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ID: a tweet by @HalimedeMF, dated 5:44pm on 07 December 2021

overlooked... underpaid... vulnerable and cast out... trans women really are the women of women

This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:

ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.

perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks

They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.

if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives

My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.

One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.

Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.

I personally think it should be a friendly greeting between comrades

https://x.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1796518964287426980

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2663734

Hello all.

Start through this hyperlink right here if you haven't started already.

The hyperlink starts with A Game of Thrones.

This book that I'm reading right now is the fifth book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance with Dragons.

Get the first book or second book or whichever book you're starting with from your local library or from Z Library or Anna's archive (the last two provide free PDFs or ePub versions).

What are your favorite Jon Snow chapters throughout the series?

https://x.com/kristnmerrilees/status/1795556182918074452

makes you think

I spent the whole day at my workshop, making sawdust, logged off and enjoying a local holiday. I arrive home and see that at long last the cheeto is fired and then I decide to go over my daily allowance of Twitter just to check out what's going on.

My feed is full of the most radioactive shitty excuses for human beings, one after the other. I just opened it right now to check it again, and here's what I got, in this order:

Ann Coulter, Mike Pompeo, Kyle Rittenhouse, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Mike Lee, Jim Jordan, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., Josh Hawley, Lauren Boebert, Donald J Trump Posts from Truth Social, Greg Abbot.

To what do I owe the pleasure of being presented with this absolute eldritch nightmare of a blunt rotation? Is this happening to anybody else? This is on my phone's Firefox browser, because I've reached the daily app time allowance, same as on my PC's browser.

without clicking the link, try and guess which "leftist" subreddit this social fascist's comment that got 1.7 thousand upvotes came from

and here's it without the predditors comment:

The president warns all white American men that they have until midnight of May 30 before officially being illegal, after which he will approve the People’s Liberation Army to occupy the US as he activates marshal law.