It’s a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine
It’s a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine
The 90s Are Alive Again
If voting isn’t enough (I didn’t think it is) then do more. Go knock on doors for the candidate that you like. There are a million ways to participate in democracy.
Love to door knock for Heinrich Himmler.
These “both choices bad. Better to not vote” people really don’t make any kind of sense to me.
Hey, listen. I vote every year. This year, 90% of my ballot is going to be blank, because so many of the candidates are absolutely abhorrent. But when I am presented with the Himmler / Hitler choice, I will be firmly bubbling in © None of the Above. I might even knock a few doors and tell my neighbors about how great © None of the Above would be. If I could figure out where to send my money, I could even see myself donating.
Image being unhealthy and saying “it’s going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape. Better not even do that then cuz what would be the point?”
Its funny, because I’m picturing you trying to recover from a broken leg with that mentality.
Had the opportunity to throw some time at the FF7 Rebirth on my friend’s PS5. I’ll have to wait until June before I can expect to see it on PC, but its been a lot of fun to date. Eager to see more of it.
Meanwhile, Unicorn Overlord on the Switch has been a great travel game.
Seems like it’s the only way anyone knows how to make money anymore
War is always just the prelude to diplomacy. Gotta wonder how many more people will die before talking starts.
We will be more like China
We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.
That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.
If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).
This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.
Nintendo gets to do this (the Yuzu shit) because so many other developers have stopped making anything except slot machines.
Behold, the unlimited power of a fully nationalized war time economy.
No Poor Muslims Allowed
Me: “Mom, can we have New Star Trek?”
Dune Mom: “You have Old Star Trek at home”
Old Star Trek At Home
There’s definitely truth in this. But also…
https://www.authenticcomms.co.uk/blog/the-1944-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-meetings
Make “speeches” – Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
Slow it down – advocate caution, avoid haste
Where possible refer all matters to committees (never fewer than five) for “consideration”
Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently.
The first new nuclear plants since Three Mile Island just came online in Georgia last year. Vogtle 3 and 4 will produce a combined 1.2 GWe at peak capacity.
These reactors took 16 years and multiple bailouts and bankruptcies to complete, costing an estimated $34B to finish.
Hopefully, future power construction will move a little smoother.
As a comparison, the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant took ten years to complete at the cost of around $7.5B and it has a peak generation of 3.3 GWe
The only response to this decision is to vote harder and get even madder at anti-war activists going uncommitted.
I mean, I’m going to need a bit more info. What’s the R/W on that kind of disc look like?
There’s a Sci-fi horror book I enjoyed, called “John Dies At The End”, that posits an alternative history in which computers were created from the brains of pigs.
As a consequence, the civilization is heavily invested in harvesting organs in the same way that we’re invested in drilling for oil.
That would require some kind of machine capable of learning, a model of language so incredibly large that it can comprehend these linguistic nuances, or an intelligent form of artificial device.
Wonder if we’ll ever have something like that in the future.
There’s a special sadness in techbros spending the last sixty years trying to invent the Robot Dog, given how many real dogs are in need of adoption and ready to give you their entire heart and soul for a head scratch.