Thank you, this makes a lot of sense!

Also, guess I missed my mark, would’ve been the ideal astronaut based on this! Does being dumb also help help? I mean, less going on up in the ol’ noggin, thinking energy is transferred slower that way:))) Or that I use less, which would make me fuel-efficient!=))))

Funny, I always felt that the old “one can never go back home” adage holds true precisely due to the continuous addition of layers of context, in that I’m never the same Me going “home,” which means it can never be “home” for the new Me. I do know that comfort of familiarity, though! For me, it’s getting back to my own bed:))

Either way, your experience sounds wonderful, and I kinda’ envy you, tbh. I’ve always had trouble appreciating new places and contexts, because I see the familiar everywhere I go, in people, in tendencies, in shared cultural elements… Maybe it’s different for everyone, I guess, or a matter of perspective. Very good food for thought!

Hmm, is it because vacuum acts essentially like an insulator? I’m thinking this because, from what I remember about high-school thermodynamics, heat needs to “jump” from matter to matter, and there’s not a relevant quantity of matter in a vacuum to act as a heat absorber, like air does over here, right?:-?

I’m genuinely asking, I’m sure I have brain rot from watching too many sci-fi movies…

That makes sense, I mean we’re already melting over here with the atmospheric buffer, I imagine it’d be the same or maybe even hotter straight on.

Feel dumb for not thinking about it this way, to be honest, thank you!

Thanks! I was about to ask if there is time for the pressure differences to act upon our biology, or if the freezing bit happens before everything has a chance to go pop!

Too fucking right… I have nothing more to add, you are as painfully on-point as possible…

If the actual spending was that large, we, the citizenry, would see it. But we don’t. Our living situation has steadily degraded over time, wages have stagnated for at least a decade, our infrastructure’s essentially unchanged from the 80s… And many other such examples.

No, the country isn’t spending, the politicians are, for themselves and their families. In Romania, as long as you don’t steal from the big wigs, nobody gives a shit.

Edit: in my opinion, Brussels should lay into them like a fucking hurricane.

This is very true, but people still need a significant push to get there. They still need to first be angry enough to not want to take it anymore, before they start looking into what can actually be done.

I think entertainment is one of the poorest means of distribution, because, as it is now and in my opinion, entertainment exists in a state somewhere between not being taken seriously, and being taken seriously enough to pacify the subconscious.

On the other hand, populist means of distribution would be far more effective for this. Appeal to the average citizenry, make the message clear and simple, easily digestible in terms of complexity not wording, but frame it still within the context of reality.

As a concrete example, I’d offer stuff like House Of Cards, The Fall of The House of Usher, The Boys, and many, many other shows with a “calling out truths through metaphors” theme. All of these shows are on point as far as having the metaphors parallel life, but even so they are heavily misinterpreted at worst (see people being downright surprised that Homelander is supposed to be the bad guy), or consumed then forgotten at best.

We need to go beyond metaphors and tackle the Concrete, the what-is, as-is. Show the numbers, show concrete examples of how life is made worse by actual people, and call it out directly - as opposed to the luke-warm and abstract wording of news, that dilution of the truth to make it inoffensive enough as to be easily swallowed then excreted by readers, as the truth isn’t the point of news anymore, it’s getting more and more eyes on your webpage.

Edit: and it needs to be short. We don’t want to keep people entertained on the couch, we want to deliver the blow, then let them fester alone and in silence, sitting with the truth in their lap.

Edit 2: maybe this’d offer a clearer example of what I mean. We (Romania) recently had our Presidentials and narrowly avoided electing a Fascist (George Simion). The reason why his campaign was that successful (and the reason why Trump’s was as well, for that matter) was that he kept it simple. They had billboards posted across all major cities with his party name, his face, and a message saying “apartments for €30.000” (in the context of a one bedroom, ~50m² apartment now costing upwards of €100k in many larger cities). It was utter bullshit, as anyone who knows how basic economy works has said from the start and as Simion himself admitted on live television, but the message was clear and impactful enough to settle into people’s minds.

…aerodynamic?

I had to fight off (metaphorically speaking, wouldn’t have dared show any significant aggression - I mean, have you seen those claws?!) my first tomcat from trying to jump in the bowl every time I used it… The little fucker then decided that if the bowl wasn’t for him, then he’d nestle in my underwear. Which were around my ankles, of course. He never got bored of doing that… God, I spoilt that cat rotten…

Umh… ok. You do realise this is a post in the horror movies community, right? If I want to watch real life horror, I read the news.

Not in theatres, yes.

Duck Duck Go look it up yourself.

Blessing and a curse, yeah… fewer new experiences and the world becomes less immediately “Wow!”, but the increase in depth stemming from all of that accumulated context makes old experiences even better in many cases.

I’m thinking here primarily of books, movies, games, music, relationships of all sorts, even of our own persons. One can start to see the multiple layers beneath the surface which were difficult to see due to a lack of life contexts.

cough check their pockets cough

Just sayin’, pretty much everyone around here knows…

I… what? I’m suddenly very happy for David Lynch, that he didn’t live long enough to see this catch on…

“Thing set to die soon now worth less than the only other option remaining.”

Let’s make it even more interesting, then!