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If you actually WATCHED the show you would know that he was STILL manipulating her, STILL FORCING her to give him a baby. I guess that level of ignorance is what I’d expect from a purple.

There’s no need for weird dysgenic suggestions!

screencaps from the latest new scum!! you guys i am so hyped for the new season~~~

(can’t believe they killed off kita though :((()

I am one of the many people who have been refraining from interacting with you since you spend tons of money trying to get people falsely convicted, but now I’m worried that since all sensible people are avoiding interacting with you your poor followers are going to think that your appalling and reprehensible conduct is more widely accepted than it is.

The consequences of bringing more frivolous OOCI lawsuits are that people who are doing legal and legitimate things are nonetheless put on notice that their lives will be ruined if they ever get on the bad side of a sufficiently petty and despicable blue.

The consequences of openly admitting that your purchased the prosecution of someone who you were mad at for unrelated reasons are that everyone loses confidence in the court system and the law, expects they can get their way if they have money and not otherwise, and is terrified in interactions with anyone who has the power to do that. 

The consequences of succeeding at the thing you’re attempting to do are that random greys and oranges have their lives ruined - in one case over claiming they sent someone else anonymous harassment on the internet!!! That is a bad consequence! How can you possibly not understand that?

The consequences of dropping a ton of money to get someone in trouble for an internet argument are that people are frightened to interact with blues, and particularly frightened to interact with you, stifling discussion and disagreement and effectively destroying the existence of places on the internet where people can say “you are a despicable example of the worst blue inclinations towards casual abuse of power plus the total absence of any blue inclinations for priorities or common sense, and your existence is a profound indictment of the eugenics policies of the nation that issued your parents a credit”.

And, you know, sometimes that needs to be said.

Countries are in the practice of committing to deterring various actions by other countries with violence if necessary. They do that because there are tons of established procedures around the escalation from disagreement to violence and tons of people to mediate them, mitigating the harm this inherently causes. They also do that because they are mostly evil. Most wars are morally wrong, and not justified by the game theory that got us into them. You are not capable of emulating a nation in predictability, mediation or competence; you should not be aspiring to emulate them in willingness to resort to force to solve your problems.

I believe that people should be able to say what they believe, and that efforts to silence people or declare certain ideas unexpressable are extremely bad. But killing is not speech. This seems to be about coloursofthenight wanting to prevent harmful actions, not censorship.

As for the rest - no. If you believe something is murder, you may try to convince people not to do it. You may try to pay them not to do it. You may try to lobby to make it illegal for them to do it. You may try to change the social mores such that they are ostracized for doing it. You may not get them arrested on unrelated trumped-up charges. This is the essential compromise of living in a society - we resolve disagreements with debate and law, not with random private personal violence - and undermining it is really bad. If that rule had an exception for “but do it anyway if you think you have a really good reason”, then it doesn‘t exist as a rule at all, because everyone thinks they have a really good reason.

fishing regulations aren’t “protecting the commons”

THINK!  we want to kill all the ants that invade houses, can we?  NO!  Not trying as hard as we can!  We want to kill plant blights which DON’T EVEN MOVE and we can’t do THAT.  killing the baravic rabbit infestation was an ENORMOUS PROJECT which cost MILLIONS

how could we POSSIBLY deplete fish populations

we would catch some (not all!) of the fish (because fish MOVE AROUND), and then the remaining fish will BREED and have a lot of space and food because their competitors are being eaten!

blues are COLLUDING ON FISHING REGULATIONS to keep fish EXPENSIVE so they can eat it and you and I can’t afford it

I’m really not here to defend my habits, but far be it for me to pass up a chance to spread knowledge to my fellow man.

Let’s start with what everyone agrees on. It’s well-known that animals like cats and dogs can sense earthquakes and volcanoes before people do. They pick up the small vibrations in Amenta’s crust, and they can tell long before we do when something isn’t quite right. Seismometers are more accurate, of course, but they’re also more limited; they can only sense messed up vibes Amenta’s crust, while cats and dogs can also sense disturbances in the atmosphere and in the people around them (I’m sure you’ve noticed that some dogs are able to predict when their owners are about to come home).

