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  • SGU is so perfectly poised for a continuation at any point. Everyone but Eli is in cryo and we don’t know what happened.

    Some actors won’t come back? Ok, the characters died in cryo. Some actors are sceptical about returning? Their cryo pods are stuck and can’t be shut down. David Blue specifically won’t come back? Eli didn’t manage to fix the last cryo pod. Or maybe he’s just missing, along with a shuttle.

    Anything could have happened on the ship in the intervening time. Any plot device that’s too powerful (like the stones) could go missing. Don’t like the enemies that were being set up? That’s cool, it’s a new galaxy.

    And of course, since it’s not actually certain how long Destiny will take to cross the gap (maybe Eli had to slow it down?), this continuation is evergreen.


  • lengau@midwest.socialtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldWitch bottle
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    In 2016 a glass bottle found buried in the threshold of a man’s house was featured in an episode of Antiques Roadshow filmed in Trelissick, Cornwall; glass specialist Andy McConnell tasted a small amount of the contents theorising it was possibly port or wine though he did note the rusty flavour and the presence of nails, a later episode in 2019 then revealed the contents had been analysed by Loughborough University that identified it actually contained “urine, a tiny bit of alcohol, and one human hair” alongside some brass pins dating from the late 1840s and an ostracod. It was theorised to be a witch bottle.[4][5]

    Love it!








  • lengau@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlRestraint
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    You being anticommunist is what I thought you meant. Those aren’t unrelated.

    So you think that what I meant by “I’m more worried about [some people who] make other communists look bad” was that I’m an anti-communist? That seems highly unlikely. If I were anti-communist, surely I’d love those people precisely because they make communists look bad?

    I have been acting in good-faith

    Literally your first response to me in this entire thread was uncivil condescension.

    Communists, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, etc. Anyone that actually defends AES and doesn’t repeat US State Department Propaganda about the Global South.

    Yeah that’s not what I mean by Tankies, and it’s not what most people mean by tankies. Not all marxist-leninists are tankies, for example. In fact I’d go out on a limb and say most aren’t. But those who try to sweep under the rug the bad things that nominally-communist states have done are tankies, and they give other communists, other marxists, other marxist-leninists, and indeed all other leftists a bad name. (As an aside, most of the time those things were done by state-capitalist governments, not communist ones.)

    doesn’t repeat US State Department Propaganda about the Global South.

    I’m actually from the Global South. I can promise you the US state department is full of shit. As are most Americans who speak about it, including most American leftists.





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    Are you saying there’s nobody who defends all three and claims to be a leftist? Because that I’d say I’ve never seen. But I’ve certainly seen various accounts claiming to be leftists and defending one or two of them.