thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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She posted on twitter a number times that "handmaids tale was not meant to be an instruction manual"

She gave up eventually. She does actively speak out against fascism theocracies and Trump, but at her age I can understand being worn out fighting it

Huh ? She's still chair ?

Sure, climate change is the driver, but it's not a fight over fresh water.

The water wars was always a quite literal phrase

Water wars is a reference to a SciFi theme about scarcity of fresh water causing conflict. Usually as a result of climate change.

Asimov and JG Ballard are two of the better known earlier ones.

Several of your examples are just territorial expansion/control which is standard human behaviour for many millenia.

So India/Pakistan yes, South China Sea no. Turkey/Syria yes. Greenland no (control of Arctic and access to minerals)

Well spotted, yes indeed

Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said

While I am sympathetic to anyone who has to shoplift to eat, I'd suggest a little skepticism after noting two things:

One the time period (almost exactly lines up with the period that Labour has been in power) and,

Two the source - the Telegraph is nicknamed the Torygraph for a reason...they are the mouth piece for the conservative party and make no bones about it.

I'm no fan of the Blue Tories - Sir Keir would comfortably fit into the Conservative party of a decade ago (before their heads exploded) - I'm quite disappointed in their performance. But I'd counsel a little caution on taking what smells strongly of a propaganda piece at face value

Edit Red Tories doh. The American reversed colours has seeped into my psyche lol

My gen Z kids burn CDs - it's a "retro" thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.

Be aware certain batches of blanks are more prone to bit rot (or more accurately degradation of the metal layer) than others - could be worth googling your blanks before using them for anything important

You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy

And then he went to Salon ?

I think the implication is that Mango making the US no longer a secular power facilitated this.

Thanks

If they tell you anything on the first day of President school that you absolutely need to remember: DO NOT FUCK WITH MILITARY MONEY.

He's been doing that since day one. European countries have cancelled a lot of military orders (Portugal cancelled several billion dollars worth of F35s for example), and he wouldn't even let Ukraine order Patriot missiles (they weren't asking for freebies, they were ready with cash). Europe has announced a several Trillion defence initiative which is to be spent on EU arms not US ones...

If the military industrial complex aren't mad with him yet then they're not paying attention.

Errmmm, dateline Dec 10th 2024 - you're a little behind the curve here

Users aren't likely to point out a bot when the rules explicitly prevent them from doing that.

In fact one user commented that he had his comment calling out one of the bots as a bot deleted by mods for breaking that rule

The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)

Could you expand on that please ? I assume you're not referencing Gough Whitlam's dismissal by the GG at the behest of the CIA ?

I've had a quick search and can't find anything pointing to conflict between Menzies and the Crown, nor anything suggesting the monarch or the GG booted him out. Could be a searching failure on my part of course so info appreciated

Given it looks like you're the only seed (and a quick check on lime torrents only has 1 seed for the new normal s01 ep 1-22 (I assume that's the above ?) then yeah, you're the only one fighting the good fight ! Don't stop :-D

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Bollocks to bad search techniques - it seems there's about 4000 seeders for multiple different copies of it (the above version does indeed only have one though). I just thought "sod it, if there's only 1 seeder I'll help out". Went and looked again

<sigh>

There is not always demand, you need to leave the torrent app running in the background when ever you have the PC on - then when someone wants it you'll get a connection.

You may wish to reword. The unspecified "they" reads like you think Meta have strict ethical rules. Lol.

Meta have no ethics whatsoever, and yes I assume you meant universities have strict rules however the approval of this study marks even that as questionable

While that is indeed what was reported, we and the researchers will never know if the posters with shifted opinions were human or in fact also AI bots.

The whole thing is dodgy for lack of controls, this isn't science it's marketing

What in hell is an "assault pistol" please ?

I think we all stopped charging the enemy waving a pistol during WW1 didnt we ? This feels like something from a Blackadder episode.

It's referenced in the newsweek article. I read the wiki which says Hawaii have defined it, but the wiki links dont actually go to a definition.

The vast majority of pistols sold are semi auto, and they all have a pistol grip which, as I understand it are 2 of the main characteristics used to define assault weapon in the US

Confused foreigner.