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I’m working on my next big post but in the meantime, here are some deep thoughts from some of the antinatalists I track on Xitter.
Well, if you’re doing it right. (And that’s what you’re both into.)
Huh. While I don’t have kids and don’t want any and am honestly way too old to be a dad anyway I still don’t like the idea that I should be prohibited from having them because I’m depressed and have sciatica.
Yipes. This is a new one to me. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that no, we shouldn’t murder orphans because the adoption system is fucked up. Maybe we should try to fix the system instead? Just thinking out loud here.
Also, who are the four people who liked this tweet and what is their damn problem?
Earthling here is a real cheery one.
Damn, Forrest Gump got dark all of a sudden.
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I think Earthling actually believes nature wants living things to suffer. Like it’s some evil hag that spends all her time creating more and more horrible life-forms.
“My latest and greatest creation! The parasitic wasp! Those beetles will be begging for death while those little larvae crawl inside them. Eeheeheeheeheeheeheeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Speaking of wi(t)ch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3zfF35FEzaU
Instead of X, Twitter should have been renamed DOA since that’s where it will most likely end up with Elon Klutz as CEO.
OT
Dens rehabilitating elon musk because lol of course they would
Seriously? After he outed himself as a Nazi?
Meanwhile, I hear that our latter day Werner von Braun’s rockets are continuing to fail spectacularly. Even the “reusable” boosters are turning out to actually only be usable twice.
@ sylvia
The Falcon 9 was designed to be re-usable up to 10 times. But four of them have clocked up over 20 flights and the current record is 28 flights.
I understand why people don’t like Musk, but SpaceX is doing some pretty spectacular things.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/spacexs-most-flown-reusable-rocket-will-go-for-its-20th-launch-tonight/
Not the Falcon, that bigger new one.
@ sylvia
Yeah, but even there, the actual Heavy Booster successfully landed after its 7th mission. The bit that exploded was the new iteration of Starship. It’s the biggest and most powerful spacecraft ever launched, so I think it’s allowed to be a bit temperamental on its first test flight.
Spaceflight is built on learning from pushing the envelope. Imagine if they’d cancelled the space programme after Apollo 1.
http://greatdisasters.co.uk/apollo-1/
Trump and Musk falling out was as unexpected as an M Night Shyamalan movie.
But speaking of space stuff…
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1930699055820362071
Trump and Musk having a fight. Oh, yes.
And speaking of monsters, I recently finished reading Relight My Fire, #4 in the Stranger Times series. If you enjoy Pratchett, you’ll probably like this series. As an appetizer, I offer this:
Our intrepid heroes are on the roof of the Stranger Times building in Manchester, preparing to fight a horde of zombies, all of whom used to be famous people. Nobody wants to take a swing at Betty White or Nelson Mandela. But.
I roared.
Something’s broken. I can no longer view either the looksmaxxing article or the Elon/Trump infighting open thread.
At least one comment is missing from this thread as well.
Sylvia, I took the posts down and put up a brief post explaining this. I also took down my comment in this thread linking to the now-deleted looksmaxxing gpt post.