drmbhp.bsky.social
fiction author; composition and literature professor; postcolonial crime media/games/texts as world lit PhD; crime discourse and IR/state formation guy; allegedly in possession of "your dad playing video games" vibes; he/him/any
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I mean the entire fines/dust problem can give an engineer a stress ulcer but it's like...we have methods for dealing with that here, too, they're just really dependent on water.
Mars got oversold but it's no coincidence the "it's impossible!" crowd tend to live in the nicer parts of Earth.
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It's funny because, of the reading I've done, it's actually limited primarily by a human systems rather than solely scientific problem: "we could go now but should probably wait until we have the logistical capability to transport a micro-society all at once to avoid McMurdo-style outpost problems."
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in a war of independence there is no surrender. not a single one of them, including the ones that were "lost," ended with the insurgent proclaiming: you know what, you were right, i will now politely shine your boots, imperial master.
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I find myself saying "they are not prepared for this information environment" about a lot of folks but there is a big gap between "fell for a deepfake once" and "gave money to a guy on internet to solve a problem money can't solve."
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Just gotta manifest the vibes of those Eastern European NATO-wave phonk edits, but intellectually.
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For approximately 6 hours I turned Liberal Currents into the Liberal Currents for *Education Policy and Dem Outreach* so I figure if you just flood the LC zone with defense policy stuff the Clausewitz Bois will sort of wander in like deer to an unattended bird feeder.
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Little Blue Men this time.
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my Take™ on the NYT is that they have a lot of good reporters, some extremely bad ones, a house style that is actively detrimental to expositing the truth of a given matter, and leadership that is actively evil
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Also a Mind would be LIVID that they pillaged all of human achievement just to bootstrap a mind that can't even access hyperspatial dimensions. Embarrassing.
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The Secret Service needs to know how we're getting them, the president is down to his last pair of sneakers.
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Closing Canvas and opening Steam.
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The argument literally ONLY works once you realize these guys actually FOR REAL think they're building the Bespoke God from Roko's Basilisk.
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(This was not on purpose I just have no filter for appropriate topics at a fun gathering.)
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Heck I'll just pay an unreasonable amount of money for an XCOM2 sequel that doesn't change the core mechanics very much.
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I love the historical accuracy of "okay so like 25 Nazi divisions at basically 0 organization being encircled by 4 well-supplied US armor divisions and a French guy."
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YES.
(I feel like we're just describing a moderately-densified version of the place in New Jersey where we maybe both live.)
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(I say this as a guy who lives in Type 1 and semi-reluctantly serves on an HOA board.)
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Like, listen, young families, retirees, and working class folks buying their own homes do NOT want to do lawncare but may want a community pool, which is why owned multifamily housing is the way to go.
Also we need a lot of laws about what HOAs can and can't do because *yikes* it's bad out there.
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A good rule of thumb is NEVER TRUST ANYONE SHARING A COUNTY MAP. Counties are ultra-heterogeneous, easily the most useless unit of government for any analysis, with the vast majority of population concentrated in a tiny share of countries, and thousands of counties with barely anyone in them.
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These guys really gambled their whole worldview on "the ability to create vitamin D under specific light conditions definitely has other massive effects we can build a hierarchy on" and are upset that the bet isn't paying out.
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(There's a certain kind of academic who likes to think on the scale of continents and honestly we should probably revoke their PhDs.)
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"the Senate as a vestigial institution providing a veneer of legitimacy thereby undercutting revolutionary sentiment" is one heck of a relatable worldbuilding detail for the Empire.
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It strikes me that, despite the genre difference, Rimworld is the paragon of that lesson: make a very good, complex, but relatively specific game framework (i.e. a "story generator") and then make it super easy for people to add enormous amounts of content.