Zompist Bboard Again

You have to consider the current trajectory of the situation, though. the trajectory is moot; not even Babe Ruth could hit a baseball through a building. something always stops trajectories - and we've already seen more than a few somethings where Trump is concerned. Reactionaries are gaining groun...

What you call doomscrolling is simply reading any medium outside this webforum. The contrast between this forum and everywhere else is really jarring. Look, Malloc, if you forget where the links were, which posts have them - thats one thing, thats perfectly understandable for people with short term...

hard to suspend it, when he doesn't know what it is - which goes for more than just the corpus. He doesn't have to know what it means to suspend it, anymore than he had to understand science to suspend funding to scientific institutions. If he wants habeas corpus gone, it will disappear, you mean l...

Meanwhile the MAGA regime is already jailing politicians and planning on suspending habeas corpus. hard to suspend it, when he doesn't know what it is - which goes for more than just the corpus. Realistically how does one fight a regime that thinks nothing of jailing or deporting anyone it wants? i...

jcb wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 1:36 am

malloc wrote:Sufficiently pervasive and well-crafted propaganda can gaslight even the toughest minds.

It's as if you think people IRL are cretins like in the movie "Idiocracy".
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqIJZeeXEc

sadly, Trump isn't the only person who thinks movies document reality.

if that were true, England (as an example off the top of my head) would have no criminals, at least none outside of prison, and China would not be having trouble with the Turks or Tibetans. Except that neither of those groups are anywhere close to breaking free of China nor do they pose any credibl...

i forgot something... Increasingly dense surveillance will make it impossible for dissidents to avoid capture. if that were true, England (as an example off the top of my head) would have no criminals, at least none outside of prison, and China would not be having trouble with the Turks or Tibetans....

If you're referring to my blog post, the message is not "hope", it's RESIST. Sure, but I fear we are rapidly approaching an age where resistance has become unfeasible for various reasons. yeah, the year 2525, if you believe the song. :P surveillance will make it impossible for dissidents ...

malloc wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 8:38 pm The contrast between Zompist proclaiming hope about our situation and everything I am reading elsewhere feels ever more jarring.

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I love the drawing, style and most of the content, but the pedant in me is annoyed at the river that runs parallel to the mountain range. Rivers flow down, not sideways. It is otherwise very good though. the Mississippi runs roughly paralel to the Rockies and the Appalachians, for example. the Sao ...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 9:22 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 8:51 amSure they can — the IPA does it.

The human voice can produce many sounds that aren't used in any known language, and IPA doesn't have symbols for all of them.

those are the greyed-out boxes, yes?

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 7:52 am OK, people, I'm about to try to make sense of my taxes. Wish me luck.

i wish you good luck and good fortune. keep safe - paper cuts are dangerous, and being on hold tries the patience of all of us.

6 The first time I ever learned about the War of the Triple Alliance, it was like hearing that the Isle of Man went to war with the British Isles and a good chunk of Continental Europe...and not only nearly won, but fared better in the battles than one might have presumed beforehand. Hey, Paraguay ...

[*] The cost of multipolarity is always worth it, no matter how high. If so, if¹ say, Brazil got fascist dictatorshiped, invaded Paraguay and made noises about wanting more, would you still support its rise to a superpower? If not, why not, and how is this situation different to that of Russia &...

as I understand it, military bases also allow the military officers to compare notes with their opposite numbers, encouraging the sharing of not just permitted military information, but also linguistic and cultural information, such as cooking and ornamentation. this is all true, but they've got a ...

FTL stories are basically "the Age of Sail but with lasers." They are a great excuse to visit extremely exotic countries, now that we really can't shoehorn any into our own planet. Yeah, it feels like the modern world at least has little room for such things. I had a project long ago that...

it's funny how, when freedom of expression is curtailed, everyone imagine what they want about the clues they imagine they'll find wherever they want... curtailed? Yes. Saying that certain posters should be killed is almost certainly prohibited and perhaps even illegal, Also, troll suppression make...

I mean this nicely, but why does xxx seem to end all their sentences with an ellipsis? It's not important but if anyone can tell, I'd like to know. As a rightist in a den of lefties, he's probably frightened of getting his head bitten off. He was suspended recently, so a little nervousness is not u...

zompist wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 4:34 pmWhat vaccine program in Cuba? So far as I'm aware both the US and Cuban governments prohibit such cooperation.

ssshhhh, its superrrrrrrrrrcovert - only Torco has to clearance to know or disseminate info about it.

i suppose the obvious question is "why does every nation need military bases everywhere?" even the US doesn't use 90% of their military bases in Greenland. the first country that I was going to use as a counter-example, was Tuvalu - they don't have much of a need for their military bases ...