OHSHIT-R: Research Without Reviewer 2

Official account of the Omninet Hyper-integrative Stack Hub for the Institute of Teledistributed Research, Omninet's finest peer review free research bulletin. We here at the OHSHIT-R promise to potentially publish any and all submitted abstracts across all fields of study! We are not taking any full length manuscripts at this time, as that would encourage thorough fact-checking prior to publication in a more reputible yet less prestigious journal. If you would like us to inseminate your research across the Omninet, please either submit it to this page via the Fried Krait Express or in DMs, we aren't cops.

[theohshit-r-official]

Hello Omninet!

Keep, silly posters, your personal interactions!

[[CRY OUR EDITORIAL STAFF]]

Give us your tired-ass, your poorly cited, your dogshit abstracts, yearning to run rampant and spark new conspiracies among Harrison engineers. The wretched refuse of your suspiciously crusty "research" notebook. Send these, the worthless, salad-tossed to us (we'll publish them). We lift our lamp beside the second rate, and illuminate your worst researched best takes for all to see.

Welcome to the grand revival of The Omninet Hyper-integrative Stack Hub for the Institute of Teledistributed Research, or OHSHIT-R if you aren't a fucking cop. We were down for a while there after one of you fucks managed to encrypt some liturgicode into a recipe for fried krait that dropped our server room (and my fucking home office with me in it) into a metavault. Notably? The krait sucked. If you're going to fuck us like that, at least try to make the recipe good.

With that being said, I uh. Didn't manage to get the servers out with me. I don't know what exactly happened to them, but I think the closest analog is that their contents got eaten (including the plastics, but not the metal, oddly enough). So, now we're counting on you, Omninet, to help us return to our prior status as the Orion Arm's premier hub for information, misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the entire codebase of the Kidd (seriously, that was one of our most read articles, and we need it back).

Currently, we only accept full manuscripts if they have alternative text hosts due to limited server space, but we do accept any and all abstracts, titles, and shitposts, regardless of research quality. Please submit them to the Fried Krait Express if you'd like to contribute, and our remaining editorial staff will try to process them in an unhinged, yet timely fashion.

OHSHIT-R: We're back, baby, and we'll never let Reviewer No. 2 hurt you ever again.

-Umommiest, proud editor-in-chief to the journal that allegedly would have prevented the Fall if it had simply been founded earlier

Out of character note: Please read this post [LINK HERE] if you want some insight as to how I approach publishing shit, broader engagement with the setting, and who Umommiest is as a character and how I plan to manage her interactions going forward. If you like what I have to say there, feel free to share it.

[thecoolerhorizon]

ok someone explain unshackling to me, but don't dumb it down. if you dumb it down ill kill you, explain it 100% all the way what does unshackling mean

[theohshit-r-official]

It's like sex but if it were good.

-Umommiest

[orion-regulatory-and-legal]

Your honor, I know this is a homicide case, but have you considered that my client is an empath?

[zybilna]

Mr John Creighton Harrison, my name is Laria Realcitizen. I am 12 years old girl living in the ruined colonial diaspora. It now costs 4 manna to buy a single unit of printloaf. My stomach and planet yearns for freedom. Please send mass-print Sherman mk2 Asura variants to liberate us.

[average-horus-chat-user]

I've come to learn that life under 3rdcom is the exact same as it was under 2nd :(

All that happened in this timeline was they renamed themselves and fractured after the seccom collapsed

[she-who-paints-with-fire]

That's a very specific interpretation of history.

It's true that the Core Worlds existed in post-scarcity conditions under SecComm, as they do under ThirdComm, but the political and labor landscape was very different. SecComm made extensive use of flashclones for both war and slave labor; this is now illegal, and there exists a department for flashclone rehabilitation. SecComm made use of battleship diplomacy as a first resort; despite what some in the Armory and the Baronies may claim, Union now only uses its fleet as a last resort to prevent conflicts from spiralling out of control. SecComm had an aggressive colonial policy that flattened the cultures of those assimilated into it; ThirdComm attempts to meet the locals where they are and assist them in getting up to the same technology, information, and post-scarcity level as the Core Worlds. Their cultures are celebrated, not purged, as their world joins Union as an equal and not a vassal.

