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petition to rename buffets to calorie galleries

technological advancement is the effective reduction in the price of energy

I think there is a lack of appreciation of what free energy would do for our species. It would literally change EVERYTHING. If ANYONE knew how to make free energy, they would absolutely exploit it because it would be the most insanely profitable thing ever created. View quoted note →

One critical thing I've learned through writing my sci-fi novel: virtuous characters are way more interesting to write than broken or vicious ones. I started out thinking characters and plots needed moral failings to be compelling. That's just how everything is written these days. How boring would a book be about well-behaved people? Turns out the exact opposite is true, and it's not even close. The best antagonists I've written can't compare to the good characters. They're deeper, more surprising, more alive. I've come to think that using vice to drive a plot is actually a crutch. It skips over the hardest and most fascinating question: what does a person look like when they choose the good anyway? Not the easy good. The hard good, at a cost. That's where the real drama lives. This is the most important thing I've learned in two years of writing.

I wrote ~10,000 more words this week on my sci-fi novel #ifm

mfw typing ⭕: 🫪🫪🫪

ooh I get it now View quoted note →

Quoth the Raven, "Excuse me what in the actual <CAW> are you doing in my tree?" View quoted note →

bruh what is this new emoji 🫪 LOL

One time a normie friend of mine introduced me to some people by saying, "This is Arkinox. He's........ from the future." And I felt that so hard 🫠

a peer to peer electronic 58k system

GOTY

nobody told me 🫨 when did it drop?