Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

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Someone stop me before I buy 64,000 LEDs to install a Las Vegas Spherelet on my lawn.

One day I will stop responding to doomful predictions on social media with "Pathetic Earthlings - who will save you now?"

But it is not this day.

@zarpaulus Yes, I know what I did.

@zarpaulus That is the meme on which I am riffing, yes.

(And while I would hate to lose the readers, in my subgenre, one can consider "banned by the CCP" a sign that one's doing something right.)

On another note, my writing is seeing a lot of traffic from sogou.com recently, which seems to be a Chinese search engine?

Mistake me not, I'm happy to have the readers, but I do wonder if this is the first step towards being banned in China (again).

#eldraeverse

This and other stupid-ass memes brought to you by the sort of people who, in the comfort of their warm caves, composed speeches decrying those who considered insane and useless notions like cooking, hot baths, and turning rocks into easy-shape-better-than-rock-stuff "fire bros" who were dangerously arrogant and bent on destroying the caveman way of life in the name of fire for fire's sake.

"But I never thought that fire would cook _my_ meat!", cried Zog, regretting his membership in the Make-Fire-Cook-Antelope faction of the tribe (while on fire).

@dashdsrdash @60sRefugee @nyrath @maxthefox @michael_w_busch @sudnadja@vivaldi.net

While I don't pretend to have a perfect general solution to the problem, I do note that we're awfully good at implementing solutions to potential risks which turn out to be pretty terrible in their own right.

So I have a fairly strong preference for not doing that.

@isaackuo @60sRefugee @sudnadja@vivaldi.net @nyrath @maxthefox @michael_w_busch

That said, it's nice to have a backup. Not practical for smaller habitats, but when we're talking cities in space, it would be awfully nice to have life support systems that are not only redundant, but where the redundant elements work on different principles, such that issues that affect one can't affect the others.

@dashdsrdash @60sRefugee @nyrath @maxthefox @michael_w_busch @sudnadja@vivaldi.net

"So, what you're saying is that in order to avoid the risk of the market collapsing into a hydraulic despotism, we need to preemptively institute a hydraulic despotism?"

I am always a mite disturbed when people advocate the banning of fascist literature on the grounds that reading it will turn people into fascists, like some dreadful contagion.

Gentles all, have you _read_ any fascist literature?

It's badly-written puerile shit that couldn't convince anyone whose brain hasn't already been eaten.

Far from banning it, we should put it on a big shelf in libraries labeled "CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT THESE MORONS ACTUALLY THINK?" for people to point and laugh at.