Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@LukeAlmighty Thing is... as bad as things are today, someone from medieval time would think living anywhere in Europe today would be epic.
We've lost perspective of how much life has improved because of technology, and I'd wager it makes sense in universe that people in Cyberpunk consider it a dystopia, because they also lost perspective on things and focus only on their present day issues.

I had a sobering though a year ago. Back during the days of Mozart or Beethoven, these people weren't composing music for the wider audience. Entertainment was a thing solely for the rich. But today, a homeless person in America can listen to any music he wants on a pocket sized computer.
Or Tim Pool likes to make the argument that the original oil baron had worse dental care than an average american has today.

People are free to complain about wealth inequalities, but they should also take a second and appreciate that they probably have access to the same, if not more, life amenities than the richest of the rich from not that long ago. That is bonkers to me.

So yeah, any realistic fiction set in a much more technologically advanced future, is gonna have some of the things we care about solved thanks to technology, while also introducing new unique problems that make it a dystopia.
I haven't played the game, but my understanding was that the dystopic element was some kind of augmentation psychosis and people losing their humanity.

@e72771d655767b75f2f8ed209427dc24648ac58e6c7c2bf645c529f9f688cf69 @matrix
The skin color argument is so fucking stupid. I've seen gypsies with darker skin color than Obama, but we don't suddenly stop calling Barack black.

Though the word is technically misused, race is a thing, yes. But there are multiple traits and multiple genes that go into it, not just fucking skin color. Fuentes simps are just coping over the fact that they're somehow trying to build a white supremacist movement around a latino boy of all things.

This is why, out of all the conspiracy theories I've heard over the years, the possibility that Nick Fuentes is some glowie psyop seems most likely.

@hachi @LukeAlmighty
Gender is a lie. The word you're looking for is "personality". You can have a feminine personality as a male, and want to wear dresses and makeup and whatever, and you'd have my full support.

@LukeAlmighty Does anyone have freedom under trans ideology?

@VD15 @p
I have a bad feeling that if she saw this fanart, she'd turn full yandere.

@CwalkPinoy @matrix
I mean... considering the standards these days... I wouldn't be surprised if it's the best movie of 2025. But I'm still not watching it.

What was the game that got flack last year for having an insanely long end credits?

@LukeAlmighty You're more optimistic than me, cause I don't see any kind of political willpower to build up nuclear. All I've seen throughout my life was tearing it down. When I was a kid, not even a teenager, I was certain that by now we'd have the majority of our energy being nuclear, with research being done to perfect solar panels for when we'd start running out of uranium.
There's been some advancement in solar panel tech, so at least that's something. But nuclear has been the biggest disappointments for me.

@LukeAlmighty Oh... ok... In that case, sure. I can agree with your original post.
But man... you really shouldn't use the word "conservative" in that way without expressly saying that's how you're defining it. And even then, you're still gonna get people angry at you for misdefining "conservative".

@Azur_Fenix @Nepiant
Solar wouldn't be that bad if battery tech wasn't shit and reliant on a scarce metal like lithium. There's an abundance of silicon on the planet, even if some of it would need more refinement, but you know you won't run out of it making solar panels. But lithium is rare and environmentally expensive to mine. So solar panels+batteries are just bad for a long term, main energy provider.
There are other energy storage solutions that you could couple with your solar farms, but batteries would still be the most efficient, and thus preferable.
You don't need space based solutions though. Ground based solar farms in deserts or other unusable land, and every inch of roof space is where the aim should be.
I like the idea of solar, but I'd like it more if the battery problem had a better solution than lithium-ion, that used a more abundant element. It's the biggest reason I much prefer nuclear for now.

Wind just kinda feels bad overall. You still need those batteries, and as weather gets more chaotic, they'll become far too vulnerable, with storms risking to destroy them. There will be situational locations where they will be good, but again not something you can depend on everywhere.

Geothermal is neat, and will continue working great for Greenland. I'm sure there are a few more geographical locations where it's viable, but otherwise we're not drilling down because it's not efficient enough.

Thorium is liquid salt initially, which then transfers the heat to water, boils it, and sends it to a regular generator.

For hydro generation, you won't get that many more dams constructed on rivers. But you might get inland artificial lakes, used for energy storage. You pump water in them with excess energy from solar or wind power, and when needed you run the water down through a generator.

Ocean turbines are gonna be a no go. As it is, there's a panic regarding the Atlantic current, because measurements show that it is slowing down, and scientists aren't even sure why, though the suspect is global warming and changing climate. So they might not be that dependable in time, and interfering with them could have drastic side effects planet wide. Better not.

