I think they posted a lot of their presentations on YouTube.
I have not. I thought about it, but I’m generally disinterested in fully remote conventions, so I haven’t attended. But I like the idea.
I think they posted a lot of their presentations on YouTube.
I have not. I thought about it, but I’m generally disinterested in fully remote conventions, so I haven’t attended. But I like the idea.
You messed up the format.
The caption should be “Why would Socialism do this?”
Thanks for sharing this. I wasn’t familiar with this channel, not I’m liking it.
I just read that this guy was part of Nebula and was forced out. It’s remarkable that he’s forced out for speaking openly and defending his beliefs when Isaac Arthur is tolerated despite having much more onerous politics but having them in secret. Smh.
Amen. It drives me fuckin’ nuts anytime – in business as well as in sci-fi and general discussion – when people envision a society made perfect because it’s run by a genius computer.
For pretty much every challenge society faces, the major obstacle is not that we’re unsure what to do or lack the intelligence to solve. We already have all the solutions, it’s just that our decision making systems are completely disinterested in employing any of the solutions that we already have.
It’s like, if you could get everyone to agree to listen to a computer, why not just skip the computer and get everyone to agree to listen to a combination of popular will and expert advice? Popular will and expert advice are like the supercomputer that runs society that we already have.
So do I understand correctly that this is a Principal Component Analysis of the amount of SLRPNK.net users who comment on other instances? This is very cool.
Thanks for sharing this. I would also crosspost to the c/meta.
You know, the podcast The Climate Denier’s Playbook had a great episode recently on Malthusianism in the environmental movement, and did a great job clowning on how it’s totally divorced from science.
Yeah. You can find it on our website: https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/resources .
Definitely do! It’s a fast read. I couldn’t put it down (which is all the more remarkable because of how dark it is).
Fully Automated. It’s a tabletop role playing game. I originally posted this to the Lemmy community for the game, but cross posted it because I wanted more people to talk to about the book.
I feel like this is a pretty crass joke to make.
A good friend of mine found a body a few months ago. It’s a pretty shitty experience. And it’s actually a lot like what OP describes. A sense of foreboding and suspicion combined with a conviction that these thoughts are foolish. And an uncertainty whether to check or to alert someone or to just try to forget it.
Op, I’d report it and ask them to please follow up with you and let you know. It’s probably nothing, and you’ll feel better once you know it was nothing, and that you did the responsible thing in having it dealt with.
I would suggest calling the city or county and reporting suspicious dumping. It could be a body. It could be a rotting animal carcass. It could have toxic chemicals in it.
You don’t need to suspect that it’s a body to call the city and report what looks like dangerous dumping.
I really like Murder in the a tool library by Ae Marling and The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.
Wow, these are aMAZing!
I agree with you… but I don’t disagree with @john_mcmurray.
The fact that Biden actually participates in genocide at all is just ghastly. I honestly struggle to find the words for it. And once he crossed that bridge, I will never ever try to argue with someone who assigns him equal moral equivalence with Trump.
It’s like debating whether someone who killed one of your children is better than someone who killed two. Mathematically? I think so. Conceptually? Those are who child murderers. The difference is negligible.
There are still Palestinians alive right now, though, so we can’t give up, no matter how heartbroken.
This take gave me a chuckle.
A little yes and a little no.
I think all of these people are monsters, but I’m also trying to find the best option among bad options. If Harris is president, I can live with that. If Trump gets elected again… I think the possibility of Palestinians getting exterminated becomes a genuine possibility, and the damage to our climate and our ability to reverse course after four years look very fragile.
It’s very depressing.
I get where you’re coming from, but the meme is a joke, and this particular set of jokes doesn’t work if you do it that way.
The truth is, you didn’t need to convince me. I think Biden is a monster. The meme is a set of jokes written in the voice of a mainstream American political pundit, not a genuine reflection of my personal attitudes.
My personal attitudes are that every US president is a war criminal, and Biden, Bush, Cheney, and Blinken should be hauled off to the international criminal court.
Same.
Oh! I was very much confusing those! Thanks for the disambiguation.
I do not know anything about the summit. If anyone goes, please report back.