That's the thing: that's still true, it's just that Windows, Chrome and Facebook/IG are all malware, and people (of all generations) seem to fail to process that undeniable fact.
If they were only selfish, but smart, they wouldn't be voting for politicians whose demonstrated aim is to reduce their constituents' wealth and funnel it into a class of people which their constituents have zero chance of ever joining.
No, they're dumb. They're certainly also selfish, but that's because they're dumb and can't comprehend the value of helping someone else, because the feedback loop on that mechanism has more than one step before they receive value back, and because the value received is most often in intangibles.
Oh no not the shitty country that attacks me and my people daily!
This is what I was asking about. It sounds like you were saying that you were in one of the various countries this country bombs or otherwise attacks on a daily basis.
To give additional options, because Stephenson and Sanderson aren't everyone's cups of tea (producing insanely large tomes like Reamde, Cryptonomicon, and the Way of Kings), you may also consider the following, which are either hard scifi (requires few, if any, scientific discoveries we currently lack), speculative SciFi (requires one or two unexplained leaps of scientific advancement, but thoroughly explores the mechanics and consequences thereof), or speculative fantasy (any magic system is internally consistent, operates in particular ways, and the interactions between them are explored)
Adrian Tchaikovsky, creator of the most - realistic alien species in literature: Children of Time Series (Spec. SciFi (but only barely), Tyrant Philosophers Series (Spec. Fantasy), and an insane number of standalone stories among the three genres listed above, such as Alien Clay, Shroud, and And Put Away Childish Things
Dennis E. Taylor, for those with crippling reference-itis and enough of a science background to want the author to regularly presume the reader's knowledge of plate tectonics and special relativity: Bobiverse Series (Spec. SciFi, but only because of "subspace" and optoelectronics), Outland Series (Spec. SciFi, because the portal's function is never explained)
Andy Weir, who makes every book a high-school science class (in the best way) with a plot: The Martian & Project Hail Mary (Both Hard SciFi, and I'll fight anyone who tries to claim that the astrophage makes PHM speculative), also, several short stories, including The Egg (Spec. Fantasy) and James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal (Historical Fiction/Mystery)
David Mitchell, who is like if James Michener wrote historical fantasy: Cloud Atlas (Historical/Speculative Fiction), The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, the Bone Clocks, & Utopia Avenue (all Historical Fiction with Minor Fantasy Elements)
If you want something more in line with YA, but with hard magic systems, consider "The Will of The Many", by James Islington, or "Sufficiently Advanced Magic" by Andrew Rowe.
Never heard of her, her irrelevant song, "attacks" on her, or anything that would make her stand out from the rest of the toiletpaperUSA bumblefucks, but I'm glad that you find it profound that some random person on the internet who paid money to an ethno-nationalist illegal immigrant for a blue checkmark thinks that there's a connection between criticism of a random bigot and music sales! It's VERY interesting to keep track of random "records" that require no less than three qualifying statements! Do you have any fun facts about the most decorated member of the US Armed Forces who is also a woman, and for whom none of those decorations are the Purple Heart? Or perhaps do you keep track of the male athlete who has won the most national titles, but never scored a point in any of the title games? I think we would all be interested in this random person's unfounded root-cause analysis of those peoples' achievements to precisely the same degree as we are interested in this random claim about the causes of popularity for "the longest-running, non-holiday #1 song by a female artist in billboard's hot 100 history (since 1955)"
After looking it up, even that "longest-running" wording is bullshit, because they were nonconsecutive weeks. If the Simpsons were cancelled, then brought back after a season, it wouldn't hold the record that it does.
The problem is that the theory of supply and demand requires the assumption that buyers and sellers are rational actors, and if there's one thing the last 25 years has taught the corpocrats, it's that humans are not rational, and are easily manipulated.
The other thing they learned is that, if you don't want to face regulation, you just need to buy the government. They already knew this, but now the process is perfected.
Thanks, but I can't take credit for that picture! It'sjust the first picture I found online which showed the perspective without a shutter stock watermark.
Someone on the design team must have really enjoyed their time in Iceland, because that is PRECISELY the view from the Northwest side of Kirkjufellsfoss.
Its been four years or so since last I was there, but that's an absolutely iconic and unforgettable view, and is immediately recognisable. Kind of cool, but also kind of weird to see it in a fantasy game' world.
President orders Pentagon to scale back ‘inappropriate and hostile’ exercises
with South Korea Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Donald Trump’s chief of staff, the Guardian understands.
