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i'm so done.

Me fr.

i'm so done.

Me fr.

I really think this hinges on whether or not we have "souls." A thing that is greater than your neurons firing, a thing that observes them firing and is the thing which says "I am me," if that exists then I don't believe transporting means death. The soul, which is not broken down because it is not physical, follows the matter wherever it goes. And so the body being deconstructed and reconstructed doesn't matter. Theoretically, you could attach your soul to something other than your body and you still have not died.

This makes the occasional cloning issue have a bigger philosophical meaning. If you were cloned by transporter, then which one has the soul? Figure that out, and you've solved that issue. I don't think there would be a way to do that though since I imagine a collection of cells and atoms with the personality of your friend and that same collection of cells and atoms that is also being observed and operated by your friend would be very difficult to distinguish from each other.

This leads me to my next point: uhm. I don't think souls exist. So when there is a break in consciousness, there is death. I'm not worried about it though cause that already happens pretty frequently. Like, every night when you're sleeping but not dreaming, that is a kind of death. If you go into a coma, if you're brain dead and you're revived by a doctor, death death death. It's ok. We are always dying and being born.

Which might mean that life is an illusion and really all that's happening at any given moment is remembering what the previous moment was. Like a computer that powers down completely and opens the applications you were working on when it powers up. Every moment, forever. And "life" is what we call a long enough series of those moments without *significant* breaks. And when they stop and will not start again, that's what we understand death to be.

So transporting might mean you die, but no more than usual.

Also Data is definitely a living creature as much as any bacteria, ant, human, vulcan, or computer and everyone needs to shut up about that shit!

In Star Trek, the transporter works by converting you as a complete copy from matter to energy containing all information necessary to reassemble you, sends that information wirelessly over a distance to a location where you are then reassembled, molecule by molecule. Since the copy is so perfect you do not perceive any interruption between conversions and everything about you is physically in tact at the end of the procedure (assuming nothing goes wrong, which canonically very rarely happens).

Like what am I doing wrong? I genuinely can't tell if I'm just conversating wrong or if they're the problem or a secret third thing. It's really frustrating. I don't know what to do.

I am starting to feel really isolated from people. I can sit and listen to all the Pokemon garbage in the world (I personally don't like Pokemon, no judgement if you do) but the moment I want to talk about something I'm interested in I'm ignored and told "that's nice" in that way that means the conversation is over. I I don't know what it means. Maybe I'm talking about things wrong. Maybe I'm using the wrong words. Maybe I just need to tell them to other people. I don't know.

It's like, ya, that DnD session with the friends I've never met, at that place I've never been, with all the back stories and lore I don't know, ya that session? Sounds cool man. Glad you did that cool thing. Wanna hear about one of my sessions? Where I did a cool thing too? No? Oh sorry I thought this was a conversation, not story hour.

I am starting to feel really isolated from people. I can sit and listen to all the Pokemon garbage in the world (I personally don't like Pokemon, no judgement if you do) but the moment I want to talk about something I'm interested in I'm ignored and told "that's nice" in that way that means the conversation is over. I I don't know what it means. Maybe I'm talking about things wrong. Maybe I'm using the wrong words. Maybe I just need to tell them to other people. I don't know.

I am starting to feel really isolated from people. I can sit and listen to all the Pokemon garbage in the world (I personally don't like Pokemon, no judgement if you do) but the moment I want to talk about something I'm interested in I'm ignored and told "that's nice" in that way that means the conversation is over. I I don't know what it means. Maybe I'm talking about things wrong. Maybe I'm using the wrong words. Maybe I just need to tell them to other people. I don't know.

I completely understand and agree and have thought about this before. I wonder though if anyone thought this way before computers. Cause for most people today, our computers don't exclusively hold all of our info cause of cloud services. If your computer and your phone and all your tech fell into a wood chipper, you could still go out and get another and all your info would be there. People should be like that I think.

If I was suffocated with a pillow, my loved ones should be able to make a homunculus and put my soul in it.

The fact that humans can be killed through physical means is so ridiculous to me

I did not know that this was part of a larger series of green comics about being trans. But, ya know, that makes sense now. Glad all the green people get to be green! 💚

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Sometimes I wish there was an actually effective way to type a scream. Like, "AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!" is kind of right? Like I get where everyone is coming from. But what about weird screams? Deep ones? Growly ones? How do I write the gasps for air?

Also you know how you can scream in your head and you still gasp for air? I have practiced so I can now scream in my head while breathing normally in real life and I don't have to gasp for air anymore. But it's never as satisfying.

Is it a bad sign that I scream in my head a lot?

