Olgratin_Magmatoe
@Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
the means of returning to power - would be absent.
Unless the randomized reps decide they like their newfound power, and change the rules to allow them to maintain/extend/return to power.
Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.
Direct bribes are only part of the problem. Corporations would still do the things they’re doing now, where they bribe politicians with cushy jobs once they leave their government positions. Good pay on the job while at the government doesn’t stop that.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
Randomized representatives can still be propagandized, bribed, and have hunger for power.
- Comment on The Tremors rights are back in the hands of Stampede Entertainment 3 weeks ago:
I use to love this series. Hopefully they don’t go off to butcher it.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 3 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t be the first:
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
And how did we connect that, and rule out other things?
- Comment on Subnautica 2 arrives in Early Access in 2025 with 4 player co-op 4 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to this. I quite enjoyed subzero even though I didn’t enjoy it as much as the original. So I am hoping they’ve learned from the difference in love the community has for them.
TBH half of the problem with subzero was the sea truck. I get that they wanted to innovate and do something new, but the original sub was just so much cooler. IMO a better innovation would have been to focus on building a nomadic fleet with friends.
Maybe friend A has a boat on the surface, friend B has a sub, friend C has a factorio-esc spidertron, etc.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this place is a very
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Grape fucking
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Endless politics
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Meta memes/drama/shitposting
pick two place
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- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
You’re not being creative enough. You could have a bowl/cup of grapes, and use that. Or maybe alternatively you could blend/mash them up, let them dry out a bit to stiffen up, then use that.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters.
That is fair, but also consider that an intelligent species isn’t going to be limited by chance encounters. I regularly eat bananas, but I don’t live in India. I regularly eat pineapples, but I don’t live in Costa Rica. Very little of my diet is comprised of food that is native to my area. As an intelligent species, we farm food en masse, ship it around the world, and plant things outside of their natural habitat.
I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?
Purely speculating, I’d wager slightly above average as a result of the thing I said about omnivores being a precursor to becoming intelligent.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
Potentially. But think of it this way, there are somewhere around 400,000 plant species out there.
news.mongabay.com/…/many-plants-world-scientists-…
Based on this list, something on the order of like 99.5% of plants are either not safe, or not useful/beneficial. If other species on our planet share a similar rate without complete overlap, then it’s practically a guarantee that there will be thousands of plants that are safe and useful for us but not for other species. That doesn’t feel particularly strange or unlikely. So even with a specialized diet, I don’t think the numbers would be much different.
It also could be the case that being scavenging omnivores is a strong precursor to becoming intelligent. If your species is on the rise in terms of intelligence, you’re probably using that to expand your food sources wide and far.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?
I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it’s pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin.
So I’d think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to eat things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
Would assuredly be a step up in quality
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
“The Art of Defecation - How to turn your anatomy into a brown art factory”
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 5 weeks ago:
Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right
Not everybody does. I’ve seen some threads, mostly on insta, where people were getting on their fucking knees to slob on Elon’s nob. I get that the average insta user isn’t the brightest, but people like that do exist.
And it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because there is a chance that the hard work of the engineers, laborers, and Shotwell will be used for Elon’s fame throughout history.
So yeah, fuck Elon. The tech is cool as fuck though.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 5 weeks ago:
The Emperor protects
- Comment on Anon has a plan 1 month ago:
To be fair, some penguins aren’t exactly small
- Comment on Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups 1 month ago:
You’ll run into security and stability problems if you put it off for too long.
- Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit?
What’s even more infuriating is that when you try to point this out to others, they act like you’re insane.
- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
I’m too lazy and incompetent at statistics to do the math, but survivorship bias is very much relevant here.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Turns out, if you build something that isn’t a bunch of stones in an organized stack, it won’t last thousands of years like the organized stone stacks.
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
Nobody said anything about that.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
Don’t throw around insults if you don’t want to be insulted.
- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 2 months ago:
The scene where Picard needs a heart transplant around season 2 of TNG was pretty bad. You can’t just make up words for a procedure we already have. My girlfriend still isn’t over it.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 months ago:
It’s a double edged sword.
- Comment on Swifties wasted no time... 2 months ago:
Or natives
- Comment on Swifties wasted no time... 2 months ago:
npr.org/…/trump-apparent-assassination-attempt-sh…
It seems like the only shots that were fired were from the secret service.
