I recall seeing a documentary about some cold desert in china. So, plenty of sand and dry air, but also freezing temperatures. Strange place.

Oh wow! That’s really cool. When I think of rain forests, it’s always like +40 °C, impenetrable vegetation, super tall exotic trees, big snakes, huge spiders, bright colored frogs and so on. Not owls on pine trees.

So much moss on those branches. What kind of environment supports that?

Make America Hammered Again? Could also be High…

So far, I’ve found that there are many people whose purpose in life seems to be to downvote stuff. Maybe they are professional downvoters, who know. Maybe I would have found even darker tends, but I just stopped looking at that point. Most likely, you’ll also find people who target specific users, themes and communities if you just look long enough. Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be unnatural.

No problem!

There could be repeat down voters, but that’s not even the most disturbing thing the data can reveal.

The first few minutes will be interesting. After that, a more disturbing image begins to emerge, which starts to gradually erode your faith in humanity. Eventually, you start hating the data, which will hopefully result in a rage quit. Consider that a beneficial reaction that protects your mental wellbeing. If that doesn’t happen, there’s a risk of developing an unhealthy relationship with the data.

Let me know how it worked out.

Increasing knowledge increases sorrow. You’ve been warned. This data is more appealing than satisfying, so proceed with caution. Basically an infohazard, IMO.

https://lemvotes.org/

So… MAGWA? Sounds oddly familiar. Where have I heard that before.

Oh… Well that’s pretty bad. It’s like Wild West at that point. Anyone can make these fraudulent tokens. Someone would need to prove that there exists a connection between the token and the real world item it represents.

I guess therein lies the problem. These tokens shouldn’t represent physical objects. If you really want them to, you need a certification authority. If you can find one, it means that you actually can trust someone, so you don’t even need to use a blockchain for tracking these things. Why not just use a trusted authority to handle a traditional database.

So what does that leave us with? What can you do with a blockchain that doesn’t require the tokens to be connected to real world objects?

That is a good point. If there’s a dispute about the first owner, there’s no clean way to solve it. However, the current owner is clear, so we could just start tracking the history from the current time onwards, and ignore the history that’s shrouded in mystery and controversy.

The lack of a trusted central authority is key. If you have at least one authority you can trust just barely enough, the whole idea of a blockchain collapses. There needs to be an urgent trust crisis for this to work.

If I’m not interested in being at the arcade, I’ll just be a drunken idiot and start harassing everyone. I’ll act as if I’ve just had a half a bottle of vodka. Eventually, my husband notices that it’s time to go home.

Jokes aside, here’s one example of what traditional scar tattoos look like.

People all across Africa have been practicing scarification for ages. Source.

It’s just great if you own a cotton plantation. No wages, barely any rights, and the only laws you need to know are the ones regarding buying and selling slaves. It’s basically a win-win-win for everyone. Your plantation flourishes, downstream gets cheap cotton, and America becomes great.

Currently USA seems to be headed in that great direction once again, but this time there are also white slaves. They get just enough money to survive while spending every waking moment for quarterly revenue and dividends. This time though, you don’t need to worry about your slaves running away, since these gears of the corporate machine have literally nowhere to go. Hope is a luxury they can’t afford, so they’ll just bend the knee and work until they die.

When the remaining few employee rights get removed and unions get outlawed, the transformation into a slaver country is complete, and America will be Great again! Once again, slavery is the foundation.

The glass cannon play style isn’t for everyone, or even every situation. Owls manage to pull that off by focusing on stealth and avoiding situations where they don’t have the high ground.

If you watch TierZoo videos, you’ll hear this sort of framing all the time.

Owls are pretty OP.

As far as sci-fi literature is concerned, religious cults could be a “solution“. Just look how WH40k and Dune approach AI. Also, those cults solved one problem, but caused a long list of new problems, so…