CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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This is the new norm. Summer in the southern hemisphere = Australia burns. Summer in the north = Canada and the US burns. Give it a couple years and expect that list of countries on fire every year to expand rapidly.

I figure the only reason you don't hear about this happening across Europe is they destroyed their forests centuries ago.

I had the same thoughts. The books are heavily conceptual, even though there are some action sequences. A lot of incredibly abstract stuff to try and translate to episodic drama.

Some people just talk that way.

Or the third option they're not allowed to say, which is they're ours.

A random government official not knowing what they are doesn't say much if they're black ops projects. By definition, nobody would know about them except the people directly working on them, and they're not gonna say anything.

I'm most interested in what makes them so sure these aren't our own. They're awfully naive if they think they're allowed to know everything.

It's those rascals in the hollow earth, I tells ya.

I wonder if there would be a way to consistently split a single character across two or more people. Maybe that character has a fantasy version of dissociative identity disorder. Sometimes they go multiple sessions under control of one player or another, and sometimes there are multiple players in the driver's seat in a single session, either taking turns or controlling different aspects of that character, a la Everyone is John.

I really felt like they missed an opportunity not returning to her later on. The moment that her actual fate got leaked to the public, that planet would have become a place of pilgrimage for Bajorans, and someone would have tried to make it the seat of a schismatic sect. It could have upended the entire Bajoran theocracy.

I'd rather continue to not.

My cat might vomit up hairballs on whatever surface it finds every few days, but I've never walked in to find that it shit bloody diarrhea all over the kitchen after spending the previous evening eating grass in the yard. That's not something I can say for my dog.

I'd prevent the Challenger launch. Manned spaceflight doesn't get shelved for an entire generation, and a young me doesn't lose hope for the future at such an early age.

Through a bizarre series of butterfly effects, the successful launch and its international attention gives bureaucrats in Pripyat an extra nudge to encourage cooperation amongst their engineers and nuclear scientists, and a critical flaw in the operation of the plant at Chernobyl is caught before it causes a catastrophic meltdown.

The cumulative effect is a continued culture of progressive technological expansion into the 90s, and the fading of the anti-intellectualism that threatened to overtake the world during the Reagan and Thatcher administrations. Hand in hand with this is a decreased militarism, as technology is increasingly seen as a tool for the betterment of humanity, and less as a means of building better weapons.

One other immediate result is in the US presidential election of 1988. A lack of meaningful engagement with the public (no "skipped the surly bonds of earth" speech) led to increasing apathy toward the outgoing Reagan administration, giving G.H.W. Bush a tougher hill to climb, and less solid footing on the issue of defense. Dukakis doesn't feel the need to do a silly photo op in a tank, but instead campaigns partly on an expansion of the space program and educational outreach programs similar to the one that brought in Christa McAuliffe.

Neoconservatism and neoliberalism wither together on the vine. Permanent human presence in space continues uninterrupted for the next two decades, with a base on the moon by the end of the century and a manned mission to Mars planned for a decade after that.

No Bushes, no rise of Al-Qaeda in 1988, no Gulf War, no Rush Limbaugh, no Clinton's, and no 9/11.

That would probably snuff me out. I have a tenuous family link to him through a bastard somewhere along the line.

Then again he was in his late 30s by the time he invaded England, so he'd probably done most of his seed-sewing already.

George Carlin would have had a field day with "unhoused".

I always forget The Orville exists and that I've been meaning to watch it, so I'll go and watch an episode and enjoy it, but the handful of episodes I've seen are just enjoyable fluff. They don't stick with me at all, and I feel no compulsion to keep watching. When does it get compelling?

Electronics in general are you get what you pay for. It might work just as well for a while, but cheaper components will almost always fail quicker.

It's not just age, it's wealth.

Pike'a looks natural. Gerald looks like he bleaches.

Not at all. If anything, the events of Quantumania might be said to take place after Loki, or adjacent to it in some timely wimey way. They don't have any causal impact on Loki.

Mild spoilers: during the multiversal war referred to by He Who Remains in Loki season 1, the Kang variant known as The Conqueror was sealed away in the Quantum Realm by the other Kang variants. Presumably, the other Kangs were then sealed away somewhere (at the end of time?) by He Who Remains. The outcome of the movie implies that perhaps things will be different going forward, but in what way we won't find out until a future installment.

If the Loki show follows up that particular lead, it will undoubtedly do so in a way that is self contained and won't require anyone to have seen Quantumania.

At this point, I'm hoping he's a central player, but also gets to be somewhat villainous. Perhaps he ends up becoming an ally of Kang because he realizes that it's essential for the resolution of the war for him to be on "the wrong side" - because Lokis always lose.