Canaconda

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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • All the same situation would happen with future sight.

    Future sight is almost never portrayed as the viewer’s vision being permanently fast forwarded such that they cannot see the present. I honestly can’t think of an example where it is tbh.

    People with future sight always see the present at some point. This ‘curse/power’ is fundamentally different if you can only smell what is 3 minutes in the future and not the present.


  • smelling smells three minutes into the future

    Is the sense of smell fundamentally enhanced? My MIL can’t smell anything and hasn’t been able to since a teen. I on the other hand have an over sensitive sense of smell.

    I mean if it works similar to other time powers like seeing into the future, that future would be preventable.

    Depends on if can you can still smell current smells or if everything is fast forwarded by 3 minutes.

    Like lets say I smell a bakery down the road (within viewing distance but too far to actually smell) but I don’t like what they’re baking so I flip over a garbage can and cover myself in rotten eggs. Now if I changed the future, the baking smell should be replaced by the egg smell the moment I commit to tipping the garbage can. BUT if I instead smell rotten eggs 3 minutes before approaching the garbage can than my decisions are decided independently of the smell preview.


  • The problem is that they only appeal to single issue voters because their candidates are single issue voters. None of these candidates come across as “in it for the people.” They come across as idealogues with little consideration for 3/4’s of what their job would actually entail.

    I would vote for an eco-socialist party, but none exists. Avi seems to be taking the NDP in a better direction, but unless he really steps up his charisma game I don’t think he’s gonna make middle class folks see the writing on the wall.






  • I honestly think every single platform that uses a vote score system is inherently susceptible to becoming an echo chamber.

    The only value a vote score generates is consensus and IMO it’s not worth the cost.

    Vote scores influence readers before they even engage the content. It lowers the bar of participation, partly by removing the necessity of commenting approval/disapproval, and secondarily by making approval/disapproval anonymous.

    Ultimately it makes it easier for people to participate without actually contributing. It equates thoughtful with thoughtless engagement that lowers the quality of the end result.