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JudgeX posted:i love Book but yeah gene wolf really doesnt think much of women, i'm not interested in reading his other books b/c of it. him writing a protagonist with so many complexes w/r/t women is mind bogglingly ironic. He wrote fiction about a deeply unjust and corrupt society, that does not mean he shared those views personally. The world of Urth has regressed to a level similar to the middle ages, and you seem surprised that it's a deeply patriarchal society. E: Severian is a horrible person and an unreliable narrator. The story is told through his eyes and his bias, including how he justifies to himself the horrible things he does and the people around him do. KozmoNaut has issued a correction as of 22:55 on Nov 16, 2019 |
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Nov 16, 2019 22:36
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Or, and hear me out on this, facial recognition could make your commute MUCH harder. I mean, you're already trying to get to your 9-5, the last thing you need is cops chasing you, dogs, a manhunt, having to hide, federal authorities being called in, a dragnet, transit lockdowns...
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Nov 16, 2019 22:54
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hot extremely scifi trick from the subway of you just don't "check in" at a gate at all, you just are assumed to have a ticket or a permit and there are random intermittent checks by human inspectors on the trains; I take them 2+ times daily and typically end up inspected about once every 2 months or so
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Nov 16, 2019 23:22
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things like the wild are simply going to stop existing probably within our lifetimes... guess we should hit the national parks while there's still time https://twitter.com/rafaelfrederico/status/1195806108230787072 https://twitter.com/weather_wa/status/1195672521674149889
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Nov 17, 2019 00:34
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Man Musk posted:things like the wild are simply going to stop existing probably within our lifetimes... on the bright side if trees go extinct and leave us with zero nature biomes, that drastically cuts down on the number of tilesets we'll need to model our hellworld for depressing RPGs. [suburban/urban/megastructure/industrial/farm/coastal/etc] in various states of [pristinedystopia/slummish/bombedruins/totaldesolation] Needing no vegetation you can just make a generic fractal wasteland maybe including small procedural buildings to model the rest of the world, without having "were there palm trees in Finland?" debates silentsnack has issued a correction as of 01:12 on Nov 17, 2019 |
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Nov 17, 2019 01:10
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https://twitter.com/amandaklonsky1/status/1195453132974768128
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Nov 17, 2019 01:11
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silentsnack posted:on the bright side if trees go extinct and leave us with zero nature biomes, that drastically cuts down on the number of tilesets we'll need to model our hellworld for depressing RPGs. so, death stranding
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Nov 17, 2019 01:29
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Use Token Slot to Access Chapel (25c)
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Nov 17, 2019 01:32
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silentsnack posted:on the bright side if trees go extinct and leave us with zero nature biomes, that drastically cuts down on the number of tilesets we'll need to model our hellworld for depressing RPGs. the worst part about the future is the loss of biodiversity, and all the other diversities everything else will keep trucking along without the catastrophism welcome 2 paved-over planet earth
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Nov 17, 2019 01:36
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Man Musk posted:things like the wild are simply going to stop existing probably within our lifetimes... Operation Dark Storm looking good.
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Nov 17, 2019 01:52
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Man Musk posted:the worst part about the future is the loss of biodiversity, and all the other diversities “when your jumpsuit’s lifespan has been exhausted, please report to the local chiral support center where a replacement will be printed for you.”
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Nov 17, 2019 01:58
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JudgeX posted:i love Book but yeah gene wolf really doesnt think much of women, i'm not interested in reading his other books b/c of it. him writing a protagonist with so many complexes w/r/t women is mind bogglingly ironic. did you really think that the guy who's thoughts on being raised as a torturer and executioner for the semi-immortal dictator are 'eh, it's a living' was supposed to be something you agreed with
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Nov 17, 2019 02:01
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Heavy_D posted:(stolen from the happy thread) poo poo yea
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Nov 17, 2019 02:10
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Larry Parrish posted:did you really think that the guy who's thoughts on being raised as a torturer and executioner for the semi-immortal dictator are 'eh, it's a living' was supposed to be something you agreed with the problem with that is that people are extraordinarily bad at not identifying with the protagonist of a story, even if they’re obviously not a hero or good person. see Taxi Driver, Scarface, the Lolita reviews that described it as “the greatest love story ever told,” starship troopers, etc
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Nov 17, 2019 02:13
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this is legitimately sad.
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Nov 17, 2019 02:15
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upgunned shitpost posted:this is legitimately sad. Assuming for profit prisons must exist at all they should be paid on recidivism metrics. If they can't rehabilitate someone so they can avoid ending up in prison again then they're failing at their core job and should go broke.
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Nov 17, 2019 02:25
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The only reason it isn't named ConvicComm is because those assholes also read Neuromancer etc and decided that poo poo didn't sound cool to the masses.
