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[scrdest]

It's always seemed a little bit weird that the most efficient way to get vegetable matter is to put seeds in dirt for months.  Like, how hard could it be to make a thin layer of soybean-like mass grow in a simple nutrient bath?  But apparently our DNA-programming technology isn't nearly there yet.  The closest thing would be tweaking organisms like algae which aren't ideal.

You can grow plant mass like that, for the most part. The main problem is that most people prefer food over an amorphous nutriment paste.

[Frumple]

While true, give people a full course meal's worth of nutrients for less than the cost of rice per pound, and I can pretty much guarantee you there's gonna' be a lot of people learning to prefer amorphous nutriment paste, at least for most meals. It's just gonna' have to be well and away less expensive than current options of such a nature.

[scrdest]

While true, give people a full course meal's worth of nutrients for less than the cost of rice per pound, and I can pretty much guarantee you there's gonna' be a lot of people learning to prefer amorphous nutriment paste, at least for most meals. It's just gonna' have to be well and away less expensive than current options of such a nature.

It wouldn't cost less, since it doesn't scale nearly as well as actual plant-growing.

[Frumple]

Which... yeah, as noted above, the primary roadblock is cost more than just about anything. Bring that down to less than actual farming and you've got yourself an industry shrinker.

[Akura]

Managed to tear off a good chunk of my gum under my front-bottom teeth. Surprisingly, it doesn't really hurt, despite being able to see under the tooth*, but I can feel it and it's uncomfortable. Went to the pharmacist to see if they had anything to disinfect, they simply said use a salt water rinse. I did that, and it kinda feels a little worse.


*Was already the case, this portion of the gum was already pretty damaged, possibly from poor dentistry from years ago. What happened today only greatly amplified the damage.

[Orange Wizard]

this isn't supposed to destroy capitalism or anything

There's your problem

[Loud Whispers]

this isn't supposed to destroy capitalism or anything

There's your problem

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[Emma]

Managed to tear off a good chunk of my gum under my front-bottom teeth. Surprisingly, it doesn't really hurt, despite being able to see under the tooth*, but I can feel it and it's uncomfortable. Went to the pharmacist to see if they had anything to disinfect, they simply said use a salt water rinse. I did that, and it kinda feels a little worse.


*Was already the case, this portion of the gum was already pretty damaged, possibly from poor dentistry from years ago. What happened today only greatly amplified the damage.

Nnergh, yuck, yuck, yuck. Why would you tell us that?

[scrdest]

this isn't supposed to destroy capitalism or anything

There's your problem

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Communism was just a red herring.

[hector13]

this isn't supposed to destroy capitalism or anything

There's your problem

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Communism was just a red herring.

Can't tell if punny or accurate.

[Shadowlord]

Went to the pharmacist to see if they had anything to disinfect, they simply said use a salt water rinse. I did that, and it kinda feels a little worse.

Yes, if you salt a wound it will hurt. You asked for disinfection, yes?

 "Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it."

[hector13]

Went to the pharmacist to see if they had anything to disinfect, they simply said use a salt water rinse. I did that, and it kinda feels a little worse.

Yes, if you salt a wound it will hurt. You asked for disinfection, yes?

 "Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it."

"A large chunk of my gum has come off and I'm worried about infection, can yo-"

"RUB SALT IN IT YOU WEAK FOOL, THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A WARRIOR!"

But yes, salt water rinse is good for infection. Hurts like fuckingouch, but it's much better than septicemia. Probably.

[Putnam]

The funny thing is that the sort of music that Putnam likes are performed by machines.

Preeeetty sure Putnam plays the guitar, and I have seen him express admiration for music played by people.

Synth/electronic music is an interesting case, because it can't really be played by a human. I'd special case it there, which is a fair cop.

i don't consider music performance to be superior to "non-performed" music

in fact, i had never thought of the distinction

[Frumple]

Really isn't much of one, all told. I had actually forgotten just how much has been done with samples these days. Remembered there's a huge chunk of the music on OCRemix, just a singular body of examples, that's never had human hand touch instrument (unless you count the keyboard and mouse, I guess), and only some of them can you really tell... generally the worst examples just sound like a poor player/poor recording. The best sound like they could have came out of a recording studio or performance hall.

Could swear there's actually a few projects out there already trying to suss out a bit of software that'll just compose and perform from top to bottom on its own (iirc, there's actually been a good handful of really interesting sounding more-or-less procedurally generated music produced t'date, among a great deal of basically noise... and not even noise music), but even just stuff that's fully digitally produced gets pretty impressive, already.

Honestly, thinking on it a bit more, it's actually kinda' exciting. Almost all the developments in electronic production of music has occurred largely within my lifetime to date, and I've probably got another one or two of those in me. And the strides in that field have been faintly ridiculous, really. What'll we be hearing another few decades from now?

[Shadowlord]

Almost all the developments in electronic production of music has occurred largely within my lifetime to date, and I've probably got another one or two of those in me.

Lifetimes?