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  • Disagree pretty hard. SciFi has always been a medium for exploring the philosophical and political. Every description of a future dystopia/utopia is social commentary; every alien race is a commentary on xenophobia or cultural exchange. Hell even his own books explore...

    themes of ecosystem collapse and humanity's response, which can't be anything but a political take in 2026.

    If you don't want politics in your books SciFi is probably the worst place to look. Someone should tell him to stick to... idk... character driven romance novels or something.

  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • What part of reinventing the wheel is slashing NASA's budget to shreds? This is just the last public test flight before space is walled off as a playground for the rich. They'll get their tourist flights and luxury colonies and nice vacations from the boiling toxic hell they turned earth into.

    If you think any resources are going to trickle down to us earth peasants, I've got a moon base to sell you.

  • Dems Claim to Want a Hasan Piker — Then Try to Cancel Him

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  • Democrats are shit but God what I wouldn't give for politics to no longer be a playground for twitch streamers, failed TV actors, retired sports stars and podcasters. Anyone with a mic and inflammatory hot takes can be a political force majeure without any risk, effort or leg work.

    Even though they're both influencers, I respect the shit out of Kat Abughazaleh for the bare minimum fact that she's actually out there organizing and helping her community. Hassan can say similar stuff from his $2.7m mansion but that doesn't mean he deserves the same respect.

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Just use USPS to send out a letter

    You are registered to vote absentee and your ballot should arrive on [Date].

    However, due to federal election interference we cannot guarantee you will get your ballot by mail. If there is any delay we recommend you contact this number XXXX for direct delivery/transportation services or retrieve a new ballot in person at [Address]

    Would still suppress turnout but at least there's no ballot to confiscate

  • Democrats could win House as Republicans quit in numbers not seen since Depression

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  • "Made a mess" is bullshit phrasing. These fuckers were complicit in the smash and grab looting of America for decades.

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • From what I've seen this is already happening, along with other engagement drives like circulating petitions and recruiting for mutual aid or collecting aid donations. Those efforts can vary by location but it's certainly not "just standing around with signs" like critics say.

  • Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams

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  • Well you have to remember that Franks house is on an adjustable rate mortgage and his Tundra still has 80 months left on the loan. If the income gets cut, the rug gets pulled on everything and people wake up real quick.

  • Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams

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  • It's illegal for unions to coordinate a general strike. If they were signed on they would be pretty careful about it. That's why the UAW president was making waves by suggesting that everyone set their contracts to end on the same date.

  • Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams

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  • Without existing strong organization you're probably right, but it's more likely that the wheels will come off and a general strike would happen naturally with rising inflation and unemployment.

    The shitter things get, the less tight your social ties need to be for collective action. Everyone's implicitly on the same page when you start missing meals.

  • Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

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  • Babe please, I promise it's medicinal

  • System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

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  • Why use a computer at all, it's the first step towards mass surveillance, better go back to the abacus!

    This but unironically

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    What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • Afaik that can only be recycled with pretty energy intensive arc furnaces or regular fossil fuel combustion. No accessible fossil fuel limits you to fallout style scrap-tech, which is probably not sustainable for a long term 17-18th century civilization.

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    What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • That still requires metal and there's no surface deposits to support it

  • Trump Seen With Red Blotch On Neck In New Photos

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  • If it's a legitimate draft the body has ways of shutting it down

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • What if we paint a rainbow on all of these parasites and call it an ESG fund?

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • The solution is simple, just launder each comment through an LLM to fudge the style and details a bit

    Edit, tried it for fun:

    lowkey just run every comment through an llm and let it switch up the words and details a bit so it dosnt sound like you wrote it

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    intersectionality forever

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  • There's a weird dissonance in these conversations where "justice" turns into "poetic justice" without the speaker realizing it. It's an ironic reversal of positions that sounds good without any rational backing for why it would be good.

    Would it be a satisfying narrative loop to result in indigenous people retaking what they historically had? Of course.

    Does being a member of a marginalized group grant some specific virtue that makes you a just leader or caretaker? ...Maybe tangentially? At the very least you might have more practical understanding of oppression.

    Does being in a marginalized group that has a bloodline traced to an arbitrarily collection of humans who once lived in a place give you some inherent "connectedness" to (or "ownership" of) that place?...

    No. That's actually a pretty fucked up line of reasoning. That kind of argument is what propped up "Europe for Aryans" and "Blacks back to Africa".

    Your value in a community is in the bonds you have to it. Sure, some of those are family bonds, but a lifetime is far more than just that. We're strengthened by our living connections to each other today, not by our unchosen connections to a string of dead people who can't reciprocate.

    None of us can go back in time and reverse genocides; how can those tragedies get special correction beyond curing the echoes of injustice that exist today?

    In my opinion there are two simple facts:

    1. People can housed, fed and have their specific needs cared for regardless of background
    2. The core value in acknowledging the past is in correcting our course on current and future injustice

    If we were committed to live by those the rest becomes moot.

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  • There's an intersection of politics and science and this isn't anywhere close to it. Meme about research funding or the astroturfed anti-intellectualism fucking our progress on vaccinations.

    This is just a milquetoast leftist tagline with some science words stapled to it.

  • Oklahoma bill could make aiding an undocumented immigrant a felony

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