- I look really good for my age
Sarcastic bitch with a wine problem
Apple’s OS updates – whether iOS or macOS – haven’t been very good for years now
Heh, yeah I guess it’s different if you have to read it for some assignment. I sort of enjoyed it in a masochistic way, although I definitely skipped parts (especially the repeating crap) and like I said I wouldn’t call it a good book by any stretch of the definition
Oo I love Event Horizon. It’s a bit of a scifi horror cult classic though isn’t it? Not exactly Blade Runner, but not Battlefield Earth either.
One of my favorite trashy scifi movies is maybe Saturn 3 (Zardoz doesn’t count!). It’s a godawful piece of shit featuring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and a baby faced Harvey Keitel. It’s astonishingly bad and great fun to watch, and there was some sort of fairly hilarious story behind how it got made too (I’ll have to see if I can dig up the blog post I read about it)
edit: there’s a whole website https://saturn3makingof.com/
But some fascists do manage to be pretty coherent. It’s just that clearly Hitler wasn’t one of them.
I read Battlefield Earth and actually enjoyed it, but in the same I enjoyed eg. watching Plan 9 from Outer Space (or the Battlefield Earth movie for that matter.)
It’s an abject piece of shit as a book, written late enough in Hubbard’s life that nobody dared edit him so there’s whole chapters that just sort of repeat, and many of its premises are so stupid it hurts, but its old-timey pulp scifi schlock feel was often very fun.
So yeah, not a good book by any definition, but it was sorta fun and also interesting to read knowing that Hubbard tried to inject his world view into it too. For example the reason why the Psychlo were so eeeeeevil was that they were ruled by the Catrists who’d eg. use psychosurgery or electric shocks to make Psychlos more compliant – knowing that Hubbard absolutely loathed psychiatrists, it’s not hard to see that Psychlo Catrist = psychiatrist.
It’s such a terrible book, not just because of… you know, Nazis, but because it’s atrociously badly written. Rambling and fueled by completely blind hate, and it sets out a vision that’s completely detached from reality.
Really gave me similar vibes as listening to Trump talk, a sort of utter disbelief that people actually think he had something worthwhile to say
Saying Mein Kampf is borderline unreadable is bold?
May you have the life that you deserve
From a historical perspective, it’s stranger that swearing isn’t normal for some people; it seems to be a universal feature of human languages throughout history and around the world.
The exact swear / taboo words vary of course, but in general it does seem like just about every culture ever has had and used swear words.
Kittyvision 3000
There’s a subgenre of furries that are specifically into reptiles and they go by “scalies”
So I guess the opposite of furries could be “skinnies”?
How US-centric is Ground News?
Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?
Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful
Ah surprising that Poland’s still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they’d been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland’s laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it’s very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong
That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.
Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid
Conservatism is a plague of death.
As long as we keep pretending conservatism is a valid political ideology, nobody is going to be safe
I’ll drink to that.
Learn to cherish it. Call it Bob. Send it to college.