Imagine still having to negotiate with private health insurance as a Mars colonist. Oh, Kaiser didn’t cover your kidney shrinkage medicine? Just fill out a form in our office on Earth to start a review process.

Yeah, that’s what they need to get their birth rates up; more Anime.

The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin.

It’s basically this:

In Elden Ring lore threads, I’ve noticed an odd number of men commenting that a team of women assassins slaying golden boy Godwyn must have been difficult for them because of how gorgeous and attractive Godwyn was. That they had to fight their instincts, surely, to slay such a perfect male specimen.

A lot of men seem to think they’re reducing their odds of being assassinated by female contract killers by working out, not to fight off the attack, but to look too attractive for her to kill…

I blame James Bond movies.

As a Tales From the Loop TTRPG enjoyer, this rocks

Being able to admit a mistake is huge, being able to genuinely apologize without some cop-out disclaimer is even better.

I feel like I’ve got most of these, but I also feel like everybody my age has got most of these…

On the other hand, I’m about to become a full time student on top of a full time workload and this is freaking me out.

"Palestinians should simply "

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A Bewitching Revolution.

You play as a witch who explores a city, helping homeless people get housed, planting fruit trees, clearing anti-bird architecture, starting union drives and prison riots…

The game is free and you can finish it in an hour.

https://colestia.itch.io/a-bewitching-revolution

A Bewitching Revolution is a first-person adventure game about a communist witch living in a cyberpunk city. Use magic to help the city’s residents build collective forms of power and resistance!

Inspired by the work of Silvia Federici, A Bewitching Revolution tells an optimistic story about people transforming their gloomy capitalist present into a bright revolutionary future. It is designed to be played in a single sitting, roughly one hour long.

In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!

Oh. That’s weird.

Okay FINE!! FINE!! I’LL WATCH IT!!

I actually just adopted knocking on wood. Couldn’t tell ya why.

After reading Flatland and playing The Forgotten City, I feel like any number of human religions could end up being “true” to some degree. But it would involve aliens, or interdimensional interlopers or something.

The speed of advancement from the industrial revolution to present.

This one makes Fermi’s Paradox far more confusing and terrifying to me. The time it took to go from agriculture to the steam engine is nothing compared to the age of the universe, absolutely nothing, and from the steam engine to modern technology is fuck ton nothing.

An intelligent species could go from stone age technology to nuclear weapons in the blink of an eye.

And that’s just life as we understand it. We have no idea if we’re the equivalent of Flatland in a higher spatial dimension or something. There could be stars with entire civilizations of plasma-based intelligent life churning inside of them. There could be intelligent civilizations lurking in each and every single subatomic particle.

It’s possible no matter how far out or far in we look, we just keep finding more universe, more space for something to inhabit, forever…

As they said on , if we look everywhere and we’re the only intelligent species anywhere in this universe … well that would be weirder than if life is hiding all over the universe.

Let people not like things.

The French Dispatch

Every American researcher works for advertising companies, even if they don’t realize it.

I support crushing fascists with tanks.

The creator of this comic is a self-described pro-sweatshop neoliberal, which explains the “woe is me, I’m too smart for my own good” delusions.