Usually they just say there are no civilians in Russia and Ukraine killing ANY Russian is completely justified. Not the other way around though.

Also parallels their thoughts on Israel vs Palestine. Israel can kill any Palestinian and be “self defense” but when it comes to Israelis suddenly they care about the civilian distinction.

…spoil the bunch.

Which means it doesn’t excuse the white people who sat by and watched and did nothing about it.

LiFePO4 battery is a no brainer for cars. Higher current, longer lifespan, and much lower chance of turning into a bomb in a crash.

A common argument I hear against using it in mobile electronics is the fact that it’s heavier. But, like, who cares? Are you struggling to lift your phone or laptop?

reminds me a lot of Cold War dynamics, I assume that’s what it’s partly based on

Kind of. I started this project well before I became a socialist, and while I’ve changed some things to parallel real life socialism, a lot of it is either coincidental (developed before I had a good idea of what socialism is) or just comes down to how I describe it, which nowadays is often through a socialist lens.

The world is similar to the human world in a lot of its constructs because they were heavily influenced by the discovery of the humans’ stored knowledge and data after they went extinct. It have them a huge boost in their technological development because they didn’t have to start from scratch once they figured out how to decode and extract information from human data storage devices. It’s how I justify why animals would use things like meters, minutes, human programming and mathematical constructs, etc. The Unitists were almost certainly influenced by human socialist theory as well, but I generally don’t make a lot of in-universe references to human history or theory because that breaks the immersion IMO.

Isn’t that a lot more efficient than bioengineering plants to have the same nutrients as meat?

Plant based meat exists, as do synthetic meat where you just make the exact same chemicals found in meat from raw materials. But by far the most common solution for carnivores is dietary enzyme supplements. You take a pill once a week, which contains synthetic enzymes that attach to your digestive tract and lets your body do nifty things like digest cellulose and convert it into protein, and synthesize essential nutrients only found in meat. My main character, the cat, helped develop a dietary enzyme formulation for obligate carnivores like Felines.

And I was also curious what the culture of these animals are, are they like separate completely or do they share traits and beliefs with one another?

The Unitist species are very cooperative with each other, and there is a general philosophy that because different species are good at different things, working together allows everyone to focus on what they’re best at and collectively cancel out what they’re not good at. Different taxonomic groups have somewhat different cultures, but they form a harmonious mosaic where the differences complement and make the whole stronger as a result, basically hijacking the concept of niches for their multispecies society.

Trophist species are significantly less cooperative, even between species with the same ideology. Different predator species are inherently competitive and not cooperative, and it still holds true in their world.

what kind of things would you link to in-universe?

I haven’t put too much thought into that, because I’m focusing on developing the scaffolding before those ideas can take shape.

Also, what are “non-predation territories”? Areas where predators are barred from going?

Basically, the political factions in this world are divided into two predominant ideologies/philosophies. The first one is Unitism, which is the anti-predation side, and says different species should live in peace and cooperate, use technology and biochemistry to allow carnivores to live on plant based food, and that all species are equal in value, but different species have different traits, which give them advantages and disadvantages, and that it’s only by different species cooperating instead of trying to eat each other can they each use their advantages to their full extent while collectively cancelling out their disadvantages. Contrasted with Trophism, which says that the food chain must be above all else and that both predator and prey need to carry it out without question or criticism, and it’s as much of a crime for predators to choose not to eat prey as it is for prey to try and avoid being eaten using any sort of technology beyond the defences they naturally evolved.

On the Unitist side, I have two main factions of focus. Most of the small and medium sized Unitist species, are apart of something called the Unified Territories. They are an alliance of many different groups of related species, called taxa, each of which have their own government. For example, you have the Vulpine government, the Rodent government, and the Avian government. You can kind of think of individual species as provinces, taxa as countries, and the Unified Territories would be analogous to something like the USSR.

However, there is one other Unitist (anti-predation) taxon that is independent. That’s the Felines, whose government resides in its own territory, not apart of the Unified Territories. Because they’ve also agreed not to eat other animals, they are allied with the Unified Territories, but are still their own thing. This is partially because they have developed a very different culture from the Unified Territories, but they are still extremely cooperative with the UT. It is generally understood that the separation of Unitist taxa and territories is temporary and as their multispecies culture continue to mature, separate territories and taxonomic governments will eventually be dropped in favour of a fully integrated system.

