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I remember hearing they had some amazing construction techniques which could withstand earthquakes. I also remember reading they had a communist society. Haven’t verified that recently.
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Anyway, with everything going sideways, we decided not to get another pet for a while, not until we mourned, and I decided i needed to clean the house up and arrange it, because I never unpacked my books from when we moved. I want a proper, clean space for a new pet.
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Still have to do my taxes from the last few years, but I can’t do mine from one year until my spouse’s taxes are up to date, and he’s got decades of procrastination to fix. They actually haven’t even processed his return yet, it’s been months.
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I actually forgot to renew her pet license in the last year or two, I think. Kept slipping my mind in between the anxiety, surgeries, pain and other stuff that I was juggling with. I am still not finished cleaning up all the stuff that’s fallen by the wayside in the past few years.
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This is an amazing image and story. Thank you for sharing.
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Every year I hear of another set of road line painting experiments occurring here in Calgary.
They have had some success, but winter is so hard on the roads it’s a wonder if some lines last beyond a couple years.
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The whole time i was getting increasingly sick, I didn’t realize i was actually getting sick from what I was doing, so it was a case of not really being aware, at least until I actually experienced a couple of hallucinations which my spouse was able to verify didn’t happen, because he was there.
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It actually helps. Usually, the anxiety and thought loops stop bothering me after I jot a few down and set them loose in the world. There’s been more normal ideas coming to mind, instead of ones based on crazy nonsense from previous years.
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Jotting down these writing prompts is one of the ways I am handling some of the weird little obsessions and thoughts from the past couple of years. I am converting some of the distortions and wild ideas into story lines others can use for inspiration for fictional tales.
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I’m still not completely over it, because I have lingering anxiety and triggers surrounding certain stimuli. It’s going to take me a while to break the nasty little feedback loops and distorted thought processes. Doesn’t help that i had chronic pain issues, surgery and lost my cat in the interim.
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I had an experience with cannabis and stimulant interactions causing an increasing level of anxiety and sensitivity over the course of years. It messed me up badly, causing me to pull away from my family and relationships. I quit smoking weed over a year ago after experiencing hallucinations.
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You would actually have to talk to someone with an actual implant, like someone with a cochlear implant, to see if they can describe what it’s like.
As for microbe and chemistry effects, there’s evidence that they do alter thinking, sometimes people know, sometimes they don’t notice (alcohol)
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(I am not telling stories, I am actually hurt)
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(This is based on my real, honest to goodness experience in the last several years. I have been incredibly unwell and I am actually scared to watch streams and videos for any length of time, and I can’t even imagine playing games. I have to decide when I am ready)
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What the community doesn’t know is the person has a whole lot more real world trauma and troubles that prevent them from realizing any of the ideas or concepts the actual community thinks is the best way to go, and the endless torment of the community has mad the real world problems way worse.
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So now, me,the protagonist, are going to tell the whole community to stop being so mean and to leave me be, because you gave me PTSD and I can’t even watch a YouTube video or look at a stream without dissolving into a puddle of tears and anxiety. You went way too far and it has to stop now!
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The issue is the person who realized what was going on is someone who is refusing fame repeatedly because they have a ton of mental problems and can’t even think about getting involved with something like that now, and the people have actually exacerbated the problem with their actions.
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Instead, it’s the combination of knowledge of multiple communities and companies who dictate who gains fame. The actual account is irrelevant. The people just make it seem like it matters for good storytelling, and the protagonist finally catches on to what’s going on and calls them out.
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That’s a big old spider there.
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Anyway, I’m not mentioning this in relation to any specific story or series, it’s just a very good thing to consider if you want to write a story about terraforming, planetary destruction or even if you are seriously considering settling other planets or moons.
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That huge eruption in the pacific a couple years ago, that caused ripples in the entire atmosphere, was mostly caused because the contact between water, lava, plus being close to the surface so no extra water pressure keeping a lid on the explosion power.
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Planetary evacuations could be one of the major elements of the story because the gasses coming off of active volcanos, even gentle ones like Kilauea, is incredibly nasty. Add to it lava bombs and Pele’s hair and all sorts of heat hazards… let’s not forget the explosive power of lava and water.
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No matter what you do, chances are very good the entire planet is going to go through tons of vulcanism and earthquakes, because the forces involved are immense and powerful, and inertia is going to be a huge factor.
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s/loose/lose
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It’s either find a way to restart a fading dynamo, or smash a couple planets together, one of which has a nice sizeable iron core that can be used as a dynamo. Planet smashing would take a couple millennia to cool off, and might spin off a few moons and other detritus.
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The magnetic field is a protective bubble which helps deflect the solar wind and helps the planet retain its atmosphere. Loose the dynamo, lose the atmosphere, just like what they think happened to Mars.
I was thinking any sort of good SF story would have some issue with a planet’s dynamo
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This is why I doubt a lab engineering of COVID so heavily. They would have needed to use a marker to be sure it transferred. Without one, the job would be near impossible to verify without great risk.
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At least impossible now, anyway, with current technology. I mean we only just got a decent gene editing tool in CRISPR, and that’s from discovery, not invention. And it’s so impossible to tell if a gene takes without destroying it without actually having a marker spliced in, like the Jellyfish DNA.
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Some of it comes from memories of watching the series “Dollhouse” on Netflix a long time ago. Good show.
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This one actually assumes a whole bunch of stuff. Like maybe lossless compression algorithms that have a ridiculous amount of compression (doesn’t actually exist), and a bunch of interconnectivity. It’s got a lot of the fiction in science fiction, based on what is currently known.
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Looks like a mutant Carnivorous bunny from Monty Python.
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If I got something delivered to my door that didn’t belong to me, or found it anywhere else, I’d be asking questions about where it came from and try to get it back to where it belongs, because that’s the kind of person I am.
Not everyone is that way though, and it’s irritating.
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The end result was we complained to the pizza company about the delivery, got another pizza delivered but we also told them exactly what happened and who took the pizza.
Think we got a refund and another pizza delivered.
We were not impressed with the kid’s behaviour.
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What happened? The landlady’s grandson had answered the front door, took the pizza, and went “Free pizza!” Without checking with us downstairs.
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We’re waiting for the pizza, hear someone go to the front door, and then leave. We wait over an hour, call the pizza place and find out it was delivered.
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Malcom X had a lot of good points on Palestine.