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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Viridian Dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Given that one side of the political spectrum has become staunchly against many aspects of reality, I disagree with your premise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal. The first book is called The Calculating Stars. Basically, an alternate history where (spoiler for the opening chapter)

spoilera meteor wipes out the east coast and kick-starts climate change, causing the Space Age to start 10 years early.
It follows a Jewish computer (a woman who literally runs calculations for NASA, as seen in Hidden Figures) who wants to become an astronaut, and her struggles with the racism and misogyny of the 1950s.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Here's the thing: you're not wrong on what each side seems to have as priorities. It's just absurd that anyone should think there's any kind of equivalence between them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has a commentary track called Commentary! The Musical! It is exactly what it sounds like, and it's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess you could say it was...whale done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A hard g? Like in giraffe?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Copyright absolutely is still a thing, the network is just under the radar at the moment and the people who could be suing over it don't have visibility on usage of their stuff. But, make no mistake, if it ever gets big enough to get noticed, those people and corporations will absolutely sue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I think they're saying snip the header off so you don't affect it, then reapply at the end.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No, GPT will make things up. It is absolutely not a good source for factual information or advice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Rainbow vacuums, my parents had one when I was growing up.

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