CyberEgg @ CyberEgg @discuss.tchncs.de

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I sometimes (okay, sometimes more than sometimes) forget something, try to remember it harder the next day, focus so much on not to forget it again that I forget something else. Or I remember every, but in the wrongest possible order so that I'm running through the store like a headless chicken and utterly stressed out.

Same. This /c is much emptier now though.

It's actually most one person posting moths though.

OP's right, it isn't fair. It isn't fair that so many people have nothing and OP's got so much and still needs to envy someone who's got nothing.

You're taking this far more serious than I do.

Also, ten centimetres are a lot in height difference.

I cannot relate to feet and inches for height, I'm all but used to imperial units.

All I am saying though is that 1.68 is very small from my perspective and if that's the average height back around 1800, people where tiny then.

No, not always. There were fluctuations depending on several factors, nutrition being one (and an important one).

Still, 1.68 seems just tiny ¯(ツ)/¯

I don't quite get it. Apparently, Napoleon's height was ridiculed and used for english propaganda, but I often hear that actually, he wasn't a small person. I looked it up, wikipedia says he was 1.68 m. That's damn short though.

Story time. I used to work for an IT service for businesses. We also offered such basic security trainings (how to not get fished by mails, keeping workstations up to date, do not insert USB drives some stranger handed you, that stuff). We had one customer, big company, several branches all over the country, even some abroad. They booked our training once a year for each branch office in our local region, six offices and a couple dozen office workers attending each time.
We had to automate reboots. First, you get an information there's a necessary update pending that needed a reboot. You could push that reboot a week down, then it got enforced. We had several tickets each month about that. We also had to restore systems twice in the two and a half years I worked there from backups due to ransomware, and other, mostly minor security incidents about once a month.

For beginners?

Just came to leave an image of a cute cartoon penguin, don't mind me.

At least after we battled over which distro is best.

What do you think of the industrialisation aspects in Tolkien's Legendarium?

It never quite worked for me tbh. Not in a "I don't like this in my escapist fantasy book" kind of way, but in a "I don't recognize this as a reflection on real life events" kind of way. It was nothing I related to and learned about it many years after my first (and many more) reads. I just accepted it as an aspect of "evil destroys things good people like" in the story.

But also, stories don't need to be either escapist or a discussion of reality. It's a gradient and the best stories usually feature both. I would even argue, to hammer home a point about reality really hard, a little escapist build up before helps immensely to get the audience to that "Ooh, yeah, riiiight"-epiphany.

But I agree, it's a delicate matter to not "overdo" it and ruin the escapism.

It depends on what an artist intends to achieve though. If they want to create an escape from daily life, you can easily overdose other stuff, no matter if you create fantasy or science fiction. It also depends on what an audience expects. If they want to escape but get a commentary, they're gonna be disappointed and going to complain about WoKe IdEoLoGiE iN mOdErN sTaR tReK. Equally, if they expect commentary and get escapism, they're gonna complain about a dull, flat and meaningless experience.

There are so many kinds of Fantasy, and all art imitates life in one way or another is what I'm saying :)

Oh, we're certainly on the same page here!

I get you, but IMHO Fantasy for example has a unique quality for escapism that should not be disregarded. I don't want to say that fantasy is strongest when doing escapism, I just find it hard to regard one higher than the other. And while Sci Fi is no slob for escapism either, I do find it stronger when it reflects on humanity.

Sci Fi is always at it's best when it's not about itself but about us.

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It's not similar, it's the exact opposite.

No, it's an observation I made often enough, that factually incorrect jokes don't land and get picked apart.

I'm tired of this though. If you are satisfied with stupidity, fine. Keep laughing about dumb shit then. I'm out.

No, I'm just saying you're wrong.

Based on what expertise? Which criteria do you apply?

That meme is incorrect, and therefore it doesn't land for me and a lot of other people. You cannot say "you're wrong" on that.