RavenFellBlade @ RavenFellBlade @lemmy.world

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Great selection

Came here to suggest this.

You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite users on here. Such a goldmine!

This made my day.

Yeah, some elements of Snow Crash have definitely not aged well. The pervy sex scenes with the underaged girl have definitely outlived their welcome. Stephenson has certainly come a long way as a writer since he wrote this.

I really need to read the Expanse series! I loved the show, and I've heard the books are significantly better.

If you're gonna check out Gibson's Neuromancer, maybe check out Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Both are foundational cyberpunk.

Edit: Also, Project Hail Mary is one of my favorite novels. Can't gush enough about that one. Reminded me a lot of Greg Bear's Eon.

Consuela if she's Latina.

Release them both. Unlike the sycophants choking on Trumpler's dick, I'm quite able to declare anyone who perpetrates a hate-fueled crime as scum undeserving of pity or dignity.

The issue folks like you don't want to confront is that for every Aiden Hale, there are hundreds of right-wing assholes shooting up gay clubs, synagogues, and entire Black communities. Take your whataboutism someplace where folks are stupid enough to mistake it for any kind of substantive argument.

Data is beautiful. And fully functional.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone, startrek.website, sh.itjust.works are all good.

You assume that the majority of them live there by choice, and not because they lack the resources and opportunities to move. It's kinda hard to pull up roots and move half way across the country when the economic and political realities of where you currently live force you to remain firmly entrenched in poverty with deliberately restricted access to any means to improve that situation.

By your logic, black people must love prison, too, because they represent a disproportionate percentage of the prison population. I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with disproportionate enforcement against them, right?

Yes! Things are looking up!

Depends. I'm dead serious when I ask this, but are you black, Latino, a woman, queer, Jewish or Muslim, trans or non-binary, liberal or any flavor of politics to the left of Right wing authoritarian fascist, or any combination of those groups? If so, then stay the hell out of any state south of Virginia and east of Illinois. They aren't just bad. They are potentially deadly, increasingly as a matter or literal public policy. If you aren't one of those groups, than you aren't in physical existential danger. You'll just be stuck in a nightmare hellhole of poverty and ignorance. But you'll be safe. Mostly.

Honestly, I've been everywhere in the continental US. Been to every state, seen just about all there is to see driving over the road for fifteen years, and I can tell you that the southeast is damn near a third world country compared to everywhere else. The infrastructure is so bad it reminds me of when I stayed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993. And it's only gotten worse. I have no desire to ever return now that I'm not required to for my job. Florida used to be the one shining exception, except now it's embracing a return to 1930s Germany. Stay out of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas in particular.

I do love me some Gunpla, but I wasn't thrilled about the computing equivalent of having to sand, glue, assemble, and paint a Master Grade kit every time my distro upgraded and everything inevitably broke. Granted, a lot of that boils down to matching the right DE for your distro, and I liked to try to make KDE fit where it wasn't necessarily the best option. Eventually, I learned to enjoy GNOME, but then started messing with distros that weren't a good fit with that. The freedom Linux offers is both its greatest asset, and biggest weakness. It can make just setting up a basic, decent-looking desktop environment feel like you need IT classes just to know what the heck you're supposed to do to get things working the way Windows and MacOS do right out of the box.

It's excellent when it works. But a frustrating, often times deliberately obtuse mess when it doesn't.

It's DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.

Agreed.

Startrek.website and sh.itjust.works are the other two legs of my Lemmy Tripod.

Ah, yes, my days as G-Rawn. Our intense lyrics brought glory to many houses!

My expectation of Linux was the sports car, my experience varied wildly from Distro to Distro, and occasionally lived up to the expectation, but usually looked like:

Nazism hasn't been stamped out. It's just been given a number of new names to make it more palatable. A sizeable percentage of American "Conservatives", especially in the MAGA cult, subscribe to an ideology that is every bit as fascist, nationalist, white-supremacist, and Christofascist as the Nazis. The only difference is the nation they represent. We're currently seeing a meteoric rise in antisemitic rhetoric from those same elements.

Nazism is just a specific brand of fascist nationalism. Make no mistake, there's every bit of effort to push several nations, and especially America, into a new fourth Reich in everything but name and nation.

If you liked The Martian, you'll probably love Weir's "Project Hail Mary" It's about a last-ditch effort by a lone scientist and astronaut to save Earth from a cataclysm. There's much, much more to it, but I really don't want to spoil it. I will say that it very much builds on core principles of The Martian, and is a fantastic read. Reminds me a bit of Michael Bear's "Eon" books and the Niven/Pournelle Motie series by way of The Martian.