I wish Mamdani was as cool as his enemies think he is

Just like I said for the “interstellar travel is completely impossible forever” post a little while ago, talking about interstellar travel when the furthest humans from earth are a couple hundred miles up is premature.

Read Starship Troopers and conclude that Heinlein was a fascist. Read Stranger in a Strange Land and conclude that he was a free love hippy. Read For Us, The Living and conclude that he was a socialist. Read I Will Fear No Evil and conclude that she was a closeted trans woman.

He does lack some of the usual brainworms of the “apolitical” tech guy and have a consistent throughline of international win-win cooperation in his books anyway though, like in The Martian the main character only survives long enough to be rescued because of a Chinese supply rocket.

I watched Blade (1998) for the first time it was sick

Any time you see a modder use the word “balance” you know something fucked up is going to happen

I hope he lives a very short time more, but still outlives the entity

Well known ally of the Palestinian people, the *checks notes* CIA

I don’t think those categories were quite so clearly delineated at the time

It’s not irrelevant. Rather than letting it leech off the old reputation, continuing to call it twitter also serves to tarnish that old reputation. Maybe one day it’ll get tarnished enough that people will stop the futile task of trying to make “good twitter” which is fundamentally impossible.

It was never good. The current incarnation is not meaningfully different from what it has always been.

All of Star Trek except Discovery and Picard

The Orville

Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis

Babylon 5

This is a point on which general good sense and Wyoming law disagree

Going to a bar with a gun, with the intent to drink, is an average Tuesday in Wyoming.

I see news talking about some kid on an ebike getting obliterated by an F-950 Child Mutilator Extreme Ranch Lariat and then the newscasters going, “ebikes are so dangerous for children!”

It always annoys me when people act like the e-mobility doodads are the unsafe thing, rather than the hostile infrastructure and giant speeding death boxes that surround them.

Wyoming specifically rejects the duty to retreat

Long March 10B also has 7 engines making a hexagonal shape, but it works and it’s not billionaire owned garbage