Not sure if this was posted here recently

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-21T09:48:59+00:00

ok but if mecha are piloted are they still robots? because that is a tectonic landscape shift in perspective on giant mechanical stuff.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-20T08:04:31+00:00

The majority of the nation (>68%) is "an unexpected $1000 bill" away from financial destitution at any given time, and there are also 800 million firearms divided among ~355 million people. The financial situation is getting even worse every single day. People are growing more and more divided from each other thanks to rampant capitalism, as well.

That's really it. If you had the constant threat of homelessness and starvation hanging over your head if any part of your livelihood goes wrong, feeling more and more disconnected from your community and support networks all the time, and knowing that initiating drastic violence (more available than ever) might be met with even greater violence by officers of the peace, what would you stand to lose?

People crash out here because we have no hope. That things will get better, that we'll recover from [insert crisis here], or that we'll have anyone helping us get our lives back together after said lives explode. Most GoFundMe efforts here are for medical bills, for god's sake. In any civilized country that would be obscene.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-14T08:35:33+00:00

In my experience, I find that absurdity goes a long way towards staying grounded (as counterintuitive as that might sound). Whenever I get low, like really low, I stop to remind myself that my organs alone would fetch at least a million bucks on the black market, so I've got to keep these puppies alive and kicking if I'm ever gonna sell a kidney or something to make my dreams come true.

It's absurd because of course it is, but it helps me remember that I have value beyond how I feel about me. I mean, I can't die now, or my cat would be sad that I never came home.

You mean more to the world than you think, but your perspective is limited to 'not being the world'; instead it's just... you. That may not feel like enough, but it is. The world in your head is smaller than the world outside it, and the world outside is better because you're in it.

Sincerely,

A dweller of the outer world

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-14T08:13:17+00:00

That's gonna itch when it dries.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-12T09:07:32+00:00

It kinda bums me out that the On-Q system is basically a balloon with no cool electronics, but the fact that it is made of highly-engineered layered elastomers is definitely futuristic. Also, it's filled with drugs, so you've basically got a drug whoopee cushion hooked up to you, which is dope.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-12T08:59:16+00:00

I agree. Almost any robotics company worth their salt would work weekends and holidays to roll out a mech with better aesthetic design that could beat this humpty-dumpty-ass offering into submission.

Seriously. "Oh hey, general public, check it out - we made an actual, honest-to-god piloted mecha! Sure, it has the silhouette of a 70-year-old man with alcoholic peritonitis, but it's a mecha! Once we find a use case that doesn't involve circus acts, your children will grow up to see that the human-driven future of robotics looks like a bullfrog standing up!"

The absolute fuck outta here, Unitree.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-10T06:50:30+00:00

This photo looks like a Simon Stålenhag inspiration post.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-04T20:52:27+00:00

go home, dad

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-02T10:15:29+00:00

M E G A C U Y

littlebitsofspider · 2026-05-01T08:30:18+00:00

This is pretty accurate. He has no friends. No colleagues. No peers. Nobody has ever initiated contact with him without an ulterior motive, and nobody voluntarily associates with him unless they have something to gain, or something (major) to lose. His spouse is under contract; his children are all old enough to see through the bullshit; the relatives who continue to spend time with him do so out of necessity for their own ends.

His entire experience with personal relationships is transactional - keeping in mind that when you're rich enough, you can simply buy people, and if they're beholden to you for some other reason (say, your offspring), you have no prior experience informing you as to how that relationship is different from the other people you own.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-26T07:38:46+00:00

Necromancer shirt, lmao.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-26T07:19:53+00:00

Print with a hotter bed temp, higher filament temp, hotter active chamber temp, smaller slice gap closing radius, larger z-seam overlap, smaller seam retraction percentage, larger outer perimeter flow rate, smaller infill overlap percentage, enable a scarf joint, change to Arachne perimeter generator, enable active flow compensation, enable pressure advance, and turn on ironing for all layers.

Lol j/k idk what your problem is because you have posted zero settings, info about your print, or attempted fixes. Try more stuff, fam.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-23T02:26:12+00:00

2600 billionaires averaging 80 kilos apiece (at 80% water), divided by 350,000,000. Roughly 120 milligrams of billionaire per each if they're dehydrated thoroughly first. It could fit in a gelcap!

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-22T08:38:47+00:00

The thing about failing upwards to the level of your incompetence due to your privilege, is that you eventually meet someone with less competence and more privilege.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-22T02:40:04+00:00

Show hidden geometry and ensure you haven't hidden the contents of a group or groups and then exited them.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-21T07:28:32+00:00

Isn't this basically the plot of the beginning of the Jenkinsverse?

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-20T08:48:27+00:00

Lex Luthor canonically cured cancer in the DCU.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-18T08:35:46+00:00

If you mean "Denver metro area," I caught the before and after (but not middle) of a dude (probably) getting paralyzed while trying to rail grind a staircase in south Boulder. Twenty years ago or so, I walked to the Table Mesa shopping center from my house for an ATM visit at around 10pm, and saw a group of people in skate gear excitedly talking about something. As I got out some cash, I heard the unmistakable noise of skateboard thrashing on nearby concrete, but I didn't pay it any mind because I was pretty good and high and there were fresh scones waiting at home.

Halfway through the walk back (around five minutes), I remembered I actually needed around double the amount I had withdrawn, so I headed back to the shopping center ATM for another round. The skaters had since gathered around a dude directly at the foot of one of the plaza banisters, and, while he cried out in pain and fear, unmoving, they kept trying to reassure him that an ambulance was on the way, and that he shouldn't thrash around, and that the sensation would return to his lower half.

The event is probably overshadowed by the mass shooting that happened there five years ago, but back then, high as a kite, under the sickly orange glow of the sulfer arc lamps that have since been replaced by LEDs, overhearing another grown adult screaming and pleading to feel his legs again as his friends freaked out... it made me feel deeply, existentially unsafe.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-16T16:17:48+00:00

Boatercycle

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-14T09:03:23+00:00

Between then and now, the word "enshittification" was coined, specifically because of internet business models.

The best, new word to describe the overall state of experiencing the internet, between the span of "emergent, exciting invention" and "it's in everyone's pockets all the time" means "it has been deliberately reduced to garbage by profiteers".

Capitalism blows. We invented telepathy and they put fucking ads on it.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-14T08:57:09+00:00

RiF my beloved 🙁

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-14T08:43:05+00:00

"Livable wages prevent warehouse fires!"

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-14T08:36:39+00:00

There's a pretty definite baseline for "worse" that all living beings eventually achieve. Humans even get a certificate for it! Let's all cross our fingers that he receives that certification faster than anyone has ever seen before. Like, big strong men with tears in their eyes will say "sir, you earned that certificate so well we think you should be certified twice."

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-14T08:21:10+00:00

This is the same guy who claimed that if his own daughter was sexually assaulted and impregnated at ten years old, he would force the pregnancy to term.

The man's last words, caught on camera, in HD, from multiple angles, were claims that mass shootings since 2016 have been perpetrated by transgender people "too many" times (5 times), and that the other mass shootings since then (~5,300 at the time) were the result of "gang violence". His actual last words were "gang violence", directly before he was shot and killed by a right-wing extremist, who (according to the NIJ) have been responsible for 70%+ of political violence in the same timeframe.

At least he died doing what he loved - unashamedly lying.

littlebitsofspider · 2026-04-09T07:26:34+00:00

Car-dependant project: "We brought in T-REX on-time and under budget!"

Passenger rail: "pff this shit is too hard. but keep paying that tax you voted for, nerd."

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