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- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
This is an english meme about the one event in Chinese history that gets repeated in english-speaking spaces over and over and over again. This isn’t attempting to make an argument to a Chinese audience. Why shouldn’t we draw comparisons to similar things in the US? What else would we talk about? Just a whole thread of “yeah, that’s bad” again and again? For every time this gets trotted out?
- Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central 3 months ago:
I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
You are looking for a Great Man of history to pin this on. You’d rather believe someone nefarious is in charge and pulling the strings from an ocean away, than to see this for what it is; an empire with no real conscious oversight. A pile of self-interested businessmen, politicians, and militarists doing whatever they can to line their pockets, profits above all else.
The US has, per capita, the largest prison population and, outright, the biggest military on the planet. If there’s a road to ‘unfreedom’, we traveled down it a long time ago.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
You’d rather believe Trump is result of foreign interference, that our own institutions would never result in this without being sullied from outside. It’s fan fic, it’s Cold War nonsense.
Trump is the consequence of our political systems, of our spiteful culture, of our economics that promises success and leaves people sick, broken, and in debt. So what if the Russians had a few hundred Facebook posts? That “seed” would not have taken if the soil weren’t already fertile. Frankly, I don’t think it made a difference. We were barrelling toward Trump with or without the oh so spooky slavs typing on a keyboard.
- Comment on Rockposting 4 months ago:
On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work
but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.
- Comment on Anon hates his neighbors 5 months ago:
work customer service long enough and being intolerable starts to be appealing
- Comment on Anon hates his neighbors 5 months ago:
Squidward is churlish and often over-reacts when his personal time is intruded upon. Maybe his neighbors don’t recognize when they’re being intrusive, but they do value Squidward’s company. It took drastic conditions for him to realize he values their company as well.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 months ago:
And there certainly wasn’t a neighborhood where your highway on-ramp currently is.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 6 months ago:
Big cats, wolves, eagles, and uncomfortable caricatures of people. Heaven forbid a school ever choose, like, a local frog or hedgehog or whatever for a mascot.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 6 months ago:
“AI” will never shake the connotations science fiction has given it. The association is always going to skew towards positronic brains and Commander Data.
In the world of Actual Machines, “AI” is a term that should barely be tolerated in advertising departments, let alone anything remotely close to R&D
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
That’s the interesting thing about empire, it’s self similar. A whole class of people may grow up geographically in or near the core, but their experience of life has more in common with someone in the semi- or outer periphery in terms of access to necessities or stability of life.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 6 months ago:
Eeyp. If you remembered the stuff that isn’t memorable, you’d run out of memory.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 6 months ago:
electrocuting an elephant to death, and for no better reason than tabloid advertising, kind of stands out in the historical record
that’s not to say Edison was PURE EVIL, just that I always remember the elephant alongside the more humanizing factoids. [Once, he asked a math student to find the volume of a lightbulb. The student started doing all kinds of caliper measurements and geometry calculations. Edison just filled the bulb with sand and tipped it out into a measuring cup]
- Comment on The miracle of childbirth 6 months ago:
wot if they’re running on hexagons rather than squares? HM? Or 3D dodecahedrons?..wait do those tile?
- Comment on The miracle of childbirth 6 months ago:
assume infinite time and n number of ants: eventually Langton’s ants will highway-draw the post on your screen
