throwawayacc0430

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Three Body Problem, part of a Trilogy of Books called Rememberance of Earth's Past. Originally in Chinese, but translated to English, so the phrasing can seem a little "weird" since its the difference in language (according to reddit).

I haven't read it yet (because I have attention span issues), but I watched a Netflix Adaptation 3 Body Problem which would eventually cover the entire book series, with the Season One already out.

There's also a Tencent version of it called Three Body (三体) (in Mandarin) that coveres the entire first book, which I also watched and it feels slightly overdramatised so I kinda skipped a lot of it.

This is the exact scene from Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycs6JRx-pxk (minor Episode 1 spoilers)

Its an interesting world, and I'll probably have to read it since the text is just too different from any adaptations, and they're estimating season 2 and 3 of it being released in 2028 (I'm not gonna wait that long, I'm just gonna read it first).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

不要回答。不要回答。不要回答。

DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER.

I am a pacifist from this world. You're lucky I got this mesaage first.

If you respond, they will come, and your world will be conquered.

DO NOT ANSWER!

不要回答!

(Its actually why I made this question. Both the Netflix and Tencent versions were awesome in their own ways)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yea. ICE doesn't care, but at least if a citizen gets disappeared, they get a Wikipedia page and news coverage out of it. Without citizenship, there is literally zero press coverage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So, Mr. Yen, are you still sympathetic to the republicans, who have a disdain for the same courts that gave you a win?

Or is your head burried so deep in your particle accelerator you don't even have any clue about politics?

Dude thinks he knows everything because he has a PhD in Physics, literally out of touch with the politics that anyone doing 5 minutes of web searching can understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks

OMG how did I almost forget these existed. Thanks for reminding me.

adding it to the list of downloads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Wait wtf is this image 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I mean that's what jail is for.

Think about it this way. If a young adult (like 18 year old) kills a parent as revenge for getting abused as a kid, do you think this person would just get to move freely before trial?

Sure, I'd also sympathize with this young adult, and the parent deserve to die for being an abusive piece of shit, but that doesn't mean this person can just go wandering around the city.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

I literally obtained derivative citizenship. I never even took an oath.

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-h-chapter-4

General Requirements for Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after Birth

The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA) amended INA 320 and removed INA 321 to create only one statutory provision and method for children in the United States to automatically acquire citizenship after birth. According to INA 320, a child born outside of the United States automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when all of the following conditions have been met on or after February 27, 2001

  • The person is a child of a parent who is a U.S. citizen by birth or through naturalization (including an adoptive parent);
  • The child is under 18 years of age
  • The child is a lawful permanent resident (LPR)
  • The child is residing in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the U.S. citizen parent.

There is no specific order in which the conditions of the law must be satisfied for citizenship, so long as all conditions are met at a single point in time before the child’s 18th birthday.

Although this part is concerning:

A person born outside the United States is presumed to be an alien. As such, the person claiming U.S. citizenship has the burden of proof to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that they have met all requirements for citizenship.

👀

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Citizenship_Act_of_2000

There are some South Korean Adoptees who never became US citizen because the adoptive parents never applied, which is why this law was passed to make it automatic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Lol, roadrages is gonna be fun when people start instictively ~~saying~~ communicating via light "you motherfucker" on their drive to work. The entire road will ~~hear~~ see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, in this scenario, human are just morse code machines with a glowing lightbulb-like head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The son is in his 30s with two kids, apparently having moved to the US as a toddler

So the only way they this happened is if the trump-voting parent became a citizen after the son became 18.

But then why did the parent wait 18 years before naturalizing? 🤔

I'm so confused on this story. Anyone got a news article on this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Children adopted by US Citizen parents automatically become US citizen upon adoption papetwork is finalized and uppn arrival in the US.

Adopted Children also become automatic US Citizen if, while they are Lawful permanent Resident and under 18 years old, one of their adoptive parents become a US citizen.

So this doesn't make much sense unless of very rare circumstance of the parents bringing in a kid and then not naturalize until the kid is already 18.

 
  • Each language has their unique encoding of their language represented in pulses of light.
  • Written text remains the same
  • The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM
  • Instumental music still works, and people can still hear things, just not talk.
  • People currenly alive will instantly know how to communicate with light in equivalent proficiency to their speech proficiency before the scenario happening, but everyone born from now on will have to learn from the adults.

