Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.
Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.
Political Compass: -7.0, -6.62
I love the The Expanse books to death, but holy shit, the series was so incredibly good. I love love love the TV Camina Drummer oh my god, she and Ashford defined the Belt for me.
I’m sore that the show was canceled, but I thoroughly enjoyed what we got from it.
This is Tiffany, walking back home. Start with the boots. They are big and heavy boots, much repaired by her father and they’d belonged to various sisters before her; she wore several pairs of socks to keep them on. They are big. Tiffany sometimes feels she is nothing more than a way of moving boots around.
Then there is the dress. it has been owned by many sisters before her and has been taken up, taken out, taken down and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.
A few pages later
She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat. The screaming monster, leaping out of the water, met the frying pan coming the other way with a clang.
It was a good clang, with the oiyoiyoiyoioioioioinnnnnnggggg that is the mark of a clang well done.
Terry Pratchett — The Wee Free Men
And Corporal Nobbs… well, anyone like Nobby had unlimited reasons for not wishing to be seen by other people. You didn’t have to think hard about that. The only reason you couldn’t say that Nobby was close to the animal kingdom was that the animal kingdom would get up and walk away.
It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are — who knows?
Best not to speculate.
Thunder rolled…
It rolled a six.
Terry Pratchett — Guards Guards
I think Douglas Adams might fit even better though.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams — The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I main in science degree of Evolutionary Biology” has a weird ring to it.
Honestly that was my read too.
We know AI won’t replace us and if it does we’ll come back for more money than before.
Hey,
@JennieBreeden@lemmy.sdf.org @jenniebreeden@lemmy.world
I love you and your comic, but there are some good points here.
Very much this. You don’t have to be trans to be curious. I’m extremely curious and given the chance would try all kinds of things that some people, who are less secure in their identity, would balk at.
But the body I would really want is just young, fit and healthy and preferably my gender asigned at birth, but I would take any gender if that’s the only way to be young, fit and healthy again.
Accurate but also not. PewDiePie came out in favour and PirateSoftware lied about it. But I think Thor lying created a huge burst of coverage about how he’s wrong and really created lots of noise about it.
Try 4th Edition, I am having sooooo much fun! But if you want Spells to feel like more than just different flavors of damage/buffs/debuffs, I would recommend the addon “Magic - Deeper Secrets” that brings back a whole lot of the extremely creative spells from 2nd Edition.
Look, folks, I’ve been hearing a lot, a lot, about this thing called Linux. Ever heard of it? Sounds European, doesn’t it? Probably invented in Brussels, or Sweden, maybe Russia, I don’t know. Total disaster. I call it Socialist Windows, because that’s what it is! It’s chaotic, no one’s in charge. Total mess. Bernie Sanders running an IT department, terrible. Meanwhile, Windows, great American company, by the way, very successful, very strong.
It’s a tool! I want it to answer questions, this was the best possible answer, because what I do not want is LLMs (which do NOT (and I can’t stress this enough), which do NOT understand human psychology) to psychoanalyze every fucking question.
She appreciates the enthusiasm but wishes you’d take your time using your lips and fingers and only then start to exhaust yourself.
Ukrainians aren’t as scary as Russians, they don’t go invading other countries.
“He is mistaken though, while being able to provide is important, the females mostly value emotional availability and caring partners. This explains how the less flamboyant males are attracting partners.”
“This scruffy little guy over here on the other hand is what he calls ‘involuntary celibate’, or short ‘incel’, males who subscribe to this aggressive tactic regularly attack females and are very unlikely to ever reproduce. He is an evolutionary dead end.”
Lawful good and neutral good are the ONLY acceptable anwers
Yar-har, fiddle-dee-dee!
I get six weeks paid time off every year, on top of pay for 10 national or state holidays, this amounts to eight weeks pto EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
Oh, also, unlimited sick days (though after 6 weeks the pay goes down to 60% and is then paid not by my employer but by my cheap, statutory, mandatory health insurance) and other social securities that have allowed me to spend TWO (non-consecutive) YEARS without a job and take care of my mental health.
Oh no, who could’ve guessed!
Sadly, extremely accurate