Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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Was it a Musk or Trump guy (effigy) they hung up from the same lamppost recently?

I need not voices to read fiction.
But loud non-speaking noises don't interfere.

Oddly, articles, Wikipedia, and websites, I can read much more easily while people are talking.

No updates in several years, and the human propensity to weaponise.

Plus the furore a few years back over the Russian anti-satellite satellite and the way both US and Russia spoke round the issue.

Non-weaponised space is verging into Israel isn't a nulear weapon state territory if I'm honest.

And now for something completely different...

No, no. None of that. It's silly now.

Why now?

The US military already has satellites than can drop artificial asteroids onto Earth, causing large localised, hard to detect and prevent damage.

Space has sadly already been weaponised.

It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.

So he's enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US's population's support.

Elections don't care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.

I always go for a bimanual axe build as a barbarian in APRGs. You?

I got to the pokémon game, and it doesn't work and I couldn't work out why and beat my head against it in my freetime for a week until I just gave up... 😭😔

You're right, I could've worded that in a much better way. I was too blinkered by rhetorical flourish.

Trans people of all stripes lose harder from transphobia.

Alas, cis-women with natural advantages are the biggest losers. (Edit... Trans people are hurt the most and lose the most from transphobia. What I should have said was "cis-women with natural advantages are also victims.")

They tend to get caught up in the anti-trans nets and checks due to their natural biology being different from "platonic ideal of feminine woman" and being excluded (or even called men, cheaters, and rapists, and attacked and threatened). Which really shows that the people pushing this care more about excluding trans-women than giving cis-women a space to flourish.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm now a little less ignorant on Pacific islander culture/language!

And you'd prefer inscruitable, programmed to be non-introspective and un-selfaware code do that than humans who have capacity to be reasoned with and chosen and changed?

Sedna I'd assume, Ceres has been known about for about 400 years, and is the real planet demotion superstar.

Our solar system had 13 planets back in the 1700s.

And yes, I am sore about this with all the Pluto-stans ignoring Ceres (and Makemake, and Eris, and Hamuhea, and Palas, and many more!).

P.S. Also, what is your first language, as I'm intrigued by no fixed spelling rules.

Moderators can be chosen by the people, and changed more easily.

Machine algorithms are a black box of uncertainty, and the ineffectiveness and mess that things like the YouTube moderation algorithm are hardly an endorsement of them.

What's wrong with having moderators?

Good resources and sharing.

I appreciate what you've done in the comments of this post.

Most sci-fi authors who can't write women don't make them the symbolism laden protagonist of their trilogy's conclusion.

Not sure if I should give him points for effort there or not.

Despite my complaints, I do think it worth a read.

Seems like a good question for Randall Monroe, if he hasn't already done something similar.

Space is militarised, sadly.

Think about the devastation shooting/dropping a m³ of heatproof metal from a high orbit satellite at a target on Earth.

And how we can already do that.

The UK.

I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.

Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It's been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.

It's social ossification, an inevitable part of the systemic cycle.

The people at the top have wealth to enable all the best opportunities go to their children and friends' children.

So all the plebs are left struggling for scraps.

There are more children of mega-rich than mega rich, and even accounting for portion who flaunt off or abandon family path, than there are mega-top positions, so most of the second tier positions go to them too.

Then, of course, neoliberal policies have made things less equal so that the poorer you are you now need to work even harder and be even more exception than you did before.

Edit: am British. See it here, seen it over the pond and in (the PR of) China, too.