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[martinuzz]

Let's hope Einstein's wrong about WW3

[scriver]

Of course he was. If we're reduced to stick and stone technology there's no way we'd have the infrastructure needed for a world war

[Frumple]

For what it's worth, and I... guess relevant to happy thread...? It is fairly likely nuclear winter wouldn't happen even with a pretty large exchange. The original calculations made that scenario was based on were apparently hella' wrong, so for all the other troubles nukes flying aren't particularly likely to be a global scale extinction event due to fallout and dust and whatnot. It'd still suck giant donkey balls and there'd be stupidly huge repercussions, but a good chunk of the (human relevant, particularly) world would still be in relatively okay shape -- it's unlikely we'd be reinventing fire or whatever.

[delphonso]

If all nukes went off evenly across the earth, the survivors (over half of humanity, probably) would have increased cancer rates for a while. The good news is that the cancer rates would continue to decline until back to baseline.

It would take absolute electronic collapse (from something like a coronal mass ejection) to revert any progress we've made. And even then, all printed engineering books would still be around.

[martinuzz]

But nukes won't go off evenly distributed across earth. They will hit major population centres, vaporizing all the nice printed engineering books.
The rest will be hoarded as toilet paper.
Ofcourse, the internet will die too, with not enough global infrastructure left to power data centres.

[Rolan7]

In just as important news, Wallgreens was able to fill my new prescription today!  I got a text saying there was an insurance issue (I was paying out of pocket), I went in to very very calmly and casually verify that everything was okay, and the most awesomest person in the world filled the prescription.  So that's pretty great!

It was folly for me to try to get it done yesterday: it wasn't raining.  All the truly memorable days in my life are heralded by lovely rain (in this case washing the pollen out of the air).  _{"Confirmation bias" my butt, I'll confirm your bias...}

It's also a fun coincidence that yesterday wasn't Trans Day of Visibility and today is!  So that's kinda cool

I guess I'm being silly but this week was all "serious business" and being sent on wild goose chases with bad traffic and blood draws and decisions, so today I'm going to let myself be a bit mystical and irrational and happy.  As a treat.

Also I'm pretty high on endorphins, I've been burning nervous energy at the gym a lot.  It's made my sleep schedule very reliable, which is INCREDIBLE!  Still dreaming, but waking up refreshed before dawn!

[LordBaal]

But nukes won't go off evenly distributed across earth. They will hit major population centres, vaporizing all the nice printed engineering books.
The rest will be hoarded as toilet paper.
Ofcourse, the internet will die too, with not enough global infrastructure left to power data centres.

We need to buy copies of this https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-book--28#/

And hide then all over the world in worthless places for nukes.

[Egan_BW]

It's also a fun coincidence that yesterday wasn't Trans Day of Visibility and today is!  So that's kinda cool

Ironically I didn't know about that.

[hops]

appears behind someone in the middle of pickpocketing them
ah fuck my invisibility field

[Frumple]

quick, if you're naked they can't see you

don't worry it'll work perfectly i saw this in a movie once

[King Zultan]

Seems weird that they're only visible one day a year, I was always under the impression that they were always visible guess I was wrong.

[scriver]

Yeah it's the transparents you can't see

[Vector]

Really enjoying Patrick's Parabox.

[hector13]

Yeah it's the transparents you can't see

I enjoyed this, I need you to know that.

[Rose]

As a trans parent myself, it really is hard to be seen sometimes.