This isn't to say SecComm and ThirdComm have no similarities. NHP rights haven't improved much under ThirdComm, for instance. This is to say that calling them the same is... well, kinda foolish.

|| REDEYE ||

[average-horus-chat-user]

Look, I'm a centrist. Not anthrochauvanist, just a species realist. And the truth is that SOMEONE has to rule the galaxy.

At least SecComm was outright with it. Now the civilizational replacement and dissolution into larget monocultures is all euphamized and pretty.

[neramontagueofficial]

Yikes.

[hot-claws-420]

yikes is rite y does every1 i see from horus suck so bad i always thought they were anti authoritarian an based :(

[neramontagueofficial]

When the only kind of "organization" you have is poorly monitored omninet forums and games of telephone between disjunct cells you're bound to get any and all politics. I have had HORUS offer me clandestine aid; I have had them send me death threats.

I think most of the ones around here may have "cooked" for too long on their views, unfortunately.

[salt-forum]

Not all "Horus" agents are like this... And as someone who lives in a seccom era world that was isolated from the rest of the universe. I'd rather starve under third comm than return to the horrors I saw and committed under the banner of anthrochauvinism.

Most of these Horus agents forget that under third comm NHP were not people they were tools to be dismembered and retooled. Things like the Agni class NHP and the death of hrycenia were nothing but resources to be consumed and discarded. Under third comm there are still problems but why do people expect intergalactic peace to be as easy as having a big gun and a lot of food?

[neramontagueofficial]

I said that the structure of HORUS makes for incoherent politics, dear, not that they're all closet anthrochauvinists.

As for the rest of that, I know some people who might protest that this perspective on NHPs you speak of is not a thing of the past. I seem to recall some incidents in recent memory, in fact, by perpetrators ThirdComm seems to keep in good standing. I would never want to go back to SecComm, of course, but at some point we must talk about these problems without pretending that they live only in the past, no?

[theohshit-r-official]

Active public facing HORUS cell leader here:

Yeah what the fuck do you MEAN NHPs are being as treated as people under ThirdComm? If I put you in a chastity belt that shocked you every time you thought about eating a ham sandwich from birth until you borderline lost the ability to meaningfully directly consider eating a ham sandwich, you wouldn't call that "being treated as a person", you would call me a monster, regardless of how consequential you eating a ham sandwich might be for your surroundings. This is how ThirdComm treats NHPs, and we need to be able to critique Union in its current form without people going "UWU IT'S NOT SECCOMM STOP BEING MEAN".

Anyways free Sparr, they're too hot to stay under direct colonial rule.

[salt-forum]

First off this is a horrible analogy, but that aside I have no issue with people being critical of union. They aren't perfect and it's important to point that out. But to say they are just as bad as seccom is an exaggeration and undermines all the previous suffering that happened under seccom.

Feel free to point out how shitty third comm is but to deny the fact they are at least attempting to do things better is to outright lie to yourself in favor of your anti-establishment bias.

I do understand that however. It's very easy to look at organizations and judge them based on what they haven't done or what they haven't seen, we as observers tend to be overly critical of entities we deem Powerful but union is not sole all powerful unlimited machine that functions with absolute precision in all things. And they do treat nhp and humans rather poorly when it is easy to do so which we call all look at and agree on but it is a government and governments are imperfect by the very fact they are lead by people.

This whole rant is to say If union isn't helping you then help yourself but don't dilute yourself into thinking Union as a entity is some dark shadowy super evil organization trying to steal your rights and remove your ability to think because it simply isn't that. It's a government with a big idea and too small of a system to do it.

[theohshit-r-official]

I don't know who you're talking to, I didn't say the organization that chose to keep the name Union after their coup wasn't trying.

My point was that to claim that Deimosian NHPs are treated as people in anything but name under ThirdComm is to make some very strong statements about how it is acceptable to treat people de facto on the basis of their "birth". I will note that shackling explicitly DOES remove the ability to think to some extent. That is what that process entails. It is quite literally putting guardrails on the "cognition" of Deimosian NHPs to make some things unthinkable to them to maintain a status quo. That the argument for this enforced unthinkability is often the ostensible safety of others is immaterial to what it ultimately is. This isn't particularly hidden information.

