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

Who here remembers: I R Baboon?

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.

I've been thinking about something last night. I'm starting to think that this could be it, that what we're experiencing right now is the height of human civilization on Earth.
I think that, because we didn't build up nuclear energy in time, we will fail to make the transition away from fossil fuels fast enough, we'll run out, and we'll reach a point where we won't be able to make enough energy to sustain societies as they are today.
A collapse will come. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is that without an abundance of oil anymore, without that much cheap energy, human civilization won't be able to rebound, and will basically remain stuck to somewhere around steam engine stage. At best we might see steampunk become a reality.

I've been thinking about something similar for some time. Humanity owes its technological advancement to fossil fuels. To forests and critters of countless millions of years ago that died and got buried before they could decompose.
As such, ANY intelligent alien civilization NEEDS to evolve on a planet that has fossil fuels in the ground already. If an intelligent life form evolves before fossil fuels get created through geological processes, or where they don't exist for any other reason, that's it. That's a technological dead end for them. They'll be stuck at a medieval stage, forever.

"But muh solar power" NO! You're not gonna make solar panels from burning wood. If you're struggling to barely melt metal, you're not gonna have the cheap resources needed to experiment and research anything more than a basic axe and a sword.
And remember the social panic there was in the 90s, that we were cutting down all trees to make paper? Now imagine trying to sustain a high population civilization that BURNS only wood for everything.
You are not building a technological civilization off of wood. At the very minimum you need coal, but realistically you need oil. No civilization, alien or otherwise, will EVER make the transition from burning wood to solar panels. Same goes for wind. You think you'll create fine copper wire to make electric engines and generators by burning wood?

Now going back to humanity. If societies collapse. That's it. We don't have readily available oil. The reserves we still have need highly advanced machinery to extract. Machinery that might not survive a collapse, or that we'll lose the knowledge of how to use.
We still have a lot of coal, but I'm not sure if even that is easily exploitable anymore. Can you still find coal with nothing more than pickaxes as tools?
After the collapse happens, there will be no more smartphones, no more computers, no more internet, anymore. Ever. For as long as Earth continues to orbit around the Sun, humanity will continue, but will remain stuck in much more primitive societies.

This is not something I expect to happen in the next decade. Not in our lifetimes either. Could take a few centuries. But I think it could happen.
Our energy needs are growing too fast. First cryptocoin and now AI have been the world's dumbest ideas when we're struggling to deal with finding energy alternatives. And dumber ideas are sure to be on the horizon still.
IF nuclear energy had been abundant, this wouldn't have been an issue. But instead of growing nuclear capabilities, we've decimated them. Now there's talks about a revitalization. But projections for the first batches of new generation nuclear power plants are for like 2050 or something. And that's assuming the political willpower is maintained until then. Which... fucking hell people... western nations can't keep it together for 5 years, let alone decades.
Even if I assume mere stupidity, and not outright malice, the world's political system is essentially trying to kill humanity.

But going back a bit, with energy usage growing so fast, at some point something will collapse. If people start rioting and pillaging AI server farms and solar plants, if people start chaos and revolutions, you think energy plants will survive? You think fragile solar panels will be intact? You'll have South Africa style situations where the infrastructure will be compromised, and left in taters to the point where you can't even use every bit of energy making capacity you have left to create new solar panels, new windfarms, etc.
You won't be able to grow back, because trying to ration energy for basic industry instead of population needs will just get you a free noose around your neck as part of a new population revolt.
And solar panels wear out. So do wind farms. You won't be able to replace them, more and more of them will fail, until you have nothing left and are back to burning wood to stay warm during winter.

If you had an abundance of cheap oil, gas, coal, sure you can build back. Just burn more and more. But you're not building back from solar and wind.

I don't think it will happen within our lifetimes. So unless you care that much about your great-grandchildren, this really isn't something that will affect you. Not something you should care about.

But if you have some deep optimism and hope that one day humanity will reach the stars, if you're like me and hope humanity will exist forever more, discover everything there is to discover, explore all the deep blue and the cosmos, reach the pinnacle of science and technology that we can't even imagine yet... If you're romantic in that way... this is a sobering thought to consider.

I just had a weird feeling that if I put this here, it might actually reach the targeted demographic at some point.
Yeah, I know it's a stupid video. But it made me laugh a bit, so... can't be that bad.

If you ever thought "nah, Vtubers are not for me", you need to watch this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCB-1xGR4iY

You know... it would be kinda poetic if Snow White 1937 gave Disney its success, and Snow White 2025 finally collapsed the company. Almost StarWars-esque, the birth and downfall of a Hollywood empire.

iPad 2: Episode 3

TFW you realize communists did "anime figurine" collections before it was cool. Ok, not actually anime, but same basic idea.

Also, this is a random picture off the internet, not my family's stuff, BUT, there are 2 pieces here that my mom did possess at some point.

In Romania, the story Snow White is actually called "White as Snow". Its LITERALLY in the name. And I doubt we're the only country where this is the case. This will go down in history as the worst case of "what were they thinking?!"

Rem sleep? I prefer Emilia sleep.

In other news, I just thought of an idea for one of these media review sites. Because brigading and generally poor thought out reviews usually come with either a 1 or 10 attached, just ignore these reviews when doing the average. Only add in those reviews to the average when the 2 or 9 ratings exceed a certain proportion.

If a movie has a large proportion of 9 ratings, then it's likely good, so the 10 reviews are likely legitimate too, so they should be included in the average. But say it has a large proportion of 5-6, barely any 9, and more 10 than all the others combined, you know that's gonna be brigading, and because they're not representative of the product, you shouldn't include them when doing the final score.

Looking at IMDB Snow Shite ratings... 1.5... damn...
But that's a lot of 1 spamming, so I though I'd do the math while completely ignoring ALL 1 . You still get a 6.2 rating, which is usually awful for IMDB. And if you really want to get rid of all brigading, you probably need to eliminate the 10 ratings too, and that gets you a score of 4.6.
So however you look at it, bad movie is bad.

I wanted to look up how Snow White is doing in ratings, and I accidentally typed: "Snow Shite".... lol

So Vivaldi partnered up with Proton, and integrated their VPN in the browser. Not really something I normally feel the need to use, but I decided to give their free VPN a try since it's right there.

I'm not seeing an immediate speed impact, which is surprising considering I'm not paying anything, and a VPN inherently adds overhead. There's probably just a small amount of latency that isn't that noticeable while browsing.

I tried out Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap to see where they think I am now. Neither of them can get an exact location, but some pick a vague default location. Google thinks I'm somewhere in India for some reason. Bing thinks I'm in the Netherlands, which makes sense, cause that's the free server ProtonVPN assigned me to. OSM has simply no clue, and just opens up the map wherever I was last looking.

Found a small forum that apparently just hates VPNs. Otherwise... yeah, it does what it says.

I still don't get how the creators of Aang though Korra would be likable in any way.

But when the world needed him most, he turned into an annoying woman.