What about vaccinations spreading magnetic microchips or 5G towers spreading a biological virus? I think it’s pretty hard to beat that level of stupidity.
Next study: McWhiskers, L. (2026). Fracture Dynamics of Kitchen Floor Impacts: A Case Study. The Meow-nual of High-Impact Descent Studies, 1(1), 1-8. purr-10.1234/meow.2026.001.
When the game brakes, and you end up spending a ton of money on maintenance, people will quickly realise that it isn’t such a fun little project after all.
I had such a hard time finding /ɪˈpɪt ə mi/. I tried so many different spellings that I ran out of ideas.
However, mnemonics and pneumonia are just diabolical. There’s zero chance that you’ll ever find those… which reminds me, this new language would have to be very big on silent letters. Basically like French, but cranked up to eleven, because anyone foolish enough to study this language deserves to suffer.
As there are vastly more vowel sounds than there are vowel letters, you might as well use only consonant letters to write all the vowels. This language is just one big middle finger to all the other languages out there.
Which reminds me, the spelling vs. pronunciation would have to be inspired by English. You can’t find anything in the dictionary unless you know the etymological origin of the word. If you don’t know that, your guess of the first letter is guaranteed to be wrong, and you’ll end up opening the book at a completely wrong section. When you hear a new word, it’s easier to just ignore it and get on with your life.
Oh that would be a very fun project! Make every sound just a different kind of vowel, skip all the consonants entirely. Make sure each word has vowels that are very similar. Every word should be very long as well.
Everything should have conjugations, and you should be able to stack them infinitely. There should be lots of prefixes and suffixes you can sprinkle liberally everywhere.
The grammar should have zero consistency. Everything is just a never ending list of exceptions. You would need to have a degree in cryotherapy to learn this language.
The classification of words and linguistic structures should be so bizarre, that existing systems wouldn’t be able to handle it. None of this fits in any box we already have. It should be so unique, that no other language would help with it.
Of yeah, the ending did involve some sort of psychological torture. Totally missed that one. In that case, a human committed a crime and a copied mind gets to pay for it too. Messed up “justice”…
People can say whatever they want about Lemmy, but this proves to me that Lemmy is ready. When we have amazing communities like this, there's no need for Reddit.
Strangely, some episodes actually have an optimistic ending. Maybe kinda bitter sweet, but still.
Anything even remotely positive suddenly feels very good in this context where the baseline is a total nightmare. When you think a character has hit rock bottom, Black Mirror shows you how things can always get 10x worse. What you thought was bad, was just a warm up lap.
Yeah, it's one of those works of art that aim to make you uneasy. Gotta say, they nailed it. It's a horrible show in more ways than I dare to count.
Here are the relevant episodes where digital minds get tortured. S2E4 White Christmas: A human mind is copied to a computer that runs home automation systems. The copy is essentially coerced into slavery. When the copy refuses run the automation system perfectly, it is tortured with sensory deprivation over an extended period of time. So, basically slavery, customer satisfaction and quarterly profits are the "justification" here.
S4E1 USS Callister: A guy with some serious issues loves to larp in a digital world with copies of other people. His idea of fun involves abusing the copied minds. It's sort of like mental torture for the copies. He is bullied in real life, and this is his way of getting back to the people he hates. Just plain old revenge transformed into mental abuse, if you can call that a "justification". Hey, I never said the reasons were good.
S4E6 black museum: A museum has a copy of a human mind stuck in a toy. This counts as psychological abuse as the mind is unable to act like a normal human in such a restrictive body. You can also get to electrocute a copy of a murderer's mind, which is just literal torture. Sadistic people pay for it. In other words, money "justifies" torture, again. Actually, money justifies just about anything on this show. On the other hand, they are torturing a convicted murderer so... Oh, but the murderer could be innocent, but we don't really know so... This series just doesn't give you an easy way out.
There are also other episodes that feature copied minds, but they don't involve blatant torture. However, that doesn't make those episodes any less awful, because the writers as sick as they are creative.
That would be great! If you have some plastic hose, you could turn that into a gutter and a downspout. Just add one for each corner to make it look authentic.
Bright future ahead. Robot dogs will hunt you down and cut you to pieces. Before you die, your brain is scanned, and the copy will be tortured as long as the machine has power.
But people did respond with real actions to a thing that wasn’t happening. The allegation was dumb, but doing something about it was even dumber.
Nobody was using the towers to spread viruses, but people attacked those towers regardless.
What about vaccinations spreading magnetic microchips or 5G towers spreading a biological virus? I think it’s pretty hard to beat that level of stupidity.
Yeah, that’s just made up LOL.
