• Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    1 month ago

    Obviously Earth has passed the test.

    They were given a task, found a group for whom the task would be ideal in both their willingness and ability to do it, and presented this group to the task giver. They did not force a slave class, they didn’t do a lottery, they didn’t see it as a chance to get rid of undesirables, they just sent people who legitimately wanted to go.

    There was no victim, thus there was no crime.

    If these aliens can’t tell, they’re morons who clearly didn’t think it through.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      If these aliens can’t tell, they’re morons who clearly didn’t think it through.

      There’s a popular phrase:“breeding like rabbits”. We view rabbits like some sex crazed breeding machines, like all they do is fuck. What if we’re the galactic rabbits and the other galactic civilizations aren’t trying to fuck everything that moves? Maybe for them kinks aren’t a thing and as such their test makes sense because you can’t prepare for something you can’t imagine (or believe to be impossible).

      Imagine you want to prank an alien by putting a bucket on top of the door. When the alien walks in the bucket falls on them. Brilliant, except the alien doesn’t move the door because it phases through the door. Are you stupid for making a prank that expects the victim to be solid? Or did you just make the prank based on the knowledge you have, which includes knowing you can’t just phase through things.

      The aliens weren’t dumb. Maybe they did think in through and they thought it would be impossible to be intelligent being to want to fuck extraterrestrials.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    1 month ago

    It’s weird… I feel like any civilisation worth joining the galactic federation would have no issues finding volunteers to save their civilisation anyway (though maybe not 14 minutes…)

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        As an individual, when you’re presented with the choice of giving up yourself for the rest of mankind, don’t you think 10 minutes (minus the time it takes to receive the call) is a bit tight to think about it?

        • Slovene@feddit.nl
          7·
          1 month ago

          You underestimate the number of us who would fuck off the earth and leave our current boring lonely miserable unfulfilling lives in a second.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    23·
    1 month ago

    You know, sometimes I wish I did a little more with my life instead of hanging out in front of places selling weed and shit. Like, maybe be an animal doctor. Why not me? I like seals and shit. Or maybe an astronaut. Yeah. Like, be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien lifeform… and fuck it. And people’d be like, "There he goes. Homeboy fucked a Martian once.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    8·
    1 month ago

    Considering the behavior of hive organisms, what is the difference between a species forcing individuals to go with the aliens, and members of a species willingly going? From a biological perspective, what is the difference between individuals being exposed to fear hormones and being exposed to horny hormones, to an outside observer?

    Do bees willingly die to protect their hive? Do humans have children out of a desire to see their species thrive?

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 month ago

        Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.

        Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?

        • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.

          Upon page load the website makes a call to the /rand.php endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.

          				<script>
		$.get("/rand.php",function(data){
			$('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data);
		});
		</script>

          (lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.

          • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Why? Ask the author.

            I’m not the author so I’m going to speculate wildly that this may be an artifact from back when the button was introduced. SMBC wanted to encourage its readers to vote for the comic on “top webcomics” listings, and the extra comic panel was introduced as an incentive to do so - you would see it after voting. Since SMBC became popular enough that doing that was redundant, the author kept the extra panel around but took out the requirement to vote to see it.

            oh whoops

            • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              the extra comic panel was introduced as an incentive to do so - you would see it after voting

              We’re talking about the “random” comic link.