Their motto:

Yeah, it screams unreliable narrator. “I was banned over a frog!” and definitely not for throwing slurs around

I am in the top 2% of citizens in my state for voter participation (they include that state with our registration, I didn’t seek it out). I vote as far left as I can in basically every primary and election. I don’t have faith in accelerationism because at this point I truly have no idea what would wake up the American populace to what is happening to them. They all bitch about the same problems but continue to choose the people who create them

In a way they’d be right, but not the one they want

Right, that’s what it was. So possibly an anxiety disorder instead of PTSD. Which is probably more in line with the body dysmorphia or eating disorder than PTSD would be

He’s on LinkedIn, it’s probably free so he can convince the AI daddies to notice him

Terry in the show probably has some body dysmorphia/eating disorders. He’s been shown to have difficulty controlling his food intake with the nibs, the weird dieting with Gina and Amy and he’s also used the gym to avoid his problems. Plus he had some PTSD in the early seasons (I think from shooting an innocent person? I don’t remember exactly why) which is why he wasn’t in the field for the first few seasons. Also I think technically his rank is lieutenant so I’m not sure he’s technically a detective

The Magic:the Gathering community is constantly bickering about what cards to be banned/unbanned. A lot of modern (modern as in the format, not present day) players agree a card from Titan needs to go but they disagree over which. Personally I think Amulet of Vigor needs to go. If you do that then energy probably needs a ban and I think goblin bombardment would make them weaker against removal and board wipes, though Phlage, Titan of Fire’s Fury is also a good option because it’s egregious with Arena of Glory

Personally I have 2:

Discoproof as a remix of Bulletproof

A Little Less Conversation - Junkie XL

The most obnoxious Chekov’s Gun I’ve seen recently was in Good Fortune. It was a literal gun and it was so obvious what they were doing with it

I got an uncut foil mythic rare sheet from the Magic:the Gathering set Aetherdrift professionally framed and hung on the wall. I think it looks great, my fiance begrudgingly admits it looks better than she expected

Neuromancer is great and has a similar tech level, though it’s more abstract and a little harder to follow. Ready Player One is also in that vein but not as good as Snow Crash. The video game Cyberpunk 2077 was heavily influenced by Snow Crash and it’s sister anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is excellent. You don’t have to play or know anything about the game to watch the show

I have, I like Mogworld so I’ll have to add Jam to the list

I was excited for good was finally available as an ebook because I don’t really like audio books but it looks like I’ll have to borrow a friend’s kindle to read it because I can’t figure out how to load it onto my kobo

It’s good to know he keeps the quality up!

Just finished:

All You Need is Kill - Of the 2 movies and this, this has by far the most compelling ending. I don’t really like how the time loop thing is handled but the mechanics aren’t the most important to the story

Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash - I love this series. If you’re looking for a modern day Douglas Adams this is pretty close

In progress:

Diaspora by Greg Eden - Woof, this starts dense and I don’t have the impression it’s going to get easier. I’m curious how challenging it will get. Still, it’s a fun start for the story

Hey! I’m one of the people who commented about Troopers. I don’t fault you for stopping it, there’s a whole chapter in the middle of it where they flashback to gradeschool and all of the kids agree with the teacher that corporal punishment for adults is really the only way to ensure a society doesn’t fall apart

Neuromancer is great though! If you ever feel like you don’t really understand what’s going on that’s pretty normal. It takes a couple of reads and even then a lot of the concepts are abstract rather than concrete

This is why green energy should be a right wing policy. If you are an anti-globalist and only care about your own country then green energy is the most independent way to facilitate the energy needs of a country. That way when some other crazy leader starts attacking global energy infrastructure your country is less impacted. Oh did I also mention that it opens up manufacturing and construction jobs in the countries that need to make the green energy?

Green energy does a lot of what right wing people want to do but because people have framed the conversation around helping the planet (which I personally cannot believe so few people care about) they decided wind/solar is hippie shit and they want to keep their oil

Airplanes are very time efficient but not very fuel efficient. A modern 737 cargo plane holds about 52,000 lbs of cargo. To transport 3 million barrels of oil (not even 20% of the total oil we’re talking about) by plane would take about 20,000 flights daily and there are only about 13,000 737s on the planet. So ignoring the astronomical cost it would take making the process impossible to profit from, you’d have to commandeer the world’s supply of planes to do so. Also I’m almost certain that the entire middle east couldn’t handle 20,000 fully loaded cargo flights every day. It’s simply too much for their airports to handle, even if humans stopped flying

So the important thing to remember is the sheer quantity of oil that needs to be moved and where it needs to be moved to. The Strait of Hormuz in 2024 had 20 million barrels of oil passing through it daily. That’s 840,000,000 gallons or 3,160,000 cubic meters, or ~1300 Olympic swimming pools each day that need to be moved. It also mostly is going to end up getting moved across oceans to be delivered to the people who need it

Moving that much liquid by means other than boats is very difficult. Building pipelines that can move that much liquid is difficult and prone to problems. Especially considering the very harsh climate surrounding the area and even if you do have a pipeline it’s likely still going to end up in a ship because it has to cross an ocean anyway. Moving it by truck is almost logistically impossible, and trains have more problems than pipelines

In order to have the ships big enough to move that liquid you need ports that are deep enough AND already have the infrastructure to handle ships of that size, of which all are already in the Strait. It also made sense because a lot of oil producing countries were in this area so having lots of ships in the area built efficiency

So a whole bunch of confounding factors led to the Strait being the optimal place to move a lot of oil by ship (which the oil needed to go into anyway), however a natural choke point makes this a strategic position for countries in the area. Oil ships are slow, easy targets, and most countries could pretty cheaply take them out. Which adds to the tension in the region

This Wendover Productions video does a good job explaining why so much oil had to go through the Strait

The Andromeda Strain is rated G and it shows tits, dead kids, and threatens to nuke a government facility

!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world is exactly that. Just dudes talking about boring dude shit with each other