GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Remember the past 1 week ago:
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
- Comment on Real easy 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow:
This future history book takes place in the 22nd century, mostly in Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park’s visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer. In the post-scarcity world of the novel, Whuffie is a currency-like system that primarily measures the esteem of others, or in the case of extremely low Whuffie, their disdain.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
The beauty of using uranium as currency is that if anyone hoards too much of it, the problem takes care of itself.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 weeks ago:
The rare reverse-Saddam.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
Proverbs 11:10:
When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
- Comment on tall tails 4 weeks ago:
Well, now I want to see an artist’s rendition of a T. rex doing this:
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
Well, now I want to know if there’s a regular schedule to the Jupiter-Sun barycenter being in or outside of the Sun, and how we can schedule holidays around it.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
Monolithic dome house! Been a fantasy of mine since college. Might be difficult to hang pictures on the walls, though.
- Comment on human geography 1 month ago:
“Foxes getting married”
- Comment on do what you love 1 month ago:
I talked to a guy who had a master’s degree in philosophy. He told me he worked for an investment firm.
Me: What do you do there, convince investment bankers not to kill themselves?
Him: Yeah, pretty much.
Me: 😳
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 month ago:
It’s like a Wimmelbilder of deeply troubling / embarrassing / weird shit. It feels like there should be extra special finds hidden in the details, like a copy of Mein Kampf or a gold statue of Trump holding a smaller gold statue of Trump.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 month ago:
Your uncle.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 1 month ago:
Speak for yourself. I’ve got two brother cats and I refer to both of them as little kitty cat mans.
- Comment on Get your game up. 1 month ago:
Also:
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 month ago:
Alexandra Daddario in the AMC show The Mayfair Witches.
She ostensibly plays a brilliant brain surgeon. She starts experiencing some spooky witch and demon-related goings on.
She meets up with a guy working for a paranormal research group. He tells her in no uncertain terms “Do not leave this magically-protected apartment. You are in great danger.” She agrees.
Five minutes later she walks out of the apartment onto the street. She immediately wanders into a New Orleans street party, is handed an open drink from a stranger, drinks it, and whoopsy daisy gets magically roofied into a demon-engineered hallucination of her dead mother.
Brilliant. Brain. Surgeon.
- Comment on Anon goes home 1 month ago:
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 months ago:
Rename the ballroom to whatever, but name the restrooms the “Donald J. Trump Shit and Piss Closets”
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 months ago:
I never have had to do one of these, and I promise I’m not deliberately trying to ask stupid questions. Would this system be fooled by holding up a mannequin head?
- Comment on looks like the one 1% can't be everywhere. 2 months ago:
I wonder if they could get more people in there by having tables where you could play Smash Bros. or Red Alert 2 against house players for money. Every game of poker or blackjack I’ve ever played I lost hard and had no fun, but if I could pay a professional to absolutely crush me at Street Fighter, I might be inclined to go into a casino for that kind of treatment.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 months ago:
Hold up a photo of any random schmoe?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Q: What do you call a doctor who is three sheets to the wind by mid-afternoon?
A: Doctor.
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon is a survivor 2 months ago:
Anon:
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 2 months ago:
Homophobes: “We can’t legalize gay marriage! The birth rate would collapse! If men could marry men, then what reasonable man would ever choose to marry a disgusting, weak, woman over a strong, virile, muscular, sweaty, musky, oily, maaaannnnm…”
The rest of us: Dude. Bro. Dude.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 3 months ago:
unless we have a major nuclear exchange
I was going to say, it really depends on just how hard we go on the “let’s kill everyone” vibe.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Under a blanket. In any weather. I have cold urticaria, where if my skin feels even the slight chill of cool sheets, it assumes I must be under attack and deploys just enough histamines to make me feel itchy and keep me from sleeping. It fucking sucks. I’ve just barely learned to cope with it.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 months ago:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
- Comment on Royal Fuckup 3 months ago:
a goofy mascot that keeps doing weird things.
Sounds like exactly what a king should be.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 months ago:
Suppose that at a given moment a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
—Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness, 1935
