#human design flaws

[astraltrickster]

There's this funny little thing that happens when you hit somewhere around your late 20s or early 30s, where you start looking at new tech and new skills and other new approaches to everyday things and your knee-jerk reaction starts to become "this is stupid, I'm getting by just fine without this, why should I have to? Hell, why should ANYONE use this new thing?" even when learning to use it would take maybe a week of practice that would gain you several years if not a lifetime of daily life being much, much easier.

What no one tells you is that it's easy to miss this mental transition because stupid inventions and trends come and go all the damned time - you probably rejected several even as a kid. As such, it becomes hard to tell the "I don't want to waste my time and money on this because from what I can tell this is a stupid fad that will be dead in a year" that you've always experienced now and then from the "I don't want anything to do with this because I'm already comfortable with MY method to deal with this problem and I don't want to go to the trouble of learning a new skill even if it has advantages" that you're only just starting to feel. In fact, because society hates the very concept of being older than 24 so much, it's easy to not only not immediately notice the difference, but actively work to DENY it when you do notice and JUSTIFY that no, it's not that you're getting set in your ways, but that the new way is objectively worse overall, because the alternative to that claim is admitting that you're getting older.

This is largely a benign mental pattern and in fact can even be used for good if you're willing to acknowledge it for what it is - you can then make INFORMED comparisons of the strengths and drawbacks of both old and new approaches - but if you let it run away with you, this is how you turn into the rude old man at the library who blames the librarian for the fact that he forgot his email password.

Don't let it turn you into that guy.

#tech #ish #internet culture #and offline but honestly these posts kinda defy my tagging system #damn i just got back is it already rework time? #whatever #serious tag #also ish #human design flaws

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 279

Now Danny didn’t mean to make a Bootube channel. He’d meant to send that sleep deprived ramble to Tucker, but he had clicked on the wrong app and yeah. Apparently people enjoy his space rambles- or it could have been the ghost blob-cats that had decided to flop onto him. (Honestly he wasn’t surprised they would start to mimic the shapes of things in their surroundings)

Tucker? Found it hilarious, as did Sam and Val and… um, okay this has become their shared channel now, nice. Though there are some strange comments on some of the videos. Really, what do they mean green sky and crazy tech???

#Prompts #Danny Phantom #Tucker does coding stuff & how to fix design flaws in everyday technology #Sam has a gardening & eco-awareness playlist #Valerie has stuff with All Sorts of Weapons & a mini blog of Cujo #Danny does Space stuff and he loves it #Everyone is freaking out because the videos aren’t only showing up in their world but other ones too #Also all of them are revealing a bunch of stuff that Humanity Doesn’t Know Yet #Thank you weird time stuff of the Zone #Space Core Danny #Life Core Sam #Storm Core Tucker #Metal Core Val #Are they roommates or together who knows #Ellie shows up in the background sometimes too #They do a lot of stuff in the background of each others videos #Including their food fighting #DCxDP #DPxDC #DP x Marvel #DPxBHA #Danny Phantom Crossover #Do as Many Crossovers as you Want

[what-are-even-humans]

honestly such an L for humans (and other apes) to not have simian tails. never am i filled with more jealousy than when i see fellow simian do this

#what do you mean i could've had a prehensile tail capable of supporting all of my weight while i was up to mischief🥺 #i know im supposed to be on the humans are awesome train here (and they are dgmw) but this is a serious design flaw that i will not overlook #i couldve had a cool and practical tail and instead ive got a job and covid

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really loved this!!!!! #very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection #love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it? #(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever) #no romance #(there’s side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it) #emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !! #i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that... #why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up? #like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but there’s not a single flashback of #when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it... #(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the - #eugenics around that is iffy to say the least) #but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird. #also there’s supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points #Also! I love the cover. I can’t find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..) #also: bird facts!