But cats and dogs are still pretty limited. Their senses might be sharper than ours, but they’ve got a lot going on in their heads, and it distracts them. They’re not purely reactive beings. Like us, they have their own personalities and favorite foods and weird day plans and stuff, and all of that limits their ability to make accurate predictions. If it’s less significant than a volcano or an earthquake, odds are your cat is as clueless as you are about it.

You know what doesn’t have a lot going on in its head? An oyster. Oysters don’t even have heads. They’re about as close as you’re going to get to a purely reactive being that still can react to stimuli in a timely manner, other than maybe a sea urchin. Sea urchins are actually probably better, but people don’t really eat sea urchins, so there aren’t really any urchin farms to use for data collection.

Anyway, oysters are reacting to the same things that cats and dogs are–vibrations, firstly, but also temperature changes, sea water and soil composition changes, and the quality of their food. And because they’re very specialized creatures that only have to worry about simple stimuli like that, their evolution has been a lot more focused on that, and not on, like, the best strategy for catching mice or the best way to get rid of a particular customer without losing your job. So when I look at oyster behavior, I’m letting them do all the hard work of interpreting that environmental stimuli, and I’m able to get out basic information about what the coming seasons are going to be like, especially in terms of environment change and weather patterns.

The songs work on the same principle, but they give you a broader scope of information at the cost of decreased accuracy. Even though people have a lot of things that go into their music preferences, those preferences are also affected by much deeper subconscious beliefs than, say, our preferences in movies or sports teams. There’s never been an Amentan culture that didn’t have music. It’s basic for us, far more basic than speech. The level on which a song moves you is a lower level than the level on which you reason about who you should vote for, or the level on which you decide which people you want for friends or partners. If you want to get at the information that we’ve subconsciously collected about our expectations for the really basic things that go into our happiness as people, songs preferences are a good place to look.

Of course, individual people are still pretty bad at predicting things, so you can’t get any good data unless you look at what really large groups of people are doing. That’s why you have to look at popularity levels, and on another level, why you have to look at music. You could probably get even better information from, say, a database of dreams, but the corporations don’t really keep track of those, while they obsessively track the number of downloads and plays of different songs.

Anyway, I definitely agree with you that science is an important tool for learning about the world around us, including its past and its future. But the thing is that the world has a lot of moving parts, and the parts of the world that most concern us have a shitton of moving parts. I’m not gonna ask a physicist to predict the results of the next election, even though technically it all comes back to physics. There’s just too much information. The song charts process a lot of that information for us, in however haphazard a way, and it’s a lot easier to extrapolate the future of a country when you’re looking at the trajectory of large groups of people than when you’re looking at large groups of atoms, you feel me?

Afen Kisantami is allegedly the son of Fen Neli, a prominent Anitami blue. Anitam is patrilineal, so if his claim of fatherhood were true then it would make Afen blue as well.

However, Afen is well-known to have attended a green university, to draw his income from green jobs, and to have bought green credits for his children. If he were really blue, then this would be a massive violation of the law – and you can bet that Fen Neli’s political rivals would jump on the opportunity to take him down a notch or two. Why haven’t they? Because anyone who tries is made aware of what’s really going on.

Afen Kisantami is the bastard son of his wife Miliel Thelinte with a green man. Fen paid for the credit and chose to pretend that Afen was his son, to avoid embarrassment. Because the truth is merely embarrassing, not damaging, it’s more readily suppressed with ordinary amounts of backroom political pressure.

…That’s sure a lot of overlapping coverup you have going on there.

I’m not an expert, but I think it’s going to be a bad winter. The popularity of Lowan’s “Uptight” suggests that they’re not reacting to an expected rash of poor weather. It seems more likely to be something to do with the government, or possibly something to do with public health.