@LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis When I was a teenager yeah. Though now having read more and grown up, solid opinion. If it helps it’s also why I think libertarianism is stupid (but so much a worse read)
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@somaranon @roteklaus @kittcanis You took a work of fiction as the reason why you think a political system won't work?
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there's a great scene in this where the anarchist children who can't even conceptualize a prison decide to play-act and lock a kid away under some stairs for a day to prove how tough he is only to be met with the grim reality of incarceration when he's eventually released
kit@kittcanis
now reading:
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@Lasermazer @MaxFagin One of the big questions is about having kids. so you’d need someone to go up there and get pregnant and see if their kid survives birth and growing up (and can be repatriated to earth without dying in this scenario).
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@MaxFagin What would be the ethical objection to building some kind of rotating space station in orbit with rotation velocity giving 0.38g and having people stay there for lengths of time similar to ISS? Still very expensive but a lot less than trying to build a station on Mars
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Around the office, we call this the Trillion Dollar Problem, because there is simultaneously:
1) Almost no immediate incentive to answer the question, beyond academic interest
2) Severe ethical obstacles to answering the question
3) Trillions of dollars riding on the answer
Space Koala@SpaceKoala
What annoys me about "no idea if 0.38g is enough" is that we don't know if 1g is too much, too little, or just enough. I mean, people with obesity wind up with denser bones, but that doesn't mean people should be fatter, because obesity also causes joint problems. Martians might have far few joint problems and sports related injuries.
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@RealRadHom Please tell me there’s a Votann captain called Ahab hunting a giant white tyranid ship.
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The Leagues of Votann hunt & board tyranid bioships to extract their chemical compounds. Most of the processing is already done by the bioforms, so its good profit margins.
ArchonSam@ArchonSam
ENGAGEMENT BAIT! ENGAGEMENT BAIT! What is or was a cool lore fact that sounds fake but is true? Mine is The Dark Eldar can steal suns and planets at will.
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@BocchiDumbass @LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis I can sorta see that, but think that probably fails as a good metaphor given iirc the moon people are effectively ideal settlers (no displacement of locals). Plus with the independence because conquest isn’t worth it, it looks more like space Australia than third world
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@somaranon @LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis If anything, Anarres is way more about revolution in the "third world" and third worldism in general. I don't think it's good as a mental experiment of whether anarchism works or how it would work
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@DeuceRuth @kittcanis Yes, but also not my issue with anarchism (though I do think thats a valid critique). I saw it as an internal issue, that anarchism would be unsustainable and was only being sustained by belief. (been a while since I read but I recall that was an anxiety of the main character)
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@somaranon @kittcanis They are a colony for the overdeveloped capitalist earth which extracts their resources. Earth leaves them be because it's too much trouble and waste going all the way to the moon to fight a war for something they're already getting
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@somaranon @roteklaus @kittcanis devoted to... quite literally the opposite of the creation of a nationstate? as opposed to nationalism which venerates it???
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@LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis I should also clarify that this is why I respect Le Guin as one of the best speculative fiction writers.
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@LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis My takeaway from the book was anarchism cannot work as the only reason it was working here was basically author fiat. On reflection after some years it also basically required depicting the anarchists as incredibly nationalistic (this is cosmically funny as well)
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@LichQueenSpeaks @roteklaus @kittcanis On reflection, yeah basically (to the cause of anarchism, which is an incredible irony), like they have to make godly inhuman sacrifices to keep things going. (I suspect the influence was more Soviet stories of heroic workers, which honestly same thing but communist)
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@roteklaus @kittcanis I was more taking, this only survives cause the author really wanted it to (but knew this). And looking back because all the anarchists are also all the most devoted nationalists possible.
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@somaranon @kittcanis Kinda had the opposite take away in that Le Guinn realistically portrayed how an anarchist project shouldn't be portrayed as an automatically Utopic society.
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@The_Davos_Man Already did that first year of the war, wonder how much copy pasted they’ll be able to get away with
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@agraybee @reesetheone1 Is this gonna be another Magyr where the winner runs on being competent not corrupt right wing? My understanding is there’s not really a left anymore in isreali politics
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I need Israel to get rid of this dude this fall…..
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
Perhaps Israelis can admit now that American Jews understand Trump better than they do.
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@quantian1 Also underrated is that easy bomb/elevator methods require massive amounts of low yield uranium. One reason early bombs were exclusively bombers instead of missiles was the sheer weight of the material.
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It is literally a trivial task to assemble a low-yield fission weapon if you have access to enriched material (by the very definition of criticality!) but enriching fissile material from a standing start is one of the most complex and difficult engineering tasks known to mankind.
Acheronix@acheronix
Engineer/Physicist version of “I could land the plane” is “I could build a nuke” like gun type nukes are not that hard
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@NightJanit0r @Noahpinion I was wondering why the missile
Went straight for it. Looked to smooth for a misfire/malfunction Inwas thinking deliberate sabotage almost
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@Noahpinion Note - they keep the tanks warm to keep the oil flowable, so the heat seeker probably lost target in the smoke and headed for the next warmest thing it could find...
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This looks like something out of a space opera movie
777ua@777AFU
Китайці зняли саме фееричне відео, як кацапська ракета ППО промахнулась по дрону і влучила в цистерну з паливом, зірвав кришку.
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@Bartaway Only technically, which makes it irrelevant to the conversation as it’s just a way to dodge the question
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One state/two state isn’t really a question of preference.
The one state solution has already happened. This is it. The only remaining questions are how long the legal fiction will keep going and, if it ends and statuses are formalized, what form that will take
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
The idea that it is logistically impossible to remove 150,000 settlers from the deeper West Bank settlements is pure, distilled, 175% cope. 13 million Germans were ethnically cleansed out of Eastern Europe after World War II and basically no one cares today.
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@agraybee Interestingly the paragraph before has actual good advice (do things cheaper so you have less studio control)
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Don't siege Stalingrad, take it immediately.
Cinema Solace@SolaceCinema
Curry Barker’s advice for studios trying to cater to Gen Z: “I wish they understood that we’re tired of slop. We want good movies back. People are still hungry for movies that are original without some big IP, as long as the story is good.”
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@witte_sergei I assume the text isn’t the actual agreement and there’s basically a tacit understanding that Irans semi abandoning Hezbollah (otherwise this deal isn’t sticking as no way Isreals agreeing to it)
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Skeptical this is the actual framework of the agreement. This is so favorable to Iran that it doesn’t even contain a nominal face-saving concession for the US to point out. There’s no shiny object.
Amit Segal@AmitSegal
Saudi outlet Al Arabiya is publishing, it claims, the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran. Its clauses, in brief: - An immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon. - The U.S. will immediately lift the naval blockade on Iran and prevent “any interference” on the matter. - The U.S. will withdraw all its forces from the region within a month of concluding a final agreement. - Iran will lift the Hormuz blockade within a month. - The U.S. and its “regional partners” commit to formulating a plan for Iran’s reconstruction — funded with at least 300 billion dollars. - If the final agreement is implemented, the U.S. will remove all current sanctions on Iran, including all U.N. and IAEA resolutions. - Iran commits: “We will never produce nuclear weapons.” The issue of enriched uranium will be settled in the final agreement. Until such an agreement is reached, the U.S. allows Iran to remain in the current status quo of its nuclear program. - The U.S. will authorize the export of Iranian crude oil — including banking, insurance, and shipping — and Washington will release all frozen Iranian funds.
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