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DreamsOfGerontius@dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social |
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Games and puzzles hobbyist for life at dreamsofgerontius.com/
Physicist and European Patent Attorney for the last 25 years, currently in the nuclear fusion industry
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DreamsOfGerontius
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I decided to look up historical events 200 years ago and learned that the King and Queen of Hawaii both died of measles during a state visit to the UK!
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They need to propagandise "hope" again in the same way the right are propagandising "change" and "reform" when they actually mean "roll everything back 20 or 30 years"
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We're voting today, seeking to unseat a cruel and malignant conservative party. The main thing that has dismayed me is the complete failure of the opposition to counter the prevailing narrative of "they're all as bad as each other". That's what the anti-fascists around the world need to be doing
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I just saw a CNN article that, while it didn't present that particular narrative, certainly framed it. Wondering if "John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole" are known bell ends?
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Thanks! I was thinking "is that... Denzel Washington?" but really wasn't sure 😀
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DreamsOfGerontius
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I'm gonna guess that's Macbeth? Which production?
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This doesn't make sense. The only way reform will win any seats is if both (a) they steal a lot of Tory votes and (b) the remaining votes are split across other candidates. Tactical voting for lib/lab/grn minimises chance of (b) so is effective at keeping out reform too
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Our recently anointed King Charles has an opportunity to make me a monarchist for life if he's only willing to engage in some epic trolling this Independence Day
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Another take: justifiable fear of reprisal. Right wing capitalists invented "cancel culture" as a weapon against mild criticism long before progressives employed it as a tool for societal change
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DreamsOfGerontius
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"unfathomable"?
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DreamsOfGerontius
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But what about the advertising execs leveraging hot button topics to manufacture a viral video? Please won't somebody think of the overpaid advertising execs?
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DreamsOfGerontius
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The subtle shark 🦈
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Both in real life and here on bluesky I've seen people who can't comprehend the concept of an unreliable *fictional* narrator, let alone an historical document. Some people just don't get it and this is not a poor reflection on you. With time, patience and reinforcement, they might finally see
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DreamsOfGerontius
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It needs to be a question at the presidential debate to take turns listing TTCs
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DreamsOfGerontius
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No, but they probably have all the best authors
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Unsurprisingly, all the sci-fi films where "auto drive" only gets used when a car turns onto a motorway/freeway were spot on in their predictions
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Except that the "they" in "they'll come for you" can turn on a dime from "corrupt democrat mobs abusing the system for political gain" to "hard working police kneeling on their necks of *real* criminals". White Republicans only fear and invent conspiracies for one of those.
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I read the previous comment as "it's wild for *them* to pretend..."
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Merde dans le dance floor
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The ability to immediately create clickbait around a news event amplifies it. UK has a national e coli outbreak and a couple of tabloids ran a headline with "product recalled over health fears". But when you clicked through, it was just a packaging error where "may contain nuts" text got left off!
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"Nobody's ever asked me that question" is a god-tier response to a plainly off-his-nutter, famously vindictive, possibly future president's stupid question
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Saucy Rick Havoc
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Happy Sunday.
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Weirdly, I was aware of curly wurlys as a kid and spot them regularly now (and not due to children) but they are absent from the intervening decade or so. It's like a Shakespearean second childishness, "sans teeth" being apt when considering the sweets in question...
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DreamsOfGerontius
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The ability to enforce your rights is its own topic. But you could never enforce your rights if you're confused about what rights you have in the first place, which is the discussion here
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DreamsOfGerontius
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I can't stress enough that almost everything an artist creates, including any WIP that has progressed beyond an idea, is protected by copyright. No requirement for publication in a book.
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Given that Floyd was killed, is Jr subtly revealing an Oedipal Complex?
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Plague Poems
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My brother-in-law sent me an opinion piece (from the paper of record) offering five points purportedly showing how the pandemic started in a laboratory, so I asked him what steps he was taking to protect himself from this lab escapee, and I could tell he did not like my question.
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DreamsOfGerontius
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"unfiltered"
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DreamsOfGerontius
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As in "they're out to get us"
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DreamsOfGerontius
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This is what the MAGA people mean when they say "they"
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Or is it more insane is that the "they" in the initial statement means "the woke demoncrat mob (and the Jews, shh)"?
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I was the opposite of disappointed by it :)
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Is that the lagoon where, if you stop to think about it, you realise you're swimming in the effluent of a power station? Context: I visited Iceland on a scholarship as a physics undergrad
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Or are you envisaging a comedy sequel where the wrist computer is powered by ChatGPT and voiced by Scarlett Johansson?
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Doesn't work. The Predators are portrayed as *capable* hunters, not just well equipped, overconfident tech bros.
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Hi, I'm a patent attorney! My greatest hits include "no, you can't copyright your patented trademark", "yes, sir, small alarms for women to keep in their handbags have already been invented", and "just because you can patent it, doesn't make it a good idea"
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Followed by legal challenges by the "currently unable to vote 14-17 year olds"?
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Village post office with a video rental wall and permissive parents giving me free choice of 2 random films for £2 every weekend. Saw the whole Elm Street saga that way!
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Oh, you spoke as if you'd read the details of the case rather than just trusting someone mouthing off about press freedom. Never mind then
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DreamsOfGerontius
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You haven't addressed the point that "press" is a straw man in this case. Nor a point I've made elsewhere that seeking to subvert rules about political advertising by giving free advertising would appear problematic
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If you don't think *a statute* requiring a broadcaster follow certain (narrow) rules isn't policing of a broadcaster, I don't know what to say. If you're limiting your point to "press or news coverage" that's a straw man. GBNews is not under threat of sanction for its news coverage, however partial
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Microplastics marinate in every human testicle In specimens of meagre size or in their scale majestical Don't whip them out in public if you want to stay domestical I'm almost out of rhymes now but the rhythm's anapestical
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Should a broadcaster be able to subvert rules about advertising by providing free advertising? But you're "I don't like these rules I just said don't exist" attitude brings this interaction to an end for me
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A list of rules concerning political advertising particularly for elective candidates
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Even the US has rules about impartiality during elections, and I'm struggling to see how fairly minimal minimal interventions to ensure fair elections is fascist
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"It's just one dead canary," said the coalminer
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Why is measles rare?
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I think it does. It's just not an explanation that paints Mrs Alito in a positive light
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