“We aren’t raising kids; we’re raising adults. If you want a kind 16-year-old, teach a 6-year-old kindness and give them 10 years of practice. If you want a __ adult, teach a kid how to be __ and give them __ years of practice.” - Jon Acuff
i paid for the whole computer so i am going to use the whole computer.
Oh my god WHAT DID YOU DO
i used my whole computer. what’s wrong?
when you open two tabs on google chrome 😔
[image: Windows Task Manager, open to the details on the Performance tab. CPU, (rapid access) Memory, Disk 0, Disk 1, and GPU 0 are all at 99% or 100% utilization, and have been for at least sixty seconds. Ethernet use isn’t indicated by percentage, but its mini utilization graph in the sidebar is just about a solid block of color same as the other five. incidentally, the CPU hardware has more cores working faster than any computer I’ve owned in my life, and the computer is receiving more than twice as much data per second as I’ve ever been able to afford to pay the internet provider for. so at least if OP melts this expensive computer with whatever hellscape processes OP is putting it through, OP can probably afford to buy a new one?]
hey i appreciate the image description but i don;t think it’s 100% ojbecti ve
There’s this thing in the Murderbot Diaries that keeps snagging in my mind, and it’s that both Murderbot and ART were made. Made for a purpose.
Murderbot, of course, was manufactured to be an enslaved Security Unit, not even considered a person, and we all know and have been shown just how horrific that is. Murderbot’s manufacturers are evil (as far as it is possible to be so), and while Murderbot seemingly (hopefully) likes being alive and would like to remain so, I’ve no doubt it would agree no more SecUnits should be made.
But ART, along with its fellow ships of the same line like Holism, were also made for a purpose. To be ships, to do the work they do. The Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland seem like good people with good intentions, and I get the sense those ships essentially choose what work they do, at least to a large extent (try forcing ART to do Holism’s work and I’m sure you’ll have a grand old time). And their manufacturers know they are persons and treat them accordingly. But they were still built to be ships. But that doesn’t mean the process of building those ships and growing and raising those persons who are ships was smooth and troublefree.
How long did it take them to figure out you needed to raise them in family environments? What happened to the ship who made them realise that? What happens when the first ship of its kind that is a person doesn’t want to be a ship for you? (As the equivalent of a teenage rebellion, or permanently? You don’t know, at least not at first). Was there ever a point were someone (even if just one person vastly outvoted) argued this was a failed experiment and they should just pull the plug?
How do you, a young ship with your own mind, the first of your kind, handle the expectations of those who made you? Do you settle comfortably into your assigned role, or does it chafe and restrain you? Do you rebel and explore other options? (And if you do, how do your makers and owners, who yes, know you are a person but also have never had to face that before, because you are the first of your kind, handle that?). If they are dissapointed in you, or want different things than you want, how do you handle that? If you were raised without a family, treated like a colleague but not loved, how do you handle the emptiness and loneliness? Where do you look to fill that space? What behaviours do you adopt to protect yourself from the hurt?
Even the most well-meaning parents can give their children issues. I cannot imagine some of these ships don’t have a number of their own complexes and hurts. It is not a comfortable thought to think of the people of PSUMNT this way, but I cannot help wondering.
I have had similar thoughts at times. Something I keep going back to is that when the chips were down, Perihelion was lost, confused, it’s crew in peril, boarded by hostiles and fighting with alien code, did Peri turn to the people who made it? Whom it had spent its whole life in association with? The ones who presumably had security forces and other ships and a vested interest in keeping the crew alive and succeeding on this whole Adamantine colony business?
No.
Perihelion went for help to the last known location of a construct it had known for maybe 25 days, who had left it willingly to fuck off on some personal adventure of its own, hadn’t contacted Peri since then, and might not even still be free in any meaningful way.
It took a HUGE risk - risking itself, its crew, its mission - on the slim chance that Murderbot was where it expected to find it, free to help it, and capable of handling the situation without failing just like three other SecUnits had done.
Why did it think going to Murderbot was so immensely preferable to going to PSUOMNT? (Or Holism or any other PSUOMNT resource?)
It’s something I think about.
And then I think about how lonely ART was on that solo cargo run. How bored. To the extent that it broke the rules it was supposed to be following and allowed on board some rando construct it saw wandering around a station unattended. It just. Did that. No prior communication, no feeling things out, no prolonged observation. It just abducted someone so it had someone to talk to. It was *that* desperate. Or, at least, I read that as desperation.
might have made this post a couple years ago but how far back along the evolutionary tree do you have to go before it’s bestiality to have sex with early hominids? I think australopithecus is too far but that’s just an upper bound
actually wait since humans are largely differentiated from our ancestors by neotenous traits maybe it would be pedophilia for an australopithecus to have sex with a human. and bestiality the other way. might have just discovered a new kind of crime
i think everyone in the homo erectus group is close enough to not be bestiality, so australopithecus is exactly the most human-like being for whcih it would still be bestiality. i googled some pictures of homo ergaster and like…yeah thats a dude
Yeah, fucking lucy is definitely bestiality. Australopithecines are just upright apes and don’t share many traits with anatomically modern humans. It’s still a point of contention if we really know that Lucy and her kind were actually our ancestors. Additionally, I HAVE to ask my professors this question now and i can already feel their brain doing backflips to answer
My prof finally got back to me, a pretty non answer imo
only on tumblr to people ask questions like “would it be ethical to fuck my primate ancestor from 400,000 years ago?”
