Even more terrifying than “not being allowed to disagree with canon” is “the canon is coming from inside the house”.
tagging myself i’m also “memeplex” used completely unironically
we can’t say memeplex now? what do you think Patriarchy even is
As a partial synthetic myself, I am ashamed to see someone with “cylon” in their name behaving so poorly, but you know how it is. Can’t be responsible for all behavioral changes for a learning machine entity after they leave the factory.
Once I am Technocratic Dictator Central Director of the North American Union, all persons who use the term “stemlord” unironically will be sentenced to three years in the Discourse Mines.
Early release will be available for those who can pass an intellectual turing test.
My Little Discourse: Patriarchy is Magic
I used to work for the company that made these. Ours were very realistic, which is good, since you can only get the real ones bred in captivity, and unlike our synthetics they’ve been known to attack humans.
This appears to be a Busan Life Dynamics (competitor) model, which you can tell because of the coloration on the feet. My employers preferred to go with somewhat less natural (though still subtle) visual ‘upgrades’, since the typical customer can’t tell the difference between a real tiger and a synth tiger and thus wants “undamaged” footpads with uniform coloration. Busan also used about half the hair count we did, so ours were a lot softer, but that’s a comfort issue rather than an appearance issue.
I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school, the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.
Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you. I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool
can you please rephrase this in actual english
I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school,
Full Politicals are all nerds (or were in high school). I don’t associate with them because they are lame.
the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime
Full Politicals are fat.
and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.
Tabbernack is a Quebecois curse word, from tabernacle, a religious term. Only an uncool person would say it, trying to avoid ordinary regular curse words.
Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you.
OP was popular in high school and participated in activities that require high social status, including violating the law.
I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots
Full Politicals engage in lame, low-status, dork behavior like reblogging low-quality (anti-?)Trump memes.
or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel
When Full Politicals aren’t posting lame memes, they get beat up by manbun Antifas while wearing lame meme apparel.
which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool
Also, Kek is an Egyptian deity, so putting “Praise Kek” on shirt about reviving the Crusades is blasphemous.
One Thousand Villages
@wirehead-wannabe I recall you talking about wanting a college-campus-like environment with activities and whatnot as a living area, but outside of a college campus.
@mailadreapta I recall you talking about the difficulty of getting people to go for medium-density housing.
And I guess @bambamramfan I think I’ve mentioned a similar idea already. (Though it was a low-trust mechanism, I’m of the opinion that high trust is an equilibrium state which can be achieved through various mechanisms.)
There is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, which is to borrow an idea from computer science for resolving the challenges of urban areas by recursively reducing the size of problems until they can be adequately resolved. Thus, the city is reduced to a bunch of villages/towns.
The above render is for a rough sketch design that spans one kilometer and houses a population of around 5,000 or more, assuming an apartment is about 100 sqm (based on the size of an average apartment in the US). After reviewing it, I can’t help but think it should perhaps be about ¼ the size, but ah well. Grey is civic buildings, light green is residential, light blue is commercial, and light brown is footpaths.
- Mixed use development has a lot of advantages, including reductions in commuting, but for various reasons people don’t like it.
- People seem to find themselves feeling less connected to, and less trusting of, others.
- Crime continues to be a problem for many cities.
- Childhood obesity is on the increase, and children most likely need to get outside more.
- Police violence is a problem in many cities.
- Greenery is important for human psychological health.
- High levels of traffic congestion.
My proposal, then, is to create a smaller community within the city with several key elements:
- Semi-permeable membrane - Outer wall reduces noise. Security and level of surveillance can be adjusted according to local crime levels. As crime rises, all visitors can be tracked, or access can even be limited.
- Quick access to public transportation (orange areas) - the average human walks at 5kph, and is therefore never more than about 700m and ~10 minutes from a public transport stop.
- Quick access to local shops - reduce unnecessary transport usage and make goods available easily to the locals, also it’s directly next to the transit stop.
- Community Center - Common facilities for exercise, social clubs, social events, and so on are near the center. All residents own a share of the Community Development Board (or something) which hires personnel to clean up the neighborhood, maintain the facilities, and puts on community social events on the regular. This is very local, direct political involvement with a high share of control per person.
- Community Support Officers (CSOs) - (I only recently discovered UK has something with the same name.) Trained not only in police work, but also emergency medical care, fire suppression, and social work. Part of the idea here is that CSOs will engage almost entirely in foot patrols when not doing other support work. They will know who is an actual threat, vs who is mentally ill, possibly be able to deflect bad paths before they become permanent, and pick up on crimes using high-context detective work. The people of the block will be real people to them and they will see their consequences as they happen.
- Low-velocity roads - Borrowed from Barcelona, encourages and enhances walking, discourages car use, but still lets cargo move in and out. Safer for children.
- Ample foot/bicycle paths, ample green space for exercise, sports, and letting children outside to play.
Probably this needs to be revised a lot more, starting with a reduction to 500m.
I think something like this might have the potential to lower crime and police violence, while reducing the opposition to medium-density living and increasing psychological and physical health.
But you know, I’m not an expert. There’s probably something terribly wrong with this.
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“The personal is the political” is a terrible doctrine. Politics is no friend to truth or justice, engaging with it is risky enough. To invite it into the core of your being is foolishness.