Oh absolutely. Regulating emissions and mass carbon capture by replanting forests, then burying them is the only way. Ain’t like it would be even so easy as launching millions of shade satellites. An entire automated zero g manufacturing industry would have to be launched. And while that tickles my scifi nerd fancy, again, we can never allow a scant few humans to gatekeep space resources for themselves. That’s too much wealth and power.

He probably means it’ll feed the poor into a wood chipper.

This exact same technology naturally allows capitalists to force everyone to pay not to have their sunlight blocked during the day.

I mean, the technology certainly has benefits, not in reflecting sunlight onto the dark side of the Earth. Nobody fucking needs that. Instead it should be used to shade a few percent of sunlight in order to control Earth’s warming climate.

But rich people gotta fuck things up. No single entity must ever be allowed to control orbital megastructures.

Not even as a kid did I ever understand cutting sandwiches. And crusts were always fine by me.

The only way Christianity makes any sense to me within the real world (aside from it being not real) is if Satan wrote the Bible pretending to be God, while denigrating the good guy as the rebellious angel Lucifer. If Satan had written the Bible instead of God, would you expect more genocide, slavery, torture, and rape, or less? So why is there any in the first place?

Look at 2000 years of Christian history. As soon as they could, they usurped political power in the most powerful nation in the area; Rome. Then began slaughtering and torturing anyone anywhere who thought different. They claimed divine rights and authority. They committed genocide in every single nation on the planet over nearly 2000 years. They perfected the dark arts of torture. They conquered earthly territory and plundered earthly wealth. They slaughtered so many that they built orphanages the world over where they could claim divine morality, but also rape children for centuries.

What did Lucifer do exactly? He told the first people that God was a lying dick and they should rebel against him, as he did.

Wouldn’t you?

Not really. I have most of what I want and need. Now I just need to zero my debt, which ain’t gonna happen soon. So I don’t need new shit. I’m just hitting yard sales.

And none of that shit ever got me laid like they said it would.

Easy, aim for the legs.

Yeah, they did get higher lead exposure than later generations.

What a strange and dangerous idea: to suppose that a handful of men shouldn’t own everything.

I don’t remember how long ago I first saw this one, but I am deeply grateful it’s still making the rounds every time I see it.

It turns all the bad feelings into good feelings. It’s a nightmare!

“Yeah well, my god is invisible!”

“Dude, you can’t look at ours or you’ll burn your eyes out.”

If you think that thing won’t have trackers everywhere, you’re dreaming.

Being a good one is.

I’ve only ever run macros for mining in a game I loved that had a terribly dreary, but almost necessary mining mechanic. They banned for macros though, so I stayed alert for approaching mods.

Look at one spot and see how it repeats. Like the tides between South America and Africa kind of rotates through the Atlantic.

It probably means different things for different people, because like every other fandom, it’s kinda arbitrary.

I was kind of purist. I started with TOS, but TNG, DS9, and VOY were right then too. Didn’t care as much for Voyager, but it was ok. Skipped Enterprise completely. I have TAS but haven’t watched it. Actively disliked the Kelvin movies. I’ve missed all the new stuff because I don’t stream, except Lower Decks, which I find delightful. I’m gonna pick up Picard and SNW soon.

The pictures they used to teach us the tides as children came to make less sense to me in regards to certain places having higher tides than others. I couldn’t picture how. That animation clarified how tides are ordered by the Moon and made chaotic by the shapes of land. The planetary ocean bulges they taught us as kids stuck with me too long and prevented deeper understanding. It finally clicked for me.

Ok, that clarifies things so much better for me. Thank you.

See, that’s the part that confuses the hell outta me. How can water be higher in one spot than others just due to the Moon’s gravity? Yeah it’s the geography of the area, got it. But still, how?