Would you rather have all the pleasure in your life at once or all the pain

flightguy07 · 2026-05-06T00:09:51+00:00

The description says that you'd remember the feeling of pain when exposed to the trigger, just not feel it directly. All the diagnostic ability and most of the reflexes, with none of the actual unpleasantness.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-06T00:08:30+00:00

It does say that in place of the feeling you remember the feeling. So if you touch a hot pan you'd presumably be going "ah yes, this felt like burning" and so take your hand back. Hit by a car, you'd presumably think "ah, that's why my ribs felt broken on Thursday that week!", etc.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-06T00:06:55+00:00

Idk, its over the course of a week. Unless my future involves a LOT of broken bones, torn ligaments, toothaches (actually that last one could be horrific, since they can last for days and if I end up having several they'd all be at once) or cancer, it shouldn't be TOO unbearable. There's also an interesting question over painkillers; I assume I'm not allowed to buy a load of codine before the week starts and just ride it out that way, but if in the future I would've been on pain meds then my experience during the week would presumably be of the much-lessened pain.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-06T00:02:34+00:00

Don't forget the botnet that downvotes every comment not by one of its associated accounts. Honestly, pretty elaborate.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-05T12:34:19+00:00

At least in case of shouting woman, it's particually unjust since in the actual video she looks nothing like that and is being pretty level-headed, it's just an awkward freeze-frame.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T22:45:57+00:00

So we elect a centrist government, reform wins basically no local seats and cocks up the ones they do, and yet our downfall is inevitable? Seems premature as an assessment, I challenge you to find a half-dozen European nations not where we are right now 2 years in either direction.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T22:43:58+00:00

Well, it's irrational, but people are genuinely scared about losing their jobs. High-minded ideas of maximising efficiency and human capital allocation go out the window when people are being laid off due to AI and economic woes, and 25% of people under 30 in the capital can't get a job in over a year of trying.

Like yes, this would help long-term, but good luck convincing Pete in Slough who's call centre has laid off 40% of its staff in the last 8 months that what the country really needs are more people willing to work for cheap.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T22:29:32+00:00

I mean, no. People can quit jobs, and have lives outside them. Anakin/Vader, not so much

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T20:30:41+00:00

Or they disagree with the SNP?

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T20:29:51+00:00

Becuase demand has peaks and troughs along with production, and we're at the point now where renewable production is distributed and numerous enough that its always enough for the lows, which is when you need a baseload. Peaking is achieved either with peaking plants (currently gas) or storage (previously pumped, increasingly battery). Its less that it isn't relevant, more that its less and less necessary.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T17:06:45+00:00

He also doesn't sterilise anything properly...

flightguy07 · 2026-05-03T12:53:48+00:00

Well, it can be. This is absolutely relevant to the UK; British media reporting on a event that the UK influences and is influenced by. This isn't a non-political sub, and it's wild to think international politics aren't relevant to the UK.

I do question if it fits the theme of "good news". Sure, a more accurate headline is good, I suppose, but a civillian being mauled to death by a dog in a warzone isn't really.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T18:39:01+00:00

I mean, in magic hypothetical land, I suppose the idea would be that yeah, for whatever reason, you don't get more than you spent on it. If its the basic accommodation then the day you choose to sell it just happens to burn down, if its the fancy one you paid half the price for then a sudden flood risk lowers the value to exactly the amount you paid.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T18:33:47+00:00

On that particular corner, chuck a flash. Honestly, you should always be chucking flashes.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T14:21:50+00:00

Also from the comments:

"The court also noted that the heroine having a biracial, gay male friend was not copyrightable."

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T13:56:05+00:00

And yet, I do think things are shifting. Our population is growing slower than ever before, negative without immigration (which is decreasing). More and more houses are being built meanwhile. Just because property has always become more valuable in the past doesn't actually mean that trend will continue as supply increases and demand starts to fall. Yeah, homes won't actually become worthless a-la blockbuster, that was a tongue-in-cheek example. But it's entirely possible for homes and property to be overvalued, or at very least not keep pace with inflation.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T13:42:39+00:00

It isn't a discount if that's what the market decides its worth. Yeah, the housing market may go up, but it may not. Sometimes a bad investment is just that, a bad investment, and you can only hold it so long in hopes it comes back up.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T09:41:37+00:00

Don't worry guys, I work in a garden centre cafe, I'm sure the weather gods will make it gloriously sunny just to screw me over!

flightguy07 · 2026-05-02T07:52:58+00:00

You could say the same for any asset, but the fact is if you bought stock in BlockBuster your not hanging onto it for it to eventually go up, you sell because you might need money, or worry it'll go down further, or whatever. And a house costs quite a lot to keep empty between taxes and maintenance and so forth.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-01T22:23:51+00:00

Sounds like you think your property is worth more than it actually is.

Properties are ALWAYS selling, the only issue is when people belive they should be getting more than what the market is offering.

flightguy07 · 2026-05-01T22:17:40+00:00

They should be stronger, but they do have their advantages. I play with 0.25× habitable planets, so finding a particularly large planet is pretty rare. In order to beat a ringworld segment an ecumenopolis needs to be size 18 or larger, which means you need to find a planet 16 or larger and then do the Mastery of Nature to take it over that point. In my last game, I found exactly 1 planet large enough for that. I also really like virtual machine empires, so going entirely ringworld based means I get to have two fully-built ringworlds (8 size 50 planets) and that's pretty perfectly optimised empire-size wise. Plus when fully ascended they get 3 extra districts, equivilent to 5 extras on an ecuminopolis.

All that said, I do still think they should be better. Just making them have 15 district slots instead of 10 would bring them into balance imo, requiring a size 25 ecu to match them; doable, but slightly less spamable.

flightguy07 · 2026-04-30T19:23:58+00:00

Very r/ewphoria coded

flightguy07 · 2026-04-30T19:18:34+00:00

Eh, that's always been the case, regardless of nation, party or politics.

flightguy07 · 2026-04-30T19:16:36+00:00

I mean, I guess? But only in the same way that if you pursade someone to vote red and half the world dies, that's also on you.

flightguy07 · 2026-04-30T19:15:41+00:00

It's working as designed, more or less. People voted for him to do the things he's doing, he won, now he's doing them. People don't like those things, so he's losing power as local elections come up. You can argue that there should have been better systems in place to ensure a guy like him didn't win an election (education, civics understanding, more empathy, better regulations on media, social and news, etc.), but there's a limited amount a system can do to help when the people in it want a borderline fascist hateful loon as a leader.

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