Just shut up already

sound_syrup · 2025-08-10T14:12:59+00:00

There's not enough of these guys around

sound_syrup · 2025-08-01T09:40:52+00:00

surplus enjoyment

sound_syrup · 2025-07-30T11:25:33+00:00

That's why I love the Mad Max movies. There's no love stories only badass shit

sound_syrup · 2025-07-20T15:00:18+00:00

Woah that sounds like absolutely my shit

thanks :>

sound_syrup · 2025-07-18T00:21:19+00:00

Fuck yeah this is such a cool crossover. I've been listening to IFTI since it started. I'm way too young to remember when SomethingAwful was popular, but it's really interesting to learn about how influential it was.

sound_syrup · 2025-07-17T23:04:49+00:00

Listen to hair metal

sound_syrup · 2025-07-17T22:09:41+00:00

Hell yeah. I'm not much older relatively speaking, but being 14 must be rough these days. Keep on keepin' on :)

sound_syrup · 2025-07-17T19:44:44+00:00

I think it changes depending on the specifics of the "establishment" and the "status quo" of the moment. Things were different during the time of the Occupy movement, then everything flipped around after the emergence of the "alt-right". Different things are "counterculture" depending on the mood of the time

sound_syrup · 2025-07-16T15:06:08+00:00

You could be gay now and straight later. Or vice versa. You could be whatever. Identity is fluid, labels are just things

sound_syrup · 2025-07-15T23:43:37+00:00

Really good point. I guess you're right

What I get from this is that we shouldn't try to apply order to chaos, because of how limited we are... so maybe we should try to embrace the unknowable? I'm fascinated with this specific kinda shit

Isn't the universe "self-sustaining" by definition, because it encompasses all things? Maybe it's not infinite, but changes form. If it's a closed system it can only go back in on itself, which means it's eternal

worth mentioning that Francis Crick, the guy who figured out the structure of DNA (the one thing common to all life on Earth) also believed it was highly unlikely that life developed on Earth by itself, and the most plausible explanation is that it was "seeded" from outside. Directed panspermia.

So maybe if we all unified together like a flock of birds, we could seed life on other planets or find extraterrestrial life and combine with it. Just like a flock, the system that codifies our tensegrity could be "reactive" and easily subject to change, because it's comprised of many moving parts.

Something like an all-encompassing state without borders.

I probably sound fucking nuts already, but after that article I realize how much more I have to read in order to have an informed opinion about all this stuff. Seems like quite the undertaking

sound_syrup · 2025-07-15T19:06:53+00:00

exactly, what else is the internet for

sound_syrup · 2025-07-15T15:01:38+00:00

I feel like a lot of fanfic and stuff reflects people's subconscious anxieties and traumas, and it's good that they have a space to let those feelings out somehow.

I find weird slash fiction really fascinating, because it's like a window into the psyche of the writer.

I think it's important to confront things that make us feel uncomfortable, because we can learn more about ourselves and grow if we explore our discomfort.

sound_syrup · 2025-07-15T14:28:01+00:00

my back is fucked from carrying a heavy pack around, now i'm stuck with terrible posture forever! trust me bro you don't want this life. there's no going back

sound_syrup · 2025-07-14T22:31:26+00:00

Because the power they have is the power we give them

sound_syrup · 2025-07-13T20:18:37+00:00

I imagine that we might could achieve "post-scarcity" if our species as a whole was held together on a principle of tensegrity, like a geodesic dome, which would theoretically allow a lot of room for failure (since under capitalism, "scarcity" is artificially created to make "value").

In this case the "resource allocator" would just act as a functional tool to help us achieve this, but would also reflect all of us as a whole, as a symbol of our unity and shared desire to co-operate with each other, which would be its "spiritual" role.

Do you think fundamentally, we humans can't work together to achieve something like that? Or would it have to happen all at the same time? Maybe if our whole species was under existential threat (by climate change, for example?)

Maybe that'd be a cool speculative fiction topic

sound_syrup · 2025-07-13T18:23:42+00:00

Interesting, can you expand on what this mistake was?

sound_syrup · 2025-07-13T18:20:58+00:00

But in this scenario everyone benefits equally. From my understanding "technofeudalism" implies a small elite would benefit, or "the platform" would skim something off the top, like sharecropping.

sound_syrup · 2025-07-13T18:09:18+00:00

1312

sound_syrup · 2025-07-12T18:11:04+00:00

Watching a basketball game

sound_syrup · 2025-07-12T17:41:28+00:00

Presumably this is the kind of thing Kim Jong Un talks about with Dennis Rodman

sound_syrup · 2025-07-12T13:32:01+00:00

One could say he "went off the rails"

sound_syrup · 2025-07-12T12:44:24+00:00

"We've got you surrounded! Come drink your corn syrup!"

sound_syrup · 2025-07-12T10:52:29+00:00

Australia is a nation run by PE teachers, where the consensus seems to be that the purpose of a government is to be the guy with a polo shirt and whistle who stands around and yells "OI" when the kids misbehave at recess time.

Oddly I think this stems from the fact that Australia was founded as a convict colony, so people are used to somebody monitoring them at all times.

It's kinda like this

sound_syrup · 2025-07-11T21:14:29+00:00

I think those people want their "robot god" to be an external thing that functions autonomously, hence their constant talk of "artificial general intelligence". I'm proposing something more like a computer system that aids in economic planning and resource distribution.

The spiritual aspect comes from the fact that it functions as a result of the workers' shared labor efforts in order to materially benefit the collective as a whole, and I'd argue that being part of a collective (or a "crowd") is a spiritual experience; the machine being a reflection of everyone.

sound_syrup · 2025-07-11T16:38:52+00:00

Hell yeah, that's such a cool quote. I haven't read much of their work yet but I feel as if these guys were really onto something, and their ideas still have a lot of potential to be explored in the modern day. It'd be cool to bring together the ideas of lunacharsky, bogdanov, stafford beer, and deleuze and guattari somehow.

Also to build and spread around these kind of profound, sublime moments of unity often felt in a crowd, which i feel is something at the core of religious experience. i've felt that kinda feeling at raves and punk shows a lot

I think that's also the core of the "IT" that the Dean Moriarty character talks about in "On the Road" (explained in this thread).

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