What in the bot-fucked hell is this description? Someone needs to rejigger the doohickii in the cybertronic thingumbob so that the bot can figure out which story it's trying to post.
I was with you until you misquoted Shakespeare. The actual line, "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king", has precisely the opposite meaning which you imply, as the sole purpose of having the players there for Hamlet is to see Claudius' reaction to their play, which he has seeded with a scene containing the same method of murder which hamlet believes Claudius used on Hamlet's father. The play literally doesn't matter at all, only watching the king's reaction to it to confirm his guilt.
In case it was not your intent to point this out with sarcasm, for anyone reading:
not all forests are created equal: new growth forests are simply not as good at long-term burial of carbon.
carbon sinks only work so long as the carbon stays sunk, so if a tree dies and rots before it's buried, all of that carbon just goes back to the atmosphere, except a lot of it is now methane, which is MANY times worse than CO2.
this means that it is possible for a poorly - managed tree to actually be an effective carbon source for the purpose of greenhouse gas emissions, rather than a sink, since a single molecule of methane can do the damage of a hundred molecules of carbon dioxide.
the largest carbon sink on earth is not the forests, but the ocean, and that carbon only really has two ways out: back into the atmosphere, or buried at the bottom in the calcareous ooze. Now if you really want to understand how fucked we are, read up on the following:
Carbonate Compensation Depth (see how it relates to the amount of calcareous ooze being buried in the ocean)
Legolas and gimli, canonically and literally, sailed off into the sunset together after spending a hundred years traveling the world side by side, and Gimli was the only dwarf ever to be given passage to the uttermost west without entering the halls of the god of death.
Legolas isn't just gay-coded. I won't try and claim that Tolkien intended it, but death of the author dictates that the text stands on its own, and those two stand as life partners in the text.
Some person with whom i vehemently disagreed once pointed this out to me, and it changed my perspective, so here goes:
Blocking people on Lemmy only makes it so that you can't see anything they post. You aren't notified when they post a comment replying to your own, but _everyone else can still see it. I recommend using user tags in certain colours, so I have one for that guy who constantly misuses the thorn (þ) in his posts, so that I'm mentally prepared for the gut punch as a student of Old Norse and Old English. That guy has a different colour flair than all of the astroturfers, crazed tankies, and dickbags, because you can set a LOT of different user tag colours. Rather than blocking them, just set them to a red flair, so that you can safely ignore anything they have to say, without potentially being slandered or otherwise made to look a fool without understanding why.
As someone who has had both of those options, I think I'd genuinely take the 100% chewy insides over a regular croissant any day, but I accept that I am abnormal in that and other regards. After all, I'm talking to someone who is Nor Real.
That's the thing: that's still true, it's just that Windows, Chrome and Facebook/IG are all malware, and people (of all generations) seem to fail to process that undeniable fact.
If they were only selfish, but smart, they wouldn't be voting for politicians whose demonstrated aim is to reduce their constituents' wealth and funnel it into a class of people which their constituents have zero chance of ever joining.
No, they're dumb. They're certainly also selfish, but that's because they're dumb and can't comprehend the value of helping someone else, because the feedback loop on that mechanism has more than one step before they receive value back, and because the value received is most often in intangibles.
This is what I was asking about. It sounds like you were saying that you were in one of the various countries this country bombs or otherwise attacks on a daily basis.
And those 18 weeks weren't even consecutive. No "longest running" title if there's a break in the middle.
To give additional options, because Stephenson and Sanderson aren't everyone's cups of tea (producing insanely large tomes like Reamde, Cryptonomicon, and the Way of Kings), you may also consider the following, which are either hard scifi (requires few, if any, scientific discoveries we currently lack), speculative SciFi (requires one or two unexplained leaps of scientific advancement, but thoroughly explores the mechanics and consequences thereof), or speculative fantasy (any magic system is internally consistent, operates in particular ways, and the interactions between them are explored)
If you want something more in line with YA, but with hard magic systems, consider "The Will of The Many", by James Islington, or "Sufficiently Advanced Magic" by Andrew Rowe.