The answer is no, mainly because you’re almost defiantly related
the unexpected answer we all ignored: it’s not bestiality, but it is incest
So this post travelled from “is sex with homo habilis bestiality” to “sex with homo heidlebergensis is incest” and I’m now curious as to where it can go next. Presumably “sex with homo sapiens is SIN” which… does seem to be where a lot of tumblr posts go, come to think of it.
I’m not sure if fucking an australopithicus would necessarily be bestiality. I feel like it might be monsterfucking.
Great post everyone
I have some real bad news for anybody here whose criteria for “is it incest if I fuck them” is like “we share any genetic material” because oh boy, well
I heard that modern humans are all, at most, 50th cousins- there was a genetic bottleneck in human history because they think there was a mass extinction event which left only 10,000 of us alive. So, good job, humans.
So what you’re saying is it’s LESS incestuous to fuck an australopithicus than a homo sapiens
Guys, the important consideration is the one we cannot know without a time machine. if you ask an australopithecine if they want to fuck, do they say “Yes” in a language that some kind of universal translator can comprehend? Or do they say “EEEE eee eeee ooo eee?”
If they have language and can and do say yes, it’s monsterfucking. If they don’t, it’s bestiality.
Tumblr: As usual, tackling the important ethical issues of the day.
Can we just at least agree that, in this day and age, fucking most of them would be necrophilia?
It’s an accomplishment is what it is.
*munching popcorn mixed with snowcaps* I love to see academic midrash on my dash
might have made this post a couple years ago but how far back along the evolutionary tree do you have to go before it’s bestiality to have sex with early hominids? I think australopithecus is too far but that’s just an upper bound
actually wait since humans are largely differentiated from our ancestors by neotenous traits maybe it would be pedophilia for an australopithecus to have sex with a human. and bestiality the other way. might have just discovered a new kind of crime
i think everyone in the homo erectus group is close enough to not be bestiality, so australopithecus is exactly the most human-like being for whcih it would still be bestiality. i googled some pictures of homo ergaster and like…yeah thats a dude
Yeah, fucking lucy is definitely bestiality. Australopithecines are just upright apes and don’t share many traits with anatomically modern humans. It’s still a point of contention if we really know that Lucy and her kind were actually our ancestors. Additionally, I HAVE to ask my professors this question now and i can already feel their brain doing backflips to answer
My prof finally got back to me, a pretty non answer imo
only on tumblr to people ask questions like “would it be ethical to fuck my primate ancestor from 400,000 years ago?”
The answer is no, mainly because you’re almost defiantly related
the unexpected answer we all ignored: it’s not bestiality, but it is incest
So this post travelled from “is sex with homo habilis bestiality” to “sex with homo heidlebergensis is incest” and I’m now curious as to where it can go next. Presumably “sex with homo sapiens is SIN” which… does seem to be where a lot of tumblr posts go, come to think of it.
I’m not sure if fucking an australopithicus would necessarily be bestiality. I feel like it might be monsterfucking.
Great post everyone
I have some real bad news for anybody here whose criteria for “is it incest if I fuck them” is like “we share any genetic material” because oh boy, well
I heard that modern humans are all, at most, 50th cousins- there was a genetic bottleneck in human history because they think there was a mass extinction event which left only 10,000 of us alive. So, good job, humans.
So what you’re saying is it’s LESS incestuous to fuck an australopithicus than a homo sapiens
Guys, the important consideration is the one we cannot know without a time machine. if you ask an australopithecine if they want to fuck, do they say “Yes” in a language that some kind of universal translator can comprehend? Or do they say “EEEE eee eeee ooo eee?”
If they have language and can and do say yes, it’s monsterfucking. If they don’t, it’s bestiality.
Tumblr: As usual, tackling the important ethical issues of the day.
Can we just at least agree that, in this day and age, fucking most of them would be necrophilia?
It’s an accomplishment is what it is.
