Al Petterson
@eyelessgame
NOT "AI", "Al". I do TTRPG, astronomy, inclusion, politics, mathematics, music, economics, history, SF. Dad & grandpa. Him. Frustrated by stupid. Angered by evil. I assume you're frustrating. Don't make me angry.
We are divided on ideology. We are united on the need to fight. Focus on the need to fight. The regulated capitalists united with the leftist communists to defeat fascists eighty-five years ago, we can do it again.
The Onion (ODC): "SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS MISSISSIPPI LAW REQUIRING NEGRO VOTERS TO BE WHITE"
To be clear: this is extremely, extremely serious. Also. @nytimes.com: if you wonder how we came to this, I have about eight headlines from your newspaper from October 2016 I can show you. So while the threat to journalism is existential... I have no sympathy for the NY Times specifically.
The coordinated push to get people to visit libraries more has even recruited Fox into the marketing campaign.
Popehat was suspended for this admittedly edgy post. The best way of making it clear that's unacceptable is for the post to be made extremely widely published.
By the way, this is a long-exposure photograph of the Scutum Star Cloud, taken at high magnification. The image used for the photoshopped or AI-ed video above is likely this, or one of the star clouds in Sagittarius or Norma. The sky on Mars looks very much like the sky from Earth.
"Altering the race and skin color of an important historical/mythological figure is blasphemy!" meanwhile this is a Semitic middle easterner
"Altering the race and skin color of an important historical/mythological figure is blasphemy!" meanwhile
Y'all remember this, right? Edolf launched one of his cars to Mars in 2018 with a space suit posed in it. I said *at the time* that we were looking at a billionaire garishly getting rid of a corpse. Everybody scoffed. How y'all feel about that now?
One of the folks in your line of work who I believe has some degree of prominence suggested this specific alternative as a means of driving policy. It's how the book opens.
Specialized knowledge; most people won't notice. Those of us who have misspent the first sixty or so years of our youth playing TTRPGs are generally the only folks outside of mathematicians who know a d4 is a tetrahedron, while a d12 is a dodecahedron.
"...the son of destruction, who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God."
I gotta say, the US considered it progressive to have a Black president, and the UK before that made headlines with a woman as prime minister... but Israel electing a Fundamentalist Christian as prime minister has been underreported.
yeah um it's kind of awkward to be agreeing with these three... and it's all for the stupidest of reasons... but... they're still smarter than any one of the president's supporters...
Welcome to the Resistance, (checks notes) um... (checks notes again) ... Ann... and um... (looks at back of page) (checks around for camera or other indications this is a prank) (installs antivirus software) (checks again) can't do it, can't accept. We're being punked. Kristol sure, but this...
sorry but when I hear "quarter to the salad" I imagine a wedge salad. ;)
These words of Gandalf - two passages from LotR - repeat in my mind every time conservatives blather about "virtue signaling", or imagine that protestors against shitler are paid, or in any other way denigrate people simply trying to make a better word. They can't imagine it as a priority.
It's not even a joke anymore but I still think this should get circulated more.
It is perhaps not the most earthshattering issue, but I have questions about people's height.