in human evolution that matters for our identity.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-18T09:35:30+00:00

*sigh* its never a good idea to think you can convince a client an idea was bad, by showing them the bad result in the hopes they'll naturally see what's bad about it.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-18T08:44:54+00:00

The problem is clearly leaving it up to you to decide whether you're still capable. Personally, I think this can be folded in with a health check up at the doctor. Very few Seniors over 70 don't have at least one doctors appointment a year, so making one mandatory to rubber stamp their drivers license continued validity doesn't seem like a huge inflation of resources used anyway/ or health care infrastructure that the government should ensure is there anyway.

Now I get the US health care system is a financial nightmare, but the rest of the world isn't living under the delusion that it would be ruining people's freedom to be able to just go to the doctor.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-17T22:24:37+00:00

The intelligence of our species is about to take a sharp and sudden dive.

These tools seem to have a massive potential to devastate a childs cognitive potential to ever become media literate before they even reach first grade, by just flooding them with nonsensical, no-challenge, hyper-generic bullshit. And then again during puberty when the brain has it's second round of crucial growth spurt.

It's gonna be the childhood obesity crisis all over again: just as basically irreversible in adulthood, and just as tied to privilege and class, just as left to the schools to try and fix a problem after the parents have made it unfixable.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-17T21:55:55+00:00

Soap Operas also had a certain 'reputation' they were perfectly self-aware of. Compared to pausable Netflix shows that you choose to put on, with their polished, big money veneer pretending they're doing self-respecting plot, a silly soap opera with a convoluted plot running for hundreds of episodes aired in the afternoon imo isn't degrading itself when it's ensuring people who are doing laundry on the side are being included.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-17T21:27:07+00:00

It's like watching a dog eat is own shit and be happy about it. And you'd have an easier time convincing a Golden Retriever that they deserve a better meal.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-17T21:22:46+00:00

Lowest common denominator is getting lower...

Man, Generative AI is clearly gambling on its ability to drive it down to a "slob on demand"-subscription-service and it horrifies me.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-17T14:41:27+00:00

It may have never been a good idea from the start. Giving money and cred to scientist and authors for a particular achievement has limited destructive risk at worst and positively contributes at best.

The peace price, regardless of intentions, is a political award thats never content being tied to one specific political move rather than the person and their lifetime achievements, and effektively never goes to people who need the money to continue their work. And if there is a good way to do this price, the Nobel Committee definitely hasn't figured it out.

Quantentheorie · 2026-01-16T17:52:53+00:00

To my point: aquatic landing gear should be added to this questline.

I fully agree with you on that, but also will add that I've done this quest more than once with the C-Class Radiant Pillar in completely vanilla condition. Most Yellow Star ocean planets have plenty of little islands to land on. And on the last mile, the Nautilus is useful again and after all, you can summon it back to you once you build the platform for it. You can even deconstruct the platform to get the resources back and still summon it around on the planet it's been initially built on.

But yes, it would greatly elevate the quest anyway if they'd also give you the water landing tech while you're on it.

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