Classic rent seeking spiral

He doesn’t want to hurt Alberta – they’re his future fifth column

I was particularly fond of Legend of the Red Dragon and Planets: The Exploration of Space – door games forever!

What an organ!

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Depends on the language. A language that is not controlled by a steering institution (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_Française) will float freely, evolving as it does by public use of words. If I use a word and you understand it, then it is a word. Definitions also float in this way.

But the argument for/against politically correct language can be interesting. Because, unlike a controlling organization, there is instead social pressure being applied. And you may disagree with the source of that pressure, politically. Sometimes it makes you an asshat, and sometimes it’s legitimate pushback.

Anyway, long short, I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with it. Nor do I think it’s weird that some people push back.

What would you have done before the internet?

That is a critical mass thing. Reddit 15 years ago didn’t have a thriving pokemon community either. Things grow naturally over time. I think Lemmy is in a good place :)

But, for example, on Reddit there is r/hockey and a sub for each team. On Lemmy those team subs are graveyards, but if you post on c/hockey you might get enough traction to have a conversation. Find the larger community and help grow that first before fracturing to smaller ones.

Fuck Musk. But also, this is a nothingburger – there are plenty of spent upper stages floating around the solar system.

With Lemmy, there could be multiple /c/ock communities – one per instance haha

So, I’m going to offer a dissenting opinion. Please hear me out before piling on.

The anonymous internet is going to kill the internet. Without verification and attachment back to a real human, eventually the internet will just be flooded with bots, misinformation, and unverifiable information. The dead internet theory.

So, yes, we all worry about “Chinese style social credit scores” or corporate ownership of ID or whatever other dystopian bullshit… But what if you just want to have a site where people can talk to one another and know that they’re people that actually have to take responsibility for what they say.

Anyway, I suspect that this will start in isolation. Like when the internet was young and communities were forming with knots of small people… Forums with full verification requirements or similar. Then they will grow once their quality exceeds everything else.

Discuss!

The hero we need

Return of the K-car!

Okay, but how.

Wait, you can follow Mastadon from Lemmy already? How?

There are many time-loop stories in speculative fiction. Hell, there’s like a thousand episodes of sci fi TV with this premise.

But if you’re looking for a good one, try Hyperion (and Fall of Hyperion). The first book can standalone, but the second book gives you a more satisfying answer to your question. It is told in a Canterbury Tales style, with multiple converging retrospectives. But the principle antagonist is time itself. Very fun read.

Humanitarian crisis for sure.

Tangent. If I was a mad genetic scientist with no ethics, there are a few things I’d do – engineering a virus to deliver a few “software patches” to our DNA. One of those things would be to engineer the production of cellulase as an enzyme in our digestive system – so we can get energy from grass and such in an emergency. Probably the Law of Unintended Consequences will make this worse for humanity somehow (Begun the Grass Wars have!). Mosquitos also get blood sucking removed, in an attempt to make them purely pollinating insects. Vote for Troy as mad scientist!

Won’t help the hungry in Sudan now, though. So I’m open to better ideas. Sadly, I largely have bad ideas. If I’m on the side of full external military intervention, it would be considered “colonial”. It’s hard to propose any solution that isn’t just “send aid” – and you don’t want to do that because it gets seized by the parties involved to support their conflict. Do we just watch it play out and accept refugees? That’s lame – how many millions will die in each of the above scenarios. Fuck.

I’ve heard it phrased: “once is never, twice is always”

No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)

A man who has big books… has a big… bookshelf.