Never heard of her, her irrelevant song, "attacks" on her, or anything that would make her stand out from the rest of the toiletpaperUSA bumblefucks, but I'm glad that you find it profound that some random person on the internet who paid money to an ethno-nationalist illegal immigrant for a blue checkmark thinks that there's a connection between criticism of a random bigot and music sales! It's VERY interesting to keep track of random "records" that require no less than three qualifying statements! Do you have any fun facts about the most decorated member of the US Armed Forces who is also a woman, and for whom none of those decorations are the Purple Heart? Or perhaps do you keep track of the male athlete who has won the most national titles, but never scored a point in any of the title games? I think we would all be interested in this random person's unfounded root-cause analysis of those peoples' achievements to precisely the same degree as we are interested in this random claim about the causes of popularity for "the longest-running, non-holiday #1 song by a female artist in billboard's hot 100 history (since 1955)"
After looking it up, even that "longest-running" wording is bullshit, because they were nonconsecutive weeks. If the Simpsons were cancelled, then brought back after a season, it wouldn't hold the record that it does.
What a sad joke.
The problem is that the theory of supply and demand requires the assumption that buyers and sellers are rational actors, and if there's one thing the last 25 years has taught the corpocrats, it's that humans are not rational, and are easily manipulated.
The other thing they learned is that, if you don't want to face regulation, you just need to buy the government. They already knew this, but now the process is perfected.
Except for the 9 button
Thanks, but I can't take credit for that picture! It'sjust the first picture I found online which showed the perspective without a shutter stock watermark.
Someone on the design team must have really enjoyed their time in Iceland, because that is PRECISELY the view from the Northwest side of Kirkjufellsfoss.
Its been four years or so since last I was there, but that's an absolutely iconic and unforgettable view, and is immediately recognisable. Kind of cool, but also kind of weird to see it in a fantasy game' world.
What in the bot-fucked hell is this description? Someone needs to rejigger the doohickii in the cybertronic thingumbob so that the bot can figure out which story it's trying to post.
Technically, I believe Enceladus and Europa are also excellent candidates for extraterrestrial life similar to earth life.
Indeed! And a lot of things which are NOT new England are in it.
I was with you until you misquoted Shakespeare. The actual line, "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king", has precisely the opposite meaning which you imply, as the sole purpose of having the players there for Hamlet is to see Claudius' reaction to their play, which he has seeded with a scene containing the same method of murder which hamlet believes Claudius used on Hamlet's father. The play literally doesn't matter at all, only watching the king's reaction to it to confirm his guilt.
In case it was not your intent to point this out with sarcasm, for anyone reading:
not all forests are created equal: new growth forests are simply not as good at long-term burial of carbon.
carbon sinks only work so long as the carbon stays sunk, so if a tree dies and rots before it's buried, all of that carbon just goes back to the atmosphere, except a lot of it is now methane, which is MANY times worse than CO2.
this means that it is possible for a poorly - managed tree to actually be an effective carbon source for the purpose of greenhouse gas emissions, rather than a sink, since a single molecule of methane can do the damage of a hundred molecules of carbon dioxide.
the largest carbon sink on earth is not the forests, but the ocean, and that carbon only really has two ways out: back into the atmosphere, or buried at the bottom in the calcareous ooze. Now if you really want to understand how fucked we are, read up on the following:
I'm confused. You say "here", but then claim to be from a country being bombed by trump. What's your nationality?
Legolas and gimli, canonically and literally, sailed off into the sunset together after spending a hundred years traveling the world side by side, and Gimli was the only dwarf ever to be given passage to the uttermost west without entering the halls of the god of death.
Legolas isn't just gay-coded. I won't try and claim that Tolkien intended it, but death of the author dictates that the text stands on its own, and those two stand as life partners in the text.
Some person with whom i vehemently disagreed once pointed this out to me, and it changed my perspective, so here goes:
Blocking people on Lemmy only makes it so that you can't see anything they post. You aren't notified when they post a comment replying to your own, but _everyone else can still see it. I recommend using user tags in certain colours, so I have one for that guy who constantly misuses the thorn (þ) in his posts, so that I'm mentally prepared for the gut punch as a student of Old Norse and Old English. That guy has a different colour flair than all of the astroturfers, crazed tankies, and dickbags, because you can set a LOT of different user tag colours. Rather than blocking them, just set them to a red flair, so that you can safely ignore anything they have to say, without potentially being slandered or otherwise made to look a fool without understanding why.
Nah, the AI is just future-proofing the design for when sea levels rise enough to bring more than half of Florida into the intertidal zone
As someone who has had both of those options, I think I'd genuinely take the 100% chewy insides over a regular croissant any day, but I accept that I am abnormal in that and other regards. After all, I'm talking to someone who is Nor Real.