If you’re looking at the Senate it’s actually the other way around in the last decade. With the house and other offices it’s much harder to say who does it more. I don’t think it’s any sort of conspiracy or playbook, just something that makes the news and sticks in people’s memory when it happens… It’s a betrayal after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_party_switchers_in_the_United_States.
Solution: put milk in a coffee cup
Solution to standing out, not to the underlying problem of milk being weird
Accelerando by Charles Stross is a great one. The beginning to mid-book concepts of singularity gone wild are mind-blowing on their own… And then it explores “what would happen a few hundred years after that?” A few times.
Concepts that stuck with me are:
all the AI assisted devices helping you through your day eventually running without much of your input, only needing a human to justify being on: When the protagonists interface gets stolen the street-thief ends up closing his business deals, helpless to all the guidance in his head. Meanwhile the protagonist has an existential meltdown having only his brain to think with.
Economics 2.0: AI markets dominate the earth in search of customers to satisfy. Governments are overrun but poverty no longer exists. People are mixed on whether it is utopia or dystopia.
Father in the future: Mass=computation, so entire solar systems become giant thinking machines. But they are stuck in their local space-time, faced with having to shed mass and get dumber to move. Only smaller intelligences can travel, but they risk being gobbled up as more mass if the system they travel to doesn’t care about communicating with the rest of the galaxy.
Father in the future: the universe is a simulation, but through singularities there are simulations that can be reached from within the simulation. One AI has figured out how to send a message back from another simulation, but it means sending a copy of itself to a potentially eternal hell to check it out first.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html.
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Well explained. Thanks for spelling it out.
TD;DR:
Before jumping to conclusions realize that:
1-6: incest ain’t so bad.
Thanks for posting that. I think it sums up the double speak nicely.
Somebody’s brought a Yamaha cp80 to Afghanistan only to have it burned. I suppose this somehow helps allah
My first thought was “why are you so angry at this person who was cheated on while deployed?”. I’ve had friends in that situation, it’s a sad cliche. A disturbingly large percentage of military wives just aren’t equipped to handle how much alone time active duty leaves them with.
Then i saw his user name.
It wasn’t a play on words. PEPFAR had bipartisan support until recent months when heritage foundation decided to target it for made-up abortion fears. It was truly keeping it real by just being a health benefit program for countries that needed help fighting aids and it has saved millions of lives. But 20 years later in today’s political climate it is somehow controversial.
I wondered how long it would take you to get here
“Westoids” didn’t invent homosexuality. Nor did colonialists. Plenty of societies had no problems with it, long before current religions condemned it. Plenty of cruel leaders have tried to exterminate gays from their populations but you can’t breed it out or kill it out, only oppress it temporarily. It is a fundamental part of being human and always has been.
At this point the Margot Robbie account is a part of Lemmy’s origin story
“Travel is fatal…” - Mark Twain.
/s
And also doesn’t write his own songs
super nerd, please tell me your reasons involve zero g poop.
also hilarious that the world greatest scientists and engineers settled on “just hold it” before they figured out the poop hoover.
Battle beyond the stars did it 43 years ago, so why not?
Safe to say a lot of the new Disney Star wars stuff is basically seven samurai in space
But hey, the original 7 were technically in space… We’re all in space Morty, literally everything is in space!