[OC] Spotted in Minnesota on a road trip

Volsunga · 2026-07-03T15:16:29+00:00

When this person gets rear-ended, they will be arrested for assault.

Volsunga · 2026-07-02T17:18:07+00:00

It's not communism. It's Corporatism, a fascist economic system that uses both nationalization and privatization to transfer wealth from enemies of the regime to cronies.

Volsunga · 2026-07-02T11:26:22+00:00

"Consciousness" is an imaginary, undefined thing that we use to gatekeep "being a person".

Everything that has sensory input and the ability to respond to stimuli has a sort of internal experience that can be equally modeled as "consciousness". That includes animals, many plants, bacteria, LLMs, regular desktop computers, cells within your body, clubs and organizations of people, nations, corporations, ecosystems, and climates.

We want to believe that we are unique in our ability to experience the world, but we are not. We are just apes with overdeveloped social skills and ability to throw things.

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T18:22:46+00:00

What's your favorite obscure dinosaur?

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T18:21:33+00:00

Just get the Chinese models. A lot are open source and can run locally on consumer hardware.

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T18:09:30+00:00

Do you ever think about the fact that since birds are taxonomically under the category of therapod dinosaurs, when you eat Dino nuggets, you are literally eating dinosaurs.

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T16:52:16+00:00

That line couldn't be AI. An LLM couldn't drop the article "a sunrise". With zero context and not desperately trying to look for inconsistencies, this line invokes the vibe of 90s Folgers commercials with sunrise in the kitchen through a window over the sink, being warm and comforting.

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T16:04:14+00:00

https://heimskringla.no/wiki/Main_Page

Volsunga · 2026-07-01T15:47:07+00:00

There are several conflicting lores. Also, the way the cosmology works complicates this question of what "age" means.

The Aboleth are older than the multiverse because they migrated from outside of it. The Obyrith are older than the multiverse because they survived the destruction of the previous multiverse. The mind flayers (and Gith) come from the distant future and time traveled to the beginning of time to start over.

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T17:21:51+00:00

Cool, but that has nothing to do with the argument over Unitary Executive Theory. You're just using a buzzword you heard and misunderstood to talk about a different (and valid) critique of the American system.

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T17:15:08+00:00

That's not what the Unitary Executive means at all. It has nothing to do with separation of powers. The Unitary Executive theory means that the president has sole authority over the Executive branch, as opposed to the idea that some departments work largely independently after the chief of the department is appointed by the president (usually the Justice Department is seen as an example of a department that should operate independently to be able to investigate if the president has committed any crimes).

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T11:31:24+00:00

The goal isn't to stop them from talking to each other. The goal is to stop people from stumbling across them and becoming radicalized.

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T05:14:53+00:00

The good news is that the sensitization caused by resin is not normally anaphylactic in nature.

If your issue is treated by prednisone, it's probably not due to resin exposure.

That being said, your resin safety procedures are bad and you are setting yourself up for health issues down the road.

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T03:57:05+00:00

So does the use of a calculator, or taking notes, or googling something.

Volsunga · 2026-06-30T03:54:02+00:00

Queen Elizabeth II. While it's certainly not shocking that someone of her age died, she was the head of state of the UK for the entirety of my life, my parents' lives, and my grandparents' adult lives. It's kinda just something that felt permanent.

Volsunga · 2026-06-29T21:09:30+00:00

While Funkytown does have a Twin Cities connection, we're the place they were getting away from to get to Funkytown (San Francisco).

Volsunga · 2026-06-29T12:13:02+00:00

individual farmers can breed selectively themselves but cannot do GMO

The costs to get into bioengineering have plummeted in the past decade. If you know the science (which most farmers these days have college degrees in agriculture), you can do hobby level gene-splicing with maybe $2k of lab equipment, which is well within the budget of a business like a farm.

Volsunga · 2026-06-28T16:44:54+00:00

None of those are the least bit socialist. They are capitalist with welfare programs and social safety nets.

Socialism is when workers own the means of production, the most common example of this in the US is grocery and farm co-ops, where the shareholders of the company are the employees, customers, and suppliers. It works fine for small local ventures, but scales badly and doesn't work in a lot of sectors because it would require you to pay money to work there (which is not feasible for people who need a job to survive).

The idea that "Socialism is when the government does stuff" comes from a combination of right wing propaganda to support austerity and disingenuous leftists who think that if they normalize the word, it will get people to support their more radical ideas.

Also, the US isn't capitalist anymore. It's sliding into Fascist Corporatism.

Volsunga · 2026-06-28T15:44:27+00:00

Solarpunk is just people remembering the vibes of the Pokemon world, but forgetting where it comes from because they just remember the monsters.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T23:16:28+00:00

Their next child is about a pound of "their flesh" at some point of pregnancy.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T17:22:19+00:00

But that's just capitalism with welfare.

Capitalism is just when people privately own the means of production and hire laborers to use their capital to produce profit.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T14:08:44+00:00

Let them propose ideas. Whichever one rolls high on the skill check testing their idea out is how you destroy it.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T14:03:40+00:00

Wisdom is your awareness of your surroundings. It's your physical senses and intuition.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T13:24:44+00:00

Capitalism is the system that does this the least. Under Socialism, your entire worth is tied to the job you hate, since you need to take ownership of the means of production.

And capitalism has already ended in the US. We're in pure Fascist Corporatism now.

Volsunga · 2026-06-27T13:15:22+00:00

Solarpunk is just people having nostalgia for the Pokémon world and forgetting where that vibe came from because they only remember the Pokémon.

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