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Anonymous asked:

Really confusing approach to the meat industry: vatmeat, but grown by tiling ranches with solar panels for the process energy.

mitigatedchaos answered:

We will ensure optimal solar panel distribution by building semi-autonomous, four-legged solar collectors in the 900 kilogram range,

[official-kircheis]

Vat mean but the controlling software has to be complex enough that it’s conscious/sentient.

[argumate]

we will uplift kale to consciousness

[mitigatedchaos]

broke: growing vatmeat in a big sterile factory where all workers wear cleansuits, carefully controlling conditions to create a 1m long cut of the perfect steak

woke: genetically engineering a snake crossed with three different kinds of regenerative lizard, chopping it in half each year and waiting for it to grow back, then lobbying the FDA to get your mechanically processed snake meat classified as legally chicken

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[argumate]

the billion dollar app idea is to make a virtual friend you care about more than anything else in the world, then charge you a monthly fee to keep it alive.

[mitigatedchaos]

waifu hostages are an illegal industry, Argumate, even I agree with the World State on this one

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[mitigatedchaos]

@mitigatedchaos

Is this going to be the new thing now?  “Baizuo”?

@argumate

*groans*

The year is 2064.  Having given up on America and Europe, the last remaining members of the Alt Right undergo racial alteration surgery and genetic splicing to join Chairman Liu’s Neo-Chinese Empire, a governmental franchise operating seven megacities on the Asia-Pacific rim.

As a security officer at the front of the Empire’s fight against the Pan-Islamic Caliphate, a sort of distributed theocratic government with enclaves throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, Victor Fang (born Richard Spencer, many years ago) is returned to Hong Kong after being injured by an IED, but he’s about to find out just how deep the Caliph’s conspiracies run…

[mitigatedchaos]

Discourse Questions

• What is the value, positive or negative, of a racial ethnostate in a world where race is mutable?
• Do the Alt Right and White Nationalists value whiteness as a terminal value, or merely as a means to other ends?  If they could, would they abandon it for some other race to obtain racial solidarity?  Would they adopt another heritage, just to have one?
• Will governance become something marketable, that can be purchased by democratic polities and multinational conglomerates?
• Could enclaves of Islamic Law form in Europe in order to try and maintain Liberalism?  The idea of sub-groups with their own laws is not unprecedented, after all.
• What are the implications if jurisdictions break down into various self-governing ethnic groups, united not by the larger territories they live in but through religion and ethnicity as experienced over the Internet?
• Can Richard Spencer ever be redeemed?  What would it take to redeem him?

Write a 5-page call-out blog post based on answering one of these six topics and submit it to Tumblr Dot Com.

[mitigatedchaos]

The submission form for your callout post can be found at http://argumate.tumblr.com. For full credit, please address your callout to a hypothetical Tumblr user named “Argumate” for disagreeing with whatever your opinion may be. Remember to refuse to read or respond to any counter-arguments, and instead double down on refuted positions and behave like someone with zero reading comprehension, becoming increasingly irate as it turns out the callout subject did not say what you claimed they did.

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Anonymous asked:

Wombdustrial revolution when

I was joking.  Artificial wombs are predominantly owned by private fertility companies, especially in Europe and North America, which lease them out as part of their designer baby packages.

For the most part, the only state-owned artificial wombs are in Japan, Korea, and China, and in China they’re purely for military concerns.  Though the ten thousand blossoms program in Japan has performed about as well as can be expected.

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[mitigatedchaos]

Exposure Therapy for Total Body Paralysis Patients Using Experimental Simulated Virtual Reality Environment, Sponsored by Hunnie Pop™ Golden Raffle™

Aims: Test effectiveness of simulated virtual reality in reducing mental symptoms associated Total Body Paralysis such as anxiety and major depression.

Methods: 146 experimental test subjects suffering from Total Body Paralysis were selected through Facebook groups for implantation of Huawei T-481 Deep VR Harness preloaded with Hunnie Pop™ Golden Raffle™ and then observed for interactions with the virtual environment and communications with staff.

Results: Out of 10 remaining subjects who did not request physical emancipation, 9 indicated a positive preference for Hunnie Pop™ Golden Raffle™, a rate of 90%.  We recommend further research into Hunnie Pop™ Golden Raffle™ as a potential medical treatment for mental symptoms associated with TBP.

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[z-t00n]

the first thing I saw when I started splatoon 2 

[mitigatedchaos]

In the glittering postcyberpunk future of America 2017, a vast array of digital delights await just moments away, but human beings are still cruel to each other, and the shadow of economic inequality looms over the land.