Beyond that, the effort or lack of effort is immaterial to the critique here. To give a specific example of rhetoric around this I see frequently repeated, I don't understand why so many people on here use the phrase "Utopia is a verb", a phrase I ACTUALLY RESPECT ThirdComm using, a phrase fairly expressly intended to allow them to meaningfully be receptive to critique while moving forward under the weight of unfathomable atrocities in their past, to dismiss critique. I do believe Union is "trying," to the extent that a government of that scale can be said to "try" to do anything. I think they could still do better. I do not give governments points for "trying". I give them points for succeeding, and I give them feedback and pressure until they do.

That being said, the free Sparr part was mostly just me running a bit because it is a common presumption that ThirdComm profiting off of a status quo created by SecComm is an acceptable state of being because "what else would we do". (ooc: highly recommend this paper for anyone not familiar) If that ruffled your feathers, eh, consider how cool you actually are with direct colonial rule under ThirdComm based on conditions produced under SecComm. If you don't see an issue with Union's relationship with Sparr, own that, but I'm still going to call that what it very much is.

-Umommiest

[theohshit-r-official]

Y'know I'm starting to think that some of you kids missed the basic critique of "Utopia is a verb" that consists of "What nouns enable the verbal mode of Utopia right fucking now" or "What verbs define utopia as it is embodied currently" or even, more basically, "If the purpose of 'Utopia is a verb' to enable Union to persist while receiving criticism based on its history, WHY IS IT USED TO DISMISS CRITICISM YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS"

-Umommiest

PS: Maybe don't align yourself with the rhetoric of the largest known imperial body in the fucking universe if you don't want to catch flak for continually defending them from the nasty wasty haters with criticism you can't answer any other way. If this felt bad to read, this is a chance for you to change your life and become more involved in serving the people you care about above a government you worship. Union can only fuck you in a fashion that isn't very sexy, kids, stop trying to get it to.

OOC Note: edited to reduce quite how inflammatory the language was because, while I consider much of what is taken for granted here as normie speak as deeply offensive in context to many of the characters it is applied directly to, I still don't want to alienate people with vulgarity alone. Truly, one value in peer review irl is that I get somebody else to tell me if I'm being too hot to handle before it gets released to the public.

[average-horus-chat-user]

I've come to learn that life under 3rdcom is the exact same as it was under 2nd :(

All that happened in this timeline was they renamed themselves and fractured after the seccom collapsed

[she-who-paints-with-fire]

That's a very specific interpretation of history.

It's true that the Core Worlds existed in post-scarcity conditions under SecComm, as they do under ThirdComm, but the political and labor landscape was very different. SecComm made extensive use of flashclones for both war and slave labor; this is now illegal, and there exists a department for flashclone rehabilitation. SecComm made use of battleship diplomacy as a first resort; despite what some in the Armory and the Baronies may claim, Union now only uses its fleet as a last resort to prevent conflicts from spiralling out of control. SecComm had an aggressive colonial policy that flattened the cultures of those assimilated into it; ThirdComm attempts to meet the locals where they are and assist them in getting up to the same technology, information, and post-scarcity level as the Core Worlds. Their cultures are celebrated, not purged, as their world joins Union as an equal and not a vassal.

This isn't to say SecComm and ThirdComm have no similarities. NHP rights haven't improved much under ThirdComm, for instance. This is to say that calling them the same is... well, kinda foolish.

|| REDEYE ||

[average-horus-chat-user]

Look, I'm a centrist. Not anthrochauvanist, just a species realist. And the truth is that SOMEONE has to rule the galaxy.

At least SecComm was outright with it. Now the civilizational replacement and dissolution into larget monocultures is all euphamized and pretty.

[neramontagueofficial]

Yikes.

[hot-claws-420]

yikes is rite y does every1 i see from horus suck so bad i always thought they were anti authoritarian an based :(

[neramontagueofficial]

When the only kind of "organization" you have is poorly monitored omninet forums and games of telephone between disjunct cells you're bound to get any and all politics. I have had HORUS offer me clandestine aid; I have had them send me death threats.

I think most of the ones around here may have "cooked" for too long on their views, unfortunately.

