Oh but if he read my comment he would no doubt say that he doesn't have a problem with trans people **BUT... ** they just shouldn't be allowed to use bathrooms, you know, to protect the women.
And you just know that if he is willing to engage with and parrot that stupid culture war talking point in public then his private views are worse.
I find increasingly that sci-fi and fantasy authors often have takes on the real world that are diametrically opposed to their writings and the writings of the people they credit as inspirations. I got the ick from Neal Asher a couple of years back and while I like his fiction I am appalled by his takes on the world we live in.
My go to example has been Richard K Morgans shitty takes on trans subjects despite writing a series of books that explicitly view bodies and mentalities as entirely distinct. How someone could write about a male conciousness in a female body and not get that there can be an intrinsic gender identity which doesn't match external presentation boggles my mind. It would be like finding out Iain Banks was a hardcore fascist (thankfully all I have ever heard about him says his personal ideals were pretty closely aligned with the tone and content of his writings.)
Do any of these rhetorical questions ever get replies?
I'm glad your list of likes is longer than the dislikes. Maybe I am just being a big curmudgeon about it but...
It feels like a lot of the streamlining that they are doing here is because they expect to have to wrap this thing up in 4-5 seasons. If that is the case they are likely to be tempted to grab things from much later books and skip them forward. In order to do that they are going to start amputating plotlines. Between the amputations and the cauterisation of what is kept so it doesn't rely on the missing tissue... I think it's going to get a whole lot more distressing for book fans.
If I had any sense I would stop hate watching this show. Had to convince myself that this is just a completely seperate turning of the wheel where everyone has been huffing paint.
So they:
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If this show hits Season 6 I predict things will have shifted so much that we may literally start to see entirely different franchises showing up, maybe we will see who they cast as Pug, or Belgarath.
My wife is thinking about getting me a bell for besides the couch.
I like it, however are you concerned about having something made out of hard plastic, glass and metal at roughly head height in the event of a crash?
Having seen a few improvised claymore mines in cars (rhinestones or diamontes on steering wheels or dashes) it's always something I consider.
They are already complaining about the hole in the budget illegal tobacco products are leaving, how on earth would our economy stand up to losing the addiction tax?
I get a really slimy vibe from this RFI group. Kinda reminds me of the NIMBY groups that go around blocking mobile phone sites.
I remember talking to a planner once about the mobile phone blocking efforts and he was pretty scathing about what he had seen, some of it genuinely people who had an axe to grind based upon Facebook radicalisation, but a lot of it seemed to have deeper financial motivations from some of the organisers.
He told a vague story about a guy who kicked up a big stink with a proposed tower for highway coverage in a rural area, that is until the site was relocated and he found out afterwards that the secondary site selected was owned by a relative of the guy kicking up the stink who made bag off the bush block that was suddenly worth more than 15 times its previous value.
I fully endorse research and feasibility studies with an eye towards minimising environmental impacts, but if the alternative to these projects is continued reliance on coal and gas I suspect that the long term impacts are far more likely to be worse by not going ahead with the OSW.
Of course I would prefer that the development were done by a domestic company rather than foreign investors, but it seems we don't really do massive infrastructure domestically any more.
Is it too late to set up a bunch of forks on github of AI counter measure software, change the descriptions of each to rambling diatribes about the Musk Rat, explaining how you aim to take him down personally, and then forward it to them as an example of your current work?
I wonder how negative you have to be about AI and Musk to get the offer withdrawn?
I guess what I was trying to say with my rambling 1am slightly drunken screed, is that all of us swim in a sea of ignorance. I sure as hell do, I know little to nothing about mining, a lot of farming practices are completely unknown to me and the logistics used to coordinate the delivery of healthcare at a national level are frankly mind boggling (I live in a country with a somewhat functional healthcare system, ignore this example if you live in the US).
The biggest thing, IMHO, that seperates me from a lot of the younger (and older) people I meet and interact with, is that I am happy to say "I don't know." And if it's important I can and will go and find out how it works, at least well enough to approach the cliffs of competency and decide if it's worth the effort to scale them.
I cannot tell you how many topics I have learnt enough about to decide to eat the steak and declare that "Ignorance is bliss." Thankfully I haven't had to do so while betraying my colleagues to the agents yet.
Maybe the writers at Games Workshop pulled a bit of prescience out when they did their exercise in hyperbolic projection of trends across 38,000 years.
Or maybe it was influence of the warp and Tzeentch...
I allowed NSFW posts because I used to get some truly random shit coming up back when I lurked Reddit that way, so when I got Boost for Lemmy I thought I would do the same. Reddit had a much better ratio of weird and wacky vs onlyfans ads. Lemmy unfortunately only seems to have OnlyFans ads.
I kinda miss some of the bizarre ARAD topics, or shower beers or borderline brain melting confessions.