LOL, spot on!

Long ago, I stumbled upon something similar. A chemist ordered some “organic salt” from amazon, and analysed it at work. He was very disappointed to find that it had only inorganic components, so left a negative review where he explained his discoveries.

Yeah, it’s cool to colonise a new place, but what about the day when the colonists bite the hand that feeds them? In many sci-fi stories, Mars eventually rises against Earth.

History repeats itself, like the episodes of Power Rangers. The writers had only one script, and hardly any creativity, so they just made minor tweaks here and there and turned that napkin into a series.

Why China tough? They would just be walking in the footsteps of England at that point? Totally lame!

Would be way cooler if you built a chain of rebellions: Rome -> Britannia*/England -> America -> Mars. That’s like next level independenception or something.

*caveats: Britannia did rebel, but independence came when Rome just couldn’t afford to rule Britannia any more. They weren’t kicked out.

Was it Johann Heinrich Wolfgang von Sandwich in 1638?

Maybe Earth is just another petri dish among thousands like it. The past 10 000 years could be a part of grand experiment to figure out if all human planets end up destroying the whole planet sooner or later. Maybe there is a genetic sequence that makes humans smart enough to avoid that catastrophe. My guess is, this dish didn’t get the winning sequence.

Even if we somehow survive, why wouldn’t the experimenter just chuck all the dishes into an autoclave when they’re done with the experiment. I mean, you shouldn’t leave an unsupervised experiment running indefinitely. It’s more ethical to stop it at some point, right?

I’ve seen that first hand. Workers keep complaining how badly the engineers designed some machine. When I talked to the engineer who designed it, he told me it was fine 10 years ago, but many things have changed since then. Nowadays, the machine is sitting in a place where it wasn’t designed to sit and it’s doing things it wasn’t designed to do.

It’s a fancier way of saying “quick and dirty”. Couldn’t be bothered to build a proper fix, so I simply went with whatever trashy hack that just barely gets the job done.

I guess that’s the word I was really thinking of. Persuasion sounds more neutral.

That term has some negative baggage. I think we need to use a neutral word l like persuasion or influencing when talking about situations that don’t involve malicious intent. The way I see it, all of these terms still involve the same kinds of tools and methods. More often than not, changing an emotion results in the desired action.

If you’re trying to convince a child to wash their hands, does that count as manipulation? You’re essentially trying to persuade someone to do something they don’t want to do. Sure, the intention isn’t malicious, but the methods are clearly manipulative.

Thank you, Kindly.

Initially, you just need to survive. I can imagine that next you’ll start building small communities and fulfilling their needs.

If you can’t get water purification running, the small village won’t grow to a town. If you can’t make your own tools and shelters, it’s going to stay in the tribal stage.

That made me think about what it would actually take to start rebuilding after a zombie apocalypse or some other disaster like that.

First of all, you would need to restart various bits of infrastructure, like water and electricity. On top of that, you would also need to restart the factories that manufacture the spare parts for all the machiens. Those factories also require raw materials, like metals, so initially metal recycling might be the easiest way to do it. No need to start mining new metals until you’ve already used up all the broken cars and sky scrapers littering the landscape.

So, basically you need to get all sorts of heavy industry up and running again. Those data hoarders can help out with the necessary engineering literature, but having some tools is also required.

How about a pool of mercury or tetrabromoethane? Who said it has to be non-toxic. Besides, mercury comes with extra bling.

Like, how do you even discover you have such a superpower? It’s not every day that you even think of trying something like that.

Oh, thanks. It’s been many years since I’ve seen that movie. Had completely forgotten the name too.

There was a sci-fi movie where surrogate robot bodies were used for everything. Only very few people actually lived their lives using their real body. Was a pretty cool concept.

Washing the dishes. VR edition. While you’re playing the game, the maid bot does the household chores. Just try not to drop anything valuable in VR, because the bot might break something IRL.

In a mostly theoretical sense. America can’t fix its politics without making some radical changes to the voting system, but I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon.

The current system naturally gravitates towards a two-party system, which isn’t quite what I would consider a coalition government. If you have three or four parties actively negotiating about major decisions, that’s when you begin to see the benefits.

Have you considered forming a coalition government? That’s how much of Europe has been working for a while now. There’s usually a little bit of blue, red and green in the mix. Maybe some other colors too.