@BradRTorgersen We have lived in so long a period of relative peace and stability that most in the 1st world have come to believe that it is the state of nature.
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Directrix Gazer 🧭
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Directrix Gazer 🧭
@DirectrixGazer
Military Operations Researcher, aspiring Eucatastrophist
Warm Water Port, Texas Oblast Katılım Haziran 2023
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The ultimate problem with strict isolationism is that it doesn't work. You can have no interest in the affairs of other nations, but other nations will never not have interest in yours. Likewise, where are your markets? To whom do you sell, and from whom do you buy?
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Wife playing Cyberpunk 2077.
Goes to meet Panam, carefully parking her car.
Agrees to go with Panam to do the mission in *her* car.
Wife watches from passenger seat as Panam pulls out onto the street and absolutely obliterates wife's parked car.
10/10 both still laughing.
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@raconteur_press @random_scrub Charon extending a bony finger to direct your attention to the QR code posted on the gunwale of his boat.
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@ouranometrian2 @eigenrobot Hahaha, I will pray for you in this trying time.
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@DirectrixGazer @eigenrobot Both of you can come talk to ortho about it then
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Stumbled upon a Soviet political joke from 1982 (Melnichenko #5850).
Syrian defense minister Tlass requests Marshal Ustinov to upgrade air defense:
— But we supplied Syria with plenty of surface-to-air missiles!
— Well, could you please send some surface-to-plane ones instead?
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@male_leo_xxvi There is only one answer: Sprint
share.google/TJze6XQR0869gP…
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I find that ancient epics (the Old Testament, the Sagas, etc.) have a way of relating events in a very stripped down, direct, unemotive way that is somehow more affecting than all but the most skillful literary technique.
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I went from a Commodore 64 to the most advanced navigation system that existed
🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️@USN_Submariner
Where did you first hone your craft?
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@QuantumWitness Another good example is the 'Hubbert Pimple." M King Hubbert used modeling to make a prediction in 1956 that peak oil production would occur somewhere 1966-1971. Very close. Then some damnedfool came along and invented a new way to extract oil.
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Damn, I wish I had learned about Julian Simon earlier.
"He combined a then-recent upturn in prices with the notion that there is a finite amount of mercury on the Earth’s surface, plus the mathematical charm of plotting a second-degree polynomial with the computer."
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@MattConnollyRLP @neontaster Read the book. It's very good.
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@neontaster Yes, but I can’t machine a society that wouldn’t advance warfare technology. Who wants to fight knife to knife if you can stay safely away with a bow & arrow, then gun, then drone? The spaceship& sticks works in a declining civ, though.
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Neal Stephenson’s concept of Amistics (which technologies a society chooses to avoid developing) works well as a rule of aesthetics as well. The clash of new tech and old lingering sensibilities just rings true.
Zack Stentz@MuseZack
A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.
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@rah_66_comanche The ships and shuttles were an immense disappointment.
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Interstellar is really a gift to mankind, there's no other movie that I can use to get spitter tards riled up like this.
LurchDogg88@Langdon316
@rah_66_comanche @luke_leisher_ Like I said, don’t see it. You obviously are too smart to enjoy simple minded things that the rest of us enjoy
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Black Templars: "We burned the Codex to make smores."
Brother Lore@SebKom01
I mean… it isn’t wrong 😂
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@madeofmistak3 How did you miss calling it "overseer?"
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at work everyone was uncomfortable with using "master" as the main branch name on git so i changed it to "slave_coordinator"
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