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Never go in against a Cimmerian when death is on the line.

spacey.space/@cerebrate@schell said

"Someone needs to extend this to three dimensions for the benefit of all our Space Is An Ocean trope novels."

Thinking of being corrupted by vernacular, it seems to me that a major problem with learning-enabled neural-network based artificial intelligence is that it, like the rest of us, will get dumber by being exposed to people.

*everything

(I have been corrupted by fucking vernacular again.)

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PS - If you've recently had the urge to shit all over anything within six degrees of Elon, yes, I'm talking about *you*.

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The true miracle of Elon Musk is not becoming an eminently dislikeable raging asshole; anyone can do that.

It's transmuting his critics into eminently dislikeable raging assholes, too.

(Politics isn't just the mind-killer, it's also the soul-killer.)

My urge to colonize Mars dwindles in proportion to my realization that there will also have to be other people there.

Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility - in the Emperor's name!

worldpol, WWIII 

As it's evidently time for the ZOMG WWIII ONOZ discourse again, this is today's reminder that it is not the job of Ukraine or Ukrainians to lie down and die because y'all can't find a single gonad between the lot of you.

Once, I used to be disinclined to participate in politics because I actively disliked everyone’s ideas.

Now, I’m disinclined to participate in politics because I can’t even with everyone’s mental illness.

I do not think this is an actual improvement.

If there is a kind of eugenics I unquestionably support, it's finding the allele responsible for flagrant misuse of the word "eugenics" and having all its carriers sterilized.

RIP James Earl Jones 😭😭😭

The voice of Darth Vader, from 1977 to The Rise of Skywalker, is gone. The narrator of Judge Dredd (1995) was also in Dr. Strangelove, SG-1, Conan, The Great White Hope, The Lion King, The Hunt for Red October, and so many classics.

He was 93.

100. No matter how wearied you are by the incompetent fools surrounding you, you may not spray knowledge-bearing nanites from high-flying aircraft.

No-one will care that they aren't technically chemtrails.

- _145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds_

bend down to check the hot end

inhale a lungful of the warm, sweet smell of hot PLA

sigh in pleasure

"ahhh,,, the delicious scent of productivity!"

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