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• Post #969454

  No. Get out. I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.” And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a pun...

• Post #947247

  can we acknowledge that what happens on the internet today is harmful to children? For 99% of what happens on the Internet? No. No, we can’t. That would be malicious fearmongering. For the remaining 1% (or less)? Fine and impose sanctions on any companies that produce content intended to harm children (mostly Meta, and any company that makes games with lootboxes), and their CEOs and boards. Educate parents so they can prevent their children from accessing that harmful 1%. Fine any that re...

• Post #613707

  Project Icarus it was called, the fourth space program of that name and the first for which it was appropriate. Long before Jacob’s parents were born—before the Overturn and the Covenant, before the Power Satellite League, before even the full flower of the old Bureaucracy—old grandfather NASA decided that it would be interesting to drop expendable probes into the Sun to see what happened. They discovered that the probes did a quaint thing when they got close. They burned up. In America’s “I...

• Post #611188

  None of the moons in our solar system have atmospheres. Except for Titan. Titan has a lot of atmosphere.