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- Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central 4 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 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 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 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 Meta had its biggest lobbying quarter ever 6 months ago:
I mean, benefit of the doubt, you get a free meal and an idea of what not to do just based on what they want you to do.
But yeah, should be not allowed. Just talk listen and ask your damn constituents.
- Comment on Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours 6 months ago:
dumb luck, mostly
you either work for a living or you own money for a living. You can get more nuanced, but that’s about the long and short of it.
- Comment on Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours 6 months ago:
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half”
becomes much more funny when you’re dealing with numbers like ∞
- 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
