But I don’t WANT to boil water, I want ELECTRICITY. Like, future electricity!

O_O

How… Fucking… out of touch… Could you get…

One moment lemme check something.

Edit: Yeah no I just checked my VPN if it might have been the culprit but it wasn’t. I’m in Norway, but it’s like, it’s only piefed.social videos that lag/buffer for me, internet is top notch here and I don’t see any issues on any other sites…

It could easily be just me though, for whatever reason. You should ask around if others also experience this, because otherwise it’s more likely it’s something on my end. I don’t see how or why, but… Yeah.

It’s a reference to Amazing Stories from the 80’s (specifically the episode Thanksgiving, Season 2, 1986), starring David Carradine. In it, Carradine and his daughter discover a mysterious hole/well on their property. When they lower objects down in it, something living below fills the bucket with gold, jewels, and notes like “thanks for the food, send more”. Eventually Carradine is like, fuck sending shit down there, I’m gonna go down there myself with an AR and take all the gold.

When his daughter tries to pull him up it comes back with a bunch of gold and “Delicious. Please send more.”

It was really well made for the time, I seem to recall, but I was a kid so YMMV.

If you mean this particular video in the post, then no.

“What if Jesus was aborted”

You make a great point. Let’s do that. I’m all for it. That is the way to go. After we eradicate their dynastic lines from existence.

“Their” product.

“Aw shit you are so right, we absolutely forgot to account for our hypocrisy, of course that makes perfect sense logically, please be on your way. Just a technicality before you go, could you just transfer a billion dollars so that lawmakers will make an exception for you? No? Ooooh… See, that’s a probleeeem… For youuuuu…”

It’s more of a technical concept within the lore than an actual character.

Mah fatha be a reel muthafucka

I’m with you 100%.

But first! Let’s kill the billionaires and their children.

I’m being semi-facetious of course, I just always found it a bit funny to assume that life either only exists on Earth or on Earth and then like a few other planets. Presumably if life exists anywhere beyond Earth it would be safe to assume that life would be everywhere and not uncommon at all, for reasons of panspermia and because it would indicate life is an inevitable chemical process that would naturally spring up around the Universe.

I’d say that the two extremes- life being unique to Earth, and life being ubiquitous in the Universe, are both more reasonable positions than life being unique only to Earth and just a few other places.

I am a strong proponent of life being ubiquitous, because the Universe doesn’t do “one off” phenomena, and as per my previous argument, if it’s in more places than here, it’s going to be everywhere. That’s only my intuition, of course, we can’t meaningfully say scientifically which is the case without more data either way.

But to address the original argument- if we would say that life is indeed everywhere, then that would seriously diminish the interest of any would-be advanced alien civilization because they’d likely have seen it before. Interesting, sure, but not world-shattering, or even important enough to warrant direct communication, just like finding a new species of orchid deep in an Amazonian jungle would be interesting to botanists and maybe be photographed and put in a magazine but not even make the faintest blip on the radar of the corpus of scientific discovery as a whole.

Mah brutha.

No, your mother is in the kitchen.

I always found it arrogant to presume aliens would want anything to do with us. If life exists on one other planet, then life will exist fucking everywhere and we wouldn’t be special, it’s not like life will have evolved on specifically two planets only.

We should also better be lucky they’re not gonna be like those Krikkit robots from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Why all these fancy impractical scifi solutions when the problem can be solved by a single bullet to the forehead? You can even use those cattle euthanizers and save on the bullet.

Yeah yeah everyone thinks they’re special.

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