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GraniteM

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  • TIL Ronald Reagan was deeply influnced by SciFi when implementing policy. He reportedly initiated cybersecurity changes within the DoD after watching the movie WarGames and asking if it was plausible.

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  • That's arguably one of the greatest values of scifi, to get people to ask what might happen in a world where plausible technological or cultural changes take place, or what we could learn about our own world from such possibilities.

  • But I have a good feeling about tonight

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  • I've got a kid, and I can confirm that I haven't had more than a handful of decent nights' sleep since she was born. I kept on waiting for my circadian rhythm to adjust to match the kid's but... nope.

  • Boo!!

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  • People are actually meant to be functionally immortal, but ghosts always catch up to us and make us die within about a century at most.

  • Bev doesn't seem scared

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  • Every foundation has a few bugs crawling around in it.

  • Bev doesn't seem scared

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  • When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

    --Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

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    How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • Billboards are illegal in the state of Vermont.

  • Trump appointee Aileen Cannon blocks release of Jack Smith's report on classified documents probe

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  • Just wait until he puts her on the Supreme Court after Alito retires.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Okay, well I definitely wondered what the hell the star of Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred was getting up to.

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  • I'm familiar with all of the technology involved, but I'm not sure about the applications you're describing.

    With a Have-A-Heart, the specific goal is live capture and release. There is no killing involved. The animal might be properly freaked out at the experience of being trapped, but that is specifically so as to permit an animal's live relocation.

    With a bolt gun, it's meant to be used in a slaughterhouse scenario, which is a whole moral discussion of its own, but at bare minimum one wants the animals to be kept as calm as possible until the bolt gun is applied, because stressed out meat tastes worse than calm and placid up until the moment of death.

    With hunting, the goal is to kill the target as cleanly as possible, preferably with a single bullet. That's the Scenario A I'm describing above.

    If one were hunting an animal with the intent of killing it, then a trap, followed by a knife or bolt gun, would maximize the terror felt by the animal to be killed. Sure, one may be putting less lead out in the environment, but at the cost of putting the animal through... almost the most appalling experience of death possible, with the admitted exception of a poorly-aimed bullet or arrow, followed by a wounded flight through the woods and slowly bleeding out.

    So... if one's absolute maximum goal is to reduce environmental lead, yes, that is one way to do it, but the moral implications of that method seem pretty rough.

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  • Scenario A: You're minding your own business, when a bullet passes through your heart/lungs and you're dead in seconds.

    Scenario B: You get caught in a trap and wait for hours for an ape with a knife or a bolt gun to come along and finish the job.

    Honestly, if I were an animal, I'd prefer Scenario A.

  • In hindsight it doesn't seem that bad, overall.

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  • Holy shit, I had no idea Raymond Cocteau was this before he was Raymond Cocteau. That's total genius casting.

  • In hindsight it doesn't seem that bad, overall.

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  • Comrade, I rented that movie from a locally-owned VHS rental shop that used physical membership cards.

    Sure it's a dystopia, but it's a dystopia where they solved too many problems. John Spartan gets into a high speed car crash and his car instantly fills up with safety foam and he's completely unharmed. The police force is ethnically and gender diverse. Guns are museum pieces. The cops don't know HOW to assault somebody.

    Sure they've killed a large amount of choice, and the guy in charge of it all seems to be determined to secure even more power for himself because of course he's a sociopath with Mr. Rogers' speech patterns, but all told I'd much rather live in the Demolition Man future than Judge Dredd or Death Race 2000.

  • In hindsight it doesn't seem that bad, overall.

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  • If the three sea shells discourse isn't a stand-in for 90s Americans' anxiety about bidets then I don't know what is.

  • Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections

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  • This was why I was fucking bummed when Biden got into the Democratic primary in '19. Name recognition >>> Younger, better options.

  • Hmm HMM not HMM hmm

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  • The green lean mean killing machine

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  • xkcd #3209: Plums

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  • Depending on the photo, without size context clues, I would probably have a hard time telling them apart.

  • Coherent ideology

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  • all greens should be hung