The whole simulation theory stems from observations about how fast technology is advancing as a whole, and kind of plays hand in hand with the fermi paradox. Either we are a special advanced civilisation that will continue to advance until we could in theory simulate an entire species/planet/civilisation or whatever or we are doomed to die out before we can advance enough to achieve either that goal or potentially other goals such as building replicating space exploration technology that might be capable of exploring/consuming/adulterating part of the galaxy or even the galaxy as a whole.

Both theories are basically an extrapolation of our current technological progression with some large assumptions made about the way things in this universe operate as a whole. I don't think they are particularly far fetched, but I also don't really see much evidence to support either being a possibility, except maybe the whole we are fucking up our ecosystem and heading towards some type of collapse before we get too advanced parts of the fermi paradox.

Another theory that I've heard which is really just a statistics thing is that it's most likely that we are an average civilisation that lasts an average amount of time in an average part of the galaxy and that it's likely we are right about in the middle of the total number of humans that has or will ever exist (about 100 billion came before us, probably another 100 billion to go) which could be a couple centuries or millenia left of human reign over planet Earth.

All being said, it's pretty likely that since the future hasn't happened yet we just won't know how it all turns out until it does. We're all just as uncertain as anybody else, and whoever preaches the gospel of kingdom come is just as ignorant as you and I.

I drive a lifted RAM and in the last twelve months three people have hit me. Two were in Subarus. One was drunk.

As a designer who works closely with my boss, it actually works like this:

He does meetings 8 hours a day, 2hrs talking to me

I do site visits, design, meetings, solving problems, and 2 hrs a day of picking his brain so I can fit all of my shit into 10 hrs a day.

Yeah but we just got 8" of rain and 70 mph winds during a freak December storm that took out half our power grid, how will Amazon-Clause find my house?!? 80 degrees warmer than it should be here and our snowman holding up the mail box melted!!!

There are very few games from large companies that don't tilt favor one way or another. Generally speaking though there is usually some way around this and much more skilled players will do better, but joe schmoe after an awesome game will always end up on the shitter team one way or another next game.

I got my October bill due on the ninth. It's dated the 14th.

Now they want $2600 for two payments at once and it's like an extra $400 in interest. Funny how that works.

There is also a rebate clause in the paperwork where if you don't miss a payment by more than 6 days the first twelve months you get a rebate.

Hmmmmmmmmm

Bro I'm no beanstalk but being fat is absolutely not healthy.

There is something to be said about the health benefits of being comfortable in your own body, but you also don't have to be ashamed of yourself to realize that there are genuine benefits to losing excess body fat. You only do yourself a disservice by buying the idea that being big is a healthy and worthwhile goal to aspire to. Generally being overweight is a condition of compounding factors that may well be outside of ones ability to control, and I guess the first step to being healthier is to acknowledge these facts.

Well by that logic we either let them win or let them try and take it, at least by not letting them win there is a clear and moral resolution to the problem. Let them cry, and in jail for sedition if they feel angry enough about it.

Those were his eyebrows TBH

My nittos are pretty aggressive 35's and I got 65k out of them. Only replaced because one of the tires wore a bit faster and got to the wear bars, honestly could have replaced just the two rear tires but went for the whole set since it's less of a PITA to go to the shop just once

Wow these Aflac commercials are getting real woke

I read this as director. I was immensely confused as I read further

I design labs and to be honest it ends up being kinda a mix of both unless we're talking some major FAB

Not gonna lie I hope whoever took that video let that mouse live. His terror is too relatable.

Thank you for this.

Can we start saying that X is the platform formally known as Twitter?

It was born Twitter and it will die Twitter.

To be honest Lemmy is just the right amount of content for me, and generally high quality.

It has also gotten me out of my doom scrolling habits that were causing anxiety issues. Thank God for that.

Here's the kicker

Pampered? Maybe.

But Jagex really has gone in deep with the MTX and gambling in RS3. OSRS isn't perfect but if you look at the games side by side it's in a different league entirely, with the only 'MTX' being the membership and bonds which are just membership that can be used for game time or to sell to other players for coins (those players can then use bonds for game time or name changes etc.).

If OSRS got a battle pass the community would revolt.

My problem is the people who advocated for not forgiving student loans are the same people who were more than happy to take hundreds of thousands in forgiven PPP loans. If they want student loans paid back with interest, why not pay these PPP loans back with the same 10% interest that we have to pay?

It's a farce, and no I'm not upset that people who make less than me are getting a break.im upset because the artificial cutoffs for people who are cut out of help now doesn't mean that they too are struggling and could for sure use the help.