CarbonScored

This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:

ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.

perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks

They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.

if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives

My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.

One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.

Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.

Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.

That's all.

Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls

"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."

Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/52. Lemme kick it off with the still top rated post on hexbear.net, probably worth restating for our federation friends too.

edit: this post has gained a lot of traction over the course of the last three months so I believe some clarification is needed

this title is indeed a land of contrast, and i think the following statement should do a better job at voicing what I really meant with this post:

people who think they can own one or several human beings and treat them as their property or capital do indeed deserve to die, preferably sooner than later, and not of natural causes; helping accelerate this process by loading a rifle with ammunition, pointing it at a slave owner and pulling the trigger is a good idea and should be done when possible. hopefully this clarified the stuff

The post that announces the death of Henry Alfred Kissinger better overtake this one as the most upvoted post.

edit:edit:The killing slavers fandom is dying! Upbear to murder a plantation owner right now!