In my town it's common to see somebody riding their bike through heavy traffic while looking at their phone. I don't get it at all.

Lemmy (and Reddit) are a collection of little dictatorships. But dictatorship is bad, I think, maybe.

They are not so much punishing you as cultivating a vote farm. You are just a weed here.

Not "so?". "So".

For example.

So................the pizza is on fire

Story of my life

Let that be a lesson. Truth comes from authority, not the evidence of your senses.

Like, distinctive vibration patterns.

Hmm, surely it's been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.

Hmm. I heard you've got a lot of them tho

My cycle goes : think think think, draw, think, draw, think, write code for a day or 3.

I use an ide or a text editor. never use that other stuff.

It would have to be an artificial limit. Which would mean that vampires are artificial. A biotech thing with a death timer build into the cellular whatever.

In Farmer's "Riverworld" they used a dark matter artificial soul. That would be a way in.

In "The Addiction" there's this old vampire named "Pana". He's pretty weird. Talks about the nature of suffering.

Says he can actually diet. Takes longer for a vampire to lose weight tho.

The way we know a million other things. We are told by a trusted expert.