!agree

...well. That's only a few miles from me.

Mortal Engines.

I wasn't too impressed, but I'm picky with my books.

Yeah, the book wasn't awful or anything, it was just...another fairly average book. Not really interested in the movie either.

Well, my favorite books tend to be classic sci-fi. Asimov, Niven, Heinlein, that sort of thing. If I had to pick one absolute favorite, likely Asimov's Foundation series as a whole, since it's functionally one long book split into parts.

If I recall, it was originally published as a serial via magazines.

Ah. No, first part of Foundation was published in Astounding Science Fiction in May 1942.

Well, techincally, the second part. The very first part of the book was written later as a prologue.

Are you talking about a theoretical communist economy that might actually work in a post-scarity society, or are you talking about actual communist economies that have been attempted?

That sounds like one of his Multivac stories.

There's still a few of them I haven't read.

I did enjoy...oh, I don't remember the name. The one where it's suicidal.

The Last Question, yes.

It's the most well known Multivac story.

I presume it's the one you mean, where they keep asking it to reverse entropy.

And it ends with Multivac's eventual successor saying "LET THERE BE LIGHT."

Oh, um...

The Last Answer?

Though I don't think it's specified as Multivac.

Though it's implied via the title.

Ah, yeah, it's the Last Answer.

Way I see it, even if humans aren't having a huge effect on climate, we should still move to cleaner energy sources if only because carbon is far from the only thing produced by burning fossil fuels.

That said, given current tech, I think we should be investing in fission power until we either get fusion or sustainable renewables.

Renewables right now aren't reliable for a primary energy source. Too reliant on weather.

For solar or wind to be primary power sources we need breakthroughs in energy storage.

Right now the best balance of clean and realiable is nuclear plants, yes.

Orbital solar beamed to the ground might be the way to go if we get a proper orbital infrastructure set up.

Well, as I said, even with no climate change, current power generation produces pollution anyway.

So it's still a good idea to move away from fossil fuels. Not to mention peak oil is an issue.

That reminds me of Alex Jones describing the plot of the Star Wars prequels. Insane rants aside, Jones is good at explaining fictional conspiracies.

Ok, ok. Yes, the Star Wars Prequels are a documentary about actual events long long ago, and far far away.

You've found the truth underneath the truth!

How dare he not work for someone we approve of, like China!

Yeah, that's pretty clearly a "I have no idea what this dude is doing, maybe if I smile and maybe nod he'll go away."

I've had the exact same look on my facing when dealing with drunk people before.

Because it earns them goodboy points with aggressive non-whites.

She's just pissy because she most likely thought she was gonna get a bunch of cushy sequels from the reboot.

That's what they thought, yes.

And it worked to some extent with more niche stuff, but Ghostbusters was a bit too big, I think, and too entrenched in popular culture for them to get away with a low quality reboot relying entire on vagina power to try to pull in a new female viewership.

I will never understand the...frankly, lust, some people have with dropping their current audience in the hope of getting an entirely new set.

I mean, that was established by killing the people that wouldn't assimilate, though.

That's also why they've been deploying troops into northern Syria, since there's an ethnic minority of Turkic tribesmen there.

They were likely hoping Syria would collapse entirely so they could annex it.

Did you just assume my ideology?!

It's a nothingburger. It has nothing to do with...anything, really.

Even if you don't agree with the specific charities he's giving to, it's totally within his rights and those of his viewers to give to them, and it has nothing to do with GG.

Impossible, I was told by the great Doctor Professor Smart that they'd already spent all the money on cars and vacations! There's no money left! They're broke!

None that I'm aware of, but that's the meme a bunch of people kept spitting out, that none of the money was being spent on game development and was all going for personal luxuries.

Though, of course, anyone with access to the alpha modules can tell you that there's obviously a lot of time and money being spent on the game.

Yeah, it's not like there's anything to show for it. Absolutely no information about the game's been relased by the devs.

Who even knows if they're making a game?

I mean, if only someone could play the alpha build they have and report on it, maybe even record or stream video, we'd finally be able to see what they've been working on.

You have to remember, anyone who's not loyal to the Party is a facist running dog.

This is what happens when you let your tism run wild instead of weaponising it.

I'm going to guess some hard fucking drugs.

Because that doesn't read like something written by a sober person.

Yeah, they're Falun Gong, aren't they?

They're not really people. They don't even have a college degree. Basically animals.

GTA 5.

The physics are often...special.

Very special.

Having spoken to a few on the topic, I suspect most feminists think that it's all evil racist propaganda and a few bad apples, and that an Islamacized west wouldn't change at all for the worst.

Wow. Yeah, that guy's a literal tankie.

Internalized misogyny.

Also she's asian, which is basically white, so she's a nazi.

...wouldn't that make Native Americans super-whites, because they're genetically mid-way between Europeans and East Asians?

It's one thing to say stop giving them money and give them stuff that will help them longer term. It's another thing to say stop helping them because you're white.

Not really the message I read into his words.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I actually do think we need to scale back and rethink foreign aid to the third world. A lot of it's wasted, a ton of it just goes to soldiers and warlords, and what of it does get to the average person doesn't really help in the end. But, you know, framing is important.

Send farming equipment rather than food or money. That sort of thing.

Jesse Jackson would eat him alive.

To be fair, I'd be tempted to take that job even if I got fired immediately after just so I could have "Knife Tsar" on my resume.

Yeah, I see raw bumbling idiocy from the other side being more likely. They got fat and complacent after eight years of Obama.

Ayup. They're having to play it by ear now and they have no idea what they're doing.

I've seen too many fake accusations to take anyone on just their word at this point.

Just like any other crime, evidence pls or it didn't happen.

Did you mute it and hide muted channels?

I didn't know Zuckerberg was her son.

Ban Fortnite. Not because of this, just because it's a shit game.

It would be a truely shocking development.

I'm up for bombing the shit out of Germany again.

There appears to be a big ban wave happening on Youtube today. I've seen a number of people, including Top Hats and Champagne get randomly banned for "hatespeech" within the last like, 12 hours.

Possibly.

BEN SHAPIRO WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION

I'd say it looks like a helicopter designed by someone that's only designed normal airplanes before.

They were barely a thing. The German ones were, if I remember right, used in one or two special ops type situations, and I think the Japanese had some prototypes that were never deployed.

And for the the one in that video, I *think* was basically entirely seach and rescure sort of stuff and only got deployed in I think 44.

Properly combat oriented models didn't come until later.

Yeah, the difference is actual usage vs. wide scale usage as a combat doctrine.

They were still basically expensive toys and occasionally useful tools in 44/45.

"I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success."

The Moon Nazis shot it down.

I half expect them to bring in troops from another EU nation if it looks like he's in real trouble.

Indeed. I think this is earlier than they were planning on using it though.

Well, if they do that, how can they get the West to deindustrialize so we can't resist the Chinese?

SO TOLERANT

Huh. Modern SimAnt?

I love how there's constant harping about Sargon's tweets and jokes, but not one peep from the usual suspects about the Labour Lord actually up on charges for being in a rape gang.