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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldL O V E
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    10 hours ago

    Interesting. I have a story I’m developing where this is a plot point but it’s not just one person, it’s literally everyone. Instead of spacetime it takes place inside a machine simulation and then instead of it begins becuase of a god, it happens because everyone is immortal and bored.

    But the idea is the same, for all anyone “alive” knows, they could be in the machine, except they can’t know because then they’d live wrong. Only in between lives, do they know.





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    17 hours ago

    I knew a kid who did this. Some random kid saw and reported it. His dad was the head janitor of the high school, he helped his dad, was on the payroll so actually was working for the school district himself part-time. He still almost got expelled, managed to only get a week of suspension.









  • It also made me realise how well-researched the stories were

    Ackchyually, there is an episode about a town in my state that they very clearly call out by name. They claim the population is 100x what it really is and has literally none of the buildings or scenery. It’s like they shot the whole thing in Vancouver or something.



  • Billionaires are job destroyers.

    A job is a way of describing an organized, low-entropy state within an economic system. Its existence is in a constant state of opposition with the universe’s natural tendency toward disorder.

    A job comes into existence only when we provide sufficient demand such that the there is a supply of near continuous energy to sustain a heightened state. When that demand dissipates, the energy input falls below the threshold near for the job to exist.

    Billionaires extract energy from every stage of this process. By skimming value without contributing. They increase the energy required to for our demand to create and maintain a job. This added pressure raises the system’s effective activation energy, reducing the number of jobs the system can support.


    In this TED I will discuss how eating the rich is a value add to a capitalistic enconomic system.