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Happyroach@ericthetolle.bsky.social |
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Kinda creaky. I work at a desk under a garage. Fan of TTRPGs, science, Anthropology, speculative fiction, webcomics...too many interests.
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Johanna Taylor @ 🏠👻
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Watch SCAVENGERS REIGN. Watch CAROL AND THE END OF THE WORLD. Watch BLUE EYE SAMURAI. Watch PLUTO. Netflix needs to understand that *original animated series for YA/adults* have value beyond raunchy comedy. There IS an audience for it. They’ll keep canceling them unless they see those numbers.
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Happyroach
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I consider most of this unserious, when it isn't thinly disguised campaigning for Trump.
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Happyroach
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It's worth noting that just how much of the current media is being taken from the 2016 "How to bring Hilary down" playbook.
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Happyroach
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There! That wasn't so hard was it? You could have said that at the beginning, and related it to the comment.
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Happyroach
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Pretty much the same people saying that Biden needs to step down are saying that Kamela needs to be replaced. Because if they opposed Hilary being president, they sure as hell aren't going to go with a black woman.
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Happyroach
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You know, you can just admit you don't know what that meant either.
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Happyroach
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And with nobody to keep them in place, more and more dead are wandering back up to the surface. Not necessarily evil- or more than they were in life, but they just try to keep on like they were in life. Sitting at the table, carrying on feuds... It's disturbing.
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Happyroach
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I'm thinking of things going weird in areas the good controlled. Not like natural phenomina disappearing, but... Divination no longer gives good results. Weather, planting times and harvest are unpredictable. And it only takes a couple bad harvests to head to famine...
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Happyroach
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Privation is a sign of dedication. If you don't give everything to the leader of the cult, are you truly a believer?
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Happyroach
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I think they have faith in the ability of their personal security details and the security state to protect them. But I'm sure that they don't understand that public trust in the rule of law is the only thing keeping their portfolio values high. Given enough power, they WILL crash the economy.
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Happyroach
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I also find WebToons pretty much useless as a source of new comics. It's always the case that someone in one of the communities I'm in recommends something, or I see art, and I check it out. The comics I'm interested in tend to get swamped by the crap anyway.
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Sandy J-T
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This is your reminder to get the pet meds you need to keep your cats and dogs calm over July 4 (and beyond, given my neighbors' proclivities)
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Happyroach
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Hard SF is when the physics is from the 1980s, the biology is from the 1950s, the sociology is from the 1800s, and the politics are from the 1700s.
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Happyroach
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People tend to have a fantasy view of authoritarian societies from the fiction they've been fed, where everyone is grimly oppressed until the load-bearing dictator is deposed. The fact is authoritarian regimes tend to have strong support from at least a large minority- whose life is "normal".
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Happyroach
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Honestly? All the people going on about "bad choice vs worse choice". I'm seeing a repeat of 2016 here with "Hahaha of course I don't support Trump" *spends all summer and fall talking about how bad the Democratic candidate is*.
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Happyroach
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Right now Chelsea Clinton's social media person is wondering why the hate mail and death threats have suddenly doubled.
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Happyroach
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Also, cities recently went through a period where there were major supply shortages, and we made do. We found other sources. The same would happen in a siege.
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Happyroach
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Eh, even if the farmers could afford to starve the cities, those big cities are pretty much all on seagoing ports. It's already the case that stores get winter vegetables from overseas, cities could last longer importing all their food needs, than farms could last waiting for their cash.
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Happyroach
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To be honest, I think that was going to be their line no matter what Biden did in the debate. Especially since they gave Trump a pass for his crap. Prediction: The standard commentary on the next debate will be "Trump was surprisingly presidential".
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Katie Mack
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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...
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Maddie (derogatory)
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Holy shit. I just found that Adam West, who famously played Batman in the 1966 TV series, also played millionaire Bruce Wayne. What a talented actor.
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Happyroach
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Well, that's definitely better than what happened in 2016.
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Happyroach
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I've been looking for a while at art of futuristic cities and my thoughts almost always end up as "Where are the parks? Where are the trees and greenways?"
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Happyroach
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What does that even mean? Locusts are an "integral part of Earth's ecosystem". Of course this seems to be buying into a mystical notion of "ecological balance" rather than the complex, chaotic state of dynamic processes ecosystems actually have...