Something else. My phone background is black bc I only see it when I'm switching between apps. I use total launcher and bought the lcars theme (?). That's what they call the computer operating system on Star Trek. Mine specifically looks like the TNG-Voyager era. It's fantastic. My phone is a PADD :))))

This is literally my home screen. If you read the buttons, you can see what apps they are. Also, each button beeps and bloops and there's animations happening to cause blinking lights and whatnot. My life is infinitely better and it only cost me 5 bucks and HOURS of painstaking setup lol. Worth it imo. I'm linking both total launcher and the theme pack I bought in case anyone else wants to do this.

Total Launcher (free)

Lcars pack (like 5 bucks)

Lee Greenwood is a garbage America singer based on the one album my mom loves but he is kinda cunty. The first song on this album is the pledge of allegiance. It starts with kids doing it normally. Then Lee comes in a SINGS IT. SEXILY. Like it's bad, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it slays a little bit. A smidge.

Idk, I feel like spiritual tamagotchi is still too close to spirit animal.

Have we considered: mom animal

Spirit Animal is racist.

Patronus was invented by a transphobe.

I think it’s time we all suck it up and say what we mean: fursona.

Me too, little doggies. Me too.

I've been putting off updating my portfolio for some reason. I'm proud of my work but I guess I'm scared that if I posted it, nobody would care. I'm gonna take the risk. The next few days will have posts going up to show off the fiber art that I did in 2023!

It delights me to know that other people have this beautiful tool as well. Something you need to be aware of if you don't have this hammer: when you shake it, all the little tools nesting within jingle!

I recently found my “gold” hammer after misplacing it. It’s my favorite tool ever because it looks like a regular hammer trying to be fancy,

but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.

BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that

you find a phillips screwdriver.

BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!

BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!

unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver

look at how cute it is!

it’s like a matryoshka doll of tools.

There are posts for explaining your url but i want one for blog title, so ill just make one myself:

Reblog this and tell us in the tags what your blog title means!

why do I have to sleep every. fuckin. day.

I like sleep but it's more of a hobby for me. I shouldn't have to do it every day like a job. Cause I just can't sleep some nights and that's how it is. And some days I want to sleep literally all day! I think maybe my ADHD is making me treat sleep like my other hobbies in that sometimes I can't do them and sometimes I can't not do them and there's no in between

Ok but it's always The Bends by Radiohead. I'm not even a big Radiohead fan. Like their other stuff is really good, but it doesn't hit for me personally. But The Bends man... Every time I'm getting depressed I feel an uncontrollable urge to listen to this album all the way through and I always feel better afterwards. A couple days ago I was starting to spiral cause my best friend and roommate is moving out in three weeks and I carnally needed to listen to this album and draw him. Like I had other shit to do and I didn't want to listen to it and I didn't want to draw. But I had to. So I did.

Problem was, I felt done with the drawing before the album had finished. I forced myself to put down the headphones and move on with my day. Here I am today, gently dipping into another spiral about the same damn thing and "Bullet Proof ...I Wish I Was" gets stuck in my head and it's just that one part that's like "bullet proooOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOoOOOOOOOoOooooofffff" over and over and over in my head. Well, I open up my laptop and want do I fucking see??? That was the track I stopped on and I stopped right after that part of the song. It's like my body knew I wasn't done with those emotions and forced me to get back into it so I could finish properly.

Thank you, Radiohead for this one album that consistently gets me through it. And thank you unnamed high school art teacher for introducing me to this album.

When I'm listening to The Bends album that's a red flag tbh. It's a good album for when you can't feel and no other circumstances imo.

I'm 22 rn and it stopped about 8 months ago when I got diagnosed with ADHD and finally got good medicine. It hurts. My younger self would be ashamed I made it this long. But I just have to smile and hold her close as she hits me. She hasn't looked up quite yet. She doesn't know how beautiful the trees are against the sky.

the mountain goats make music for people who spent their entire lives convinced they would die before they were 17 except now they're 26 and they have a job and friends and hobbies and they're not sure what they're meant to do now that they've survived

I forgot how tired I am when I'm sleepy

I just bit the bullet and became a furry today cause I'm trying to kill-the-part-that-cringes™ and I sent a pic of my fursona to my sister cause she's also on this journey. Well, she texted me and sent a picture of herself and asked if I could draw her fursona in that pose. What I'm saying is, the stereotype about furries getting rich off art seems very accurate bc I GOT A COMMISSION DAY ONE

SHOULD I EVEN FINISH MY DEGREE AT THIS POINT WTF

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

I feel like I'm legally obligated to reblog this considering my username

I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.

Both dream me and irl me were very confused.