CentipedeFarrier

It’s kinda beautiful to watch.

I hope it matters. Probably won’t, but maybe. Stranger things have happened…

It isn’t .world. I’m on piefed.social I show your first message with removed and a couple comments down I see the actual word, so it’s something on .ml

Honestly, about time.

The scaled-up child/scaled-down man dummy that’s been used for ages is not a good representation of female anatomy.

Hope it goes into use.

Jobs would be result-driven whenever possible. Those that need butts-in-seats (like contact-driven support) would provide an option for rotating duties so nobody just sits all day every day pretending to be busy. Specialist jobs like nursing and stuff where you need minimum staffing levels would get 3 months per year of discretionary time to use when (if possible) and how they like. Bullshit jobs wouldn’t exist, but UBI and universal healthcare would. Middle management would not exist. C-suites would be paid at the same rate as a mid-tier worker to do their “totally indispensable” job, because pay would be reconfigured to actually reflect effort and skill. Stock market wouldn’t exist, so shareholders wouldn’t exist, and companies would be focused on worker retention via competition again.

More casual dining places would have pod options, like were big during lockdowns, just to be away from the noise and distraction of public spaces. More maker spaces would open and be free or very inexpensive. More third spaces would open, where spending money wasn’t the goal.

School would fundamentally change from being something you do in a sterile building with boring walls and climate control, into classes held outside, held while on walks, or with practical application front and center in the curriculum. Classes would be smaller and more focused on how to think than what to think, probably via discussion. People who want to contribute a lot wouldn’t be punished for engaging, but maybe those students would be better off in a class together, so they can have wildly active tangential discussions and let shyer kids speak up to peers better suited for them.

Doctors send you a calendar invite for appointments, in which you look through what’s available and pick the time you want, while actually having the time to sort through your own responsibilities and make the best match. Most healthcare that doesn’t involve being poked, prodded, examined, etc. would be telehealth/secure message, at no additional cost. Prescription renewals are automatically sent to your doctor to contact you about, when needed, or are otherwise just reordered. Most medications that you’ll be taking forever have a rolling prescription, your doctor just checks in with you yearly or whatever to make sure it’s still working for you. All prescriptions are available through the mail, and are sent that way unless requested for pickup, at no cost.

Public transit is phenomenal, everywhere. All those old railway stations every single town already had get brought back and cars die out other than for rural living. All public transit is no cost, with no tracking card to lose.

And finally, the real winner: All items have a tiny loop so you can put them on a lanyard of some sort if you want so you don’t lose them all the time.

By 1927 AT&T had created its earliest electromechanical television-videophone called the ikonophone (from Greek: “image-sound”),[22] which operated at 18 frames per second and occupied half a room full of equipment cabinets.[23][24] An early U.S. test in 1927 had their then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover address an audience in New York City from Washington, D.C.; although the audio portion was two-way, the video portion was one-way with only those in New York being able to see Hoover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony

It’s not super surprising that video phones were predicted in the 50s, considering they are almost as old as phones themselves, conceptually, and only lag a bit behind as actual technology.

Additionally the first cellphones were available just before the 50s, so that’s not a huge stretch either.

In 1949, AT&T commercialized Mobile Telephone Service. From its start in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1946, AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service to one hundred towns and highway corridors by 1948. Mobile Telephone Service was a rarity with only 5,000 customers placing about 30,000 calls each week. Calls were set up manually by an operator and the user had to depress a button on the handset to speak and release the button to listen. The call subscriber equipment weighed about 80 pounds (36 kg)[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

I wonder how many people that actually works on…

My neighbor’s house has really old compressed panel siding, and the bats just love living under it. Dozens and dozens and dozens of them. They probably do the same under my garage siding and I just haven’t noticed.

As a result, I occasionally have bats find their way in. Probably 6 times in 13 years. First couple times it was really alarming, right up there with cluster flies and equally harmless.

I either shoo them out an open door, or catch them in a small box, and release them by taking the box outside and opening it, then leaving. They do fly around to get away from me, but they don’t really come close to touching me unless I’m flailing around or whatever. It’s wild seeing them roost on a door frame or something inside, upside down, and have them just sort of let me catch them because they don’t want to be there but can’t get out.

I do refute that “fact”, though.

I personally would rather be an amputee on the side of the road with no shelter than be kept prisoner in my own body with the use of drugs and restraints. That’s literally my worst nightmare. And I’m not “severely mentally ill”.