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Nov 17, 2019 02:46
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Man Musk posted:things like the wild are simply going to stop existing probably within our lifetimes... i took my coworker on a trip across colorado and we camped in the san luis valley, a noted dark sky region and UFO spotter hotspot. she cried when she saw the milky way for the first time, in her 30s we're ruining everything
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Nov 17, 2019 02:48
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for private prisons they are generally paid per head and so have to keep their costs below that, they usually dont care about how much services like these charge as they usually dont get the money from them for public prisons and jails, at many of them the tax revenue isnt enough to run it so the sheriff looks for an alternate source and ofc some are just crooked so it all depends on if there are laws setting prices the pay per minute nonsense came as a response from the florida lawsuits when inmates lost the digital media they bought because the state switched vendors, "look, you wont get sued like florida because the inmates dont actually own anything!" goatsestretchgoals posted:The only reason it isn't named ConvicComm is because those assholes also read Neuromancer etc and decided that poo poo didn't sound cool to the masses. naw, some have names like that, some of the companies really dont care what the public thinks
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Nov 17, 2019 02:49
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bring back old gbs posted:poo poo yea https://twitter.com/youranoncentral/status/1195629993084063744?s=21 better go stock up on lasers before they’re made more illegal than guns
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Nov 17, 2019 04:36
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Larry Parrish posted:did you really think that the guy who's thoughts on being raised as a torturer and executioner for the semi-immortal dictator are 'eh, it's a living' was supposed to be something you agreed with i googled problematic just now and the top result was a comment on reddit explaining how the depiction of severian is feminist, actually. here's what i thought of the books several years ago, filtered through my recollection of my ex-wife's recollection of what i said at the time (they were so dull that I've almost completely forgotten the books themselves or what i thought of them, so this is all that's left): a jerk wanders around getting his dick sucked by every woman he meets. i didn't pay enough attention to the liberal arts classes in college to even make an attempt at a real critique, so i won't try, but i'm pretty sure this is one of those times where if you have to explain why it's ok, then it's not ok. even if the argument sounds good.
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Nov 17, 2019 05:09
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"A story of an executioner being a jerk and becoming a tyrant" is like the most ultra surface-level reading of BOTNS. It's the fictional autobiography of a bad man as a supposed prophet figure, so the narrator is notoriously unreliable and you absolutely have to take that into account.
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Nov 17, 2019 06:18
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SlothfulCobra posted:Really, what's more surprising is that Disney would allow somebody to use its branding without explicit permission, and hasn't demanded that these people remove their branded flesh. Probably for the same reason they haven't put the kibosh on cops using the punisher logo on their Man Musk posted:things like the wild are simply going to stop existing probably within our lifetimes... Nerds everywhere rejoice Milo and POTUS has issued a correction as of 07:01 on Nov 17, 2019 |
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Nov 17, 2019 06:59
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Inceltown posted:Assuming for profit prisons must exist at all they should be paid on recidivism metrics. If they can't rehabilitate someone so they can avoid ending up in prison again then they're failing at their core job and should go broke. It's basically the Cobra Effect. Where the intention* of a program winds up being directly opposite to the financial incentives being offered. The British wanted to reduce the amount of cobras around India, so they offered a reward for every dead cobra. People responded by breeding cobras. *Y'know, aside from the constitutional slavery
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Nov 17, 2019 07:28
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ways to lower recidivism: * manufacture additional charges to keep inmates in the system until they age out of their peak criming years * create conditions so abominable that inmates leave too physically compromised to do violent crime * the exit is a trapdoor to a meat grinder at an Arby’s bonuses for everyone, good meeting!!
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Nov 17, 2019 07:43
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Lazyhound posted:ways to lower recidivism: cmon man you gotta optimize!
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Nov 17, 2019 07:44
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SlothfulCobra posted:The British wanted to reduce the amount of cobras around India, so they offered a reward for every dead cobra. People responded by breeding cobras. You forgot the part where the British learned about the breeding and ceased the reward scheme. Now all the breeders had a bunch of useless cobras, which they literally dumped onto the streets.
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Nov 17, 2019 07:48
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lol I expected the lesson to be “without cobras the rat population exploded and there was a disease epidemic” etc I’m not enough of a hustler to have considered that other direction tho 
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Nov 17, 2019 14:44
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Taintrunner posted:https://twitter.com/dw_business/status/1195351949337616386?s=21 lmao capitalism expected people to fork out even more money to cope with the tragedy of the commons problems created.
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Nov 17, 2019 14:54
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Taintrunner posted:https://twitter.com/dw_business/status/1195351949337616386?s=21 
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Nov 17, 2019 15:10
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I see we all read the capitalism.png thread as well
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Nov 17, 2019 15:17
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why does public transit cost anything at the point of service
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Nov 17, 2019 16:44
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:why does public transit cost anything at the point of service Pretext for brutalising or otherwise mistreating undesireables.
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Nov 17, 2019 17:04
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https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1196100054735638530?s=20
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Nov 17, 2019 18:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0vPzkkZag
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Nov 17, 2019 18:52
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https://twitter.com/dorseyshaw/status/1195767971618205696
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Nov 17, 2019 20:27
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I know this isn't a new thing, but when I got gas today (lol) there was a blaring video ad about hamburgers or something, and then a blaring ad for Amazon warehouse jobs
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Nov 17, 2019 20:51
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actionjackson posted:I know this isn't a new thing, but when I got gas today (lol) there was a blaring video ad about hamburgers or something, and then a blaring ad for Amazon warehouse jobs give it 5 more years and your gas will stop pumping if the system detects you aren’t looking at the screen
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Nov 17, 2019 20:54
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Just lol if you live in a state that trusts you to pump your own gas.
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Nov 17, 2019 20:59
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Tubgoat posted:Pretext for brutalising or otherwise mistreating undesireables. Sunrail (light commuter rail in Orlando Florida) spends more money on the contracted-out ticketing and billing system than it makes on fares, by several million dollars. No, just going free isn't an option why do you ask?
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