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Didn't Russia just wall off its entire internet from the rest of the world? Might explain why it isn't being constantly amplified 24/7.
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Yeah, I did a twitter search on NFT after posting that and it's pretty hilarious. Every post is an engagement farm for another scam, and they're barely hitting numbers in the hundreds.
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LeeMajors posted:Didn't Russia just wall off its entire internet from the rest of the world? Might explain why it isn't being constantly amplified 24/7. This is where my head went to as well, though it seems too easy to blame all of America's Internet-based problems on Russia.
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Mar 9, 2022 17:04
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Wow that Executive Order actually directs agencies to consider a US central bank digital currency. That could get interesting.
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fartknocker posted:Wasn’t there that awful video with the Broadway people singing We’re Not Gonna Take It about some crypto stupidity and only from like a week ago? Also a bunch of terrible Super Bowl ads from not that long ago. It was Mark Zuckerberg's sister
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Oh yeah, I forgot to bitch about Dads loving With poo poo this morning. I dropped some motorcycle wheels off with my dad to have the tires removed by one of his buddies, and then he met me with them this morning to drop them off at a powder coating place to get them finished. Except for some reason be removed a backing plate that I left on one wheel I wanted finished also and “forgot it at home.” So now I have to either go get that and wake up early to take it back to the same place before work, leave it unmatched, or get as close as I can with a rattle can. Why do dads always gently caress With poo poo 
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1501453984216846338?t=2wx5HIenxdje6Wnpch6kWw&s=19 The high schooler in me who had to read the book on that is fist pumping after seeing this
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1501453984216846338?t=2wx5HIenxdje6Wnpch6kWw&s=19 lol, my SO follows the photographer who is on that expedition and she woke me up this morning to tell me that they’d found it. I haven’t read the book yet but it’s sitting on our shelf, maybe I’ll crack it open to mark the occasion.
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Oh speaking of books, when I was a kid I was big into Michael Crichton’s work because Jurassic Park loving owned. But then towards the end of his life he went full mask-off, wake up sheeple Libertarian and it showed in those last few books and I kinda lost interest. Anyway, apparently when he died they found a manuscript for a book that was supposedly finished but hadn’t been sent to a publisher yet so they printed it to Boy howdy does this book suck. It’s about pirates, and there’s an entire chapter devoted to getting the crew together that is just 20 pages worth of every cliché about pirates and sailing you can cram in, including the pirate that’s a badass but surprise! They’re actually a woman and no one knows their secret! Except literally a paragraph later he contradicts himself by saying that everyone knew and didn’t care? It’s just the most paint-by-numbers dreck.
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T-Square posted:Oh yeah, I forgot to bitch about Dads loving With poo poo this morning. Unnecessary tinkering is just guys being dudes
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Mar 9, 2022 18:06
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I know but he hoards motorcycles and has like three storage units, a garage, and a basement full of half finished projects, tinker with your stuff not mine 
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Thinking back to the last few days of Feb when we were unsure if Louis CK would take the stage in Kiev as Russian troops advanced
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Freaquency posted:Oh speaking of books, when I was a kid I was big into Michael Crichton’s work because Jurassic Park loving owned. But then towards the end of his life he went full mask-off, wake up sheeple Libertarian and it showed in those last few books and I kinda lost interest. Anyway, apparently when he died they found a manuscript for a book that was supposedly finished but hadn’t been sent to a publisher yet so they printed it to Crichton was so pissed off at a guy who wrote a bad review of one of his books that he retaliated by making him a pedophile / child molester character in his next one. Dude was nuts.
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Freaquency posted:Oh speaking of books, when I was a kid I was big into Michael Crichton’s work because Jurassic Park loving owned. But then towards the end of his life he went full mask-off, wake up sheeple Libertarian and it showed in those last few books and I kinda lost interest. Anyway, apparently when he died they found a manuscript for a book that was supposedly finished but hadn’t been sent to a publisher yet so they printed it to I think I started that one too, and was absolutely shocked at how bad it was. Although actually after that I went back and read some of his other books and realized that they're kinda poo poo too. They were best as a 12 year old. But that pirate book, holy poo poo that really took it to another level.
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1501216568222666756 this is probably fine right
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Lol, I had a buddy whose entire college senior project as a rhetoric and media studies major was tearing apart a Michael Crichton book as a pile of garbage, I think one on global warming being fake or something?
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My lasting memory of Crichton is that he was convinced that mad cow disease was going to mutate and eradicate humanity, so he spent the last 80 pages of The Lost World having Malcolm and Levine babble incessantly about prions.
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Play posted:I think I started that one too, and was absolutely shocked at how bad it was. I really liked Tom Clancy in late elementary school and middle school but hooooooo boy was he a bad author in hindsight.
