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  • In the grimdark future there can be no grass roots, only astroturf.

  • Silicon Valley is where all the VCs are. They make a lot of their funding decisions based on whether they like hanging around with a founder or not. You're more likely to get money out of them if you're fun to drink beers with than if you have a great business plan.

  • Feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood your point, but are you saying that "Greece" in a historical context is not a unitary entity? But how can that be so when the very thing that creates this "unbroken line of Greekdom" you refer to is the the entire concept of a "History of Greece" that reaches back thousands of years in the first place?

    If there is no unitary Greek identity that reaches back from the present to the Greeks of the past, then a history of Greece that includes the Roman conquest, the Ottomans, Byzantium, would be absurd (and shame on the Wikizens for including it in one conceptual lump as well, I guess).

    You could say the same of Britain after 1066, or France after Henry VI. Or of Egypt after the merging of the kingdoms, or after the Ptolomys, etc; and yet most Egyptians would push back at the suggestion that there is no direct line from the age of pharaohs to the present day.

    Being a nation with the same name, occupying at least a portion of its original geography, populated by many of the decedents of the same people -- well, that grants a country some pretty big ontological leeway. Who gets to decide whether the Greeks of today share the history and are of a piece with their ancient predecessors? Well the Greeks do, presumably. I mean, that's just the way I see it, I might be off on a wild tangent for all I know.

  • It's a good example of how people's morals vary greatly based on their present situation, rather than being some kind of deeply held, unchanging foundation. What people believe is good and bad is largely a function of where they happen to be at the moment.

  • ring

    "Hi Jeff, this is Terry from Paramount, and--"

    "Yes."

  • I know this will date me, but that straight up looks like an "If They Mated" photo of David Coverdale and Tawny Kitaen.

  • I guess this means I'll need yet another, different colored wastebin just for coffee now. I mean I'll do it if it helps, but I can only fit so many receptacles in my kitchen. Meh, I'll just put the rest in the twins' room.

  • fire everyone + break everything = the everything app

  • Millions of miles of complex nanowire circuitry... not one single 30 amp fuse.

  • "I've had one of my trademark changes of heart."

  • LOL, Niven is a classic silver-age scifi writer, and freely admits "If something is worth selling, it's worth selling multiple times." I got into his Known Space stories and Star Trek at almost the same time, so I'm fine with it, but I'm not really an objective judge.

  • It's funny, I like my Retroid Pocket 2+ but the fact that the 2S swaps the location of the D-pad and left stick makes me want to "upgrade" more than anything else about it.

  • Internet-ready

  • "Skynet was developed to be the command and control system for the military food delivery robots."

  • Turns out it was kids who were bad for kids all along.

  • I get what you're saying, but yuck

  • Imma head out.