Angry_Autist (he/him)

I knew a local trading card shop that was basically daycare for a high functioning autistic nepo baby

His rich parents 1) wanted to get his collection out of the house, 2) wanted HIM out of the house for at least part of the day, and 3) Figured the business losses as the cost of ‘daycare’, so the store never made money but it served a purpose

Used to clean up on locals there, you’d be surprised how much money you can make at card tournaments

That’s just terrible management

they are slightly more affordable than bk, and sometimes you just want chili at 3am

I found a money laundering deli

It’s amazing, they love having customers as it improves their cover so everything is dirt cheap and really high quality.

Sometimes people come in and the guy behind the register politely shuffles us out with an armful of free cold cuts and a wink

None of you will ever hear about this place from my lips

I swear to fuck if this post cancels Morrowind Remastered there will be consequences

Nice sentiment but the propaganda isn’t for us, and it’s working

Yeah American is a victim blaming culture

Almost as if capitalism was specifically designed to shuffle all wealth from the bottom to the top in a neverending ratchet of human degradation and exploitation

Yeah well when the copyright courts agreed to Namco’s patent on loading screen minigames it kind of freaked everyone out back then and people patented every dumbshit thing. For a short time Amazon tried to patent the single click purchase

FTL coms are a concession to the story, it would have been terrible without it

IRL quantum entanglement can’t ever provide causality breaking info. In very simple terms, you need correlation to know when the data stream began as just observing the resulting spins still seem just as random before and after the event.

In even more simple terms: Whatever message they can send even if pre-agreed on seems like random heat results until you know the exact moment the transmission began, as confirmed by a light lagged message.

In less simple terms, the misunderstanding comes from treating the metaphor of ‘flipping the spin north switch’ as a literal thing instead of a less-than ideal ‘lies to children’ of what is actually happening to particles that experience spin transition, and the meaning of ‘entangled’ is both less and more strange than people understand.

But again, 3 body problem would have been a terrible story without it,t hat’s why it’s science fiction

Nice nice, and in the 3000 intervening years they’ve developed alpha particle cannons that shred your entire swarm of rocks and puny physical spaceship to white hot quantum loops as they sip megachampagne on their continent sized airships as they watch your fleet unwillingly transition to light

The gun that fired the barrage was the size of a juice box floating somewhere in orbit, they have millions of them

You didn’t even get a chance to pull your finger off of the mass driver button

As if that future civilization would treat you as anything but a zoo specimen

so are tiktok comment sections, your point?

FTL isn’t possible, ERBs would pastafy any matter passing through them and there is no way to control the other end, and take Kardashev scale 3 civ at least (and that’s even pretending the Kardashev scale isn’t the purest daydream fantasy)

No, it’s not worth it unless you are very lucky, attractive, or rich

In the 80s I used to idolize this man.

Wow he turned out to be a special kind of shitbag.