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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

huh. well cant argue with duty

root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What they refuse to understand is that science fiction is not predictive, it's reflective of our present culture. They see it and want to make it reality, when what was asked was "what would we do if..." That's the torment nexus tweet: sci fi is wondering what we would do if we could.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is what we're up against. people are creating problems in their heads to kill whatever hope they might still have. they would be for the good thing (people getting to see the doctor instead of dying, people not going into medical debt), but they're pre-emptively arguing against themselves

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

nothing says "it can't escape!" like encasing your microbe (that you totally autoclaved first, right?) in a composite of its micronutrient source and discarded carbon, conveniently protecting it from the atmosphere that will like totally kill it, in a facillity dedicated to melting ice

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the thing about heat of vaporization is that it can hide the absolute temprature effects of some enormous energy fluxes...until it doesnt

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i feel like thats giving them too much credit; they got a LLM to come up with the chemical spray part for them, which is more or less the mechanism you use in Pandemic 2 to infect madagascar then flip a switch to kill the world

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if you look at any of the walk assist videos for stroke victims you cannot unsee it. he has the same limp going

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

www.observableradio.com/episodes/tra...

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

anytime i wonder why we're doing what we're doing i remember this image. we'll shoot the flames dead or die trying

cop pointing his gun at an on-fire Aaron Bushnell. somehow this is a metaphor for US climate policy

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

they believe this for high schoolers too by the way

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

for reference, elementary kids still walk to school. the only way this happens is if your neighbors are awful. go to any community in america and you can find these people, and that the cops and CPS affirm them is dangerous as hell

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i agree but their post could have been much shorter re: what people should do first if they get replies they dont like

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

really telling that this wasn't the entirety of their post

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it is about blame, about the just world fallacy, not safety

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

there is a huge smugness the "just wear a helmet idiot!" crowd has, and it is wild to me that they are ostensibly leftists who should understand collective problems. they would look at this picture and be like "i guess they all want to die"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

@sabs.bsky.social I loved your tombmates piece but I suspect you may need a new medievalist, @goingmedieval.bsky.social did people "not understand sex without penetration" back then? Real weird that the church kept telling people not to do sodomy things that nobody did. defector.com/and-they-wer...

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

if that was the objective of the essay wouldnt there be a lot more about what that would mean for the experience of non-living systems, that if we, a part of the universe, experience ourselves, other parts probably do as well i guess to me the thesis is:

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

i regret to inform you that the middle schoolers selling at the elementary school fence by my apartment are way ahead on this

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

the know how was always there, but the brewing culture was not about that market segment when the wave of breweries started. big part of it is the decline in alcohol consumption coming after the huge craft beer boom, generating the demand

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

now that prediction markets have legalized sports gambling for the whole nation its going to be really hard to make comparisons but...

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

this billboard on I80 is hilarious

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

for a really long time people were like "don't let them take the flag, it represents all that is good and true about America" while refusing to look at the flag in question:

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"constrained and dogmatic" is a frustrating way to describe the phenomena that "there are many ways to be wrong but only one way to be right" oh, the right has diverse ideas about who counts as a person? how open-minded!

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

eh they already pulled that one down

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

he looks at this and says "voters really believe that the mere fact that a politician disagrees with them about something is evidence of corruption". That's not what the graph says! Its almost all quid pro quo! He defines "social elites" as 'affirmative action, trans athletes, and abortion'

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Social Murder offends conservatives to the bone. The idea that you or I may have responsibility to others is treated as more violent than consigning millions to death.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

relatedly the credulousness is out of control. lots of replys here are like "hey guys they said they didnt do anything wrong, and who are you to judge"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

the thing is these people dont come across as the sharpest tools in the shed; lots of leopards eating faces

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

during grad school I asked a grant manager what was preventing this cycle from happening and he said "that's how its supposed to work. i get grant applications from nobel prize winners every day and what am i supposed to do, tell them some assistant prof has a better idea?"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"The link here is that women are considered guilty – no matter the era – of the level of sexual interest that is at odds with societal expectation...Men always have the sexual drive that leads to societal status, and women are then defined in opposition to that expectation."

