I shouldn’t.

Rereading that article makes me wonder if it’s a rod-related thing, since it’s only noticeable at night under dark skies, and apparently they can contribute to colour perception.

I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.

A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else could perceive it at all.

I have a different reason, but just a nice sturdy brush, and the hard edge to scrape anything stuck on.

Kitchen sponges are basically the dirtiest thing in your house, by amount and harmfulness of bacteria contained. It might just be something one of the species gives off.

Also notice that Lemmy is actually multiple sites connected together, so there might be more than one of each community, which can be confusing at first.

Other ones on other instances, too.

Not in an apartment right now, but I do tend to absentmindedly slam things. Sorry, I don’t mean to be loud.

I’m guessing there’s a lot of smaller steps they could take to make the US hurt, but yes, they shouldn’t ignore it. Going to the media was probably step 1.

Didn’t they all move to the NW states because they figured it’s more white there, or something?

At this point I don’t really have anyone I identify with.

I’m pretty sure the idiot president thing has a shelf life, even. We’ll be back to clean-cut fascist dictators soon enough.

Brave New World needs an honourable mention for only looking more plausible a century later. We do like our horny birth control sex and not thinking too hard about sad things.

I hope for cyberpunk, because Star Trek (post-WWIII) isn’t gonna happen. Dune or a boring version of Terminator are also in the running, possibly at the same time.

Edit: A cyberpunk phase might give way to a far future that’s not exactly Star Trek, but that is similarly equal, tolerant and pleasant. I know that wasn’t the question, but that’s why it’s the direction I’m pushing for.

If it’s Dune, the last couple centuries were a blip, and the kind of violent autocratic hell that existed before that is just what human civilisation naturally looks like, so it will keep going. If it’s Terminator, hopefully the AI does something nice without us, at least.

Keeping it practical, I’d like to know the basics about every regionally important city in the world. Capitals should be easy, I probably have most of them down already, and I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.

made me feel I visited some sort of lnternet life coach with some mystical stuff on top.

There’s another kind that probably prefers a local language, and would feel very much like a Christian priest. It fills the same basic social roles in some places.

Kind of like how there’s actual shamans, and then the kind that tells white people what they want to hear before feeding them mushrooms. The West never stopped loving a wise noble savage.

They named specific groups under the umbrella, though.

I think the premise is a bit off, although it might just be your choice of wording. Only a very small subset of people at at any time tend to get away with violence, and it’s not necessarily the most aggressive ones. Stick up a convenience store and see how well that goes for you.

Violence seems likely to always be a part of life, at least in the background.

Interesting!

I mean, science doesn’t say it’s not that.

Hopefully none. I do hold some that you could call a-scientific, or something, because existing science has no impact either way. Like what kinds of foods are good or bad. Or morality.

I’ve met people who managed to announce they were shitty in the first few minutes of our encounter. I’ve also gotten to know certian really shitty people pretty well.

There’s always a story they tell themselves that makes it okay, though, and it’s always driven by some kind of weakness they have, even if it’s rank narcissism. Evil implies a level of self-awareness that’s never been there.

I can’t say they don’t exist, but they’re damn rare and I’ve never crossed paths with them. Even Nazis have been known to self-improve over time.

Oh. It’s a foundation that provided and provides free access to the new and exciting technology of the INTERNET. The most popular thing now seems the be shell connections to machines running historical OS’s like Unix. There’s also Gopher and dialup and an internet radio station and a bunch of other services. Lemmy isn’t even listed on the main site, but obviously it still is online.

Beyond that I have to admit I’m new and don’t know it all. The foundation’s website itself feels like a mix of a museum exhibit and an actual active front page.