Remember: Light cannot penetrate walls

 
  • For simplicity, let's assuming this is your country, in some random rural area
  • The dead person has a kitchen knife plunged into their chest, blood is still fresh
  • The dead person is a random stanger, you've never met them, they are just a random average (non-famous) person
  • There is no one else in the house
  • You have a tiny bit of blood on your clothes, but not a lot, you are unsure of whose blood it is
  • You have no injuries
  • You were never drugged or anything, you just happen to mysteriously, spontaneously get teleported there, while sleeping. You went to sleep on your bed and just woke up only to find yourself in this scenario. (Bloodtests will show nothing)
  • You wake up right in the morning, at sunrise
  • There is electricity and running water, small amounts of food in the refrigerator, enough for maybe a day
  • You don't have any items with you, not your phone, nothing beside the clothes you slept with (if any). There are clothing in this house belonging to the dead person
  • There only electronics devices (besides appliances) in the house is the dead person's smartphone, in their pockets (no lockscreen codes or anything), and a laptop (no password). This house has wifi.
  • This house does not have any security cameras.
  • There is a car in the driveway, belonging to the dead person. No other vehicles, no bikes or anything like that.
  • Nobody (yet) knows this person is dead. They live alone.

So, would you think that you did the murder, and just turn yourself in; or assume someone set you up and try to escape? How would you escape this scenario and avoid prison?

Remember, this is a rural area, not that many cameras.

So do you make a run for it? How?

Or do you just call the authorities and hope you don't get charged with the murder? Very awkward interrogation tho, nobody would believe you. I doubt "I don't remember how I got there" is a strong defence.

What is your "game plan"?

 

I keep thinking about stuff like:

  • The fact that there are galaxies I won't be able to visit (because I'd be dead before humanity goes interstellar)
  • The face that my childhood sucked and I could never really experince a normal childhood again in this lifetime (feeling of "nostalgia")
  • The fact that there are secrets the government is hiding that the average civillian will never be able to know (fear of "missing out")
  • We may never discover the true nature / true origin of the universe (at least, not in my lifespan)
  • Not knowing if the world is even real (as in, simulation theory, solipcism)
  • There would be Movies and TV shows I wont be able to experience (fear of missing out)
  • There were technology that I never got to experience "in the moment": telegraphs, black and white tv, radios, old gaming devices, etc... (I mean yes, they still exist, but its not the same as experiencing it in that time period). To be clear, I still prefer current and future technology, but I just want to go back in time for like a week to check things out like it was back then, then come back, you get what I'm saying?

I can't ever just stop thinking and relax. My brain is so fucked.

This isn't like a "phase", this has been my life for years. Constant non-stop thoughts. 😓

 

There are no other options. This is even more stupid than the phone number verification thing. Attemping to logging to Google Play Store on that wiped device (which previously was logged in to the account) doesn't work either.

Luckily, this is a throwaway account, not much data of value was lost. FRP on the wiped device was also off.

But like, what is the point of this. Suppose, my phone got stolen. How am I supposed to log in to Google to initiate a remote wipe, if it ask for a verification code which is on the phone that the thief has?

Zero logic at all. 🤦‍♂️

Edit: And MFA was never enabled. Just to clarify.

 

I mean, it kinds seems inevitable to me. Books has become e-books. Cash is becoming digital transfers. China has done it. The west is mostly doing card-swipes. One day, that transition will be complete, and cash would be phased out.

What happens then? Think like the power outage in Spain recently. Some people had cash. But in 20-40 years. There might not even be any cash in existence. What then?

What if, instead of a few hours, its a few days? Or weeks?

I guess riots break out all around the world?

(Seriously, has none of the politicians ever thought about this? Where are the backups? Are we just going full "YOLO" on the reliance on the power grid?)

 

For me:

-The Expanse - The beginning was confusing AF and the politics didn't make sense and seemed boring, so I quit. But then eventually after like a year or two, went to reddit and it was recommended again, so I just read some light spoilers and that helped me got through the first season. And then it has been an intriguing and thrilling journey.

 

I don't know about y'all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I'd be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

 

If the government is willing to spend the effort to investigate, they'll find that deleted comment you posted 10 years ago criticizing the government.

But if you want to find your lost files after your cloud account gets suspended for vague "ToS Violations", I hope you have a backup, because good luck trying to get the cloud provider to send you a copy of your files.

It might be out there, but not for you.

Unless you convince a government to try and get it for you. 🤔

 

Especially considering the fact that your country's politics could change in the future.

Going on an honest rant against the regime seems very dangerous.

 

You can have a face-to-face conversation with a friend, but how do you do that if you want to talk to a therapist? No therapist is gonna make an exemption and leave their phone in another room, not to mention, they literally write their notes into the computer system, instead of on paper.

And with lawyers? I just read about how Luigi Mangione's conversation with his lawyer is being unlawfully recorded. How do you even have a conversation with your lawyer if you are in custody and they could just hide recoding devices all around the jail?

Sure, maybe they can't use the evidence in court, but they could just leak an out-of-context audio clip to the press to win the "court of public opinion".

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