It’s fun to imagine what kinds to studies would cats write.
Next study: McWhiskers, L. (2026). Fracture Dynamics of Kitchen Floor Impacts: A Case Study. The Meow-nual of High-Impact Descent Studies, 1(1), 1-8. purr-10.1234/meow.2026.001.
People watch rally and F1. What do you think.
Slop is a verb now. 😄 English is just so amazing. Basically, anything can become a verb.
Anyway, so when you slop up a piece of software, it becomes abandonware immediately.
What about the subwoofer then? Nobody can hear that in space anyway.
When the game brakes, and you end up spending a ton of money on maintenance, people will quickly realise that it isn’t such a fun little project after all.
Oh wow. That writing looks a lot like something I saw in some game. Maybe daedric?
I had such a hard time finding /ɪˈpɪt ə mi/. I tried so many different spellings that I ran out of ideas.
However, mnemonics and pneumonia are just diabolical. There’s zero chance that you’ll ever find those… which reminds me, this new language would have to be very big on silent letters. Basically like French, but cranked up to eleven, because anyone foolish enough to study this language deserves to suffer.
As there are vastly more vowel sounds than there are vowel letters, you might as well use only consonant letters to write all the vowels. This language is just one big middle finger to all the other languages out there.
Which reminds me, the spelling vs. pronunciation would have to be inspired by English. You can’t find anything in the dictionary unless you know the etymological origin of the word. If you don’t know that, your guess of the first letter is guaranteed to be wrong, and you’ll end up opening the book at a completely wrong section. When you hear a new word, it’s easier to just ignore it and get on with your life.
Oh that would be a very fun project! Make every sound just a different kind of vowel, skip all the consonants entirely. Make sure each word has vowels that are very similar. Every word should be very long as well.
Everything should have conjugations, and you should be able to stack them infinitely. There should be lots of prefixes and suffixes you can sprinkle liberally everywhere.
The grammar should have zero consistency. Everything is just a never ending list of exceptions. You would need to have a degree in cryotherapy to learn this language.
The classification of words and linguistic structures should be so bizarre, that existing systems wouldn’t be able to handle it. None of this fits in any box we already have. It should be so unique, that no other language would help with it.
Of yeah, the ending did involve some sort of psychological torture. Totally missed that one. In that case, a human committed a crime and a copied mind gets to pay for it too. Messed up “justice”…
People can say whatever they want about Lemmy, but this proves to me that Lemmy is ready. When we have amazing communities like this, there's no need for Reddit.
Love it! It's gorgeous! 😍
Strangely, some episodes actually have an optimistic ending. Maybe kinda bitter sweet, but still.
Anything even remotely positive suddenly feels very good in this context where the baseline is a total nightmare. When you think a character has hit rock bottom, Black Mirror shows you how things can always get 10x worse. What you thought was bad, was just a warm up lap.
Yeah, it's one of those works of art that aim to make you uneasy. Gotta say, they nailed it. It's a horrible show in more ways than I dare to count.
Here are the relevant episodes where digital minds get tortured.
S2E4 White Christmas: A human mind is copied to a computer that runs home automation systems. The copy is essentially coerced into slavery. When the copy refuses run the automation system perfectly, it is tortured with sensory deprivation over an extended period of time. So, basically slavery, customer satisfaction and quarterly profits are the "justification" here.
S4E1 USS Callister: A guy with some serious issues loves to larp in a digital world with copies of other people. His idea of fun involves abusing the copied minds. It's sort of like mental torture for the copies. He is bullied in real life, and this is his way of getting back to the people he hates. Just plain old revenge transformed into mental abuse, if you can call that a "justification". Hey, I never said the reasons were good.
S4E6 black museum: A museum has a copy of a human mind stuck in a toy. This counts as psychological abuse as the mind is unable to act like a normal human in such a restrictive body. You can also get to electrocute a copy of a murderer's mind, which is just literal torture. Sadistic people pay for it. In other words, money "justifies" torture, again. Actually, money justifies just about anything on this show. On the other hand, they are torturing a convicted murderer so... Oh, but the murderer could be innocent, but we don't really know so... This series just doesn't give you an easy way out.
There are also other episodes that feature copied minds, but they don't involve blatant torture. However, that doesn't make those episodes any less awful, because the writers as sick as they are creative.
Well that’s black mirror. It’s clearly meant to be disturbing. Doesn’t have to make sense to be messed up.
That would be great! If you have some plastic hose, you could turn that into a gutter and a downspout. Just add one for each corner to make it look authentic.
Bright future ahead. Robot dogs will hunt you down and cut you to pieces. Before you die, your brain is scanned, and the copy will be tortured as long as the machine has power.