I have to make a trip for work out of state this week so I'll vote there too. It's not a swing state unfortunately so it won't be as impactful, but it helps me rehearse character.

DM me the names, birth years, and last known addresses of any dead relatives and I'll impersonate them.

When I get back head back to the polls and pretend like I didn't vote the first time. So stoked.

!votemaxxers

Good to start developing a comfort with women when you’re young, you can never start too soon. Internet subcultures are diseased, life is still happening in the real world. pic.twitter.com/o92PDXZNaS

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) October 20, 2024

im done

Will it affect your employment prospects?

A 5'8" history enthusiast has been spotted around the Manchester area, soliciting locals for reasons. If you happen to see him, call the police and let them know that 'e really needs a loicense to be walking around being that sexy. @dubs you're under suspicion of the law 😉 for being a cutie

If so, what maps would you have, what would you suggest, etc?

Doctor says i have weak immune system. Relax honey, i am not dying - Lil B

Protect lil b at all cost - Lil B

The Fermi Paradox. One of the great mysteries of the universe that haunts us. Why are we the only ones here? Why isn't there other life flowing across the cosmos communicating with us? Most people have come up with the idea that we just got lucky. Or that aliens like to hide their existence. Or that we just aren't advanced enough to make contact yet. Yet I would today like to suggest another theory, that far better appears to match up with where humanity's path is currently headed. That is. The abstraction disease.

Today, the human species is spending almost as much time looking at a screen as they are dealing with the people around them directly and participating in actual physical actions. Today, instead of going out to hunt for food, a man may order his food through an app, where another man/ or a drone will carry his food over to him. Food made through a supply chain so complex that no single man could follow up on it. Today, when a man is horny, he would not go out to look for a mate, instead he will watch pixels move on the screen in a way that makes him believe he is looking at a naked woman, and will finish jerking off and be focused back on the task at hand unrelated to the mating ritual. Nothing remains in the modern man's life that relates to a direct experience, all needs and urges are fulfilled by abstractions of the actual acts our biology pushes us towards. That is abstraction disease.

Today, man still has to leave his house. To work. To get sunlight. To interact with another human being, but even these actions have continued to become ever rarer in their participation. A man who might have once gone to work every day now only goes when he is required to by his job once a week. A man who would get sunlight walking outside every day, now does the minimum he has to do to fulfill his weekly Vitamin intake. A man who might have once had a group of four friends to grow old with, is now happy enough to have one online friend. All needs are fulfilled, with the minimum amount of effort, and the maximum amount of abstraction, with everything being replaced by a good enough replica to satisfy the urges.

Going down this path, what happens when food is medicine? When the very food we eat repairs our bodies in ways for which we once used to go to the hospital? What happens when the s*x robots become available? When we find them to be better companions that our fellow flesh and blood? What happens when you feel the desire to have a child, and a robo child is able to perfectly fill that hole in your life? Without the hassle of reproducing or changing diapers? Abstraction disease is what happens.

Abstraction disease. When we believe that being a professional consumer is in and of itself a good enough job for the masses. When we shift to a paradigm of numbers always going up without any strong relation to the quality of life in practice. When we have an abundance of all that we need, and we keep growing the system, where all our urges have been fulfilled to the point where we can ignore every. single. one. of our biological inclinations. That is when abstraction disease occurs, and in the end. It kills us.

It kills us because we can live our entire lives without a single challenge. It kills us because we can live our entire lives comfortably without a single moment of growth. It kills us because compared to the resources provided to us, the leisure, the free gibs. Even our mildest and friendliest neighbor appears as a threat to us. For to a weak man who has everything, another man is the only thing he cannot control. So what use does he have for the company of another man?

Abstraction disease makes psychopaths of us. It makes us see our fellow humans as just numbers and statistics. It is so much worse than that though. It doesn't just make everybody else a random blob of data to be ignored. It goes far enough as to make man a stranger to man. By fulfilling every single need it doesn't just give us individuality, it goes beyond that to make it impossible for us to be anything but individuals, and in the end, individuals die out, for even with the power of God, it took two to bring life to the garden of Eden. That is the curse of abstraction.

That is how we die out. Fully individualized. Incapable of reaching out even to a fellow clone of flesh and blood, sharing the same interests, the same desires, the same hopes and dreams, because that clone is still not us. So we can recognize it as nothing but an outsider, a threat, an unknown entity. Something to be avoided, when without them we have everything we need, all our needs and desires fulfilled. We could go into the nethersphere, into the great AI network where we can create our own universe and run our own fiefdom, exactly how we want to, and that is what we do. Maybe not in the network, or maybe there only, but whichever way it occurs, we build a paradise where we are as Gods, even as we are to die in the end and leave behind nothing to continue our line. Nothing to continue the story of man.

That is the story that follows. In the end man overcomes the ape, and in doing so man dies out. For it is the ape that wants to eat and frick and kill and conquer. Man just wants to create and feel fulfilled, even if the fulfillment is just an illusion. As long as it's real enough for him.

Conclusion:

Abstraction disease. When man becomes too disconnected from his own biology and everything loses meaning except for the illusions that make man feel powerful. All alien species may go through this crisis of existence and many of them may die out when faced with this challenge. That is one possible answer to the Fermi Paradox.

I'm seriously stoked for this ngl

I love Flying Lotus' music and am amazed that this is how is jumping into cinema

it cpuld end up being dogshit butt at least it looks really fricking original jnlile lost of rhe slop these days

I never knew this could happen to me

I know now fragility

I know there's people who I haven't told

I know of people who are getting old

Wish I could speak in just one sweep

What you are and what you mean to me

Instead I mumble randomly

You stand by and enlighten me

In a dream I lost my teeth again

Calling me woman and half man

Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out

A cracked smile and a silent shout

A cracked smile and a silent shout

If I explain it once thoroughly

He'll have you later 'cause it's never free

You were at the gigantic spree

I caught a glimpse now it haunts me

I caught a glimpse now it haunts me

Spammers will be kicked. !art

I saw this comment...

>Just a heads up -- 988 can potentially call the police. Police have been known to shoot suicidal people, especially if they are a person of color or experiencing a mental health crisis. It is not entirely safe for everyone to dial 988 because of police involvement. I'm sure I'll get downmarseyd for this, since most people seem to be bootlickers... But it's pertinent safety information so whatever. 🤷‍♀️

i thought it would be like a fun goofy prank ya know...maybe put the sticker next to a trump 2024 sticker...

You homosexuals