mineralfellow

I read primary scientific literature for work. If I am reading for leisure, fantasy is the absolute best. I can’t waste my time reading nonfiction.

Yay, more instability!

I missed that. Seems like they are already using it to send anybody they don’t like.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/guantanamo-bay-immigration-detainees-asia-africa-europe/

Sure.

https://henryjenkins.org/blog/2009/08/district_9_part_two_out_of_afr.html

District 9 and Chappie were both before it.

The displays at pretty much every bookstore I have been to recently are pretty massive. And kids still like the stories. It is hard to argue against a small child who is begging to read a massive book, as opposed to a kid wanting to stare at a screen all day.

Paywall?

Like when our dog died, my dad tanned the hide, wore it as a cape, and played with the other dog?

And even with that, you are glossing over the Spanish Flu. The "peaceful" time since the '50s included numerous massive wars, not least of which was the Vietnam war.

The idea that every time period has its own chaos is the whole point of the song We Didn't Start the Fire, written in 1989.

As in the famous documentary Blazing Saddles

I mainly use Lemmy. Reddit for search results, haven’t seen the home page in years. Never had Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. Still watch a lot of YouTube, mostly for either chess content or movie reviews, sometimes tutorials or professional lectures. Use Facebook for talking to exactly two friends.

Logged into Facebook the other day and saw a friend request. The name was familiar, but not exactly, so I checked the profile. Soon realized he was my ex-girlfriend.

Anybody else remember Cheyney singing “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?”