Zephorah

Coming from a convicted rapist “fair shake” is very likely being given essays, a slap on the wrist, and no chance of formal convictions.

This admin is the most thin skinned set of man-babies I’ve ever witnessed in office.

So if I call it an irresponsible dumbass for giving wrong answers I’m the problem?

I have a set of the books from the time of release. Strangely, I’ve never read the last one. If you’re curious regarding the details, ContraPoints has a long form vid on the issue.

The most attention I’ve ever given this guy is when I watched Game of Thrones and the person I was watching with says, matter of factly, that’s Ed Sheeran. Me: I’ve heard the name, but who is he and why should I care? Followed by some pull up of a video with music so remarkable, I remember it not at all. Then there’s social media. Where you find out about a person not because you care but because a stream of posts starts flowing through your scroll. So you tap in and read about some guy you care about not at all.

Gamers Nexus is posting their data but poisoning it for AI.

Not surprising they’re up on renewables. The last time I drove through Minnesota it was windmills off into the horizon for many miles.

Data centers will dehydrate us and all the land. Cows don’t stand a chance.

China needs unions.

NASA doing as it must to keep what funding it has.

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The average person can’t afford to defend themselves in court.

Explain to me how this doesn’t encourage a United bombing run on both Israel and the states. They’re starving working class plebs like you and me right now. Something about the internal class war in the states makes me livid about that wherever it’s happening. Viscerally. A handful of guys decide to shit on one another and the rest of us are supposed to bathe in the excremental splatter and like it. Why FFS? These same assholes are supposed to be in power for the express purpose of shielding their people from said shit.

Stating the obvious. META was a major lobbyist for all of the state bills we’ve seen so far. There’s probably more. Or META is taking the lead because most hate them already, which provides a nice distraction from anyone else involved. Tech and data centers want our data. What better way for a complete data set is there? I’m sure Palantir is in there somewhere.

It’s trash. It front pages clickbait and bullshit, has no privacy, and with so many other options why bother?

Great. Now do something besides just talking about it.

Someone paid him.

I’m aware. I still think they’re the country most in need of labor unions.

It also looks like a mutation of an old school women’s Star Fleet uniform.

Keyboard and mouse setup with old school DnD. The games that move your entire party with a single mouse click on the map. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2, Planescape Torment, Neverwinter Nights campaigns 1-3, Neverwinter Nights 2, 1 & 2. MotB is artfully made. And you get to heroic and levels. Iirc Dragon Age Origins has a similar setup, BioWare breaks from the format in later editions. There’s always 4x. Endless Legend is neat. Stellaris. Civ for classsic content.

Explain.

States. You can find marbles new. But I’d added some to watch lists on a few auctions now, thinking I’d scoop some up on the cheap instead of buying new. I was so wrong, and it’s a pattern of high spending by bidders.

Alright. Your mom is definitely more over the edge than my mom. Mine has talked about it as a way of being with loved ones again after she dies. Death is scary. Mom is pretty old. As such, I don’t see the problem here. Peaceful death as a goal, in my mind, isn’t a bad thing. Her conception per how she talks about it includes her though, not the world. What you describe, however, pushes it onto other people. The necessary boundary against religious twisting is lacking. Again, this is a conversation you need to have together.

Not on estate auction. The bidding wars on them are ridiculous and I’d love to know why.

If you tap the link there’s a lot of them across the state.

Exactly. I can find them. But these estate auction bidders are spending so much. The last bid I looked at was $38 already and that’s not accounting for sales tax or the 18% tacked on for the auction house. It’s bizarre.

Hey, any amount of gas money helps.

In a country that consumes over 20 million barrels of oil per day, how impactful is this shipment, really?

Dollar store isn’t really on my radar. Nor is it a dollar store any more. But that will work.

Seems a bit heavy for paper.

I don’t believe it’s true. I do believe it should be true.

We’ve all seen some of the cool elements on RedHat. I especially like the local farmer trucks rolling through towns with fresh veggies. And watching how much easier it is to grow tea there than in my backyard. But let’s not play pretend.

I don’t lie, I’ve never been good at it, but I don’t elaborate. If I’m asked something I don’t want to answer I say I’m not discussing that here. There’s a 98% respected rule to not discuss politics. Management states they’d prefer we don’t because it upsets the clientele and it’s irrelevant to the workplace. However, every couple years there’s that one person who cannot read the room and loudly talks politics to the quiet people around her she thinks are listening but who are instead cringing as they wait for her to stop talking.

Tension release. To do otherwise would be like a chase scene that lasts 2 hours.

So this guy is claiming we’re listening to misinformation while simultaneously hiding behind NDAs regarding data centers.

To be fair, Star Trek is pushing the idea of utopian society. Prime directive. Evolved past money. Spending time people and resources on exploration. To seek out new life, not to exploit or destroy it. Tech in those hands is going to be far different than the same tech in our society’s hands.

Ok. I’m going to be sorry I asked this, but, arch? (Not Linux, the Trump thing.)

FFS. He’s really going hard on this Fascist narcissist vibe.

It’s probably a piece of why Duchovny was so keen on doing the Xfiles again. Meanwhile, Anderson is beyond classy on screen. Whether it’s being batshit in Dickens, the hunter Stella Gibson, or Thatcher, she’s pretty great. She doest need the x-files.

I think the main issue is most people don’t know Google is an ad optimization company. If you say it, the reaction is most often thinking you’re jabbing at them, with reason, but that the statement isn’t the base reality.

As someone who reads scifi like a chain smoker in a tobacco warehouse, this reads as somewhat antiquated. Niven and Heinlein and such back in the day, definitely in the American camp on how they wrote women and relationships, not seeing much of that lately though. Heavy lean on military scifi instead. Most of it narrated by RC Bray. Silo series was American. Though that felt like the smart man’s Fallout as a writing prompt. Chuck Wendig, American. Maybe we all just have apocalypse on the brain the last decade. Not sure the space romance thing is limited to one country’s culture. God save us all from young adult fiction of any kind, because this is the main plot. The real issue in scifi rn is the multiverse popping up like the vampire trend back in the Sookie Stackhouse days. Every other description of newly “printed” scifi I’ve read in my book searches this year: multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas? I liked it better when it felt like the scifi market was trying to find the next expanse.

Writing essays will fix it.

You’re presenting borderline psychotic entitlement to another human with logic. It won’t stick.

Safety. If nothing else it buys time to escape from his general vicinity.

Its oligarch logic. Democracy is foul and needs to die because democracy means Bezos has one vote, the same as any barista or construction worker, which is utterly ridiculous. He should be in charge, of course. So stop defying him. It’s why they buy legislators and city council members. And presidents.

Oligarchs wouldn’t be oligarchs without this essential attitude.

It’s a little difficult now because the public ethos has changed from “that’s crazy” to “well, probably, sure, why not?” in regards to possible alien life. Even so, the entertainment value of the scifi and the dynamic duo remains. What’s awful is revisiting Duchovny trying to act. He’s like John Wayne who only plays John Wayne. When Duchovny tries to diverge from playing Duchovny, it’s quite cringe. The past life episode was the worst.

Xfiles and Buffy both had that pattern. Overarching plot episodes. And then creature features. Hush comes to mind. As does Liver Boy.

Clearly Mike Johnson works for Elon and Theil, not We The People.