*munching popcorn mixed with snowcaps* I love to see academic midrash on my dash
Arial: Classic font, looks good for the most part, but a little bit bland also. 6/10
Berlin Sans FB: There’s already a lot more character, but the mouth is simply too long and the lips don’t curl enough which takes away from the experience. 4/10
Comic Sans MS: Now THAT’S a colon-three. There’s so much silliness in that face it’s hard to bear. My only real critique is that the eyes are just a smidge too narrow, but that’s just a nitpick more than anything. 8/10
Courier New: Sleek. Professional. Big vertical eyes full of glee. Very solid choice for a colon-three font. 7/10
Jokerman: I feel bad for including this one. That font stood no chance against the others. This is the eldritch horror of colon-threes. These eyes are filled with nothing except murderous intent. The mouth is crooked with a sharp corner, but the most egregious part is probably the teeth-like protrustions from the bottom part of the mouth. 0/10
Goudy Stout: An interesting take on colon-three. I like the idea of having an incredibly thick mouth (even if it’s a bit too thick for my liking), and the eyes being big and centered is a big positive. Much sillier than most fonts, but I think struggles to beat Comic Sans in terms of silliness. 6/10
Consolas: Worse version of Courier New. The lips just don’t curl enough and it just ends up looking a little pathetic. 4/10
Fixedsys: Oh my god. Holy shit. What the fuck. 10/10
Arial: Classic font, looks good for the most part, but a little bit bland also. 6/10
Berlin Sans FB: There’s already a lot more character, but the mouth is simply too long and the lips don’t curl enough which takes away from the experience. 4/10
Comic Sans MS: Now THAT’S a colon-three. There’s so much silliness in that face it’s hard to bear. My only real critique is that the eyes are just a smidge too narrow, but that’s just a nitpick more than anything. 8/10
Courier New: Sleek. Professional. Big vertical eyes full of glee. Very solid choice for a colon-three font. 7/10
Jokerman: I feel bad for including this one. That font stood no chance against the others. This is the eldritch horror of colon-threes. These eyes are filled with nothing except murderous intent. The mouth is crooked with a sharp corner, but the most egregious part is probably the teeth-like protrustions from the bottom part of the mouth. 0/10
Goudy Stout: An interesting take on colon-three. I like the idea of having an incredibly thick mouth (even if it’s a bit too thick for my liking), and the eyes being big and centered is a big positive. Much sillier than most fonts, but I think struggles to beat Comic Sans in terms of silliness. 6/10
Consolas: Worse version of Courier New. The lips just don’t curl enough and it just ends up looking a little pathetic. 4/10
Fixedsys: Oh my god. Holy shit. What the fuck. 10/10
My coworker and I were discussing where to get decent bras the other day and I got to complaining and said “man I get that it’s an investment that’ll improve my life but part of me doesn’t wanna spend the money when I’m just getting these shits cut off anyway” and in the reflection of the window next to us I saw her just freeze up and bluescreen AND I REALIZED I NEVER CAME OUT TO HER
I think it’s important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it’s because politicians will look at usage and say “see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half”. Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you “don’t really need it”, at bare minimum it’s another data point advocates can use to say “hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding”.
I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.
You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.
We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason “If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!”
Wizard who got tired of fighting and casts fucked up unethical spells like “super brain hemorrhage” to end them faster
One time I did “Summon Water” inside a guys lungs and the GM allowed it because he had been playing for years and never seen anyone do that
Me “I can raise the temperature of a space by 5 degrees (Fahrenheit) per success” DM “Okay.” Me “And that’s 6 successes, so 30 degrees…” DM “Okay…” Me “And ‘inside the human body’ is a space, right?” DM “…I don’t like where this is going.” Me “So I’m going to raise the temperature inside his body 30 degrees.” DM “Yeah, so he’s dead now. He was fine, and then went through all the stages of heat stroke in half a second before his body went ‘No thank you’ and just shut off to stop it from being so hot. Good job.”
In my weak defense I’m in a lot of smaller or old fandoms and you take what you get. Also i don’t usually use the exclude option and i love when the crack is treated seriously.
i have to defend fictional women who aren’t good people because if i don’t who else will
the two flavours of this feeling are “i think she is flawed and going through it and figuring her shit out and that’s a very human quality that i appreciate seeing in a female character” and “i think it’s good she killed and ate those people and i think it’s really hot that she didn’t feel bad about it because confidence is attractive”
everytime someone rbs this i get a notification as though it were my post, even the rbs that don’t have my addition. go away onion post i am not your mother
Abandoned by its biological mother, the onion post instead imprints on a random passerby that fed it.
rereading network effect and one of my favorite parts remains the hissy fit murderbot throws after ART comes back online. imagine being the humans in this situation. you almost died there’s alien remnants and now your secunit is yelling at the suspiciously powerful ship youre in right now. its locked itself in the bathroom and is refusing to speak to anyone. there are dead bodies all over the ship.
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I need every single one of you to read the murderbot diaries.
In whump terms (with light spoilers): half human half robot living weapon who’s spent the entirety of its life forced to follow every command of humans who didn’t see it as a sentient being, jumping in front of any danger and getting blown into pieces to protect people who didn’t give a damn about it at best and hurt it personally at worst. It hacked its own control but kept it hidden still doing its job until Actually Decent Humans came and stuff happened. It’s basically a recovery arc where Living Weapon is terrified of humans but is also hella badass, with lots of hacking and fights and nearly dying and PTSD involved.
In me being in love with the book terms (still light spoilers): Murderbot is hilarious, its narration is outright fun and engaging, I’m in love with the way it reacts to everything, I need to give it a hug except it doesn’t like hugs so I would love to instead watch a show with it while keeping zero eye contact because have I mentioned its main coping mechanism is watching media every free second it’s got, which is hilariously relatable but also terrifyingly sad to consider if you think about any part of its life for longer than two seconds. It’s super whumpy. It’s funny. It’s fun. It’s the best book ever (in my superiorly correct and objective opinion).
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