[h20milk]

(★ ω ★) what the dog(s) doing!!!! (★ ω ★)

#sun haven #donovan sun haven #farming simulator #donovan #my art #HE IS MY STINKY LITTLE WOLF... EVEN THOUGH HE DOESNT LIKE BEING CALLED STINKY!!! #third drawing is of me and my siblings heyyyyy we r so cute #i am the designated fisherman of the trio because i love fishing soooo much its my favorite in every farming game #i had such a hard time finding my spouse in this game but i think u figured out who i chose. i mean. hes right there. #speaking of spouses though THEY R ALL SO LOVABLE... (is ignoring all of their fatal flaws that makes them human) #jun is also my spouse by the way. me and donovan are in a poly relationship with him (REAL) #2023

[faceeeeee]

-NEW CHALLENGER ENTERS THE SCENE-

This lovely fellow is another one of Evelyn's creations :) and the most recent too! He is deemed as the "golden child" of her catalogue of children. He follows her every command (he's not the brightest bulb in the shed) and sees her as his mother (she hates that nickname)

#ik his name isn't the most creative but hey it's better than just a letter #tbf his name is actually smt like M4NT5 but Evelyn just calls him that cause she said that name by mistake #and he just answers by that name #also if you know a single thing about praying mantis or just biology stuff in general #please ignore the fatal flaws in his design #this series is a sci-fi/fantasy for goodness sake let me have a funny looking mantis/human hybrid design #faceee art #At Fault series #fun fact he's 4 meters tall :) #original characters

[mossy-covered-bones]

Shame i dont have horns, i would COVER those things in jewelry

#all the dangly chains right next to my ears. it would be awesome #but alas. humans dont have horns :[ #sev rambles #blatant design flaw let me tell you

[extreme-unorthodox-cuddles]

Frankly it's criminal that I can't just pick up my friends and gently eat them. Like what's up with that. Why can't I have snuggly belly time with a happy and tasty fren curled up inside me :(

Reality is a scam I want my money back

#reality sucks i want cozy tumby snuggles #or vice versa tbh i dont mind #soft vore #safe vore #extreme cuddling #sfw vore #vore thoughts #vore stuff #to whoever invented humans i want to have a very stern talk with you about some very significant design flaws

[melanorhynchus-side]

i like playing with the idea that angela is a lot more superficially human than you'd initially think. i always keep saying this but shes an animatronic to me. its really hard to actually very smoothly and cleanly simulate human movement because of how fast and coordinated each muscle is with one another. you just can't get that with motors and pistons, at least not yet.. there's always an offset and a delay that makes movements slightly janky which is why animatronics tend to be incredibly "unsettling" like... sure, the city could have stronger technology in that regard i say: hey i make the rules now i mean, her appearance as designed by ayin is superficial, shes meant to be a hyper-idealized replica of someone she's never met [if her design and her pronounced chest is anything to go off of] might as well take that one step further right. especially with things like eating without any sensation of taste which seem to simply just be for the sake of ayin finding some pleasure in companionship [incredibly self indulgent and almost borderline voyeuristic]. i wouldn't be surprised if angela didn't even have a proper tongue to begin with . its all half baked ideas that really collect into seperating angela from being "truly human" its ok though shes just autistic. trust

#absolutely flawed replicant of a human from a pure design standpoint but i think it goes to show #how absolutely fucked it was for ayin to try to do this despite everything #and then REJECT what he made with his own hands because of how he made it #because he gave angela a human mind #a very kind one and just #You Played Lobcorp Lor for sure you know what happens #it always makes me deeply upset Ugh I hate these games I Love these games #jan ilo #toki #toki suli #Not Maintagging This ..!

[talentforlying]

depression is killing me with hammers so i'm gonna dip for the day, but y'all can catch me loitering in discord or ims later <3

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #human design is flawed i want to pop my brain out of my head and put it in a spin cycle #thought i outran the seasonal but the bitch was just around the next corner #anyway hope everyone else has a wonderful day and i am manifesting good things for y'all

[gh0stmist]

no offence to y’all but being a human SUCKS

#/j #but seriously the human body has so many design flaws #alterhuman #nonhuman #otherkin #therian #ghostkin #voidpunk

[astraltrickster]

While I'm talking about misinformation online, let's talk about a factor I don't see acknowledged nearly enough in how it spreads: trust.

I've spent a lot of time studying how to tell a reliable source from an unreliable one. I've taken all the quizzes on the matter I've found. I've even caught and written about a few that were biased as all hell - meta-usage of that skill!

And yet I admit to having believed online misinformation from time to time.

Why?

Because it was shared by someone I knew and trusted.

Problem was, they shared it from someone THEY knew and trusted, who shared it from someone they knew and trusted, who shared it from someone they knew and trusted, who shared it from their friend who they didn't realize was in the early, reasonable-sounding-propaganda stages of being recruited into some fucked up internet pyramid scheme-cult hybrid or something like that.

