okay I am begging people to understand that it is not "planned obsolescence" or "corporate greed" for manufacturers to stop selling things because genuinely better technologies become available. I just had someone arguing with me that they should be able to buy a new nickel-cadmium battery for their 25-year-old cordless vacuum. NiCd batteries were outlawed a decade ago for very good reasons. if you really want to have the same effect as using one you can just go out and shoot 10 people with Bullets That Give You Cancer and then rip out your own kidney
not to brag but I feel pretty bad right now. in reality, things in my life are going completely fine, but I have developed the power to feel bad regardless of my circumstances. I have a powerful mind, and it allows me to do this
Pulling resources from the nearby dump was... Interesting. Signage indicated it was not only well guarded, but that it was routinely patrolled by workers and a public health agency. Despite that, nothing beyond wildlife moved past 9 pm local time. Useful to me, certainly, and I'm sure the owners of the dump will appreciate the fact it will soon be entirely stripped of all waste, leaving only their actual equipment and infrastructure intact, but probably concerning for the blatant misuse of funds and false advertising.
My first extractor won't do much, it can barely sort through a cubic meter in an hour. Thankfully it is both scalable and limited by my lack of resources, so I will be able to clean this site in a week at most, and start sending out mobile versions soon after.
What really has my attention, though, is the way my new senses interact with the cacophony of scents.
What I clearly remember was a noxious miasma of rot and filth is just... information, sensations and concepts I could never differentiate.
Here is a mass of good rot, almost usable for compost, save for the heavy metal tainting it. There is a cluster of oils, somehow having gotten into the main dump rather than the chemical disposal zone. Useful for me, being in the open like this, but it would have been a concern for the town in the future.
If only I could get some actual sun on my leaves, I'd be a happy abomination in a world unprepared, but instead I'm suffering under constant overcast skies. Despite being in the middle of Utah, of all places.
Ah, right, the salt flats. I should get a beacon nearby, salt is soo useful at almost every level of tech I can think of.
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Money doesn't buy happiness, it just lets you buy all the things that make happiness an option, like food and healthcare and shelter and societal presence and-
The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.
With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.
My baby :)
Started drawing that outfit from the Metroid manga and then got…
… Carried away.
Probably a terrible idea, but that won't stop me.Youtube: @FacelessEsper, Twitch: www.twitch.tv/facelessesper
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