uriel238

uriel238, 10 days ago

Corporate espionage is so brutal that state operatives run and hide when they learn who it is. Even law enforcement avoids them.

uriel238, 8 days ago

Guilty as charged.

uriel238, 10 days ago

One places the Pacific Ocean in Saturn, not vice versa.

uriel238, 8 days ago

The Vietnam vets I knew from the US army talked about the weirdly green gravy which was good, just green.

And a WWII Navy vet stationed on a carrier said the food was fine, but it was all piled on top of each other.

uriel238, 8 days ago

Situational sexuality.

I remember a recent convo (last ten years) regarding an elderly British couple talking about the rise of LGBT+ issues in politics,

HUSBAND: It’s actually refreshing to see the young people openly talking about it. WIFE: I don’t think we’ve ever known anyone like that. Do we? HUSBAND: Dear, I was in the navy for ten years.

If you think about it, it’s very much a thing in parochial schools as well.

uriel238, 12 days ago

This is going to be in fashion in a hundred years. Then with gold bling plates on the front.

uriel238, 12 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

As I have had a really bad run of terrible dentist experiences, bridges are scary and implants are expensive, I’d really like this to work well, and be reasonably priced.

ETA Or, it could be my superhero origin story.

uriel238, 11 days ago

ACAB

I’m remined of the Freikorps militia groups of Weimar Germany that would become the meat-and-potatoes recruits for the Sturmabteilung and early Schutzstaffel of the SS. On their own, The Freikorps served as law enforcement and peacekeepers, typically by disposing of town undesirables and locals in disfavor with the business class. In exchange, they got room and board and pretty much anything else they wanted (including the local womenfolk) since it was a really bad idea to deny them something they wanted.

uriel238, 16 days ago

For me it’s Deep Rock Galactic and Satisfactory presently, but yeah.

uriel238, 10 days ago

I believe that it’s a team of four people, each with strengths and weaknesses who are on a common journey and have teamed up against the elements and a vengeful antagonist while on a journey to meet a common consultant.

I can’t speak for Scarecrow and Lion, but in the book the tin man absolutely had prior business with the WWW that didn’t end well.

All four of the travelers had a problem with no clear answer and were going to ask the Wizard who might have some sound advice. So it’s a road trip for folks with a common destination

Also the flying monkeys were their own people and geased to obey the amulet, which WWW possessed.

Also, the solution really was the friends they made along the way. If I were Dorothy, I’d rather be there than Kansas.

uriel238, 10 days ago

I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs

uriel238, 17 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Very much a Disaster Lesbian, though the Rhombic Dodecahedron speaks to me.

uriel238, 12 days ago

Your feelings are valid.

It’s not you. It’s a society that is falling apart and a government that was not organized in good faith.

It sucks, but we were born into a crappy age, and there’s no One Ring we can simply walk into Mordor.

uriel238, 12 days ago

This raises the question why AI isn’t using the Google index.

uriel238, 10 days ago

Lobbyists weren’t legal until Reagan.

And that’s when the United States’ train ride to corporate authoritarianism went into high gear.

uriel238, 10 days ago

What freaked me out were the IV drug dispensers that dialed into wifi for app control (and yes, they’re less secure than your roomba).

It’d make a great fictional assassination story if one was commandeered to kill a VIP by morphene or insulin overdose. No such incident has occured yet IRL. But I’m sure it’s worth like 20 cyberpunk dystopia points when it does.

uriel238, 17 days ago

This is the result of gravitational lensing very close to the noodle event horizon, < Schwarzschild radius × 1.5

uriel238, 20 days ago

In my forties I had a short fling with a woman who was still breastfeeding her son, and her pumps runneth over.

Human breastmilk is really sweet for those of us used to cows milk. Or really, too sweet for anyone with more than one digit in their age. The quantity available had me pondering the possibilities of small-run cheese or ice-cream production.

I suppose breast milk can be a fine substitute as a coffee creamer or in some dishes, but drinking it directly is an…experience.

uriel238, 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

This was a Donald Duck comic when I was a kid in the 1970s. The smart inventor (Ludwig Von Drake) was trying to mine gold from the ocean, but the energy cost was too great and so it was done at a loss.

We try this once in a while, and it’s still too expensive.

uriel238, 12 days ago

Sexuality has multiple axes.

1. Intensity
2. Orientation (towards Men, Women, Frogs)
3. Time (people have been known to have straight periods, gay periods, horny periods, ace periods, etc.)

There are probably others that we relate to kink and paraphilia.

So the very gayest person would have to be specifically defined. Which is gayer: the horniest bisexual or the average-libido gay who has absolute-zero-Kelvin interest in the other sex? Or the gay man who is totally in love with (and exclusively devoted to) his hubby and has been this way for fifty years?

uriel238, 11 days ago

There are examples of thinking zombies in media. Tales From the Crypt had some.

uriel238, 12 days ago

While I’m a pretty strong critic of myself, I’ve assessed my copy. Usually it’s passable, sometimes it’s crap and occasionally it’s brilliant. I’m okay with this.

It also won’t land me jobs… at least not jobs I’m willing to take.

uriel238, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Believing in yourself as per the old media coming-of-age trope is a really good way to get exploited in the twenty-first century, in which we harvest talent shows even more for cringey acts by which the good acts can be presented.

There is nothing wrong with you (we can a commodate for a lot of disabilities, such as paraplegism or blindness) In a better world you wouldn’t be obligated to make yourself useful, but would find opportunities to do so and the natural motivation to take one. (If you don’t have that motiviation, that is avolition, a symptom of depression.)

However, our world is fiercely competitive and based on dominance hierarchy, only slightly more cooperative than the wild jungle. Furthermore, every industry is gamed to make employment openings scarce and in demand, hence the high level of abuse and bullying that is epidemic in the industrialized commercial sector. You can be awesome at your job and still end up unemployed or locked into a shit job because of pure bad luck and because no corporation takes management or talent hunting seriously.

And if you’re an adequately sexy human specimen, you will get harassed, extorted or exploited. Multiple times.

So it’s not you, it’s the world we live in. And the whole believe in yourself trope presumes the world will meet you half-way given a bit of luck and pluck. It won’t. And going in believing in yourself will get you chewed up and swallowed, or turned into an abomination of your former self, broken from within.

But this isn’t a call to just give up. It’s a call to go creatively renegade. Believe in plan A, but have Plans B and C and a bug-out bag just in case.

Maybe take a pointy knife lined with ricin, just in case.

uriel238, 12 days ago

My cat loves hanging out in the (dry) shower.

He’s lived in two dwellings and in both cases, he found the shower / bathtub and plays around in it.

I will attempt to secure a picture.

uriel238, 12 days ago

The cruelty is the point.