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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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quantumgenerator

let monster women look monstrous u fucking cowards

mitigatedchaos

You think that sht pays for itself?  You think fucking superconducting magnets for building these enormous full prosthetic bodies are free or something?

Alright, when my company makes some licensed, snake-themed anime bullsht, we can reliably sell 400,000 units.  Yeah, that’s not a typo.  Not forty units.  Not four hundred units.  Four hundred thousand units.

That’s what people want.  That’s what they buy.  That’s what they’re willing to pay for.  We are in the business of making what people are willing to pay for.  Microtanium alloy does not come cheap.

You think we haven’t tried more ‘exotic’ body designs?  We’ve done that.  Small batches.  Little unique touches for all of them.  Totally novel arm and shoulder designs.

You know who buys that?  Collectors.  Every time we try it it’s a struggle to sell the whole batch for more than it cost us to make it.

That “dumb” pretty design you’re railing against, that is so popular, is compatible with every door handle, every stove, most typical tops, most typical hats, and so on.  You can go out tomorrow and buy everything you need for it.  All the catalogs already exist, and where they don’t, “human equipment will do.”

Not to mention that, even leaving aside that most of our customers still have to interface with business environments, most humans aren’t gossisexual, they aren’t going to adapt to something too far outside the human bodyplan, and most of our customers don’t want to look hideous, even in the N- and L-band neurotypes.  Even shifting most of the muscle control on e.g. the spider special mode to software is straining the neuroplasticity limits of the human brain, and neuroplasticity amplifiers are not free of side-effects.

This is just so woefully naive and idealistic.  Really, I’ve had it up to here with outsiders trying to force their aesthetic preferences on my industry.

If you want such a monstrous body, go buy it yourself.  There are hundreds, maybe thousands of custom shops that will put one together for you.  But don’t go btching about how “your monsterwoman synth bodies don’t look monstrous enough”.

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argumate

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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The future of religion and culture

I did a quick post elsewhere about my thoughts on the future of religion. It was suggested that I share it here and expand upon it. I’m not a theologian these are just some observat…
the-imperial-autocrat

A new article by @mulcahythebaronofurga.

“Christianity went through a process of modernization during the 20th century. As new norms replaced old ones. But churches are emptying because of the loss of authentic faith. 

The left will come to realize that Islam is not going to tow the line of homosexual acceptance nor will it promote feminist values. They’re valiant defenders of Islam now. But they won’t be if they become 30-40% of the religious population in the United States of America.”

“The soft populist-nationalism of Donald Trump is bulldozing through the neo-liberal headquarters. Illegal immigration is down. He’s pushing for merit-based immigration. He’s questioning affirmative action. He’s laying the foundation for a larger movement that is currently in it’s adolescence. 

Capitalism and mass immigration have destroyed traditional norms, faith, and proper birthrates. A rejection of modern capitalism would do plenty for societies around the world. In terms of reviving older cultural and political norms. I’m quite fond of distributism, capitalist protectionism, and a rightist variant of Kropotkinism as alternatives to the current system.” 

@awhiffofcavendish @artist-tyrant @the-orthodox-autocrat @higher-order

@dietmountainmadewka @gospel-panacea @rtrixie @theorthodoxknight

rtrixie

Hmm, interesting

mitigatedchaos

I have various disagreements, but the real biting one is this:

It fails to account for Transhumanism.  

For many years, opponents of Transhumanism have described it as techno-utopian fantasy that will never come to pass, and maybe the brain uploading part and the Singularity are, but they’ve been getting a lot quieter about the rest of it recently.

We have vat-grown organs in labs already.

We have nervous-system controlled robotic limbs.

We now have established, in a lab setting, some pretty serious genetic modification on human embryos, removing genes for a disease.

These aren’t science fiction.  Only their economic viability is - for now.

Recently mouse lifespans were increased by 10-15% with stem cells in the brain, and studies on blood health with mice have also been promising (inspiring all those jokes about Vampire Peter Thiel).

There is a point where lifespan begins to increase more quickly and healthcare costs start to come back down again, where screening out genetic diseases and selecting for higher performance first hits the wealthy and then everyone else.  This starts to undermine the effects of lowered fertility on more left-wing social configurations.

It undermines race, it undermines social darwinism, it undermines demand for religion.

You can ban it in Europe, you can ban it in America, but if you do, then the research will merely continue in Asia.

You might get a shift rightwards socially, but I don’t think it will look like what you expect.  It will probably be in the form of a more holistic view of society where it is acknowledged that we can only afford to be kind if we’re careful not to increase the situations that required us to be kind in the first place.  All the bitching about gays is a sideshow.

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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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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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rendakuenthusiast: “ 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...
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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.
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@the-grey-tribe

Totally not eugenics, then. Just compassion with the poor. Nothing to see here, move along!

CRISPR means we’re going to start getting designer babies soon enough.

Suppose you are from a family with a severe heritable peanut allergy.  You contract with Genetic Enhancements, Inc. to create an embryo, modify it to remove the genes for the peanut allergy, and then implant it.

This is technically eugenics.

But, on the other hand, there is no benefit whatsoever to a severe peanut allergy.  Not on an individual level.  Not on a family level.  Not on a societal level.  We are much better off if such an allergy doesn’t exist.

But there is a difference between people that are already created and people that don’t yet exist and may never exist, and there is a difference between mandatory, quasi-optional, and payment-based practices.

But I don’t think “is this eugenics or not?” is a good question for untangling the morality of this, because “I refuse to have children because I have a heritable genetic heart problem that will kill me at 50″ is also eugenics.

So to me, the suitable grounds to oppose it on is that they’re in prison, under the state’s care, or something along those lines.

And of course, in the original issue that was brought up, genes may not even be relevant.  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be extremely expensive, and how much do you want to bet that other kinds of drugs can cause similarly expensive medical disorders?

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