Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 11 hours ago:
People had encyclopedias and dictionaries in their homes. They read newspapers every day [and since there was a lot of coemption between papers they made sure of their facts.]
imho people today are more likely to fall for nonsense because they look for confirmation instead of accuracy.
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 11 hours ago:
You’re recognizing the problems of today. Someone in the 1930’s Depression would feel something similar watching a movie set in the Jazz Age.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 1 day ago:
[off topic?]
There’s a science fiction series called The Lensmen by ‘Doc’ E.E. Smith. Big influence on Star Wars and other space operas. In one book a human is preparing to visit one of the most dangerous civilizations in the Galaxy. Super-special, quadruple strength armored suit he hopes will be strong enough to protect him.
The planet has a tech level equal to mid-20th Century Earth, but the natives are completely deaf. So none of the cars, trains, planes or other machinery has any noise dampening.
He survives, but it’s close…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Let him keep the stuff. If the other boy’s parents don’t care, why should you?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Don’t get involved in her family drama. Just don’t.
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 6 days ago:
Great analogy.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 6 days ago:
Tanith Lee created modern weird fantasy and Neil Gaiman stole all his best stuff from her.
In “Red As Blood” she takes all the Disney princesses and makes them evil. Snow White is a vampire and Cinderella is a witch who drives the Prince insane.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 6 days ago:
*colt 45 intro
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Read the history. There were ‘beef steak’ Nazis, brown on the outside and Red on the inside. They’d listened to Hitler and believed the ‘socialist’ part of National Socialist. A lot of them didn’t make is past The Night of the Long Knives.
Heck, there are the Log Cabin GOPs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“I didn’t stand up for the socialists because I wasn’t a socialist…”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I see it as a matter of self preservation.
Like the poem says, “I didn’t stand up for the Socialists because I wasn’t a Socialist…”
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 1 week ago:
Thanks for explaining that.
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 1 week ago:
I remember an Arthur Clarke novel where a space ship needs water from the planet below. The easiest thing is to lower cables from space and then lift some ice bergs.
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 1 week ago:
So, no space elevator in the next few months?
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 1 week ago:
You got it backwards. Think about it. Beachwear has been a thing since around 1900, while visible underwear wasn’t a thing until recently.
Easy way to remember is to think that necrosis usually starts at the extremities.
- Comment on There's been a massacre! 1 week ago:
It’s early, maybe you need some more coffee?
They would eat other things as well as their babies.
Also, did you support Wikipedia?
- Comment on There's been a massacre! 1 week ago:
Although the alligator has a heavy body and a slow metabolism, it is capable of short bursts of speed, especially in very short lunges. Alligators’ main prey are smaller animals they can kill and eat with a single bite. They may kill larger prey by grabbing it and dragging it into the water to drown. Alligators consume food that cannot be eaten in one bite
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- Comment on There's been a massacre! 1 week ago:
I read a science fiction story where the human crew lands on a planet populated by intelligent alligators. The alligators produce hundreds of babies at a time. The Queen invites the humans to dinner and offers them a stew made from her own offspring…
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 1 week ago:
Technology changes everything. Thee were “Tijuana bibles” showing famous folks for years; Deep Fake tech changes that entirely.
It’s more than you and I can settle. Good night.
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 1 week ago:
It is an interesting point. I once heard an anecdote that Jimmy Cagney hated being impersonated in Warner’s cartoons, but Bogart got a kick out of it. The same with Weird Al, some folks love getting parodied and others refuse to have him touch their songs.
Personally, I think it would be pretty sweet if some spaceship three hundred years from now was using her voice .
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 2 weeks ago:
Peter David
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 2 weeks ago:
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Q-in-Law
I’m not a giant fan of the books, but this one is great.
Q gives Lwaxana a portion of his powers, with results that suprise even him…
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 2 weeks ago:
Library.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
Benny Hill did something along these lines.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
If licking your own balls is what you want, I won’t be the one to try and stop you.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
Doood, don’t half ass it.
- Comment on I probably interact with people who are at the pinnacle of their chosen skill but I'd never know because that skill isn't something that generates fame. 2 weeks ago:
Jean Claude Van Dam said that when he was ten years old he decided he was going to be a great martial arts movie star. Then he added he’s a fifty year old man living a little kid’s fantasy.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
It causes an unbearable stench around you. No one will come closer than fifty meters without a total haz-mat suit with scuba.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
You know that you are going to hell.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
You can’t move from one spot.