agilbertson.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood weirdo
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If you think that "all such concerned fiction" says that being uploaded is hell, you've read a VERY different subset of the science fiction in the world than I have.
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I am 99.9% sure that there was a Nazi Germany version of this, and possibly also a Russian or USSR one. So...like...both of the Big Bads from the US's 20th century history did this.
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Or helps someone else make money.
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Did anyone think to ask them what "destroy the family" meant? Because I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas of what a world where "the family has been destroyed" would look like.
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...not sure if you missed a c, missed a k, or meant it as typed. (sceptic - UK, skeptic - US, septic - I think the meanings are the same and ewwwww.)
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“does not want images of him playing golf to go viral”
Trump posted a video of himself golfing *this morning* on Truth Social. I don’t think that’s why he’s avoiding reporters.
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Is Leo Morachicolli/Frog Leap Studio on this app? He'd do an excellent translation of the song between the styles. (I probably spelled his name wrong because I didn't look it up, you can find him on YouTube easily enough, though.)
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I didn't know WHICH of several politicians that fit the description you meant until you actually named him. We've got too many dried up old people in national politics.
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It would be reasonable if, afterward, you became VERY salty.
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Not to mention that DOGE is getting rid of things that are NECESSARY to the functioning of the country, and will have to be put back on an emergency basis - which will cost more than just not cutting them in the first place.
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It appears that he has not. I'm not sure that he needs to, given the reactions we're seeing here. Everyone seems to recognize that Musk's outfit is lame.
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Right? My first reaction was "wait, what happened to Tumblr?"
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"Some fucking guy" then goes on to solve a problem that only 0.0004% of the world's population has, creating problems for 47% of the world.
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When MAGA says "illegal immigrants", they don't mean illegal immigrants. They mean people with accents they don't want to hear. (And they don't want to hear any accent that they can't identify as European.)
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Musk isn't a nerd, he's a turd. #turdreich
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And then they wonder why everyone's paying for Spotify Premium. SMDH.
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There's an anime adaptation that follows the book much more closely (though it still leaves A TON out).
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The movie's working title was "Bug Hunt at Outpost 9" right up until Ginny Heinlein decided she needed money bad enough to sell them the rights to the title. It is in no way an adaptation of the book with the same title. They changed a bunch of names to match the book, but that's about it.
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Definitely terrible, but that's not a person. It's not like we don't have a lot of terrible Andrews to pick from, so kudos for coming up with an unusual answer.
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There's a bank robber who shares my first AND last name (but fortunately not middle name - mine starts with M, his W). I won't mention what he did at trial, but look him up and you'll understand why I think he's a good candidate. (Though there are SO MANY possibilities. weev comes to mind.)
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My thoughts exactly. (And I've written COBOL before. It's not easy to be sure you've done that in any language, and COBOL will not make it any easier.)
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Essentially. It would likely turn up some fraud because of how hard altering records would become; but I suspect it would be like drug-testing welfare recipients: cost of implementing far outstrips the savings.
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"The blockchain" (there are actually several different ones but that's not important right now) is a distributed, cryptographically signed ledger. It wouldn't prevent frauds or errors, it would just document them. And it's computationally expensive. Lots of money spent, zero net benefit.
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The other two thirds of the strategy change need to be: 1. Phrase everything at about a fifth-grader's level of understanding of the world to make it as accessible as possible, and 2. Say the most outrageous thing possible without QUITE lying in order to drive engagement.
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I learned to square dance in elementary school in upstate NY. I think it's pretty close to universal across the US.
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What the heck is Vine?
- sent from my Palm Treo
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Also, note that those are *ski* goggles in the image, which will distribute any impacts near your eyes over a wide area; not *swim* googles, which will do little to distribute the force of an impact.
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I love how people think Tumblr is dead but then screenshots of recent posts from there are constantly showing up. Even though it doesn't consider itself a social media site, it's the only social media site where it's actually *easy* to join a conversation.
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Zappa's version is also correct. And I would barely know an influencer if one bit me on the butt, soooo.....