- Comment on Swifties wasted no time... 2 months ago:
This post is how I found out about this 2nd attempt.
- Comment on All employees of Annapurna Interactive (Stray, Outer Wilds) resign en masse after requesting to stay independent and owner said No. 2 months ago:
If they have the capital, are loaned the capital, and have the willingness to, yes.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Canceling out only a tiny bit puts you on an orbit similar to earth’s. You need to kill basically all of your momentum.
- Comment on Socialism 2 months ago:
I don’t buy the flying saucer stuff, it strikes me as at best creative speculation.
I’m glad we’re in agreement there.
For example if you were viewing technological development on different planets, all other things being equal but one has a fractured global government with hundreds of different defense concerns and intra-class conflicts sapping resources and scientific ability, vs a planet that has progressed beyond that, and is able to direct all resources towards a single purpose. One of those is going to be more effective in material terms.
I also agree here, though I think the importance of the speed of progress isn’t the important part here. Even if it takes a billion years, it potentially wouldn’t matter because an extraterrestrial race could have evolved a billion years earlier than us. Though this gets into the problem of stability over long periods like you’ve mentioned.
I would actually point out that we have an extremely pressing example on our current planet where the endless-growth orientation of our economic system is de-terraforming our planet before we have demonstrated any ability to re-terraform it, when you’re looking at things on an interstellar timescale this starts to look like something self-defeating rather than a ticket to rapid development.
Absolutely, but another thing to consider is that it may not be a requirement to have a fully habitable planet. Earth has already, since before industrialization, had places that are effectively uninhabitable to humans. We’re reducing the area that is habitable at a terrifying rate, but it could be the case that it becomes irrelevant. My mind goes to a world like that of Earth within the Warhammer 40k series. The Earth is just fucked, plastered and cemented over, with a poisonous atmosphere, etc. They just brute force the problem by ignoring it.
That, and living on a planet may not be necessary in the first place. Given the composition of our asteroid belt, it has basically everything we’d ever need for potentially thousands of years, easily available and minable, relatively speaking. Outside of food problems, it could potentially be possible to live nomadically in space.
any systems which are not at a stable equilibrium will simply not exist long enough to actually have an impact.
Maybe, maybe not. It could be the case that wormholes, alcubierre drives, and other forms of FTL shenanigans are impossible, and the only way to get somehwere else is to send a generational ship. If that’s how things play out, intelligent life might hope from one system to the next in a manner similar to conway’s game of life. It isn’t at equilibrium, because each planet is drained of resources rapidly, but there is enough momentum to keep things going.
The rationale is essentially just that any system stable enough to actually sustain existence at those timescales across those distances would necessarily look different, and could not look like a system with constant boom and bust cycles, as eventually the technology gets the the point where the ‘bust’ is a self-annihilation.
That could be the case. It also could be the case that those timescales aren’t needed, because FTL is somehow possible. We literally just don’t know right now.
To add even more to this complete speculation, it may be the case that there are stable political systems, without boom and bust cycles, that aren’t capitalist, socialist, or communist. It could be the case that technology inevitably advances such that the bust is self-annihilation, but it could also be the case that technology inevitably advances such that there isn’t any possible way for their to be a bust, that it isn’t possible to revolt against the bourgeoisie/monarch/dictator. AI systems are going to get a lot more crazy over these next few years, and a large chunk of it will be used to quell protest and dissidents. They can already track people based on the gait of their walk, what when (not if) that technology is expanded upon? The technology is very clearly here to use small scale drones to attack individual people, what happens when (again not if) that technology is expanded upon? We may find ourselves in a position with the bourgeoisie impossible to touch thanks to technology.
This question of economic/political stability is essentially just one possible answer to the fermi paradox and great filter.
I guess I’m just not that confident that we’re on a trajectory which would result in us becoming an interstellar civilization without the need for major overhauls to our political economy first,
Yeah, I agree.
and it makes it hard to envision aliens getting to that point while still also being tied up with internal ethnic strife and economic crises.
Maybe I’ve just focused on science fiction dystopias too much, but I can envision it. But that’s not to say I think it likely.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
I knew something was up. We’re onto you /u/fossilesque
