Roko's Basilisk is all part of the "Less Wrong" cult that permeates Silly Con Valley.

The sweet release of d… Ah, no. Too morbid.

The collapse of the U… No. Too political.

I've got some very nice tea (an Anhui "golden flower" black tea) coming in a couple of days. I'm looking forward to that because golden flower tea is almost unbearably tasty.

Jade is quite a bit harder than even a hardcover book. ;)

It's not all that posh, though. That example there costs the equivalent of about $35.

There are a few stories about it, but the most plausible one is that an alkaline lake dried up and someone found an egg (or maybe a batch of eggs) in it and decided to eat it.

I agree with you. I use pillows of that shape almost exclusively these days.

You consider that a difficult pillow?

Try these on for size. The first turns your WiFi into 5G. The second into 6G, and the final one turns it into an ansible.

Yes, this last one is, in fact, a solid piece of jade. Why do you ask?

Whatever you do, do not look up terms like "TESCREAL" or "Less Wrong" or "Roko's Basilisk" or "Effective Altruism" or "Longtermism" or ...

Well, basically, don't look up anything related to Silly Con Valley techbrodude CEOs. It is literally insane.

Take something perfectly edible, like say an egg, and cover it in a coating made of mixed clay, wood ash, salt, and quicklime, rolling it in rice hulls and then letting it sit for weeks to months before, you know, eating it.

Oh. I see we have a Canuckistani in our midst here.

Yeah, the "freedom convoy" was one of those more bizarre things in recent Canadian history. (Funded by Americans, of course, because every right wing grift in Canada is funded by Americans.)

And here you come SO FUCKING CLOSE ... and still fumble the ball. Tsk. Tsk.