- box excerpt, Cyber Cowboys! Hackers of the West (Sapporo Joint Animation Group, 1997)

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Anonymous asked:

Can you write a prompt based on love, Prompt Guy?

writing-prompt-s answered:

You fall in love with a snail. Write about your sex life.

[mitigatedchaos]

“Ugggh, you’re not getting it.  Adam and I are in love-”

“But he looks like a snail!  Why can’t you go back to dating that nice man with the horns?  At least he had arms and legs.  I’m not against this cyborg thing, but-”

“Mom, no ‘buts’, it’s my life, and if I want to date a gastropodoid then I will.  Why are you judging me?  Why are you like this?”

“Well, it’s just so unnatural-”

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Anonymous asked:

But the bright side is that natural processes beyond our control can still be understood and accounted for! E.g., studying earthquakes can help you figure out the warning signs (potentially helping people to get to safety), discover where they're likely to occur, and develop less susceptible architecture. We cannot make the universe care for us, but we can adapt to it and care for each other.

argumate answered:

Indeed, our only hope.

[mitigatedchaos]

It is the bright side.  If there’s no God to help us, then there is also no God to stop us.

[mitigatedchaos]

@slartibartfastibast: This is like the most common villain origin story ever…

What?  That’s not my villain origin story.  I’m only trying to “take over the world” because of the dissolution of the NAU - which is a completely valid reason to use an army of robots to prevent the world state from ever existing.

I’m the hero, here, saving you all from enacting a really dumb idea that brings about global tyranny.  I only call myself a supervillain because for some reason, everyone keeps getting all offended when I hold the UN hostage.  You’d do the same thing if you were in my situation!  You just don’t have a half-machine body and memories of the future!

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[cosplayinamerica]

I was running out of time to create my Anime Expo cosplays (one week before con!) And I knew I wanted to do something challenging but manageable. I remembered that Monster Musume has a bunch of characters with unique features, so I latched on to Miia as my one week challenge!

Bringing it to life was comprised of running around in a panicked frenzy, hoping it would all turn out. I trekked to a faraway discount fabric outlet because I knew I would need a LOT of fabric. The tail from waist to tip is 17 feet long! Constructing it involved tediously repetitive sewing and hot glueing to make the whole tail look uniform and reptillian. I was relieved to finish it on time with a day to spare!

Wearing it to the convention was a whole new nightmare. Not only was it the busiest day Anime Expo had ever seen, but my mobility was extremely limited. Shuffling at a snail’s pace through packed hallways had me sweating and exhausted before I even made it to my destination (the most popular photo of this cosplay was taken just after bunny-hopping up a long staircase!)

When I finally arrived, I was completely overwhelmed with the response I got. I have cosplayed a lot over the last decade, but nothing I’ve done has been as popular as Miia! I’m so thankful for all the encouraging comments both in person and online that made this project worth it.

— @NikkiMoxxi

[rendakuenthusiast]

Snake girls are p. great

[mitigatedchaos]

Contra @fakecollapsedsquid₂₀₆₆’s post regarding the high-end prosthetics industry, @mecha-cyborg-xhxhxhx₂₀₆₆’s quick assessment is largely correct.

The development of the high-end monstergirl, monsterboy, and sex-variant full prosthetic bodies does ultimately result in lower costs for the standard bodies purchased by the middle class and for accessories and general implants available under the North American Cybernetics Subsidy Program. The key here is that these benefits are from the mass production models, and not the custom individual models, such as the gold-plated mecha scorpion body built for Ivanka Trump III.

For the custom models, they just use more material, but for the mass production models, the increase in power requirements and weight requires research into battery and materials technology which eventually filters down into the mainline models.

For example, the DSI6 Fault-Tolerant Power Control System in my body (even though I know neither of you guys have it because I’m way more paranoid than either of you) is actually a derivative of the DSI5X originally developed for the high margin DS-56 Rachnera Special, which was high margin, certainly, but sold 10,000 units, in order to increase its operational time from 76 hours to one week without violating the nuclear materials refined arms control act.

Likewise, the Modular Limb System now so commonly used by firefighters and other emergency personnel on more-or-less standard humanoid bodies was originally developed for the Broseidon Systems T-209, which as anyone on this website will remind you, is widely considered incredibly fetishistic and “deeply unnatural”!

Now of course, a lot of this could maybe come from military research, and there’s some argument whether the wealthy rebuilding themselves as fetishized versions of mythological creatures is really a good use of resources, but honestly I doubt that without it we get the same rate of progress.

@collapsedsquid @xhxhxhx I went to reply to this thread, but when I opened up my draft it was already filled with this discourse from the future.