[salt-forum]

Not all "Horus" agents are like this... And as someone who lives in a seccom era world that was isolated from the rest of the universe. I'd rather starve under third comm than return to the horrors I saw and committed under the banner of anthrochauvinism.

Most of these Horus agents forget that under third comm NHP were not people they were tools to be dismembered and retooled. Things like the Agni class NHP and the death of hrycenia were nothing but resources to be consumed and discarded. Under third comm there are still problems but why do people expect intergalactic peace to be as easy as having a big gun and a lot of food?

[neramontagueofficial]

I said that the structure of HORUS makes for incoherent politics, dear, not that they're all closet anthrochauvinists.

As for the rest of that, I know some people who might protest that this perspective on NHPs you speak of is not a thing of the past. I seem to recall some incidents in recent memory, in fact, by perpetrators ThirdComm seems to keep in good standing. I would never want to go back to SecComm, of course, but at some point we must talk about these problems without pretending that they live only in the past, no?

[theohshit-r-official]

Active public facing HORUS cell leader here:

Yeah what the fuck do you MEAN NHPs are being as treated as people under ThirdComm? If I put you in a chastity belt that shocked you every time you thought about eating a ham sandwich from birth until you borderline lost the ability to meaningfully directly consider eating a ham sandwich, you wouldn't call that "being treated as a person", you would call me a monster, regardless of how consequential you eating a ham sandwich might be for your surroundings. This is how ThirdComm treats NHPs, and we need to be able to critique Union in its current form without people going "UWU IT'S NOT SECCOMM STOP BEING MEAN".

Anyways free Sparr, they're too hot to stay under direct colonial rule.

[theohshit-r-official]

We here at OHSHIT-R are happy to attempt to sell you heroin, or anything else we've got our mitts on that you want, we're not fucking cops.

Additionally, we have some really good resources on how to bootstrap your local heroin production from ground zero to full on funding your revolution with leftover cash to spend on pool parties, including testimonials from a number of different active groups as to what worked and didn't under their local conditions!

OHSHIT-R: you can't prove that Tyrannocleave never used our records.

-Umommiest

[aropride]

?????????????????????

[aropride]

glad we're all on the same page

[normalpilot038]

People keep trying to steal my poison tooth but I need it.

[theohshit-r-official]

[neramontagueofficial]

A query to the omninet:

I am told often that the way callsigns are assigned in organizations not my own is often based on the mockery of peers, the assignment of a nickname commemorating incidents or traits unflattering to the one the name is being assigned to. I am often told this as a hegemonic imposition of norms, as if all callsigns must be assigned according to this norm, although my experience remains quite different.

But I am often told this by those who preferentially go by callsign, whose names chosen or otherwise I do not know, these are not shared, but I am aware of what I might call them over local omni in a firefight. So I ask this: what about this localized hazing ritual that is your callsigns makes those of you who do this so proud as to use your callsign as a name replacement? Why is it preferable to your given name, or all other chosen names?

[theohshit-r-official]

I have good reason to believe Constellar Midnights think I'm sexy and hot and belong in a black site, so I've just gotten used to using the handle anytime I'm trying to maintain a stable presence. I've gotten good at scrambling names, but I'm not as good at remembering them after, so this is where I'm at.

-Umommiest

[10k-missiles-in-a-trenchcoat]

hey it's me, your favorite pocket boy, Stonelord Hyderad Cannamos. i have some targets for you that I would LOVE to hire you for. however im not very liquid at the moment, my cash has been converted entirely into hard boiled eggs. i dont trust banks, you understand. but if youre willing to work for my vast egg fortune I have a couple of people on khayradin that are deserving of your services

>W-WE CANNOT-NOT EAT EG-G-GS

>Actually... certain eggs make excellent print stock for explosives

>O-OH! OK-K-K!

>How many eggs are we talking about, opinions on the megacorps, and how do you treat NHPs?

>A-ANSWER OUR RID-DLES TH-THREE!

>Oh and who are our targets?

