🇵🇸 Lt. Colonel Alex Chaircheck

@TensionFilter @no_scooters @PokerPolitics If God washed their feet, they would complain to the manager to get Him fired for not smiling.

@Inhumansoflate1 That means the Kurds trusted the cia AGAIN

So I was right . Anarchists from Syria helped the CIA try to overthrow the Iranians government.

This is why it is important to have nukes. And if have nukes, make more nukes. And have intercontinental missiles. Then put the nukes on those missiles. And more importantly keep them paired, ready, hidden but operational even in the case of decapitation strikes. But most importantly, select and put the most patriotic and uncompromising hands in-charge of those nukes with the ability to counter strike. So the crazy adversary knows no matter how battered and how leaderless, the country will rain down a nuclear holocaust on them. What I'm saying is, just having some nukes and ICBMs needing five people's authorization to assemble a strike is not enough these days. The enemy must know it will happen anyhow. There's no escape from nuclear hell if sovereignty is breached beyond a point. A world of crazies needs crazy preparation and crazier posturing for a country to not be consumed by it.

If I ever read Gene Wolfe and it’s actually good I will be so mad

@sesquimundist @pachabelcanon Vance is so weird, the dryest, most cynical guy to ever write about fairies

@pachabelcanon jack vance!

Science fiction authors who write good prose: Gregory Benford, Roger Zelzany, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg, J. G. Ballard, Iain Banks, James Tiptree Jr, Dan Simmons, William Gibson, John Brunner, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson...

@humantransit @pachabelcanon true, but let me tell you a little secret about James Tiptree Junior...

@pachabelcanon A few more women deserve to be on this list: Ursula Le Guin, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton, Doris Lessing, Octavia Butler ...

@NornQueenKya The best version of this joke is still in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, where they introduce a water cooled Gatling railgun called Reason. And then say the line, "I'm sure they'll listen to Reason."

@hueoops Time to rediscover Imperator: Rome!

I have a craving to play a paradox game but they’re all kind of like in a poopslop state rn

@yengyosi_ "Is a historical guy" is a sliding scale. Like King Arthur was a historical guy, he just wasn't named Arthur, didn't do the things attributed to him, and is a bunch of welsh warlords merged together BUT HE IS A HISTORICAL GUY

"jesus wasn't a real guy" is such cope tbh (i say this even as a communist) bc obviously a historical jesus was not the son of god and prophesied messiah but there's enough to support that a 1st century apocalyptic prophet crucified by the romans categorically did exist

Bro really thinks he can kill the Shroom in a way that matters

hiiiiii it's me! a classic centrist liberal! i'm here to log on and remind you again i have no vision for a better future! everyone who hates me is actually stupid, and the more i tell them that, the better i feel! this is working! i am the good guy?

Oh god. The "committing genocide made me sad" movies are coming.

Today is the 20th Anniversary of the 'HIGURASHI: When They Cry' Anime!

@pachabelcanon I'd call him a Competence Porn writer and i say this approvingly

I've read Martian but not Project Hail Mary but should we even consider Weir a "high concept" writer? Hard SF authors who come to mind as high concept are more Greg Egan, Peter Watts, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Stephen Baxter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alastair Reynolds,

@king_of_games34 I don't miss the paint, but I do miss the glow effect they could produce by shining a light through the cell. Nobody seems to reproduce that now.

>Looks so modern No. Cel-based animation just genuinely looked better. It allowed for color gradients just not possible with digital animation. Digital animation just took over because its generally easier than having to draw every individual frame like you had to with Cels.

Yugoslavia Airways introduces its "Welcome Drink" service on flights to the US, Canada and Australia, 1982.

At scale, most right wing fears are just "what if you treat us the way we treat you"

Iran shooting down all those planes that were attacking their country is probably the most fucked up thing a nation has ever done in the course of fighting a war. Does their evil know no limits?

old lady who swallowed a fly situation where each new aircraft sent to rescue the last aircraft is shot down.