The link here is that women are considered guilty – no matter the era – of the level of sexual interest that is at odds with societal expectation. In the medieval period women are considered lustful and sex driven because the Church considered sex to be wrong. In the modern era – where sex is considered much less taboo, and is often celebrated – women are told that we are not interested in and cannot derive pleasure from the sexual act. Men always have the sexual drive that leads to societal status, and women are then defined in opposition to that expectation.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

what?! seals are water dogs. where are you getting this otter misinformation?

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

an entire political philosophy that boils down to "we're all trying to find the guy who did this!"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

uh i hate that im the guy but in my defense during grad school melvin green was emeritus and wandered the halls all day muttering about fruit, honey, vinegar, and new world flies you really do catch more flies with vinegar here and im not so sure that US voters are that different

"It Really Is Not a Fruit Fly; There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This
must have been Drosophila."

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

nope they are all in 1 ton totes now

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

we are hanging on a cross of silicon for every gigawatt wasted in a data center we illuminate a million homes. for every data center filled with GPUs we could build countless solar arrays. every gallon of water run through a computer is a gallon out of a living thing's mouth

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

at least with the other members of this kakistocracy they are projecting onto us untold mommy and daddy issues due to real greivances with their childhood. hegseth's mommy and daddy issue is that they didnt teach him to bury his fear through pure aggression

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

surely the people who openly and loudly announce their crimes and say "if nobody stopped me it cant have been a crime" or "lol laws only apply to dems" would never commit the crime of falsifying evidence

Oh and by the way, it’s sheerly astonishing how we’ve just helplessly accepted this empty-tabled no-chairs potluck of dork-ass potato-water-blooded failsons corralling us into a corner where we cannot even allow ourselves to consider any idea that remotely resembles a conspiracy theory, even when CONSPIRACIES SO MELODRAMATICALLY BLATANT THE WORLD’S RICHEST MAN IS OPENLY GIGGLING ABOUT DOING BIG CRIMES ON LIVE TV WHILST HIGH AS A CUMULUS CLOUD IN THE OVAL OFFICE are happening right in front of us, with only the most half-hearted attempts to hide them behind THE OCCASIONAL FUCKING HALF-DEAD POTTED PLANT. The President of the United States has repeatedly said Elon Musk secured the election for him with those gosh-dang computers he’s so good at and we just sigh and tell ourselves we can’t think about it or we’re just like them. Trump constantly panics, incredibly loudly, about the Epstein Files and hysterically screeches for people to forget they exist at least once a week, but we’ve voluntarily forbidden ourselves to even entertain the thought that, since he must know his base can’t stop slobbering all over him for longer than five seconds about anything, and everyone already knows he likes young girls, maybe there’s more to this than him being one of many customers. So now we just live like this, refusing to consider that several conspiracies might be underway from the exact kind of people who love doing conspiracies, and have done them before, over and over again, is a required demonstration of not being a fascist. So much so that I’ve almost deleted this paragraph three times because I don’t want to sound like those loose pinballs, either. FANTASTIC WORK ALL AROUND.

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

ah yes of course what could go wrong selling the ultrasonic version of this for everyday use. ER docs, you have my deepest apologies. we are all running around drunk on "the future"

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

provided everyone isn't thrown in jail for 5G signals or whatever im pretty sure we're gonna land on RNA only based treatments and be shocked that anyone ever tried to target anything else

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

if morons like this are the champions of liberalism then liberalism is dead

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

this was probably one of the most evil books ever written and somehow it has a bunch of ostensibly progressive idiots excusing every neoliberal failure of the past 50 years

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

it is picked because if you use 7.40 (min required for normal life expectancy) the total number of people in poverty goes up since 1980, not down

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

we live in a 30 rock episode

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"a stupid game like when kids annoy their siblings by saying “I'm not touching you” while poking them with a stick. The idea is that as long as there's a buffer between you and the violence you are calling for through systemic means then your soul and professional reputation can remain clean."

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