this made me realize how great this map would be for an alternate history or fantasy setting

the mountain range between north america and africa creates the super interesting situation where the sides are almost entirely separated save for the coast and a teensy tiny bit near cape town that’s sort of crossable, so the coast would see an insane amount of traffic and i could see there being a capital nestled in the mountains next to the passage to cape town.
And of course the indian ocean would be where basically everyone lives, as others have said.

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which checks out becuase uhhh, that’s why we invented stories 🧠

the problem isn’t captcha as a concept, it’s how it’s executed

there are good captchas that aren’t obviously making you train an AI model and which seem like they’d actually be effective at identifying humans, like dragging a circle over a specific feature of an image.

it’s really astounding EVERYONE isn’t just using hcaptcha, it’s the only one that actually fucking makes sense and works

so what is the point of your comments?

what are you on about? there’s tons of amazing people on youtube

salted noodle water? well look at mr. fucking gourmet over here, sheesh

sadly i’m just a

he travels the entire world in two (maybe 3? idk if any country has christmas outside of 24th/25th) nights, of course it’s going to be impossible to wake him from his torpor the rest of the year!

bakes it in a kiln, making it durable and waterproof

The ghosts of our ancestors:

i mean, same

take a walk where? spend money on gas to go to a nature area, or do 5 laps around the neighbourhood?
huge swaths of suburban america are literally not possible to leave by foot

libraries are similarily shitty in large parts of the US, that is if one even exists anywhere near you.

cloning is pretty simple: you end up in both places. there’s no magical continuity of experience, both clones are equal and will 100% feel like the original and have equally valid claims to such, and to a third observer it would basically just look like two very confused identical twins who share their memories before the cloning.
You obviously wouldn’t end up with a single conscience experiencing both points of view at once, lmao.

it’s just like copying data on a computer, it’s all the same data so it’s nonsensical to call any copy the “original”.

the fact that right-wingers don’t emit a loud filmreel sound at all times is truly a testament to technological advances

i don’t think soap with grit added would have ever been considered a luxury product, low-quality soap still looks way prettier

not to worry, plenty of people type with a single finger flying across the keyboard, many still know cramping fingers 🥰

it’s only a problem if you think the sole thing defining “you” is an intangible soul that for some reason wouldn’t just transfer between or get copied alongside instances of yourself

the line of reasoning you talk about has always been so strange to me, you’d be talking to a person walking out of a transporter and insist they’re dead, as they look you in the eye and ask if that’s an insult

it’s just the ship of theseus, at what point do you consider it a new ship?

like think about it, people only start questioning if it’s the same person after they learn how transporters work, doesn’t that indicate that it really doesn’t matter? if people can go their entire lives with neither them nor anyone around them noticing a difference, how could they somehow be a different person?

but then on the flipside there’s stuff like star trek, which since it’s literally the inspiration for cellphones is remarkably normal

even the fucking tricorders aren’t that far off these days, just today i used an app on my phone to identify plants automatically for fuck’s sake, that’s insane!