What if it was a platonic love potion?

Frankly, I would not be terribly surprised if some descendant of our species, almost certainly incredibly, unimaginably divergent from what we are now but still someone, literally dies with the universe, however that ends up ending.

Im fairly doubtful of that tbh.

I feel the inverse. I kinda want to see what it would be like to be born, like, one million years into the future, or something like that.

I always just look at the cable/device and the port to see which half of the connector is empty and which has that plastic bit

States rights was never really an ideal (in general, if it’s wrong to allow something in one state, it’d be wrong to allow it in the rest, after all). It was just a thing to bring out whenever the federal government disagreed with something they wanted but some states didn’t. But now that they control the federal government, it becomes a liability, so they drop it.

You could also shoehorn the American two party political system into this

Youtubepoop. A genre of YouTube videos, I’m not entirely sure how to properly describe what qualifies something as one, it’s sort of like shitposting memes I guess but full of bizzare in-jokes.

“Entering Space: Creating a Spacefairing Civilization” by Robert Zubrin. My mother’s work when I was growing up had a “free book shelf” that someone had put it on and she’d brought it home because I liked sciency stuff, and I’ve been extremely interested in space development and futurism ever since.

I mean, it could technically be valid, if someone had a medical emergency involving it, though it might not be the best phrasing.

With the caveat that this was about a month before I quit, so I can’t say for sure that the kid didn’t eventually get fired, just that if he did it took longer than that: I was working in a grocery store on a closing shift, and one of the high school kids that worked there after school brings in one of those “illegal” (I think they’re only illegal to sell and not to own or something like that, but you can get them on Amazon easily anyway) extra bright green laser pointers, and starts randomly waving the thing around, to include right next to my face as I was stocking shelves and around corners a customer could walk around without warning.

Only time I’ve ever had to make a complaint about someone to my supervisor, I’m not someone to complain about people easily but to my understanding you can blind people with those things. I even mentioned that to the kid and he just laughed and told me “duh that’s the point”.

All I heard about the complaint later was “Oh yeah he’s been told not to bring it in again”. This was right in the middle of that point around COVID where it was hard to find retail workers and you got all those memes of “nobody wants to work anymore”, so my suspicion is they might have just been worried about replacing him.

About a week later, he also waited till the supervisor was away from the front of store for awhile and connected his phone to this tv display that normally was for the in-store bank displaying ads, to make it play ytp videos at high volume (or whatever the modern term for that kind of thing is, I’m not sure if they’re still called that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrome

Artificial wombs are something that’s often presented as dystopian, but I would imagine would actually be a very good thing. Beyond the obvious help it would be to infertile couples that desired children, they would if commonly adopted eliminate the danger of birth and pregnancy complications, and discomfort associated with the process. Probably not everyone would want to use it, but I’d bet even having the option would mean a lot to a lot of people.

If it was a joke, I definitely missed it then, I didn’t even have the slightest suspicion that it might be one.

Tbh my experience with chinese goods has been that the “garbage quality stuff that breaks easily” is usually the very cheap stuff made to compete on price and nothing else. In which case, an equivalent thing from anywhere would be the same way. Anything I’ve bought from a Chinese manufacturer at a typical price for it’s product type and from a company with a proper brand that isn’t a random string of letters has been decent enough quality. Granted that’s been electronics and not guns, but still, it’s not like the knowledge of how to make stuff doesn’t exist there somehow.

I’ve been pretty happy with how the instance I use has been run thus far, but it is focused around furries, so it won’t be something most people outside that subculture like I expect. Still, the fandom is big enough that someone in it looking for an instance might look at this thread, so I mention it anyway.

If that were true, what happens if two different non violent movements each with more than 3.5% of the population involved, exist at the same time in direct opposition to eachother?

Literally just imagining things in your head out of boredom does something similar, and that’s something that’s just gonna happen if you sit idle.

Brains need stimulation to develop and continue to function properly, as creatures with unusually powerful brains, humans benefit from, even need, quite a lot of such mental stimulation. There’s a reason we enjoy and put so much effort into entertaining ourselves, compared to most other animals. Working through imagined scenarios is no more unhealthy for us than exercising our muscles to keep them fit is.

I imagine that Google, Facebook, and other such companies would agree

Technically not, since a lack of intelligence doesn’t necessarily imply that something said by a given person is wrong (else an unintelligent person could make things more likely to be wrong by saying something, or would be unable to say that thing if it is true.)