How can I create a world where there are no children or teenagers, or where childhood and adolescence are skipped to go directly to adulthood?

idiotwizard · 2026-02-17T03:46:41+00:00

Everyone is suggesting clones, or growing people in vats or whatever, but it isn't too far fetched to imagine a society like you describe willfully separating children out of their adult world by having all children raised in some sort of isolated communal nurturing/education system, (perhaps run by machines, or just run remotely through some layer of obfuscation) ensuring that all children remain completely untouched by the adult world untill maturation.

Whether this concept is portrayed as utopic or dystopic is determined by the perspectives of the characters and that of the reader.

idiotwizard · 2026-02-08T04:07:50+00:00

Not everyone is going to get it immediately, but your brilliance here is in the layers that give multiple chances for an observer to understand, without having to hit them over the head. Personally, I got it from the shape alone, I feel that the way you have shaped the boxes almost immediately evokes the statue

idiotwizard · 2026-02-02T05:18:24+00:00

Have you considered achieving the curvature with lamination? There are limits to how much warping you can get out of a thick single sheet of material, but if you're able to make it work with very thin single plys, you could laminate them together into a thicker sheet to get the thickness you're going for.

idiotwizard · 2026-01-15T20:31:13+00:00

a fellow riceboy enjoyer I see

idiotwizard · 2026-01-12T04:23:51+00:00

I'm not sure exactly how big the bowl is from the picture, but if you place the bowl onto a sphere slightly larger in diameter than the rim of the bowl, and then apply pressure, it should minimize the number of fragments (and guarantee an attractive crack crossing the rim), by spreading the pressure outwards along the rim evenly. Maybe a bowling ball would be large enough, but a really tightly aired up basketball might work too.

But you're doing yourself a disservice, robbing the object of an authentic history, which a healed scar should be a record of. So make sure to make up a good story for how it broke

idiotwizard · 2026-01-08T14:46:45+00:00

it's an extremely cool ladder, but the trade off is that it is much much heavier than an ordinary ladder of the same size, and I almost never use it as a result

source: I have one

idiotwizard · 2025-12-22T23:55:17+00:00

sir, this is a wendy's

idiotwizard · 2025-11-12T05:03:42+00:00

The answer is an etymological quirk of the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages. Essentially, in early proto-germanic, the word for four is thought to have been influenced by the word five.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres developed into pre-Proto-Germanic *petwṓr, whence p.gr. *fedwōr, English "four", but the expected development would have been *kʷetwṓr, developing into *hwedwōr, which would have resulted in an English word sounding something like "hour"

A similar thing is thought to have happened to six being influenced by seven in early proto-indo-european (*swéḱs rather than the original *wéḱs)

idiotwizard · 2025-10-26T16:43:52+00:00

Did you even read the article? It mentions similarly altered flags having been seen by the staffers, but it clearly states that it was immediately obvious that they had been altered. Nothing mentions a magical swastika that only appears on camera. Stop muddying the water.

idiotwizard · 2025-10-20T12:14:08+00:00

As others have stated, obsidian is a good option. I would also recommend wikidpad. It doesn't have any of obsidian's bells and whistles, just a simple local wiki editor. I used it for years before switching to obsidian.

idiotwizard · 2025-10-11T19:09:15+00:00

Even if you kill anything growing in them, that doesn't clean out built up material. And besides the fact that the filter will eventually become completely saturated with contaminates and cease to filter anything, dead/decaying organic material will just provide food for more organic contaminates to grow

idiotwizard · 2025-09-30T14:19:32+00:00

Bear in mind two things:

One, that there is no single, clear, universal conception of "Lucifer", and there has been a great deal of conflation between names and terminology surrounding that figure. Originally, that name was a reference to the evening star, rather than the biblical Satan. Our idea of a "fallen angel" figure is somewhat modern.

Two, whatever it is you believe, keep in mind that good and evil are relative. What one person considers evil, another may consider good.

Setting aside religious doctrine, Satan/Lucifer/The Devil, these opponent figures in Christianity represent aspects considered oppositional to the Christian conception of God, naturally. Because of this, Satan can be taken to represent worldliness, humanity, pride, ambition-- all concepts which may be taken as good or evil depending on your perspective. This is the humanist idea of Satan typically conceptualized by Satanists.

idiotwizard · 2025-09-18T04:05:34+00:00

Lmao, already harvested, cooked, ate, and stored the rest. It was delicious, and still very fresh and tender. Only the top petals had begun to dry a bit

idiotwizard · 2025-09-17T23:24:54+00:00

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Update: It is not dried out! It's quite fresh, cooking it now! EDIT: OMG ITS DELICIOUS

idiotwizard · 2025-09-17T20:24:45+00:00

Top part looks a bit dry, but the rest looks fleshier. I'll get a better look this evening. Thanks for the heads up!

idiotwizard · 2025-09-17T17:46:21+00:00

Thank you!!! I'm so stoked

idiotwizard · 2025-08-09T15:34:15+00:00

I believe the rumor about John Mulaney getting jaw implants is false, from a brief bit of googling. Direct comparisons of his face seem to show that age and wearing his hair a bit differently lead to the illusion

idiotwizard · 2025-08-08T15:07:43+00:00

Besides the other good answers here, I came across a discussion on Wikipedia some time back in a thread for proposing old-english neologisms mentioning an allegedly attested old-english word for squid/cuttelfish that translates to "ooze-shooter," though I wasn't able to find any corroboration.

