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In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!

Oh. That's weird.

Okay FINE!! FINE!! I'LL WATCH IT!!

NDT has some sexual harassment allegations in his closet, which means it's only a matter of time before he's blaming this UFO hysteria on trans people.

I actually just adopted knocking on wood. Couldn't tell ya why.

After reading Flatland and playing The Forgotten City, I feel like any number of human religions could end up being "true" to some degree. But it would involve aliens, or interdimensional interlopers or something.

It's not hard, but it's also not profitable, so it will never happen in America.

OP is equating, not the Romani and the homeless, but the way the people around them treat and talk about them.

OP is comparing Americans and Europeans, and their comparable depravity.

Literally nobody ever believed it was about "protecting the children."

Liberal rubes sure did. They'll keep insisting that's the case too, even as bans on trans adults existing sweep forth. Liberals absolutely don't give a fuck about us.

Lol what specifically happened in 2020?

The speed of advancement from the industrial revolution to present.

This one makes Fermi's Paradox far more confusing and terrifying to me. The time it took to go from agriculture to the steam engine is nothing compared to the age of the universe, absolutely nothing, and from the steam engine to modern technology is fuck ton nothing.

An intelligent species could go from stone age technology to nuclear weapons in the blink of an eye.

And that's just life as we understand it. We have no idea if we're the equivalent of Flatland in a higher spatial dimension or something. There could be stars with entire civilizations of plasma-based intelligent life churning inside of them. There could be intelligent civilizations lurking in each and every single subatomic particle.

It's possible no matter how far out or far in we look, we just keep finding more universe, more space for something to inhabit, forever...

As they said on , if we look everywhere and we're the only intelligent species anywhere in this universe ... well that would be weirder than if life is hiding all over the universe.