you think a tea-loving evil empire might be an allegory to something from reality?
nah, probably not.
What? But how can the Empire be evil when everyone in it is so polite and prim and proper and formal? Unlike all those uncouth troublemakers they keep violently subjugating civilizing.
I know, look at how proper the uniform boots look while it's stomping that face.
I desperately want to quote Usagi but I can't remember the exact phrasing, or where it was said
But it was something along the lines of, "Here's my philosophy - put the whiskey in my mouth."
I think about that most days, and definitely every time people try to figure out whatever the fuck existence is or means. Doesn't change my day to day, put the whiskey in my mouth.
I know I'm pages late but @Poorochondriac this makes me so happy
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you think a tea-loving evil empire might be an allegory to something from reality?
nah, probably not.
What? But how can the Empire be evil when everyone in it is so polite and prim and proper and formal? Unlike all those uncouth troublemakers they keep violently subjugating civilizing.
I know, look at how proper the uniform boots look while it's stomping that face.
And apparently their boss' name is Hugo.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
I'm not sure if my consciousness persists from moment to moment, or after sleeping, but it seems to and there is no alternative. All I can really seem to tell is that there are 7 billion human bodies on the planet and I keep waking up in this one. A teleporter seems like a good way to end my streak.
I don't believe in free will, the concept doesn't even make sense to me. I'm pretty sure my consciousness only exists because brains work out a predictive model of other brains in order to better understand the desires of other beings. It's a giant rationalization engine and my "self" seems to be little more than the engine exhaust.
Also, if free will is real, why would Rush Limbaugh choose to spend his entire life being a piece of shit?
If we’re recommending books I’d suggest Ken Grimwood’s Replay if you want to read a take on the stereotypical fantasy of waking up in your younger self’s body and abusing their knowledge of the future.
I'm not sure I'd want to wake up in my younger body.
A. I would probably mouth off to every authority figure in sight as they mislead and lied to me, and
B. Having to live with the knowledge of the absolute train wreck heading my way, without the benefit of spending the 90's in blissful unawareness of how shitty things already are, is just too much to handle.
i am way, way better adapted to life than i ever was during the 90s or 00s, and would love to cheat code my way through them, but i would be terrified that the payoffs for doing things correctly might be different, and that i might not meet the people i love or have the same experiences with them if i deviated from the previous path, so maybe it'd be a terrible wash as i repeated bad decisions in order to try and find the good things i currently enjoy in my life.
what if rush limbaugh awoke into his life in this timeline dedicated to doing everything wrong and ruining as much as possible? one possible explanation.
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He targeted wealthy american jewish communities but his largest victims were firms and funds that managed investment and retirement accounts of a bunch of clients. He essentially looked like a really good hedge fund, so anyone with an actively traded investment account stood the risk of being duped
If you were mortally afraid of wall street and had no money in it, or if you were directly invested in other products that weren't funds with him on the portfolio, then he didn't get your money
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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didn't he mostly steal from rich people tho? That's like halfway to being Robin Hood!
One of his big clients if I recall was Connecticut's Teachers pension fund
Yep, bout the only thing I can think of that torpedoed more retirement savings than Maddoff's firm was Bob Citron who managed to bankrupt one of the wealthiest counties in America (Orange County, California. Whose Investment Pool he'd turned into a money maker by taking risky positions with repurchase agreements and had people and public entities from all over the state throwing money in the pot) to the tune of about $2 billion in 1994 dollars.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
There is a star trek teleportation machine that makes a perfect scan of your body down to the molecular level, then breaks down all those molecules and rockets them to another machine, which reconstructs you perfectly. Do you use this machine? Or do you (correctly) recognize that you fucking die if you do and the person that comes out the other side is a different guy?
If you believe it is safe to use the machine, then what if instead of sending your particles to the other teleporter, it just slits your throat and throws your body in the trash compactor and sends only your data to the other machine, which 3D prints a perfect replica of you, down to the last neuron and molecule. Do you still do it? If not, what's changed?
That's the teleporter problem. The original you dies but from the perspective of the new you and of everyone else, you teleported.
For some reason a whole lot of dumb nerds are very comfortable with commiting high tech suicide because some other guy who's just like them will get born afterwards so who cares
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
“So the plan is to use a big knife to chop you into small pieces, then fire them out of a cannon to your destination. Once there, a surgeon will sew the pieces back together and you’ll be just fine.”
“Sure.”
“If this works, we can get some grant money to refine the process.”
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I know, look at how proper the uniform boots look while it's stomping that face.
Enjoy! That excerp also just made me restart them..
Necrophilia is the least bad part of this
...when the pandemic's over, anyways.
It's a good series, though I feel the second book drags a bit.
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I know I'm pages late but @Poorochondriac this makes me so happy
And apparently their boss' name is Hugo.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I have no idea what they are about
finally, some culture
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I don't believe in free will, the concept doesn't even make sense to me. I'm pretty sure my consciousness only exists because brains work out a predictive model of other brains in order to better understand the desires of other beings. It's a giant rationalization engine and my "self" seems to be little more than the engine exhaust.
Also, if free will is real, why would Rush Limbaugh choose to spend his entire life being a piece of shit?
Tuvix, it was fucking bizarre.
A. I would probably mouth off to every authority figure in sight as they mislead and lied to me, and
B. Having to live with the knowledge of the absolute train wreck heading my way, without the benefit of spending the 90's in blissful unawareness of how shitty things already are, is just too much to handle.
One of the rare cases where the movie was better, imho.
what if rush limbaugh awoke into his life in this timeline dedicated to doing everything wrong and ruining as much as possible? one possible explanation.
now I'm a tiny bit disappointed
so he could just be dying over and over
Is it ethical to punish a duplicate for the sins of its original? Y/N
According to people who believe teleportation doesn't kill you: yes
Is it retribution?
Then only the original should be punished, shouldn't it?
Is it a change of the things that made the person commit the crime?
Then it's the original and all copies.
Bernie Madoff has bit the dust in prison at 82.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
didn't he mostly steal from rich people tho? That's like halfway to being Robin Hood!
He did, and that's most likely the reason he even ended up in prison
He had "investors" at pretty much every income level, running a Ponzi scheme you will accept any amount that'll keep the con going.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
If you were mortally afraid of wall street and had no money in it, or if you were directly invested in other products that weren't funds with him on the portfolio, then he didn't get your money
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I can at least respect the commitment to the bit.
One of his big clients if I recall was Connecticut's Teachers pension fund
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then Anthony Weiner comes along and blows up his spot
Yep, bout the only thing I can think of that torpedoed more retirement savings than Maddoff's firm was Bob Citron who managed to bankrupt one of the wealthiest counties in America (Orange County, California. Whose Investment Pool he'd turned into a money maker by taking risky positions with repurchase agreements and had people and public entities from all over the state throwing money in the pot) to the tune of about $2 billion in 1994 dollars.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Well, actually for life as of today.
all I can think of rn
“Sure.”
“If this works, we can get some grant money to refine the process.”
Mike Tevee died that day.