Goliath holding open auditions for the role of David

That allows us to have career politicians

I don’t think politician should be a career… There’s an old saying i’ve never much agreed with “those who can’t do teach.” I think that a more accurate saying would be “those who can’t do go into politics.”

Yes it is!

I didn’t use that word because no one ever knows wtf it means lol

I kinda like the term randomocracy

Some of us are greedy fucks, we let them make the decisions for some reason.

I’ve always advocated for a system where people who are qualified but don’t want to should lead…

I’m so used to ignoring who tweets are from that I didn’t notice till you mentioned it and scrolled back up, lol

As someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol, from a family of the same, i get addiction, but I don’t get gambling. The way it’s become normalized by society is so weird to me.

it’s the current champion, he won the legs. The others are the top ten fighting for who gets to wear them next.

Fuck it happens in audiobooks for heaven sakes.

what?

I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can’t just be, they need some specific explanation.

This though, I didn’t hate. It’s always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species’ technology is around the same level.

Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that’s why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn’t need to come up again.

Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.

Wow, turns out if you stab something and leave it to bleed out it doesn’t magically get better immediately…

You can buy a bluetooth speaker that sounds as good (if you don’t need real stereo sound) and still have room in your pocket.

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I think they were referring to electric windows, but it is ambiguous in context.

It works now, even if later he gets tired of it and walks away it still works now.

I get that their main goal is keeping the proles down, but you’d think there’d be some protection of american hegemony and soft power, it has made a small group of people a lot of money and given them outsized influence of the world.

…tell me you don’t know anything about the terror of drone warfare without telling me you don’t understand the terror of drone warfare.

drones don’t need precision they are a terror weapon…

I know, I was going to use ~10 years, but used a conservative number so I could source it undeniably if pressed.

If we had an unlimited timeline I’d buy that, the problem is climate change will make all but struggle inevitable in ~75 years at the rate we’re destroying it.

Famine, water wars, and billions of climate migrants will destroy any hope of an egalitarian revolution…

is it overengineering or just a push back against “make each program do one thing well,” and saying yeah but I have n things to do and I only need them done, well or not I just need them done and don’t want to dig through 20 files to do it…

ghost?

nm I looked it up myself.

Why aren’t more people on ghost? It’s a stupid name for what it does, but the $9 a month and keeping the rest is a great deal if you have more than a handful of subscribers.

You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.

Okay? It’s objectively a good thing for alcoholics to get help. Getting equal care for other issues is the goal.

Don’t be a crab in the bucket.