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I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"
I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir
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#the real question is why arent any of them running it double blind #what if those guys are just turning into goatmen bc they know the mad scientists reeeeaaaaallly want them to
#it's also a question of sample size #if you turn one person into a goatman you might THINK you have an elixir that turns someone into a goatman #but make that a 75 person trial and suddenly you realize it's an elixir that turns you into your ideal body #and that one person was just a guy with a fursona and a dream
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
The number of people responding to this post claiming to be bodhisattvas is hilarious. If you'd resolved your karma you wouldn't be on tumblr.
A warlord asked his teacher, a great monk, what he would do in his next lifetime.
“Oh,” he said, “I think I will spend a few lifetimes on Tumblr, most likely.”
The warlord was astonished. “Your merit and virtue are renowned far and wide!” he responded. “Why on earth would you be condemned to Tumblr?”
“If I did not post on Tumblr,” his teacher responded, “who would be your mutual?”
i fully believe that we were always going to end up in this place and corporate america and even our government were aware of it long ago, and that explains much of their actions and behaviors.
it started with COVID. the curtain was pulled back on the concept of "work" and so many of us discovered that we could do our jobs working from the comfort of our own home, or that our jobs weren't as "essential" as we were lead to believe
then they couldn't get us back into the offices. the federal reserve began spouting lines about how "controlling wage inflation" was the most important thing. then you started hearing government officials talking about how americans needed to be back in the office, at work.
then the businesses started mandating that you be in the office.
then they started laying people off if they didn't come in.
they tried to scare us. they said "remote work is over. it's time to return to normal" and many of us rejected this. many of us have simply left the labor pool and went on to pursue our own passions and ventures. they continue to lay people off and try to push office mandates. they busted the rail strike.
but pay attention to the headlines
"Working from home could wipe $800 billion from office values globally"
"Wage growth is slowing. Blame the Federal Reserve."
this "future of work" terrifies those with wealth because it de-prioritizes wealth over well-being.
the level of autonomy and freedom that comes from working from home, the realizations that you begin to come to when you have more time to dedicate to your personal life... they're not the type of revelations that you have sitting in an office 9 hours a day.
since i started working from home, i realized my happiness is rooted in my creative works and my community. so many others have done the same. this is extremely dangerous to the structures of our capitalist society.
the shifting power balance to the worker is real. 650,000 workers are threatening to strike or already are. this could be a watershed moment in american labor history. organize organize organize!