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Happyroach
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So let's be clear here- just what color of skin do that excess six billion people have? Who do you think should be genocided? Because it's pretty much always well off white people who raise the Malthusian flag. White people who are eager to say "There's too many of *them*"
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Happyroach
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I'd put it simpler than that- it's easy to be Malthusian when one's a wealthy white person.
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Happyroach
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The collected Scholagladatoria videos.
Example:
youtu.be/3iB3YlPz3_s?...
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Happyroach
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San Jose drivers aren't bad per se, they're just mildly annoyed by those holograms of other cars cluttering up their vacant freeways.
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Happyroach
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The groups join a long line of people who didn't like something in Wikipedia and went to the wrong place to all for an edit. The bottom line is if they're serious, they need to go through the process of becoming Wikipedia editors.
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Happyroach
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I mean one thing to remember is that those losers basically won. Back in 2014 the harassment campaign they launched basically achieved its goals, and their influence is still being felt.
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Happyroach
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This is just one of the examples of the legal problems AI will create...
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Happyroach
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"Axanar" was referred to in Trek. There was in fact a Trek fan film called "Prelude to Axanar", which resulted in a copyright lawsuit, as the fans used copyrighted material to make a for-profit studio. So, court, trial, Axanar, it's honestly not surprising the AI glommed onto Trek material.
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Happyroach
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I'm just remembering that Andre Norton put flying saucers, submarines and jet planes in her fantasy settings. It was still very much fantasy.
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Happyroach
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But you have to admit it is a perfect example of the Medieval Stasis thing as a goulash of elements, like simplified Feudalism but without Christianity so Elmunckin can have lots of sex. Fashions being whatever the artist want to draw that day, 10,000 year old zweihanders waiting to be used...
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Happyroach
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Very true. How many eternal 1350 worlds have canon? They want 1350 but no gunpowder, but plate armor, potatoes, feudalism, but none of the complexities of actual feudalism, a Church but no Christianity... Let's face it. In a lot of cases they want their teenage Forgotten Realms campaign.
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Happyroach
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Well that's pretty much Renaissance and Victorian belief about Post-Roman Europe, isn't it? The Renaissance as a reactionary movement, which you see reflected in contemporary US conservatism.
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Happyroach
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It's just kind of sad that my reaction was "Oh, that's well under the Crazification Factor, I wonder why the results were that good?"
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Happyroach
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Eh, I thought it was weak, compared to the introduction of The Four. The start made them look like something weird and cosmically esoteric, and ended with "These are merely assholes we can dump in a pit." It's like he couldn't think of where to go with the story, or he got bored with the idea.
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Happyroach
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I like to think Charlie is pushing Leopold back into the potted plant as part of shushing him.
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Happyroach
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FWIW, the CIA was a post WWW2 creation- founded in 1947. In WW2 there was the OSS, but if they were countering Nazi agents acting in the US, the FBI would have been a go-to agency.
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Kevin Carson
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Happyroach
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Ah. So the friends of a poster can find out anyone who has blocked them, and go harass them. I mean, I'm sure this will work just as intended. ... What was the intent again?
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Happyroach
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Have at it people!
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Happyroach
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I kinda want one for my car window....
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Happyroach
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Suddenly I have a better understanding of Terry Pratchett.
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Lizard
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One of the best lines in the original SW, now ruined by add-on media, was "Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars", and NO ONE STOPPED TO EXPLAIN TO EACH OTHER WHAT THAT MEANT. It made the universe feel REAL. It had a past, and people who lived in it had shared knowledge of it. 1/2
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Jessica Luther
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I'm listening to an audiobook about the first 6 women astronauts at NASA and one of the nuggets about Sally Ride is that she wanted to play baseball as a little girl but shifted to tennis when she realized her baseball dream was impossible. This specific exclusion shows up a lot in women's stories.
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Happyroach
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Morrow Project. Do you like Fallout? Do you wish Fallout was more down to earth, with giant skunks instead of supermutants? Project members were frozen with vehicles and gear to rebuild the United States after W.W.III. Only something went wrong, and your team woke up alone 150 years later...
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