Please tell me this is a THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS meme?

[meltedcheese@c.im]

@cstross Maybe looksmashing is a craving brought on my reading the news. I’ve sure felt like I got hit in the head by a hammer some days.

It’s a workaround until nanotech lets us program our morphology.

[sdbbp@mastodon.social]

@cstross Next up, autotrepanation.

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@cstross Given what people have done in the past, I'm not gonna dismiss this as a hoax or joke offhand. I'm just going to hope it's a self-correcting trend.

"You know how stupid the average person is? Well, by definition half of 'em are stupider than that."

[trottelreiner@rollenspiel.social]

@cstross I blame brain damage from repeated COVID infections.

Err, no, you're doing facepalming the wrong way...

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@cstross I'm not sure how to feel about this - with something this desperate, there has to be some degree of body dysmorphia in play...

... or maybe I am overthinking it and "looksmaxxers" really are just stupid.

[retech@defcon.social]

@cstross Frankly I am sad. I already ordered the tennis shoes and 1-piece suit. I also put an online order for a 10mx10m print of 3I/ATLAS with the words: "I am ready. Take me home." And have begun my fasting eating nothing but small pebbles and bone broth boiled with rusty hammers.

Why do people have to keep playing with our emotional ontology?