[–] 14 points 5 months ago

Do you ever just realize that everyone is in space right now? Like, sure, there's an atmosphere, but other than that you're basically out there. The air around you is sky. The vacuum around you is universe. When you take a closer look, there are universes within universes, whole worlds of microbes, like the ones on the very surface of the keyboard I type this on - on the larger scale, ecosystems of stars, being born, evolving and dying - like in a cosmic "firework show". But they don't tend to affect each other, I think. They're so far away...

And then, there's us. We're so small yet so big. Does that make us special or just mediocre? To an ant we are giants, to a star we don't exist. Why does consciousness as we know it only exist in the middle of sizes? Maybe because it's "as we know it", and of course we only really know what things are like at our scale? Maybe sapience is subtle, and it can only be detected when you spend every moment dealing with it. Perhaps atoms are kind of conscious, and brains are the shape they make such that their consciousness field constructively interferes. Idk

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago
    1. Switching consciousness with a creature from my dream and realizing I won't exist when the dream is over (because I thought I was the weid red rectangle creature). Creepiest one by far, and I was in front of my neighbor's house in the dream.

    2. Bumping into miniature Jupiter in an infinite space train, then getting haunted by black and white demon faces - which caused me to wake up very scared.

    3. Partially lucid dream where I flew on a carpet to Japan and then language-learning books started falling from the sky, and I ran to grab as many as I could. Also, it wasn't actually Japan, it was just weird grid-like suburbs with no houses, just concrete and small patches of grass. I don't remember what happened after grabbing a bunch of books.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    if i paid for one i would have it on (if i pay for it i might as well use it + more privacy). but, since i just have proton free tier, i turn it on whenever "This content is not available in your region" shows up

    Gif of Sonic saying: No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me!

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    I labeled some of the lesser known logos. The criteria are arbitrary and I made this based on how much I liked using it.

    Note that Fedora Sway Atomic isn't bad, but I had a bad experience because I was trying to install NIri on it and it clearly wasn't meant for that. Basically, it's just not for me.

    I wanted to rank Manjaro low because I heard bad things about it, but I think I used it for like a few minutes because I wanted to try Gnome, and I didn't like Gnome after trying it and didn't want to deal with uninstalling all the Gnome stuff manually, so I just hopped to another distro.

    Tierlist of Linux distros. S Tier has: Void Linux, Nix OS, Debian and Artix Linux. A Tier has: Arco Linux (RIP) and Arch Linux. B Tier has Linux Mint. C Tier has: Aurora Linux and KDE Neon. D Tier has Fedora Sway Atomic. F Tier is empty. There is an unranked tier at the bottom, with distros unranked due to not enough usage, these are Manjaro Linux, OpenSuse and standard Fedora Linux.
     

    I was for whatever reason walking around somewhere in Japan and linguistics books about conlanging (language creation), started raining down from the sky.

    Everyone was rushing to grab one in the dream. The books were very thick and had a colorful cover, similar to the picture but with colors other than red.

    I've never been to Japan, nor have I read any linguistics book or studied linguistics. I have tried conlanging once though.

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