Flavor Memory

That feeling in your mouth after eating something and it lingers a little bit.

Man, this flavor memory is delicious

by Therizzlersmom6969 January 12, 2026

Hard Problem of Past Life Memories

Zooming in further: if these are genuine memories, where and in what form were they stored between biological deaths? What is the medium of this storage? If consciousness is a product of the brain, it dies with it. If it's non-local, how does it interface with a new, distinct brain to produce specific, sensorimotor recollections? The problem isn't just proving they exist, but explaining the how in a way that doesn't break known neuroscience.

Example: "The boy's vivid 'memory' of dying as a pilot involved the specific smell of burning engine oil. The hard problem of past life memories: even if we accept a soul, how does a non-physical entity 'remember' a purely physical sensation like smell, and then encode that memory into the new, different neural architecture of a toddler's brain?"

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom

The ballroom that Donald Trump keeps bragging about he's building at the White House.

"I can't wait until the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom is finally open!"

by ShigShug February 4, 2026

Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation

A hypothetical or conceptual institution dedicated to documenting, memorializing, and educating the public about human suffering caused directly by capitalist economic systems. This includes victims of industrial accidents due to lax safety regulations, deaths from preventable diseases due to lack of healthcare access, fatalities from imperialist wars for resources and markets, and lives destroyed by austerity policies, financial crashes, and exploitative labor conditions. The foundation serves as a ideological counter-monument to the dominant narrative of capitalism as a force for universal progress.

Example: The Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation might run an interactive exhibit tracking the opioid overdose crisis, linking each death to the pharmaceutical industry's profit-driven marketing, the privatization of pain management, and the systemic defunding of public health—framing the epidemic not as a personal tragedy but as a structural outcome of capital.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Victims of Western Colonialism Memorial Foundation

An institution focused on chronicling the immense, ongoing human and cultural cost of European and American colonial projects from the 15th century to modern neo-colonialism. Its scope encompasses genocide, slavery, famines engineered by resource extraction, cultural erasure, and the drawing of arbitrary borders causing perpetual conflict. It aims to center the narratives of the colonized, challenging the sanitized, "civilizing mission" history still prevalent in Western education.

Victims of Western Colonialism Memorial Foundation Example: This foundation's flagship project could be a global digital map of resource curses, showing how a village in the Congo devastated by coltan mining for smartphones, a neighborhood in Puerto Rico bankrupted by debt colonialism, and a community in the Niger Delta poisoned by oil spills are all linked as Victims of Western Colonialism across time and space.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Victims of Western Imperialism Memorial Foundation

A sister organization to the Colonialism foundation, with a sharper focus on 20th and 21st-century military, economic, and political domination by Western powers (primarily the US and its allies). It memorializes those killed in proxy wars, drone strikes, and coups; societies destabilized by structural adjustment programs; and democracies subverted by intelligence agencies to install puppet regimes friendly to Western corporate interests.

Victims of Western Imperialism Memorial Foundation Example: The foundation might publish an annual "Body Count" report, tallying casualties from interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen, while also quantifying the Victims of Western Imperialism through metrics like lifelong refugees created, children malnourished due to sanctions, and democratically-elected leaders overthrown.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Victims of Liberalism Memorial Foundation

An institution rooted in a radical critique of classical liberalism—the ideology prioritizing individual rights, private property, and limited government. It argues that liberalism's core tenets inherently produce victims by sanctifying inequality (through property rights), enabling exploitation under the guise of free contract, and dissolving communal bonds in favor of atomized individualism. It memorializes those sacrificed to the abstract gods of the market and negative liberty.

Victims of Liberalism Memorial Foundation *Example: An exhibit might trace the life of a 19th-century English peasant forced off communal land by Enclosure Acts (a liberal property-rights project), who then became a destitute urban factory worker with no social safety net ("liberated" from traditional supports), framing them as a classic Victim of Liberalism.*

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026