Pons_Aelius

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Seppo: Personal Social Web (seppo.social)

#Seppo empowers you to publish short texts (and images yet to come) and to network in the Social Web. By renting commodity web space and dropping a single file. Without being subject to terms and conditions. Without having to fret about small print or tech lore. And without the need for an IT-consultant. But rather having a...

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.

It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.

Pons_Aelius,

Ironically, these days, if you want to avoid fake crap Amazon is only good for books... (but it is still Amazon)

Pons_Aelius,

The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol

This is just...Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.

Pons_Aelius,

and might even get better

I honestly doubt it. I don't think it is possible for reddit to be profitable in anything like its current form.

Twitter, before the EM implosion, had managed one profitable year in the last decade.

Reddit has about 2 orders of magnitude less users than twitter.

Those users are much less attractive to advertisers because reddit knows fuck all about them compared to twitter.

Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.

Pons_Aelius,

a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think

I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.

I’ve never read the prequels either,

Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit...)

Pons_Aelius,

I understand not wanting to continue and how hard translating God Emperor to the screen would be but I wish he would give it a go.

As @chaogomu said, Dune Messiah completes Paul's story arc but the comparison between Paul's unwillingness to take the golden path and Leto's acceptance of it could be a great thing to see.

Paul clings to his humanity and billions die in his name, Leto sacrificed it and changed the destiny of the human race.

Pons_Aelius,

You are in good company.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Pons_Aelius,

Agreed. As do Terry Pratchett's as well.

warm my soul

Teach a man to light a fire and he is warm for a night. Set him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life...

Pons_Aelius,

Think for a moment how stupid the average person is...Then realise that half the population is dumber than that. - George Carlin

Pons_Aelius,

Don't worry Captain, it is logical. The needs of the many outweigh

The needs of the few

....or the one.

Pons_Aelius,

replace all roads with steel plate

Rusted out roads in 3, 2, 1 (years)

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Yup. Though original is probably the better description.

Texas-Bound 'Take Our Border Back' Convoy Raises $125K in Donations (www.improvethenews.org)

A protest convoy heading to the US southern border, which was planned on a Telegram channel named "Take Our Border Back" by the self-proclaimed "Army of God" wishing to "send a message" to officials they claim are enabling thousands of undocumented migrants to cross into the US, has raised over $125K in donations. Newsweek...

Pons_Aelius,

has raised over $125K in donations

I look forward to the upcoming story of the disappearance of the donations and the revelation the organisers may actually be grifters.

Pons_Aelius,

The goal of every platform is to hold the user there for 100% of their screen time.

If they leave to do something, anything, else, they have failed.

What would the inverse of what we have now in the atmosphere be like?

Just curious what an inverted reality of ours would be like, where instead of having too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere creating glasshouse gas effect, what would the inverse be like where we don’t have enough carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? What would the climate of earth be like?

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Dr Strangelove could be backstory for a post-apocalyptic society.

It would work for anything from A Canticle for Leibowitz to the Fallout games.

Pons_Aelius,

I'll take one if there are any left.

cheers.

Pons_Aelius,

they think they’re pumping endless magic underground water without realising

I doubt it. My guess is, "As long as the water is their to pump in my lifetime, that is all I care about"

Pons_Aelius,

WDYM “in my lifetime” ?

They know the water is going to run out but as long as it lasts for them, fuck the future generations.

If your country is one of those where the traffic is insane, and everyone just point-blank refuses to obey 75-100 percent of all signals and rules of the road, I don't respect your nation, at all.

I don’t care what reason you think you have, to explain this bullshit behavior. There is no good reason. Even if your government literally refuses to put signals, stop signs, etc, that’s still no excuse....

Pons_Aelius,

You wrote this post as bait. I decided to bite just to see 3what the response would be.

Which gave you the justification to post this wall of angry bullshit. So, no need to thank me...

Which is what you wanted, but not what you need. (which seems to be anger management therapy)

How much of you mental bank balance do you piss away getting this angry at:

Shit that does not affect you.

Shit that you cannot control or have an effect on.

Pons_Aelius,

So what you’re saying is, you don’t have any way of refuting any of the points I made?

No, what I am saying is that I didn't waste my time reading that bullshit.

How much of you mental bank balance do you piss away getting this angry at:

Shit that does not affect you.

Shit that you cannot control or have an effect on.

Or is it the only thing that you have is anger and looking down on others is your way of feeling better about your own life?

Pons_Aelius,

There is the option to let the fucking parrots go, then you won;'t have to worry about the swearing.

African grey parrots have the intelligence of a five year old human and are born to fly. Locking them up in small enclosures is just cruel.

Pons_Aelius,

If you keep running into the invisible wall, you will eventually map its boundaries.

Pons_Aelius,

My thought as well.

The people who well understand climate change know there is nothing we can actually do to stop it now.

Even if humans completely stopped greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, the co2 already released will continue to warm the planet for centuries to come.

All we can do now is mitigate its affects. The jury is still out as to how effective that will be or even if we will actually do anything at all.

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