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Reminder that Meta doesn’t want you yo read the book “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Go and find it in a shadow library if you can’t afford it, it’s revealing.

I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.

Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.

Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.

Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.

“There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist

Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.

Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.

Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.

He understood the wasp, maybe they’re so ornery because no one understands what they want. He’s The Wasperer.

OTOH, I’d bet it will return and harass and probably sting the next customer that doesn’t give it a piece of their tuna sushi.

Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

It would be funny it it wasn’t so sad.

Betting that a gorilla will get exhausted of ripping and biting off heads before it reaches 100…

It’s unclear how strong a regular gorilla is because you can’t make it commit like a weightlifter does, but it’s up to ten times a regular human. Women are about half as strong as men, imagine being five times even weaker. For a gorilla it would be like fighting 100 toddlers.

They can break banana trees barehanded, and their bites are even more powerful than ours, and they have fangs.

Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.

Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.

I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and those end up swaying them left and right. Opportunistic antagonists will take advantage of those triggers.

Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.

Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness… will have a weaker hold on you.

Feel, but don’t stop thinking.

If humanity survives until then, we can implement 9-digit dates and delay the problem until Y100K.