rubpoll [she/her]

Being able to admit a mistake is huge, being able to genuinely apologize without some cop-out disclaimer is even better.

I actually just adopted knocking on wood. Couldn’t tell ya why.

After reading Flatland and playing The Forgotten City, I feel like any number of human religions could end up being “true” to some degree. But it would involve aliens, or interdimensional interlopers or something.

The speed of advancement from the industrial revolution to present.

This one makes Fermi’s Paradox far more confusing and terrifying to me. The time it took to go from agriculture to the steam engine is nothing compared to the age of the universe, absolutely nothing, and from the steam engine to modern technology is fuck ton nothing.

An intelligent species could go from stone age technology to nuclear weapons in the blink of an eye.

And that’s just life as we understand it. We have no idea if we’re the equivalent of Flatland in a higher spatial dimension or something. There could be stars with entire civilizations of plasma-based intelligent life churning inside of them. There could be intelligent civilizations lurking in each and every single subatomic particle.

It’s possible no matter how far out or far in we look, we just keep finding more universe, more space for something to inhabit, forever…

As they said on , if we look everywhere and we’re the only intelligent species anywhere in this universe … well that would be weirder than if life is hiding all over the universe.

Let people not like things.

The French Dispatch

I support crushing fascists with tanks.

The creator of this comic is a self-described pro-sweatshop neoliberal, which explains the “woe is me, I’m too smart for my own good” delusions.

If you’re not an Anarchist in your 20’s you have no heart.

If you’re not a Tankie in your 30’s you have no brain.

Tankie.

The air fryer is pretty cool I guess.

I also still buy blurays.