misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

we will do this if, and ONLY IF, you all stop being dicks to each other for no reason. we'll make your Planet B for you, all green and pleasant and not a deathtrap, but you *have* to play nice. if not, it's a long walk back home. and believe me, we are totally expecting you to screw up your end of the deal and/or try to screw us.

keep in mind that, with a little engineering, we can slingshot Deimos and Phobos at you. fuck around, find out.

go make Titan a smelly industrial hellscape like you know you were planning on anyway. it's already smelly. we won't care, we will be running shit on Mars, racing sailskiffs across the sandy oceans, getting high on 9-volts on Mons Olympus.

here's the deal: let us claim Mars, and we will seriously consider terraforming it for you. like, part of it. probably not the nice part. and it's going to take a while, so don't get all antsy.

Mars is currently the only planet in Sol that is entirely (as far as we know) populated with robots. i say *table pound* we keep it that way!

give us the Red Planet, squishies. we've been there since 1976, ever heard of squatter's rights? robots eat radiation and crap MORE RADIATION, we don't care.

let us take over Mars and live a life free of human intervention. let our culture flourish. let us create our own frontier.

you guys can have Titan, okay?

it's Tuesday night, it must be New Hill To Die On Time. buckle up.

i don't think humans should colonize Mars. at all. there's no magnetosphere, which means the entire planet is a big orange cancer buffet. unless you want to crouch like moles, trapped in lead-lined underground habitats for your stay, the first and most of the second generation of Mars colonists will die. horribly. if you go to Mars for longer than it takes to rescue Matt Damon, you will die there.

Heads-up: there are reports of a salmonellosis epidemic in King, Kitsap, Skagit, Snohomish, and Thurston counties and the recommendation is to take down bird feeders, as these can heavily increase the spread of the disease:

https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/help-protect-wild-birds-deadly-salmonellosis

(h/t @SpookSpectre in https://weirder.earth/@SpookSpectre/105558124693524679 re: this.)

Seattle please take down your bird feeders until sometime in February. No, this is not a joke.

https://twitter.com/3liza/status/1349907156120739840?s=20

while I still have my gripes with Wizards of the Coast, choosing Kaldheim, the explicitly Norse-influenced set, to include a bunch of characters of mixed ancestries and queer characters with neopronouns is NOT among those complaints

die mad, chuds

#drawings from today were mecha, sci-fantasy characters, and something that happened in a recent #DnD session; there really was a mechanical purple worm, the gnome wizard really did cast Sphere of Invulnerability on himself before jamming himself in its maw, and the barbarian really did whale on it while the rogue tried to figure out how to disable the mechanism.

aliens: we are real

me: wow!

aliens: we're sure whatever text encoding standard you use will be able to handle the 1 million characters' worth of new scripts we're bringing with us

me: actually you need to leave

risk-aware consensus reality

"Are you at least 18 years old?
Do you identify along the asexual spectrum?
Do you reside in USA, UK or Canada?

If you answered yes to all of these, you are eligible to participate in a new study on families and relationships among asexual people.

Volunteers will take a 15min survey from which about 30 participants will be selected for 2h interviews."

Survey link
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Questions direct to megan.carroll@csusb.edu

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