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I also got really into Michael Crichton as a kid after reading The Andromeda Strain. I still think that despite his flaws, that is a hell of a book
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Kalli posted:Thought: haven't heard much about crypto / nft's lately It was a midsize Volvo.
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Weird that we're having Crichton chat since I just thought of him the other day. Was thinking with his weird rear end beliefs he really could have gone either way on the climate debate, but whichever way he was going he was going all in. Like every damned thing he wrote about is unintended consequences caused by governments or corporations or individuals, but also with a strong slant towards never trusting science (while writing his own pseudo science all over the place). Not trusting science won out I guess. Either way guy could spin a yarn I guess, but we paid way too much attention (ie: any) to his actual opinions on things.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Lol, I had a buddy whose entire college senior project as a rhetoric and media studies major was tearing apart a Michael Crichton book as a pile of garbage, I think one on global warming being fake or something? State of Fear. That was the one that got me going  on his whole deal, though looking back at some of the ones he wrote right before that it’s more obvious in hindsight. Pron on VHS posted:I also got really into Michael Crichton as a kid after reading The Andromeda Strain. I still think that despite his flaws, that is a hell of a book Andromeda Strain owns and was the sort of thing he was best at. For every one of those, though, he had something like Timeline or Disclosure which was just y i k e s e: also in this book there’s not a single female character so far that he hasn’t needlessly sexualized, including a 14 year old girl who is immediately coerced into sex by the governor of the island and is actually totally cool with it and not traumatized at all. Even the badass lady pirate flashes her tits during pirate raids to, uh, distract the other side, or… something. Freaquency fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Samadhi posted:I really liked Tom Clancy in late elementary school and middle school but hooooooo boy was he a bad author in hindsight. Ya same but the original Rainbow Six games rocked
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Spoeank posted:https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1501216568222666756 I sorta assumed the last decade or so was because of something like that happening and it was just so far away from people no one noticed it escaped.
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Spoeank posted:https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1501216568222666756 Putin has failed to kill Zelenskyy with human soldiers so now he's sending demons and spirits
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The twist/solve in Andromeda Strain that the pathogen only affects people outside of a given pH range was so cool to me, there were like 2 years where I wanted to be a scientist after that, and then I discovered weed
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Weed is the greatest science of all
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Pron on VHS posted:The twist/solve in Andromeda Strain that the pathogen only affects people outside of a given pH range was so cool to me, there were like 2 years where I wanted to be a scientist after that, and then I discovered weed Then the incredibly dumb part at the end when it magically evolves to eat plastic or some poo poo that's just not how anything works
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Play posted:Then the incredibly dumb part at the end when it magically evolves to eat plastic or some poo poo Prey was a good book and then right at the end "Get in the chopper! We nuked the site with thermite just to be sure" with an extra denouement of "Life, even artificial, finds a way." 
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I, too, read Andromeda Strain as a teenager and thought it was pretty cool, but then I tried to read another Chrichton and couldn't get through it.
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The Hunt for Red October movie was ten times as good as the novel. Maybe ten thousand. Clancy is such a lovely writer and is only catnip for budding ultranationalist dweebs.
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Skwirl posted:I sorta assumed the last decade or so was because of something like that happening and it was just so far away from people no one noticed it escaped. Archaeologists unearthed ancient Greek curse tablets in late January 2020. So maybe it's been a series of things and the Winchesters have been trying to stop it
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Crichton was a hack’s hack. He was Malcolm Gladwell as novelist. Find a hot button issue, talk to some experts, crank out a thriller. His characters were thinly written automatons. That said, the guy had a career in film/TV works anyone would kill for.
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I enjoyed a lot of Tom Clancy, Crichton, Grisham and Steven King as a kid. You could call me the airport fictions guy, a typical dullard
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Let he who hasn't ready dozens upon dozens of King Novels cast the first stone.
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hey ive read the majority of the Jack Reacher books, please ignore my glass house and do NOT throw stones at it its fragile I am loling a little bit at the three or four different spelling variations of the name Crichton (yes I looked it up to make sure, heh)
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Pron on VHS posted:I also got really into Michael Crichton as a kid after reading The Andromeda Strain. I still think that despite his flaws, that is a hell of a book Andromeda Strain and Sphere are both great books, despite both having similar and then everything was suddenly fine endings.
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Jack Reacher books are GREAT I been talking about them in this thread for a while. Sphere was fantastic, scared me as a teen
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Speaking of books I'm really struggling to get through the last book of the expanse series. The laconia arc is quite... ehhhhhhhhh. Also thank you for the birthday wishes and kind words about the job. Hopefully things get better.
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I wasn’t just a Clancy reader, I was hooked on an incredibly bad doppelgänger of his: Ian Slater and his WWIII series. Picture an extremely serialized set of books that amplified all of Clancy’s worst traits.
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