This is why Discord scam bots like to hijack real users' accounts. This is why hijacking real users' accounts is a malware strategy that dates back to early email viruses. It's a form of sneaky social engineering - we just don't question things that both align with our preexisting beliefs AND are said by someone we know and trust. In fact, by starting on a small, "fine details" level, trust can be used to change someone's worldview, for better or for worse - this is one of the two biggest factors as to why shared interests can be used as a tool for radicalization, right up there with the fact that we tend to develop a sort of metaphorical tunnel vision around things we're passionate about.

The thing is, this is one of the hardest pitfalls to avoid. Even if I consciously know better, even if I know my friends are just as inclined to make this assumption as I am, and so are their friends, and so are their friends' friends, I still catch myself assuming, ah, yeah, I'm sure my friend did their due diligence and isn't accidentally spreading bullshit! Liked and shared!

...except, no. No, everyone else is just as prone to that bias as I am. Just because I'm pretty sure my friends and mutuals all know better than to click on some shady Ray-Bans sale link "a friend" DMed us doesn't mean we're all perfect fact-checkers.

The point of all this is - remember that misinformation isn't just a Stupid People Problem. Your friends can fall for it. You can fall for it. It's very, VERY likely that, at some point in your life, you'll fall for it BECAUSE a friend of yours fell for it, and you trusted that friend. That doesn't make you A Bad Person, nor does it make you stupid for trusting that friend, nor does it make that friend stupid - it means the misinformation sharing machine worked as designed.

The most important thing to do is to recognize this fact and be willing to accept the reality when verifiably corrected.

#internet safety #internet culture #things that happen to the best of us #human design flaws

[0utrenoir]

dicks should not exist. everybody should have a pussy and that's all.

#biggest flaw in human design

[andromedasummer]

huh, the amount of people who perceived themes other than eugenics and transhumanism in regards to evolution in phyrexia is very interesting to me

#just. Huh! #i get the aesthetic appeal dont get me wrong the entire design for phyrexia is very cool #but considering the core philosophies behind the creation of original phyrexia and how that bleeds into new phyrexia #the amount of people i see who go to great lengths to kind of. twist it into a leftist or trans symbol is fascinating #when at its core its based upon an ideology that seeks to ''perfect'' perceived ''flaws'' like being transgender #but at the same time transhumanism and the idea of changing your body to something optimal is also heavily significant #thematically when it comes to trans stories. especially when considering the perception of so many people that transitioning is somehow #a mutilation of the human body that turns someone into a monster (wrong). so i can see why other trans people #would identify with phyrexia in that vein. being seen as monsters for undergoing such a procedure #for me phyrexia and the procedure behind phyresis has always come off more as an allegory #for medical procedures done to ''perfect/fix'' the unwilling. forced reassignment for intersex people or lobotomization of the disabled #sterilization of the “undesireable”. #esp with yawgmoths (self proclaimed eugenicist though his writer was kinda confused abt what eugenics actually is) #malpractice and violence upon the masses and views on race and the reverence that phyrexia (his creations of course) hold for hi #*him #and the facets of that worship which continued to exist into new phyrexia

[yayforocs]

not me finally putting some development into my minecraft ocs

#they've been essentially Just Designs for ages #like they've little bullet points sure but that's all they've got #now i'm like. ok. what's their flaws. what do they do. what do they want. #thinking about the way ppl interpret hermits and other mcyt'ers has greatly helped too :V #like they don't have to be Just Human Players #firemite might be skulk-influenced now!! #someone may be blazeborn just bc It's My Favorite Origin To Play As and it'd be neat to have one of them be that :VVV #either that or maybe a strider #but like oc-wise i do like the thought of stronger attack when on fire so #i've seen vex character explorations and that concept is rly intriguing to me so heck maybe i'll throw in a vex as well!!!! seems cool!!! #anyway #boutta finally drag these guys out of the OC Void #rambles #tyratone #firemite #razormane #aquafinity

[wizardlyghost]

in honour of the coronation i will be rereading several discworld books, specifically the ones featuring samuel vimes, starting with guards! guards!

#what's that line 'a major design flaw in humanity is its tendency to bend at the knees' or something #gnu terry pratchett