Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.
Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.
Your spouse, your parent, your child, your friend, gets aboard the Hail Mary. You talk to them for the last time before they are placed into a coma. They will never come back. They will die out there in space one way or another. Not now, but someday. You won't know when until far after it has happened.
i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.
plus you can't get the same experience playing minecraft as you can get watching things like hermitcraft. sure you can play with friends on a big server, but hermits do it as a living which means they're able to collaborate more and build more and create storylines, etc. and you would never get the experience of watching the same interaction from multiple povs. I love hermitcraft
okay so I'm a guy (probably) but I shave my legs¹. so, when I'm around my parents/family, I wear pants and socks because... I guess I want to avoid the conversation like "whatt, you shave your legs? but usually only girls do that..."²
and my parents are definitely like, supportive. no doubt there.³ I just knew there'd be a moment that they'd point it out and it would be very briefly a little bit awkward and so I avoided that.
but today, we went river tubing. I had to wear a swim suit for getting wet in. which means they can see my smooth ahh legs. I realized that like two days before tubing happened and told myself it wasn't actually a problem, it wouldn't be so bad, it would only be a brief awkward moment and then it would be fine.
guess what happened? they said nothing.⁴ my legs were right there in the open, they certainly saw them, they just said nothing. I didn't wanna bring it up either because it's not a big deal. I guess that's what they thought too. and yes. it wasn't a big deal and would not have been a big deal.
it's hair. it doesn't mean I'm queer or something⁵. and so what if it does⁶? it's a small thing that I had anxiety about for months and then nothing even happened. I don't know.
I think the reason I haven't come out yet is because I don't really know what I am. I think I'm bi but beyond that, heaven knows. I know I don't really feel like a guy most of the time, if at all. I don't feel like much else tho. I don't care much to label myself so why would I want to disclose myself to others? but then it feels like I'm just keeping a secret.
that devolved into sharing more about myself than I expected. but oh well. I don't know how to end this post. enjoy my footnotes below (yes, this post has footnotes).
¹ I just like how it looks and feels. I don't like having gross hairy man legs. I also have long hair and sometimes paint my nails (tho my parents don't know the latter part). there's probably a deeper gender thing going on but I don't care to think too hard about it.
² a similar thing happened when I mentioned I shaved my armpits, though that was a couple years ago. yes, I am greatly exaggerating the weirdness of that conversation and the potential weirdness of the conversation I was trying to avoid. that's anxiety for you I guess.
³ my brother has already come out and they had no problem.
⁴ which is honestly maybe worse than I was making it out to be (but for a different reason) (edit: I've decided that's not true)
why would you even have a dog if you're gonna keep it in a cage not even 2x the length of its body for 90% of its life. and then it just barks and barks and they yell at it to stop. I dunno, just seems cruel and pointless to me
I'm a bit tired of being the minecraft modpack troubleshooter for my brother who doesn't know what he's doing, and also I don't know what he's doing either because I didn't watch him assemble the modpack
I love every piece of project hail mary fanart I see, but also I don't get why people draw eridians (namely Adrian) the way they do - they're supposed to be pentagonally symmetric spiderlike creatures with rocky carapace, not chunky asymmetric boulders with legs
I should add, yes, it's kinda how the rocky puppet in the movie looks. I guess that's a nitpick of mine with the movie as well. also please don't take this as me hating on phm fanart because it makes me so happy to see!!
I love every piece of project hail mary fanart I see, but also I don't get why people draw eridians (namely Adrian) the way they do - they're supposed to be pentagonally symmetric spiderlike creatures with rocky carapace, not chunky asymmetric boulders with legs
I saw an instagram reel the other day that framed the red/blue button problem as a trolley problem, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.
It showed a bunch of people standing next to a track that a trolley was barreling down, with the caption: "if 50% of humanity ties themselves to the track, the trolley will stop without hitting anyone. If it is less than 50%, the people who tied themselves will get run over by the trolley and die. Do you tie yourself to the track?"
So I think the intention was for it to be the same problem in a different context. But this change makes it a very different problem. Basically everyone has already pressed the red button by default - framing the red button as inaction. This means there's no reason to take action. Everyone is already safe, and tying yourself to the track is essentially killing yourself unless a ton of other people decide to do it too. If the red button is inaction, then inaction is the obvious choice.
But I think red button pushers view it as the same problem because of how obvious it seems to them that the red button is the correct choice, even the "default" one.
So I came up with another version of it that frames the blue button as inaction. "All of humanity is standing on the track, but luckily there is no trolley heading toward them so everybody is safe. However, if at least 50% of humanity steps off the track, a trolley will drive toward the people remaining on the track, killing the remainder. Do you step off the track?"
And yeah. Now the obvious choice is to stay on the track. Sure, stepping off the track guarantees your personal safety, but everybody is already safe. Stepping off is directly contributing to murdering people with a trolley.
If you really wanted to represent the same problem as a trolley problem, you might do it like this: "You must either tie yourself to the track or get in the trolley. If you're in the trolley you are safe, but if at least 50% of people get into the trolley, then it will drive toward whoever is on the track and kill them."
Anyway. I just thought it was interesting that if you represent either button as inaction, then inaction seems to become the obvious choice.
