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brin-bellway:

https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/78928.html

@itsbenedict​​ replied: “i’m a resident of 2020 and thought that meant “sun” until you explained it”

Potential near-future mes dealing with the aftermath of coronal-mass-ejection EMPs are definitely grumbling about “don’t we have *enough* coronas fucking us over this year?”.

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(I’m actually in the middle of reading a thing about this right now: https://www.governmentattic.org/27docs/UnpubFEMAgeomagRptsU_2010-12.pdf )

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#replies #itsbenedict #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #apocalypse cw #illness tw #covid19

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transgenderer:

is there any way to make your remains totally unavailable to the biosphere? i know you can get cremated and made into a rock but most of your mass gets released into the air! maybe if i was encased in resin…

 

official-kircheis:

Have your remains launched into heliocentric orbit

 

raginrayguns:

Greg Egan – The Walk:

I strain my ears, but I can’t pick up the faintest hint of traffic, now; just birdsong, insects, the crackling of the forest’s debris underfoot. Fucking nature. I refuse to die here. I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit— preferably around the sun. I don’t care how much it costs, just so long as I don’t end up part of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.

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#death tw #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #((this amusement not to be taken as expressing an opinion regarding the statement itself))

Responding to a pandemic in the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation:

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nuclearspaceheater:

nentuaby:

roseverdict:

nentuaby:

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PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE APOLOGIZING FOR BECAUSE I’M COMPLETELY CONFUSED

The RNA vaccines approved for COVID-19 in the US both need to be distributed at extremely low temperatures. Like 40F lower than any other mass-distributed medicine.

It turns out the Dippin Dots company runs the only nationwide supply chain that’s ever operated at those temperatures. So all these big serious health orgs are consulting the expertise of, and even exploring renting equipment from, The Ice Cream of the Future™️.

This is it. This is the future that it’s the ice cream of.

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#oh my god #(I hadn’t heard of this before) #(but I guessed pretty much what OP must be on about when I saw Dippin Dots) #illness tw #covid19 #vaccines #food #I’m not sure whether to tag this #proud citizen of The Future #or #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #ambivalent person-who-passed-the-citizenship-test-but-hasn’t-had-the-ceremony-yet of The Future??