Posts by space_cadet@aus.social
(DIR) Post #B05ZOmDRKsJp9ygdv6 by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-11-09T05:41:59Z
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I reckon the story of Metropolis is suddenly even much more relevant if the Machines that the workers feed all day are now the AI Data Centres
(DIR) Post #B0Ppi9pnO8rwaE48VU by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-11-17T21:31:21Z
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There's a(n) _________ for that.
(DIR) Post #B0UCv2Hm6qcbBbHfiC by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-11-21T23:59:03Z
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@johnhattan This earns my respect
(DIR) Post #B0Y6JNlVyh4rhuhFBI by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-11-23T21:02:39Z
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About 40 years ago (ie. before mobile phones) my parents bought a house that already had landline phone sockets in every room.EVERY ROOM.Even the toilet!We were stunned.*WHY* would anyone want to have a phone within arm's reach while sitting on a toilet?!?!?The world is weird now.
(DIR) Post #B0YDt8GLnEiLjN76fY by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-11-23T22:28:47Z
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@johnhattan Actually we thought the previous owner was an underground Bookie
(DIR) Post #B0rbi4FVkkkt5m5uLI by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-03T01:53:33Z
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DAE? #ShitPost(Does Anyone Else?) does anyone else find it very hard to get motivated to slog through every day feeding the Capitalism Monster, while you are overtired, overworked, and overwhelmed, when the people who are forcing you to live like this are genuine, actual Monsters?
(DIR) Post #B15QyXE7P7T2JaX10a by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-09T22:58:33Z
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I just got my very first Plastic Welder
(DIR) Post #B15RfhCYC6FHheNY5Q by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-09T23:08:42Z
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@johnhattan But ... with careful application of the right tools, they *could* be!
(DIR) Post #B16c60KeslXrGUJZh2 by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-10T09:40:14Z
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2025 was the year when the Tipping Point happened, and the world literally flipped upside down. Satire became real life. Reality became Pure Unhinged WTF?Who can tell what's real, anymore?Enjoy this recent recording of Weird Al Yankovic, singing a straight cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name Of": https://youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts
(DIR) Post #B1L9JQU6ybHeqABPUG by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-17T12:53:39Z
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I want my gravestone inscription to say "R.I.P. (Religion is poison)"
(DIR) Post #B1Lo0Wxglc6FXz7snI by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-17T20:34:22Z
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@HMLivy Too much effort!Burial at sea = best.Low effort & low cost.Guaranteed total recycling, no wastage.
(DIR) Post #B1k5LKCi1YFpXlRijo by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-12-29T11:34:56Z
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The Illuminati are reading your Fedi posts and classifying you as "terminate" or "save-rescue" after the Scheduled Apocalypse.
(DIR) Post #B1zCUqobl8J2LH3rmq by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-05T20:41:22Z
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I'm trying something new. Goal = sleep more hours per night than hours worked that day. Work 8 hours? Sleep 9 hours. Work 10 hours? Sleep 11 hours. I'll let you know how it goes.
(DIR) Post #B28zV1Q1erXCSSEIxU by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-10T07:19:10Z
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Since we have literal Nazis back in the world again, it's fun to watch movies in which Nazis get punched and stuff. Let's share recommendations. * The Indiana Jones franchise* Fury* Inglorious Basterds* Sisu
(DIR) Post #B2B0Bq0CMw5FonU9FQ by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-11T12:22:01Z
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I'm starting to get a weird feeling. I trust anything written with US English spelling, less than I trust things written with UK English spelling. Is my bias/prejudice justified?
(DIR) Post #B2C2QpMbQ5P1FQCSEC by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-12T00:22:29Z
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We wanted AI to be: "Oh, shit, Sherlock!"But we didn't even get: "No shit, Sherlock." Instead we got: "What shit are you smoking, Sherlock?"
(DIR) Post #B2edpgsyeYELye2I2C by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-25T20:17:54Z
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There's something so all-pervading about our world in this current era, something so enormous that nobody can see it. We are all so used to thinking like this, that we are unaware of it. And it literally never occurs to us that there might be other ways of thinking, other ways of living. Everybody is doing it, and everybody knows that everybody thinks like this - so everybody's Theory of Mind is written in their brains using this colour of mental ink, on this colour of mental paper. It's this: Greed. We're all hypnotised into thinking that everyone is constantly motivated to try to get the most they can out of everything, at all times, in every situation.It's like a constant hunger, even when you're not hungry.Based on the fear of scarcity.Everybody is competing and scrambling to gather, grab, gain, attract, collect, hoard.Take, take, take. Me, me, me. Mine, mine, mine.We're so used to it that we don't even question it.But what if ....What if, instead, we spent most of our time and mental effort thinking and creating and conjuring ideas, around, "how much can I give? What can I put into this situation? What does this thing need? How can I give it what it needs?" What if we felt more naturally inclined to Give, than to Take?More Give, than Take.What if, when you see a flower growing, instead of thinking "I want to pluck it," your first thought is "how can I help that plant grow more flowers?" What if we weren't all selfish?What if we were all selfless?I suspect that we would all have more than we currently have. Because we would literally measure "more" in different terms.
(DIR) Post #B2itHTwwcO3FuTRQ1Y by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-01-27T20:16:05Z
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Madness: Seeing what other people cannot see. Genius: Seeing what other people cannot see.
(DIR) Post #B3106QZp0zgqmua36W by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-02-05T15:09:02Z
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"There's no soft landing out of Late Stage Capitalism." is such a beautiful phrase to say. I love the way it feels in my mouth. I think I'm going to enjoy saying it a lot.
(DIR) Post #B3GDQOyStcOUNuMQXh by space_cadet@aus.social
2026-02-12T23:32:12Z
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Trump isn't the only person who thinks that lying is perfectly acceptable to get what you want. Lots of people think that way. To those people, the literal definition of "Truth" is nothing more than simply: What People Believe. For those people who cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, it makes perfect sense that Belief is the only thing that matters, and that Facts don't matter *at all*.That's why they will gleefully fight, kill and die to promote and defend their beliefs, because from their point of view, their beliefs *ARE* reality. That's why those people find it so easy to deny the power and the value of science. Because science is all about testable, objective facts, and the threat of that whole idea deconstructs their entire basis of reality. If you threaten the entire foundation of someone's entire worldview, they're going to get very upset and will even get comfortably violent to make that threat shut up and stop.