#Intense Technologies

[fruitiermetrostation]

Samsung Intensity II (2010)

[the-star-and-the-smols]

The dad from the movie Epic is autistic as FUCK just LOOK at the guy. The leafmen and other forest tinies are his hyperfixation. I can't blame him for getting so excited about an advanced civilization of tiny people living in the woods. I AM that person. What the hell.

[ladyluscinia]

Reading about a surveillance state where googling a dark topic gets you a call from your school admin and remembering the kids are not alright

Like the advice of "oh the kids should not be doing this on a school device obviously" is not at all helpful when a) kids do not come with preinstalled knowledge of where they can't rely on online privacy, b) those locations are ever expanding, and c) getting kids a personal, more private device might not be a priority for parents who see their kid already has a laptop and apparently aren't being informed it's sending unredacted screenshots of their kids activity to multiple people when ai says to.

Also this horrifying little sidenote: "Gaggle uses a machine-learning algorithm to scan what students search or write online via a school-issued laptop or tablet 24 hours a day, or whenever they log into their school account on a personal device."

[picorobot]

If we stopped developing more powerful consumer computer hardware today, I think we'd be fine. We don't need more powerful graphics than we have now. We don't need faster processors than we have now (except for scientific purposes). I wouldn't mind if we just focused on making more efficient CPU's and improving the efficiency of our software (looking at you Microsoft).

[iamthepulta]

Making my own post because now capitalism is just revolving in my brain and I want to respond, but I've intruded more than enough. ^^"

I do think capitalism can be solved, and history actually gives me hope because it shows the fundamental need of society. Humans aren't inherently greedy or cruel. The greed and the cruelty are symptoms of a long-standing human need to make things better than they were before: to live comfortably, and without fear.

Capitalism is merely the current expression of this need that we live in.

Solving the need is absolutely possible by establishing a baseline standard of living and resource allotment. And that's comparable to an amount of 'work' that we deem acceptable in our daily lives. Because if you think about it, making coffee every morning with a Keurig gets you a similar product to making coffee every morning with a hand grinder and cold press: one just takes more resources and time than the other.

However, this needs to be flexible because humans are individuals with different needs, and the premise is also questionable because who's setting this baseline anyway?

I personally think it has more to do with government setting a cap on resource imports. (I think it should be stronger than tariffs, personally. Just a hard cap for the year.)

You can't really control demand. That's what most socialists do, and it always fails because humans fundamentally want to make their lives easier. But you can control resource management. If the government says we can only import 20 tons of cotton this year, and we produce 80 tons of cotton, so companies get 100 tons of cotton to do whatever with, and that's it. If we want more cotton, we have to axe some other import.

It 1) makes management visual. 2) gives citizens a personal reason to be invested in their government. 3) will not allocate resources fairly, but will show the true value of a product for the region it's in and prioritize local resources [i.e. if your country does not produce garnets, garnets will be more expensive than gold]. 4) increases jobs since there's far less incentive to outsource work, overall decreasing inequality. 5) encourages a circular economy.

In which case, I suppose I'm for some form of socialist autarky and I think that would solve a decent number of capitalist problems. Companies could no longer overrun workers and there's individual choice behind jobs, work, and some form of style of living.

It IS bad in like- fifty million other ways though. You can't just go from a country used to living in a capitalist society to imposing tariffs and screaming about autarky. Natural resources WILL be destroyed on your own soil and the biggest nation will have the highest quality of living. Imports have to be on a factor of population growth and this might only be possible with nations for a declining population rate. If at all. You also have to add a judicial angle for the people who will inevitably try to take over that system. And, most of all, you have to commit to not going to fucking war over state expansion for resources. Looking at you, Russia.

So I suppose we COULD solve capitalism, at the expense of a whole lot of other problems that are equally meh-to-bad.

Governments are fundamentally resource management machines though, and it's really stupid to pretend they aren't. With resource management, comes capping the fuck out of companies (specialists) that abuse the system (monopolies/oligarchies). When a government doesn't do that (whatever the method), it's failed its purpose as a government and also needs to be put down (revolution).

[iniziare]

Hoyo, I either need you to let me turn off subtitles in general, or allow me to just... move them, or something. Sometimes I could make a perfect icon out of a specific still, if it weren't for those meddling subtitles.

P.S.: Fully unrelated, but damn do I need 2.5 to get here. For many reasons, for out of total and utter bias, I need to say: Jingliu. I got a millisecond that I initially missed because I quite literally blinked, but she's coming back, I can't believe it. She's back, WITHOUT BLINDFOLD?

[conspiracydawg]

had this image in my head for some years but could never commit to the amount of architecture drawing involved, so I finally sat down and cobbled it together in 3d with various assets I've acquired over the years

(psst most of the carnacki stories are available for free on gutenberg in the format of your choice)

[fangfrotting]

honestly it's probably a good thing I don't have actual fangs bc I'd be so horny every time I caught my reflection I'd never get anything accomplished

[meat-loving-meat]

I want to write a Vanyel/Stefen modern-with-magic AU soooo bad but I don’t know Valdemar lore like at all. There are six books standing between me and feeling comfortable enough in the lore to imagine what Valdemar might look like with the internet and planes

[orchideae]

Alive and awake but at what cost, really?

[mrvelocipede]

Oh hey, the t-shirt printing has better resolution than I was maybe expecting!

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[drone9futuristic]

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[oldmanfuckerbrigade]

Consider this a spiritual successor to my Re-Animator Youtubers post, but boy howdy do I love being part of niche ass fandoms that have a surface level audience of cishet guys in their 30s who’s experience with nuance in media starts and ends with knowing Raleigh wasn’t really the main character of pacrim. I’m fighting for my life in these fucking YouTube comments.

[pemftechnology-blog]

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