Finally, I should mention the in-universe distinction between predator/prey and carnivore/herbivore. Predator and prey are behavioural designations, and reflect how you an an individual interact with other animals, and most animals are predators to some species and prey to others. Carnivore and herbivore are biological designations, and reflect whether your body can naturally get all its essential nutrients from plants, or if you need technology to assist with that. So “predators” who choose to hunt other animals are banned in Unitist territory, but not carnivores like Felines or Vulpines.

Can we at least wait until we develop AGI before we start the robots enslaving humans stage? I’d like my slaver to know what they’re doing, thanks. /s

“Made with ingedients you can pronounce”

If you took the time to expand your vocabulary you wouldn’t need to pay a premium.

Why not go further and imagine a world without money, crypto or fiat?

Bitcoin doesn’t give power to you or me, it just transfers the power from one set of bastards to another, because it’s STILL MONEY and money is and will always be a tool for exploitation.

You’re the one spamming the meme community with announcements of who you’re blocking. There’s a reason blocks are silent.

Edit: They DM’d me

If by spam you mean post a single comment on the matter to provide feedback before moving on, then so be it.

But anyway, thank you for kindly volunteering to be on my block list as well. 😉

Unrelated, but anyone else think it’s really weird that we just casually accept our food utensils containing chromium? Like, I know it’s an alloy and not just free chromium, but would we accept a lead alloy spoon? Probably not, especially with most food being acidic. Honestly I’m just waiting for the paper that says we’ve been slowly poisoning ourselves with stainless steel every time we eat.

So that’s what all the DRAM they scalped is storing.

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Thank you! I’ve been (admittedly, very slowly) working on a mock platform for me to stage these fictional threads on, and I think I’ll probably host a website containing a fictional browser within your browser with different websites that people can click through and interact with, including “links” to fictional news articles and other cool stuff from the in-universe internet. Like an ARG.

I’m curious what made you think of this universe

I grew up on various cartoons of talking animals, and one of my biggest pet peeves of animal-focused media is the “designated non-intelligent edible animal.” Lion King had bugs, Zootopia had fish/shellfish and so did Redwall. I absolutely hate that “some animals are more equal than others” trope from the shows whose entire premise is supposedly featuring animals living in harmony. Why not confront it head on and imagine a world of animals, no matter how sci-fi or magic, that could solve the predation problem?

I also love sci-fi shows like Star Trek, and wasn’t satisfied with the cute animal shows and technobabble laden shows being mutually exclusive, so I got really obsessed with the idea of combining cute animals and super advanced sci-fi technology.

When Zootopia came out with its super ambiguous and inconsistent worldbuilding around predator-prey dynamics, despite it being the core premise of the movie, it annoyed me so much that I knew I had to make a better version (at least better in my opinion), and I started seriously worldbuilding this concept.

what’s the story like

My main plot follows a group of small fuzzy animals (cat, dog, mouse, bird, etc) working in a government lab in one of the non-predation territories. The cat is my main character, and the plot opens shortly after the Feline Revolution that had cats joining the non-predation club, in which she was a pivotal figure. They are working on technologies that marked the surpassing of the humans that lived millions of years before they evolved in technological development, and I explore the conflicts with predation territories, interspecies friendships, and the possibility of the technology they’re developing being what killed the humans.

Vienna (I think?) is pretty rad.

I’m partial to leaving decorating buildings to the residents who live there. Something like community murals and art projects on the prefab blank canvas that reflect the people and community those buildings foster. IDK, something about a lot of modern ornamentation commercial developers create feel even colder than no ornamentation at all, but that’s just a personal opinion.

My policy with alien life is “I’ll believe it when it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt.” All this is interesting but I don’t think most pepople are rushing to the conclusion that alien life exist just because of this.

In other news, Tesla to introduce buttonless handless doors. Tell Grok why you deserve to be let out.

I agree, I didn’t want to change the premise too much in my original comment, but ideally you’d do some complicated math to determine the optimal height for your location, building materials, and population density.

I don’t know what that calculation would look like in China because I don’t live there (I’m sure the Chinese engineers are well aware of those calculations though) but in my country it would definitely be a lot closer to the 10 story range, maybe even lower.

Either way, something us in the West absolutely NEED to get used to is prefab buildings that all look the same. A bunch of prefab skyscrapers like China has is still worlds ahead of the logistical nightmare of demanding every single building be custom designed like is so common here. You call it boring, I call it efficient. Having a few reusable designs (usually different heights) to choose from and copy paste building housing, like what China does, is what we need first, IMO, and then we can talk about the optimal heights for those prefab buildings.

∃ world : WorstPossible(world)

∀ us : AreLivingIn(us, world)

Always interesting when the subjects the meme is clowning on make themselves known when they absolutely didn’t have to.