Person [he/him]

I’m a cool little dude from the future (born 2203)

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Cake day: October 5th, 2024
  • Person [he/him]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Black-footed cat - Novo General Megathread for the 14th-17th of December 2025English
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    3 months ago

    I feel like generally I have the kinda attitude of like shit’s-wack-and-the-world-is-ending-but-that-only-makes-my-goal-of-living-a-moral-righteous-life-more-important but lately I’ve felt more like shit’s-wack-and-the-challenges-are-insurmountable-and-it’s-hopeless

    and I just donno how to get that optimism mojo back.

    It’s so hard being passionate and caring about the world in a society that’s so indifferent?? Like when I ask people my age what they think about climate change, everyone generally agrees that it’s hopeless, but they also usually say “I try not to think about it”. And I get the impulse but like, if we all agree it’s a problem, there’s power in that!! We could actually do something!! We just need to actually do it, instead of “not think about it”.

    Ohhh

  • Person [he/him]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Ponche de frutas navideño - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of December 2025English
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    3 months ago

    I’m watching Pluribus and I have a lot of thinks

    I have a problem with sci-fi where I have the most fun trying to figure out how the sci-fi elements are supposed to work, so all I have are questions:

    spoiler

    Who was patient zero? Was it that doctor who got bit by a mouse? Because days before that, there’s one scene of a big quiet lab of people working and smiling. Moreover I’m a little curious what they thought they were working on? The male doctor says they think its a sequence that encodes for a lysogenic virus which is a little, idk, underwhelming? Probably they really just don’t have a clue what it is and they’re just spending so much time on it because its an apparent gene sequence from outer space.

    How did the takeover work? Making sure that you control every person on nuclear submarines sounds logistically difficult

    While I fully expect alien life forms would have something akin to DNA for encoding genetic information, I doubt it would be so similar in structure to have the exact same four nucleotides we have on Earth (unless they came from a very similar planet). But maybe this suggests that the “senders” had some prior knowledge of Earth life and crafted this specifically?

    What is the speed of hivemind communication? And what is the medium?

    What is the goal of the hivemind? Probably to create more interstellar antennae and broadcast the information to spread more?

    Can they infect other animals? Closely related species like chimpanzees?

    Imagine the shit you could ask this hivemind though: who killed Kennedy? Who else was on Epstein’s island that we don’t know about? Who is Satoshi (the Bitcoin founder, multi-billionaire, possible intelligence asset)? You could learn about every secret war crime, the truth to every conspiracy, etc.