VubDapple @ VubDapple @lemmy.world

Posts

0

Comments

382

Joined

2 yr. ago

A Snowcrash future

Thinking about why you're fearful to ask her out is a way that you're managing to avoid asking her out. Just ask her out OP. You'll feel better afterwards.

From the wiki page

During the late 1930s, Lamarr attended arms deals with her then-husband arms dealer Fritz Mandl, "possibly to improve his chances of making a sale".[41] From the meetings, she learned that navies needed "a way to guide a torpedo as it raced through the water." Radio control had been proposed. However, an enemy might be able to jam such a torpedo's guidance system and set it off course.[42] When later discussing this with a new friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, her idea to prevent jamming by frequency hopping met Antheil's previous work in music. In that earlier work, Antheil attempted synchronizing note-hopping in the avant-garde piece written as a score for the film Ballet Mechanique that involved multiple synchronized player pianos. Antheil's idea in the piece was to synchronize the start time of identical player pianos with identical player piano rolls, so the pianos would be playing in time with one another. Together, they realized that radio frequencies could be changed similarly, using the same kind of mechanism, but miniaturized.[4][41]

Yes, yes you have.

Nuanced thinking is the problem? Nope. Black and white thinking is the problem. Like the black and white thinking you are displaying here, by refusing to parse any policy decisions beyond "he supports genocide". If you can't distinguish between the greater and the lesser evil you'll end up inadvertently supporting the greater evil.

Doubtful that this would work. A better solution would involve having take-offs be more widely spaced in time

Black and white thinking much?

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

Whatever else might be said, its impressive that this older dude can do a split like that.

Is it all C?

Hyperbolic comment at best, at worst part of a disinformation campaign.

If you can't self-accept then you might self-attack. But why self-attack when you can project and scapegoat?

So his legs started at his shoulders. Seems about right.

Rok-Tahk

She does a nice job.

Showerthoughts goes meta

That's wonderful 😊

Everyone's afraid of him because of his mob and death threats, personal career consequences and the possibility that he comes back to power in which case all of the above multiplied.

Rain drips, soaking into the floor, and Slothrop perceives that he is losing his mind. If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.

Either They have put him here for a reason, or he’s just here. He isn’t sure that he wouldn’t, actually, rather have that reason…

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.