I was always jealous of the kids in high school and college who were able to do this. It was 100% down to whose expenses were bankrolled by their parents. Not your fault, but it’s left me a little bitter.
I was always jealous of the kids in high school and college who were able to do this. It was 100% down to whose expenses were bankrolled by their parents. Not your fault, but it’s left me a little bitter.
Would you help them financially if they needed it in old age?
I can’t imagine the kind of shitstain that would kick their kids out as a teenager.
Sounds like they’re addicted to materialism. Buying fancy toys to show off.
Hope your circumstances improve.
Heh “need to done violence”
“And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.” - Genesis 6:7
“If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” - Genghis Khan
God help the universe if we ever discover FTL travel and escape the prison of lightspeed.
I’ve got a similar story that I’ve been workshopping for years…the alien races decide humans are too warlike, and after our first space war (against other humans, with us not knowing aliens exist yet) the alien council ruling the galaxy decides we’re too dangerous and getting too technologically advanced, so they send an AI to try to wipe us out. Galactic civilization has been largely peaceful for tens of thousands of years so they don’t know how to do war, but they program an ai to try to eliminate humanity while preserving the rest of life on Earth.
They mostly succeed, but in the conflict the earth does get devastated despite the best efforts of the AI. A human colony ship escapes, and hundreds of years later the descendants of the massacre return to wreak bloody vengeance on the rest of the galaxy.
Life is so rare, finding ANY life is worth investigation
Homeless dude living in the train station of the afterlife? That sounds pretty cool. Like the train stations in the Matrix.
Eh. The amount of oxygen in out atmosphere is pretty much impossible by non-living processes alone iirc. Anyone who can do astro-spectroscopy can probably tell there’s life here, from thousands of light years away.
I disagree. I think there is no more important thing we have ever done or will ever do as a civilization, than try to make contact with alien life.
If Roko’s Basilisk is ever created, the resulting Ai would look at humanity and say “wtf you people are all so incredibly stupid” and then yeet itself into the sun
Well, we’ve already sent a couple of probes out of the solar system, but they’re not really going fast enough to have any meaningful interstellar impact.
Edgelord teenagers are a plague on lemmy
I’m sorry to tell you this, but I think you might be stupid.
We have to be extremely careful that we don’t accidentally trigger a weapon that is going to kill or dramatically cripple our civilization before we become a truly interstellar species.
Great filter confirmed to be oopsie-daisies
This predates Tiktok.