That’s some out of the box thinking there. Keep it up, kid. You’re going places.
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Meh.
Context tells you when a “.” means ‘end of sentence’ and ‘decimal point.’
Realistically, what would mother/fucker even mean?
Is it a math formula?
Pam Anderson dumped Kid rock years ago.
Since the break up he’s become a bigger and bigger joke, while Pam has become more respected.
This is why I like the Flashman books.
They are pretty much the only historical novels I’ve read where the colonizers are portrayed realistically
Colonization 101.
Say you’re a conqueror and you pull up on an island with three tribes. The Lions are 75% of the population and control 95% of the wealth; the Tigers are 22% and control 4%. The Bears are 3% of the people and have 1% of the wealth.
You, the colonizer, give the Bears weapons and let them keep 2% of the money. You keep 98%.
The Lions and Tigers hate the Bears way more than they hate you.
The exact same people run both the fossil fuel industry and nuclear power.
They ‘compete’ the same way professional wrestlers do.
Read the same book…
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_of_Star_Trek
My favorite story is the one where a company that made automatic doors sent a letter asking how they got their door to move so smoothly…
The people writing science fiction were trying to make a living.
They wrote for magazines and TV shows that depended on advertising. A bunch of midcentury advertisers weren’t going to have a Black wom,an President.
Another thing to consider is how much change you can put into a story and still expect the average reader to keep up.
There was an article about an early Star Trek episode. One scene involved a couple of lines about a salt shaker. The production team went out and brought a bunch of wild looking salt shakers. [1960’s, remember?] None of the ‘futuristic’ looking salt shakers was any good for the scene, because they realized the TV audience wouldn’t understand what that funny looking thing was. In the end they used an ordinary looking shaker.
“The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” is one of the best self-aware computer novels.
I love that in the novel the computer has already become self aware before it attempts something really difficult - creating a CGI face for itself
Nuclear energy was subsidized to make atom bombs seem less threatening.
If we’d spent as much on renewables and improving the power grid we’d have been off the fossil fuel addiction years ago.
Three Mile Island was a near melt down years before Chernobyl.
In ‘Starship Troopers’ the narrator is amazed that the military has musical instruments that sound like the real thing, but can fit in your pocket. One major plot point hinges on the hero getting a hand written letter delivered by a FTL craft.
12·6 days agoIt’s like the old joke : don’t think about a blue elephant. If you leave someone with a buzzer thery’re going to think about it.
Why?
Might as well use his techniques against him.
Let’s force them to deal with it.
I like the truth too, but at this point, normal behavior is just not working.
Want proof Trump is a freak?
This is a picture he took with his daughter.
1·8 days agoI remember her bitching about Earth tourists who think that “Sell any?” is a fantastic joke they were the first to ever make.
Context.
“The Gods Themselves…” is a novel by science fiction grand master Isaac Asimov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves
The commnet above is a pretty big spoiler
Let’s remember that one of the main reasons America had the ‘one drop of Black blood makes you Black’ rule is that slave owners wanted to be able to breed with slave woman and then sell their own children.