You don’t know what reasons she has for doing what she does, but what IS completely, abundantly, crystal clear, is that she herself considers the position she is presently in to be better than whatever she would potentially deal with under care. And you don’t know why she came to this conclusion. Maybe she was institutionalized when she was young and was abused or whatever and has ptsd about it. Maybe she knows someone else who was.

Or yeah, maybe she’s so mentally ill that it’s forcing her to deny care. I strongly doubt it, but maybe. And we’ll never know unless we fix everything else first. So. Kinda moot point, isn’t it?

looks like 2000-2001

It’s… compelling in a really bad B-movie sort of way. Like the idea is great, and some of the scene design and concept is really cool, but it’s genuinely hard to watch in a lot of places between the acting (Cleo herself has a screaming habit, at least early on - I don’t recall if she grew out of it, and is dumb as shit imo) and that it’s clearly meant to be a sex-appeal-hook. Basically fishing for Xena fan crossover, but done so poorly it basically flopped.

Fun to watch, but don’t expect too much :)

Yes, however it’s mostly a refutation to your prior comment that severely mentally ill people refuse treatment as a direct consequence of being mentally ill. This is only rarely the case. The vast majority of those severely mentally ill people are still people capable of learning about stuff and doing cost-benefit analysis for their own lives. They make rational decisions to the best of their ability. This ability may be flawed, but that’s the case for all people. Nobody has a pure, 100% complete and accurate view of things.

They refuse treatment largely because the system is horrible. Would they still refuse if the system wasn’t horrible? Most of them probably would not, because struggling is really hard. Most of them would get themselves the help they feel they need if they honestly thought there would be a good outcome.

But what they think they need and what the system or society thinks they need aren’t necessarily the same thing. Maybe all they really -need- is a place to exist exactly as they are, with zero medical intervention, with a clean environment where they feel safe and secure. If that’s all you felt you needed, would you risk being drugged for the rest of your life? I sure as hell wouldn’t, no matter how bad my experience of existence is. At least I have agency.

And honestly until we reach that point, where mental healthcare is supportive to the individual and genuinely helps them live whatever they feel is a fulfilling life, discussing what to do with the minuscule remaining fraction of sufferers (a number we genuinely can’t even quantify at this point) is sort of dumb, and seems like a pretty big distraction from doing anything better for everyone who isn’t in that camp.

In my area, which is a fairly low cost of living area, I know exactly one couple who do that. They have their home and apartments where they work.

They are literally millionaires, and their primary home is literally a mansion. As in just sold a ski condo a couple years ago, one of several properties they own, for 10 million profit kind of millionaires. (And yes they do bitch about taxes and safety net programs for the poors. Frequently.)

A lot of people around me do have “winter homes” in the south or “lake houses” further north, but that’s seasonal/occasional rather than something they use every week, and it’s mostly retired people who got money and residences when that was an easy thing to do. And most of them rent out the space when not in use.

Only thing I can think of reading this is the Cleopatra 2525 intro theme

And the satirical futurama reference

If the system was actually helpful to people, and severely ill patients still didn’t want help, you might have a point. Right now though, the system doesn’t help most people, it harms them actively, so we don’t actually know how many people would still refuse quality care.

And let’s be serious here, the number of people so mentally ill they can’t be trusted to make a decision about whether or not to take offered help…? Really really small percentage. We definitely shouldn’t be structuring the entire system based on edge cases, even if those edge cases have a legitimate need for that sort of inhumane treatment (a premise I strongly question).

Forcing someone to undergo potentially mind-altering medical treatment (because they absolutely will drug someone who fights against being there) and probably abuse (just check the stats) at the hands of the system isn’t humanitarian either.

This is one of those situations where all you can really do is make sure the options are as good as they can be, so people want to choose to get help, and we are not even remotely doing that.

Of all the things to be annoyed about in this pic, I think the thing that gets me the most is that you still have to remove some of the husk. The whole point is to do less work? Too bad, do it anyway.

It’s like they thought it would be corn lingerie “no no, make sure you leave some of the husk on to enhance the sexiness! See, just show the cleavage in front here.”

Ah that’s great thanks!

That sounds interesting, you got a link?

Subtle.

Wouldn’t taste all that good, but a Psilocybin alcohol extraction condensed into crystals would work well form-wise in a peppermill as well as giving you a somewhat more consistent trip than whole shrooms…

I vote horizon forbidden west because the world is -so engaging- even more than the original imo. Even the side quest chains are beautiful and moving. They did a very good job with it.

I haven’t played GoW though, so I’m definitely biased.