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best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically

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wasted opportunity.

(the best part of being ace is pitching kinks as if they were movie concepts. Because no, not everything is a kink yet, even things that obviously should be)

you see this? untapped potential.

someone’s gotta be into this and just doesn’t know it yet. it’s not me, but do you see the vision?

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oh thank god. someone sees it

wasted opportunity.

(the best part of being ace is pitching kinks as if they were movie concepts. Because no, not everything is a kink yet, even things that obviously should be)

you see this? untapped potential.

someone’s gotta be into this and just doesn’t know it yet. it’s not me, but do you see the vision?

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wasted opportunity.

(the best part of being ace is pitching kinks as if they were movie concepts. Because no, not everything is a kink yet, even things that obviously should be)

you see this? untapped potential.

someone’s gotta be into this and just doesn’t know it yet. it’s not me, but do you see the vision?

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Okay now hear me out:

A multi”cellular” ��animal” whose building blocks are descended from viruses rather than eukaryotes

In your general appreciation of nature, I am curious about your take on this - do you believe nature has reached "peak complexity"?

There was a time without flying animals. There was a time without land animals. There was a time without vertebrates, without segmented exoskeletons, without fur, without feathers, without complex social structures, without eyes. There was a time without plants, or any kind of photosythesis. There was a time without multicellular life.

But at this point, do you feel nature on planet Earth has evolved all "milestones" there are (and from now on, all additional complexity will have come from civilization, one way or another)?

I mean in terms of potential, assuming for a moment "nature" of some kind still exist during the next billion years or so.

Yes or No would be enough (lol), but of course spec evo ideas would be even cooler!

Nah I think there's absolutely infinite things nature could evolve some day that we can't even imagine. You really never know. Like it's 100% biochemically possible for something to "breathe fire;" there just has to be a sequence of mutations and the right competition to gradually make it happen, possibly starting with something that sprays boiling hot compounds like a bombardier beetle. I could also imagine a whole class of animals evolving like the modular people from All Tomorrows, because we already have Siphonophores. It's just a matter of something evolving to be a colony that can also come apart and keep functioning. I'm also obviously obsessed with the concept of a creature that weaponizes its own little symbiotic bugs, since I've used that a million times. Like maybe millions of years from now, a descendant of sloths will have upgraded from being full of moths to being full of tiny wasps? And then what if that's so effective they actually start diversifying like crazy and there's a whole era dominated by mammaloid wasp nest beasts ranging from grazers merely cleaned and guarded by their insects to predators who hunt with their assistance. Plant/animal physical symbiosis is also another thing that's not really taken off outside a few insects. Why shouldn't a plant some day decide it likes growing on some kind of animal's body? It's not a plant, but lichens grow on a species of weevil. It's so rare there aren't even photos, but I swear I saw video of one on BBC when I was a kid:

What if a moss adapts just to the shell of some big reptile and eventually the reptile starts to derive sustenance from it too?? I know I'm mostly pointing to things that have already kinda evolved at least once, but hopefully they're suitable example about how far something can be pushed. Furthermore you never know if all life as we know it will die out one day while there's still a couple billion years left of the planet's physical existence. Then a whole new line of life could evolve that we can't conceive of at all, from the ground up. Like crystalline mineral trees that start talking to each other with laser light. Or maybe only bacteria are left but for some reason bacteria develop what they need to start sticking together and building a new kind of multicellular organism. What the heck would an equivalent to "animals" look like if the ancestor was a bacteria????? Holy fuck I'm mad I won't see it. Fuming and seething actually.

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the desire to be preserved and kept alive to shock and awe for centuries to come vs the desire to be eaten by worms to continue the cycle from which i arose… hmm…

maybe i should be sliced in half, straight down the middle so i can do both

if my dead body isn’t stuffed and mounted in the MoMA then something has gone horribly, horribly wrong

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if my dead body isn’t stuffed and mounted in the MoMA then something has gone horribly, horribly wrong

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Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

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Also, it’s a little disheartening to see people with the takeaway of “meat is bad” from The Jungle.

That’s the exact takeaway that people had 120 years ago when the novel originally came out, and it’s the same consensus that had Sinclair banging his head from people misinterpreting his book.

The main theme is “corporations treat their blue-collar workers bad”, regardless of the specific industry. It focuses on the specific human rights violations within the meat industry, but it goes out of its way to say that this is a general issue within capitalism itself and not with the product of meat.

Workers then and today who work with plant-based foods are treated just as poorly. The specific issues may be different, but the sentiment is identical.

so who are we tasking with digging up upton sinclair from his grave and waking them from the dead to inform him he needs to write a sequel to the jungle. anyone volunteer.

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not to toot my own horn, but I’m working on a fucked-up rhythm? game with this exact premise

it’s way down my list of projects but still

so who are we tasking with digging up upton sinclair from his grave and waking them from the dead to inform him he needs to write a sequel to the jungle. anyone volunteer.

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tabletop rpg where the character sheet is a census form

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let’s try this again