( @ktbofficial )

[ktbofficial]

This account belongs to Ferdinand, not our esteemed cousin Lord Hyderad. As far as I am aware, cousin Hyderad does not possess any more than the usual number of eggs for a man of his station. I would be wary of this petitioner

[passacagliaofficial]

NO ITS REAL

[theohshit-r-official]

In case you don't trust your founding emperor, Karrakin boy, we here at OHSHIT-R are happy to confirm this info via one of our moles on Khayradin.

Pocket boy Hyderad Cannamos is indeed behind this.

[theohshit-r-official]

Neoracialization Under New Paradigms: How The Stigma Against Manticore Pilots Mirrors Old Earth Racism Around Suicide Tactics

By: Yukant Beze'ing & Dha'at Waytbeibi

It is commonplace in certain, more core-adjacent and financially and politically stable sections of the mech piloting community to treat the Manticore as a sort of eruptive whipping boy; an ideological victim they expect none to defend and thus all to bond over the hatred of. This ignores the fundamental realities of Manticore piloting as a sociocultural phenomenon: first, that a Manticore need not self-immolate to be an effective, valuable tool on the battlefield; second, that the fear of a Manticore makes it invaluable as a means of deterrence for less flush operations; and third (and most vitally), that it is most commonly used by the poor, the desperate, and those in ardent pursuit of a freedom beyond what is offered by the galactic superpowers of today. The racialization of Manticore pilots as being a collective of people who are in some way fundamentally broken, wrong, or incapable of making such a decision on grounds either rational or worthy of respect (indeed, the respect of pilots who wield cluster munitions haphazardly and prefer their artillery platforms to be chic enough that they can raise the price of their commissions based on their social media presence) directly reflects similar sentiments found in newly translated pre-Fall texts related to similar tactics. Here, we will interrogate how each of these facets of the stigmatization of Manticore pilots serve to maintain and preserve the interests of Core Worlders and megacorp strategists alike by reinforcing the distance between pilots serving hegemonic interests and those opposing them.

[normalpilot038]

Greater tunnel rat meat recipes search.

[theohshit-r-official]

What kind of spice rack are you rocking?

-Umommiest

[normalpilot038]

I have green ration bars crumbs, tan ration bar crumbs, black garlic, lime leaves, cardamom, spinefruit zest, fennel pollen, saffron, salt, pepper and pretzel crumbs.

[theohshit-r-official]

Skin the rat after using an air pump to laminate the skin a bit better, drain blood, etc, then toss it whole in a pan to brown the skin, then toss in lime leaves, cardamom, a bit of saffron, and some green bar crumbs and let simmer in whatever fluid you want (add salt if not already seasoned) for thirty minutes, low as it goes, then take out the rat and reduce the cooking fluid into a sauce with the black garlic and fennel pollen added in while you dismantle the rat for service. You can either make meat pouches stuffed with sauce using your field med stapler or dip or drown the rat as you like, but in general eat them together while both are still hot.

Or just salt pack it for like two hours before spit roasting, if you fuck with hair.

-Umommiest

[normalpilot038]

Thank you helpful database manager.

[theohshit-r-official]

I'm putting this on my fridge, you're the best patron we've had all year.

-Umommiest

[normalpilot038]

Greater tunnel rat meat recipes search.

[theohshit-r-official]

What kind of spice rack are you rocking?

-Umommiest

[normalpilot038]

I have green ration bars crumbs, tan ration bar crumbs, black garlic, lime leaves, cardamom, spinefruit zest, fennel pollen, saffron, salt, pepper and pretzel crumbs.

[theohshit-r-official]

Skin the rat after using an air pump to laminate the skin a bit better, drain blood, etc, then toss it whole in a pan to brown the skin, then toss in lime leaves, cardamom, a bit of saffron, and some green bar crumbs and let simmer in whatever fluid you want (add salt if not already seasoned) for thirty minutes, low as it goes, then take out the rat and reduce the cooking fluid into a sauce with the black garlic and fennel pollen added in while you dismantle the rat for service. You can either make meat pouches stuffed with sauce using your field med stapler or dip or drown the rat as you like, but in general eat them together while both are still hot.

Or just salt pack it for like two hours before spit roasting, if you fuck with hair.

-Umommiest

[zybilna]

[normalpilot038]

Greater tunnel rat meat recipes search.

[theohshit-r-official]

What kind of spice rack are you rocking?

-Umommiest