Who here remembers: I R Baboon?

@maxmustermann
You know what I hate about all this? All of these people KNEW this was coming. Every European leader KNEW that Trump was pissed off. And literally not one of them tried to approach Trump in good faith before hand, and negotiate these things before tariffs came. No one went and said: "I get that from your perspective our nations have unfairly took advantage of USA. What can we do to fix our relationship? How can we avoid tariffs that could hurt both sides?".
So I'm with you. They can get fucked with barbed wire up their ass, and I hope people punish their political leaders for this utter failure in diplomacy.

I mean look at this stupidity:
"Austrian Economy Minister: [...] hit republican states and his friends including tech firms". TECH FIRMS ARE NOT TRUMP'S FRIENDS YOU FUCKING UTTER MORON! Musk is literally the only guy in tech that likes Trump. Everyone else is a leftie that salivates at the idea of murdering him. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Tesla employees too are also severely anti-Trump.

Lesson I learned today: don't mark your post with "doomposting" if you intend for people to ignore it.

I guess it's true even on Fedi. People are searching for rage-bait. For things to be upset about. For negativity.

When I realized my post was gonna be a massive shit fest of a TL;DR, I thought I'd to the courtesy of putting a content warning, so it won't display it whole on people's timelines by default.
And "doomposting" seemed the most accurate title to give it. And I thought that the obvious negativity would make people less interested in it...
As Trump would say, WRONG!

Have you ever had an issue where for a second you weren't sure if it's spelled "small" or "smoll"... Internet culture is fucking with my brain so much sometimes.

I'm actually surprised people took notice of my doompost.

Again, I probably should have stressed more than my hypothetical scenario is a long shot. But it's one of those worst case scenarios that tends to keep me up at night, because scientific and technological development has always been something that fascinated me, and for the first time in my life, I see a possibility, even if it's a small one, for it to not just stop, but eternally reverse. And that kinda freaks me out.

I don't think anyone likes seeing their hopes and dreams potentially being crushed, and my hope and dream is basically for humanity to one day become a galactic civilization.

@Nepiant
Don't blindly trust Google's marketing. Nor Microsoft's for that matter, cause they also make big claims recently. Believe it when they actually put them in use, and your search results are powered by quantum computers instead of silicon.

@Nepiant Biological neurons work vastly different than silicon chips. For now we can only emulate/simulate neurons, and it takes much more power and physical space to emulate neurons than real neurons use.

For now, we have a better shot at growing biological brains in vats, finding some way to transfer our neuron pathways to those vat brains, and keep changing brains as they age, than to upload our brains to silicon.
Otherwise, we need to figure out a brand new way to create/grow artificial, physical, neurons, and not just simulate them in software.

@Nepiant
I used to think so too. But then I saw Germany closing down it's nuclear power plants before closing down it's coal power plants, and then opening up more coal plants as the Russia-Ukraine war started.
The only think I've seen in the last decade has been a complete inability of humanity to actually adapt when it comes to energy production. I've seen Greenpeace social panics take precedence over rationality. I have zero conviction that the future will be different.

@Nepiant
>Also, if trends continue
The trend won't continue. Silicon chips are already getting to the level where electrons can quantum tunnel out of the transistors. I think soon we'll count the width of transistors by the number of atoms in them. Silicon is coming close to physical limits.
And quantum computers are shit. They can't even really offer what they were promised to do, that is being able to performs computations that binary computers are unable to. Turns out, any algorithm you'd want to do on a quantum computer can be calculated on a traditional binary supercomputer computer too.

I'm sure medical treatments that can improve lifetimes will come. I've seen that there's been massive progress with diabetes for example. But immortality? Nah... I don't see uploading the human mind as something being feasible even within an extended lifetime.

Moore's law is basically dead. Even NVidia is saying it these days. Why do you think they're pushing for AI generation crap in video games (fake frames and AI upscaling)? Because they already know they can't cram that many transistors in the same space anymore.

@LukeAlmighty @Nepiant
A lot of this. Charcoal gives you poor efficiency. And you won't be able to grow trees fast enough to even maintain, let alone technologically grow, a society with a high number population.
Again, in the 90s, we were panicking because we were using too many trees to make paper. We were already burning other stuff for energy. In the winter, you're gonna use A LOT more trees to heat up a house than you'd use for your paper needs in the same amount of time.
You might have some steam stuff from charcoal, but you're not exploring advanced technology off of it.