It doesn’t matter how thin a computer is, except for the enormous increases to national GDP brought about by computer miniaturization and all the accompanying side-benefits in almost every field of human economic activity.
Although admittedly it’s been a bit overkill on thinness vs economic efficiency & battery life lately. That isn’t as pithy though.
Revell’s model kit of a Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant.
So, who will be buying this for me to show how much they love me?
Anonymous asked:
Based on previous relationships, my ‘type’ is subbish bisexual nerd women who I can talk to for hours on end (at least at the beginning).
My first girlfriend and I spent a lot of time together, hmn, let’s call it developing video game content piecemeal. Also worldbuilding. Lots of worldbuilding. And various other things.
But that isn’t necessary in specific. That’s just something that happened.
Like, I could name out an exact list of traits and so on, but these things aren’t usually cut and dry like that. They have to be felt out a little.
You will sit on that payload Hana!! and you will enjoy it!! 😤
I just love drawing D.Va and 76 being cute :3
Me, when I spot Zarya coming around the corner.
“Dude, how many layers of Weird Near-Future Sci-Fi Politics are you on right now?”
“I dunno, let me go consult the chart.”
@kissingerandpals: what?
Me: hey me, you know what would be hilarious?
* completely sober at 3 in the morning *
Also me: what fam?
Me: aight, so we like, do the expanding brain meme, but for national technocr- i mean uh expanding the search space of solutions to near-modern political problems, and the punchline is ~nuclear moon base~
Also me: hahahaha politics amirite?
The central thesis of this blog is that we won’t find the solutions to the challenges of the 21st century by re-fighting the battles of the 20th century. We are doing current politics and it’s having the current results, but we all want something better, and that necessarily means something different.
The current political ideologies are mostly unaware of the future and the ways in which it will likely dramatically upend them. Not only are they not prepared for its problems, but they aren’t prepared to take advantage of new potential solutions, either. And without acknowledging those solutions, they often pretend that the problems don’t exist, for ideological reasons.
Some of the proposals on here some fake, but each could be a real policy with more detail.
I feel like Facebook is trying to program me.
I just got a notification reminding me I haven’t posted in a week.
The week before that, I got a notification telling me “you have shared x amount of posts this week, your friends are responding well” and it showed me all the people who liked the posts I shared, seemingly trying to encourage me to share more
I’m kinda reminded of Alan Watt’s thesis that social engineering is going to be moving in a direction more like video games
I saw this app on the app store the other day which is like a daily planner, but it’s in the form of an RPG stats system lol. After every accomplishment, you receive these useless experience points, and after certain amounts of accomplishments being fulfilled you “level up”
And the sad thing is that this is actually a very strong motivator. When people are so alienated from their life around them, it can be very compelling to find signals of progress outside of the material world and inside these little digital fema camps we all live inside
I don’t know, the idea of video game like motivators being used to socially engineer society probably sounds crazy at first, but I know I can’t be the only one getting these notifications from Facebook
Social media was always a game, whether it’s upvotes on Reddit or likes on Facebook, it’s all about using points to represent social approval.
But consider also, that posts arrive at random times, they contain messages that you probably won’t fully guess, they’re often short and provide that little hit of dopamine that way. Even a non-gamified social media website has game-like characteristics.
Anonymous asked:
bambamramfan answered:
Thanks! That’s not really a question though. And mostly that makes me wonder “why?”
(Also I guess, why is this anonymous? Is liking my blog some dark secret?)
Which reminds me, why do people follow without liking or reblogging some posts. It always makes me curious “what did I just say to make you follow me now?” Instead they just seem to spontaneously come out of the aether.
Sometimes a post is insightful enough to be worth reading but one does not agree enough to endorse it.
Why on Earth would Tumblr recommend me a blog that has me blocked?
Yes, Voxette-san is part of the ratsphere, but if “You cannot reblog this post” is any indication, she’ll never be on board with Victory for National Technocracy.
(And if it isn’t a block, then it’s recommending me a blog it’s glitched me out of reblogging. Very hypocritical, Tumblr!)
Send me a 🍒 if I come off as masculine!
Send me a 🍓 if I come off as feminine!
Send me a 🍉 if I come off as adrogynous!
Send me a 🍎 if I come off as all or other!
in lieu of content, a simple ask meme
oooh, an ask meme I can actually post
