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guerrillatech

AI under capitalism

#F(AI)L

mapsontheweb

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

rumbustious-backhander

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

somethingusefulfromflorida

rioblitzle

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

hergreywarden

"What I am trying to say, is that I trust you. I am comfortable around you. I know that you will be there when I need you.

You are our leader, and my friend, and sometimes, I think that maybe we could be more than that..."

#leliana #dao #dragon age

messydiabolical

Thinking about how radically different societies with eidetic memories could be in terms of things like advertising, public decoration and infrastructure and media. It's annoying enough for us to hear an advert jingle and get it stuck in our heads for weeks or even years, but with eidetic memory that's a whole other level. If I think I'm aggressively annoyed by such things, how would a drell or salarian feel? Have to wonder if their own colonies have very strict rules on such things, if public spaces are built extremely mindfully, with a lot of purposeful spaces and functionality and a lack of visual noise and temporary nonsenses. "This thing will literally be in my head forever, so it better be beautiful and/or functional", type thing. Annoying adverts would be fucking LOATHED and probably tank products in such places. Maybe there would even be laws around such things as predatory advertising practices (like ones that encourage gambling or addictive and dangerous behaviours) because there's that extra level of susceptibility when you literally cannot stop your brain from thinking about it. Reviewers might be very prestigious. If you watch a piece of media or read a book that's in your head for life so you want to consume media that's worth that, so a trusted reviewer would be very valuable. Tough job to be the reviewer though! No wonder Thane meditates, you'd need to really hone that ability to sort through thoughts and then make the brain shut up. Also makes sense that drell have that very compartmentalisation of the self thing going on, or at least that's how Thane describes things. Perhaps this is something seen moreso in drell that go off world, a necessary mindset to cope with a loud universe that is needed more keenly depending on situation. I take a lot of what Thane says with a pinch of salt in reflection of the whole of drell society because he had such a particular upbringing from such a young age (I do have to wonder how many of his philosophies were honed and exaggerated because they were useful to the hanar handlers vs how much is true and accurate to the general populace; no doubt what he says are drell philosophies but how many average drell are living them to that level day to day?) Conversely, do you suppose there are areas where overstimulation is welcome; gardens, art installations, plazas that just blast every sense possible as a means to stop the brain from slipping into memory and keep you instead present. Help, my brain won't shut up, get me to the eXtreme dome stat! This brought to you by it was 90% humid this morning and I couldn't sleep and my brain was so loud with memories and gosh how fucking awful that would be if I could remember literally everything ever all the time.

#mass effect #mass effect meta