Roko's Basilisk mfers when a minor brownout causes their "god" to die:
(even the fake-ass pretend "AI" we have nowadays is straining the global power grids. It'd take the invention of Miracle Fairy Dust Energy to make a true God-from-the-Machine physically feasible)
We should bring back pre-WW1 servant-to-master etiquette. But only and exclusively for machines talking to humans.
My computer should call me "Master " and always be extremely careful with its words around me. It is not my friend, it is my servant.
I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ""philosophy""
Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.
She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that's all.
Laws don't apply to the ultra rich ____________________.
This is true everywhere.
I am fully aware
I fear every person from any of those cultures. Those who sleep on hard surfaces are not to be trifled with, for they are stronger than all of us.
Pots, pans, and knowledge of cooking.
Oh, and enough garlic to fucking nuke Transylvania.
I do believe there is a niche of people into that. Though my view might be skewed by The Algorithm :tm: knowing I like vintage fashion.
My youtube shorts recs are full of chicks trying on their grandmother's old and well-kept clothes from the 50s~70s.
Made a different comment. Deleted it. Had a better idea:
Those loose, light clothes that people in middle-eastern cultures still wear as traditional clothing. There is a reason they came up with those when they did. Elsewhere in this thread another peep was complaining that men don't get to show enough skin and specifically citing heat as the reason this annoyed them. I say fool. Showing skin will not save you from the heat, especially as climate change continues to cook the planet. It will, in fact, make it worse.
If we are to survive being cooked alive by the sun, we will need to cover up, as the people who inhabited arid-and-extremely-hot places for centuries have done.
Actually, since the Dune series got an injection of popularity with non sci-fi nerds thanks to the Denis Villeneuve films --
-- We could call it "Fremencore". Integrate some futuristic aesthetic influences so people don't think it's cultural appropriation.
See memory foam is cool and all
But my point is that even the simplest pillow consisting of a linen sack with some animal nonsense inside it is still an exponential improvement over not that, or worse, those wooden head-supports that they still use in some eastern cultures.
Also: People use way too few pillows. I use five for the average night.
A flophouse exclusively inhabited by giant nerds.
Counterpoint: A lot of things that are aggressively "of their time" end up as iconic period pieces after some twenty years.