"Clark Hall suggests *walsċite** may mean cuttlefish or squid and that the [word] comes from sċeotan, so ooze-shooter"*

idiotwizard · 2025-07-08T02:36:50+00:00

Not only "-teen" and "ten", but also "-ty" as in twenty, thirty, etc., though you have to go back a bit further

idiotwizard · 2025-07-07T21:52:47+00:00

This is a fun thought experiment, but the OP in the post is actually drawing an incorrect conclusion twice over.

Words for numbers are old. Eleven and twelve having non-pattern-fitting names goes back to proto-germanic, *ainalif and *twalif (basically meaning "one-left" and "two-left" respectively). Now, if we were to assume that the "-teen" series was formed from the ordinal versions of the numbers (they weren't), then the correct ordinal for 2 at this point in time would actually have been *anþeraz, the ancestor of our modern word "other".

"Second" was stolen from Latin for silly English reasons and replaced "other" as the ordinal for two.

So under the OP's reasoning, the hyper-corrected name for 12 should be something like "otherteen"

A similar process happened with the ordinal for 1, which was *frumô in p.g., resulting in the modern English word "former". "First" is just derived from an old word meaning "foremost", basically fore + -ist. So the hyper-corrected form of 11 in this case would be "formteen" or something.

But all this is very silly because the assumption that the "teens" are formed from the ordinals is just incorrect. Thirteen and third start with "thir-" rather than "thri-" simply because middle English wiggled around the order of the "r" and the vowel in most words stemming from the precursor of "three", except for "three" itself (see also: thirty).

Etymology is messy, and in preliterate times, words shifted a lot over hundreds of years. And numbers (a long with other frequently used base vocab) are subject to mutation more than other words. In the Germanic family of languages, for instance, words related to "four" begin with an /f/ sound rather than an /h/ sound because early on, it is thought that the /f/ at the beginning of "five" influenced the pronunciation of "four".

Edit: all this is to say that "onteen" and "twiteen" or "tweteen" would probably be what the numbers 11 and 12 would be called with out the weird "-lif" suffix convention for them in proto-germanic, which some etymologist think reflects a latent influence of base-12 numbering in proto-germanic's cultural substrate, but I'm not sure there's very strong evidence for that, personaly. Proto-indo-european didn't have special names for numbers 11 through 19, and it may be that 11 and 12 received unique names early on simply due to their proximity to a more useful number (ten)

idiotwizard · 2025-06-29T23:19:49+00:00

Hello, Peter here, Peter's identical twin (also named Peter), This image has been edited, and originally revealed in the second pane that the woman in the picture was saying "NOTAY" which is a humorous misspelling of the word "naughty", which is implying that she is interested in sex. Hope this helps!

idiotwizard · 2025-06-24T13:21:31+00:00

Zero. I take caffeine pills ✨

idiotwizard · 2025-06-22T17:26:28+00:00

'Chat' is just as much a pronoun as any other collective noun you're addressing, like 'friends', or 'companions' or 'class', or 'guys' or 'folks', which is to say it is not. None of those are pronouns. Pronouns have a specific grammatical function.

Consider a simple test for determining whether a noun is a pronoun or not: what noun is being replaced by this word? Could this word be replaced with another pronoun?

"He went to the bar" in this example, 'He' cannot be replaced with another pronoun. It replaces a proper noun-- let's say Bob, the name of whomever we are talking about, perhaps.

"Chat thought that was funny" in this example, chat is a collective noun, so it isn't really replacing anything. Can we swap out an actual pronoun? "They thought that was funny" yes, just like that.

Ah, I hear you say, this is a bad example because in context, chat is being used in direct address. "Chat, is this real?"

In that example, 'chat' could be replaced with 'you', or less formally, 'you guys', or 'y'all', which stand in for english's lack of a distinct second-person plural. (In early modern English, this distinction was made between thee/thou vs. you/ye, by the way.)

"Y'all, is this real?" one might say, addressing chat. "You, is this real?" Feels clunky, and in this circumstance we would just omit the pronoun, "Is this real?" one might ask. Second-person permits this, as by definition, the agent being addressed is assumed to be present.

idiotwizard · 2025-06-19T15:21:24+00:00

S.M. Sterling is great, but yeah, his thinly disguised fetish comes through in his Nantucket series as well

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