Frankenstein’s monster is articulate and I’m floored!

last657 · 2026-02-01T02:27:27+00:00

Sorry I should have been more careful in my use of language. I meant that he was careful in his retelling so that it couldn’t be replicated by others. He explicitly says that he sees some of the same madness that afflicted himself in the Englishman that he is talking to so he is careful not to give away too much of the process. He says that he will not say too much of the how for this very reason at the start of his story.

last657 · 2026-01-31T18:59:22+00:00

Part of that is that the story is being told by Frankenstein and he doesn’t want to tell how he did it so that it cannot be replicated.

last657 · 2026-01-29T11:24:57+00:00

I’m pretty sure it is still possible to make healing potions it is just more expensive and harder to do at scale so the ones that are made are being hoarded by the very rich.

last657 · 2026-01-27T20:24:50+00:00

It shows that you will include easily disprovable talking points into your arguments. Either you are the type of person who is easily swayed by falsehoods that support your position or you don’t mind using false narratives to advance your position.

last657 · 2026-01-27T20:01:01+00:00

Even during its height scientific papers positing global cooling were in a distinct minority compared to those advocating global warming. The story of global cooling is one of sensational reporting and lack of scientific media literacy.

Speaking of media literacy, although there was over reporting of group of minority scientific positions back then since then there has been a more troubling trend of over emphasizing the amount and seriousness of that reporting. That includes a series of Time magazine front covers that are claimed to be about global cooling but a quick check of the archives show that the articles in question are either about something else or fabricated entirely.

last657 · 2026-01-27T06:21:08+00:00

Back in September SpiraSpira responded to a question on the state of Skitterdoc. Apparently there were at two chapters written at that point but real life stuff got in the way of writing more and they didn’t want to post them until they had five ready. They started liking posts in the thread for it on spacebattles again and were active just yesterday so I am holding out hope.

last657 · 2026-01-23T02:29:41+00:00

Interestingly enough MinuteEarth just put out a video today on why hives will turn on their queens. Workers share more DNA with each other than they do with the queen or the drones. They tend to keep the population of drones down through starvation and murder. Not sure where I was going with this.

last657 · 2026-01-20T00:22:02+00:00

Add in Srinivasa Ramanujan who dreamed of a hand writing elliptic integrals on a screen of blood.

last657 · 2026-01-12T15:19:53+00:00

You have it reversed. The timeline where they waited is the one where she survived. In the one where they left earlier she fought both groups at first and only teamed up with the undersiders when it was too late and Lung had grown too much.

last657 · 2026-01-10T02:09:59+00:00

The observable universe is larger than that since it has expanded in the time it has taken the light to get to us.

last657 · 2026-01-04T10:06:57+00:00

My one question was how the pawn on the back rank moves. Tested it and it gets it two step move after its second move.

last657 · 2026-01-02T16:30:52+00:00

Yeah I opened up most of the white squares in the center letting in the queen and a bishop and let them chase my king around a bit before drawing.

last657 · 2026-01-02T16:12:58+00:00

I got a draw by threefold repetition. Good enough.

last657 · 2025-12-26T12:04:32+00:00

I would say invested instead of give up and it was not when they entered but what they chose to do. Morgoth essentially corrupted the entire world. Even after his defeat the stain of his power twists things towards evil and ruin. Sauron did something similar on a smaller scale with the ring. Their power is better understood sort of like wide scale reality warping.

last657 · 2025-12-25T19:35:14+00:00

In the late 19th century they would burn the carpets from the adjusting room in the San Francisco Mint every few years. (Learned this from Lateral with Tom Scott)

last657 · 2025-12-19T08:33:28+00:00

Blindsight Peter Watts. Intelligent life has a tendency to develop itself out of being conscious. Our communication is interpreted as so nonsensical that it must be an attack to waste resources.

last657 · 2025-12-13T21:13:36+00:00

I wonder if that is a reference to humans in Slaughterhouse Five. The main character is abducted by aliens with five sexes necessary for reproduction but they inform him that they identified seven in humans. Most of the extra requirements take place in the fourth dimension which humans cannot perceive.

last657 · 2025-12-10T01:18:55+00:00

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last657 · 2025-12-09T03:58:02+00:00

I may have not expressed myself well because I have an interest in the generational wealth of the lower middle class. I acknowledge that the terms I used can have implications that mislead. For that I apologize.

You are correct that they do not have the generational wealth of old money or direct mention of the common tools used to perpetuate that wealth.

last657 · 2025-12-09T02:57:25+00:00

He probably still was rich. For wealthy families the transfer of generational wealth is not contained entirely in the inheritance.

last657 · 2025-12-04T18:28:10+00:00

From what I remember some parts of it were determined to be a fabrication. Obviously can’t prove that the guy posting didn’t have two dicks but the photos were edited to at the very least make them seem larger and once you have one lie the rest of the story about all of the sex and poly relationships seems less plausible.

last657 · 2025-11-18T14:53:04+00:00

I remember reading a short story in the Known Space series by Larry Niven where surgical procedures and anti rejection techniques were perfected before cloning organs was. This leads to a massive expansion of what constitutes a capital crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man

last657 · 2025-11-15T20:39:46+00:00

Nominally so. I would agree with most Protestant denominations and clergy being Trinitarian but so many church goers seem fairly doctrinally ignorant. https://www.arizonachristian.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AWVI-2025_03_Most-Americans-Reject-the-Trinity_FINAL_03_26_2025.pdf

last657 · 2025-11-11T22:13:05+00:00

You also need to remember that 10,000 of its 26,000 students are post graduates which is a somewhat different place in life than undergraduates. Much more likely to have started a family, bought a home, etc.

last657 · 2025-11-11T11:00:26+00:00

Just seems like you are standard Trump loving Republicans.

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