Pull out, don’t pull out, we’re fucked either way.

right in the exhaust pipe 😩

fuck cars

I remember hearing a dunk on vegans a while back that went “how do you know someone’s vegan? they’ll tell you.”

but in my experience it’s more like “how do you know someone hates vegans? they’ll tell you.”

“no sloppy Windows, guys— I mean it.”
“LET’S SLOP IT UP!”

It’s me. I’m the artist. I don’t sign my work.

I’ll put OC in title next time?

👋

fwiw I don’t believe any of what I just wrote.

It’s just a creative exercise imo/fun worldbuilding

It’s fun to think up thought experiments that explain away the reasons we can’t prove they exist.

Time isn’t linear, we’re just limited to experiencing it that way while we’re alive.

After we die, we experience time differently; in an impossible-to-describe way, but is akin to a book with limitless pages. Your existence is a bookmark in this book, and dying makes you lose your place.

It is possible to re-find your place, but with unfathomable access to unfathomable histories and futures, there is a near-infinite choice of other events and timelines for a ghost to visit and observe and experience.

Coupled with that, there are laws— some sort of physical laws, not arbitrary— to visiting the pages of this book, in that they can only be done in areas that do not cause pages before or after to change dramatically. A ghost is a spec of ink on the page; it cannot write letters, words, or sentences. If anything like this were ever done, we would never know as our minds would simply accept the memory as fact without knowing, or delete the memory of a ghost the way we space out driving on a highway or having to look at our watch a second time.

Lastly, our senses are all on varying spectrums; some of us able to see, hear, smell, experience things others cannot. One of our senses is a sense of time. Some people’s sense of time operates on a scope of a wider caliber than others, experiencing things others cannot, which is why some of us may have experienced ghosts while others haven’t.

edit: I guess it needs clarification based on the downvotes, I don’t believe any of what I just wrote (except the true bits like time not being linear & sense scopes). I don’t believe in ghosts/have never seen one, but I try to stay open-minded for friends who might disagree.

I think it was a Reddit scraper years ago that taught me that I should probably lie more often on the internet about my work, friends, family details, etc.

Just like, little lies that don’t really matter in the comment, but would misdirect an AI or investigator into things that aren’t true.

It’s just so much woooooork to think about this shit. And to come up with different screen names everywhere? And to like, sub to a city I don’t live in and comment there about shit I know nothing about? Exhausting.

Thankfully my brothers and three uncles are here to support me. And my alligator.

It is!? Noooooooo! TIL

sadly I’ll likely support them through any shitty decisions they make as they are the only viable non-chromium alternative these days.

I get they’re chasing the buck and trying to stay relevant, but uhhhh… if they could be less Steve Buscemi-teen about it, that’d be great.

Lightning in a bottle, that cast.

Well, most of that cast.

My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.

Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.

Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.

It’s gone to the dogs.

“Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.

Yeah but that’s what makes it a fun thought experiment imo is thinking of how the simulation accounts for our reality.

If I’m a Sim in The Sims equivalent, my dying results in the exact same outcome it does in The Sims; my avatar is gone and not resurrectable (without mods).

Maybe the Mandela effect is when we’ve moved servers from one that had different DLC.

God/Jesus/all prophets was just the admin visiting.

Ghosts are bugs in the code only visible to some of us because we have the residual DLC files that weren’t properly removed.

We can’t see far into space because the draw distance is short.

I’m surprised they know anything these days under this administration.

Ew, DailyMail? On the one hand the tabloids sure knows how to drive engagement, and I like to encourage engagement on Lemmy to help it grow…

…on the other hand, ew DailyMail.

“Oh the inhumanity!”