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No one special. But trying.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Why do movies think rich people eat at long tables all the way across from each other?

swordplay,
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@hybridhavoc @RickiTarr

Two friends/lovers/relatives walking in the same direction down opposite sides of the street

Two friends/lovers/relatives sitting front and back of a bus

Two friends/lovers/relatives eating hot dogs on different benches in a park

swordplay, to bookstodon
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@appassionato @bookstodon

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

swordplay, to random
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I may have to hang it up for the night here in GMT -10, I think the melatonin is about to ki

swordplay, to random
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which amendment is the one about guaranteed corporate profit

swordplay,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

my mistake it must be a commandment then

swordplay,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

To be serious, it's just the extended pseudo-philosophy of greed, vanity and selfishness stringing together words. Any AI could do it.

swordplay, to random
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i'm a centrist so i split the difference i say one thing and do another 50 50 even steven

StefanEJones, to random
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1/3) I watched the first episode, and part of the second, of the 1973 SF series "The Starlost."

The early 70s saw a terrible drought of SF on television. As a tween, I invested great hopes in the show. I was familiar with the generation ship concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ars0DCQijqU&list=PLmAyiwH3Lpit9Aaud3XyzGMDNzkrOp0x5

swordplay,
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@nyrath @StefanEJones

It did inspire Ben Bova:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/908237.The_Starcrossed

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I'm trying to remember old pulp scifi stories containing an old scifi troupe.

The idea was in the story, there existed telepathy and other mental powers. Some people's powers were latent, they had them but could not use them. Often were unaware that they had them.

BUT ... if another telepath tried to read their mind, they could see (internally) how it is done. Suddenly the latent telepath was a full telepath.

Can you remember scifi stories like that?

swordplay,
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@nyrath

It's kinda through Heinlein sorta, but not that 'awakening' trope.

Laumer... feels right. I reread Galactic Odyssey a lot, but the developed skill is more subconscious perception than telepathic.

Lafayette O'Leary had a protag that learns cross-dimensional conjuring from a book...

I didn't read his Bolo or Retief that much. I did read the Imperium books, but don't recall that trope.

swordplay,
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@nyrath

Julian May's Pliocene Saga has at least two characters whose latent psychic powers are triggered by technological enhancement which they later surpass.

swordplay,
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@nyrath

In the Taltos series by Steven Brust, Vlad (the main character) is taught to use his psychic powers by his grandfather via hypnosis.

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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What if everyone stopped pretending the people who belonged to the "GOP" as it was previously, and perhaps, foolishly understood, still belong to that party, instead of the new Neo-Confederate Party.

swordplay,
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@StillIRise1963

GOP: Gross Old Plantationists

LALegault, to random
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Isn’t Mulroney and Biden the same age? 👀

swordplay,
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@LALegault

She finishes it.

swordplay, to random
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Stop believing that they have principles when what they have are positions.

swordplay, to random
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i believe a woman grew from a rib so i'm in charge

swordplay, to scifi
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Got any suggestions for TV?

No horror, please, nor gritty dystopic tough guy stuff. Over it.

Recently I've enjoyed , , : Strange New Worlds. Caught up on .

ST:SNW in particular really hit the spot. We can actually work together to fix things, ya know. (I know ya know :) )

I'd also consider some light mysteries with some style - big fan of and for instance. Or heist stuff like and

swordplay,
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@rayckeith

I saw the first season of Sense8 - don't remember it well but I think I liked it.

Had maybe heard of Travelers - Wikipedia says 'Brad Wright' who was a Stargate guy, if I remember right?

I mentioned The Good Place and Doctor Who, but fantasy is a fourth place genre for me although it's easier to find than good light mystery or heist stuff. What's your fave of the Korean ones?

swordplay,
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@virtualbri

Yeah, I should have mentioned Lower Decks! Super fun, and the x-over to SNW was fantastic.

Prodigy I read about, but haven't seen. I'll look into it again!

Miss Fisher I've watched some of, maybe a couple seasons. Totally dig the style and the period - I seem to remember thinking the writing was maybe a little weak? I could be wrong, it was some time ago.

There was another series, more grim, The Doctor Blake Mysteries that captured me for a bit. Not sure if they're Ozzy or Kiwi?

swordplay,
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@rayckeith

Will do!

I did watch Fringe, Sliders, some Quantum Leap, some Old Who.

The Roddenberry stuff - the first year of Andromeda was good. Once Ol' Captain Meathead took control of production, it fell off a cliff.

Didn't watch the Something Something Earth one much?

Did you see the old movies he made with John Saxon? Pax something.

w7voa, to random
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A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/former-twitter-engineers-are-building-particle-an-ai-powered-news-reader/

swordplay,
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@w7voa

good news everybody now ai will filter and rewrite the news for you and choose who gets paid best of all there's some tech bros designing it don't worry they won't take all the money and support nazis this time

RickiTarr, to random
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Tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet hot dog wine.

swordplay,
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@RickiTarr

isn't that a neil diamond song

🎶 sweet hot dog wine 🎶

swordplay,
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@RickiTarr @WorkWithKirk

put a twinkle in your eye, ten wrinkles wide

swordplay, to random
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Quick! beige.party is down for upgrades.

Let's paint it vibrant green while they're not looking!

swordplay, to random
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What does it feel like to be a centrist 'liberal' mid?

It has to be a kind of shallow self-love, right? They always seem to be so proud of how they manage to compromise with evil.

It's like they see the surface of things as reality and are utterly unable to look beneath for the reasons, motivations and history.

They compare themselves to this evil, see themselves as better, and stop there. 'We only split 3 babies, not 6!'

This moral failure enrages them at the left when it's pointed out.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think people are too kind to the purveyors of misinformation. Stop letting the facilitators of fascism off the hook.

swordplay,
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@StillIRise1963

This politesse all the time, it's the most desiccated contemptible vanity. 'We're better than them, so we attack the truth for its lack of civility.'

Decades ago Atrios called them 'Versailles' and 'The Village'. They're all so fucking weak, held up by privilege and money and out-of-my-view-please violence.

I am so sick of people who think they can trick shot 'a return to normalcy' with a witty bon mot.

Intellectually (and literally) inbred aristocratic mutants.

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