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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm not very well-read so my opinion comes from a select well-known big hit novels/series, but mostly film/tv and also a vague, surface-level knowledge and understanding of themes, settings, etc of some of the important works I haven't read


IMO a lot of earlier scifi was conceiving of possibilities or coming up with weird ideas and building a world and narrative around them, and sometimes you can't make a reasonable way for this to occur from where we are in our reality. So you do "a galaxy far far away" or 10,191 or something so far out that earth is a long-forgotten planet, and now you are doing something more similar to high fantasy world building, and can do whatever you want.

Versus a later generation of sci-fi stories that are cautionary tales about things that could become invented, and how they would integrate and affect our current societies over a (relatively) small number of years.


I'm on my phone so I don't want to completely rewrite what I just wrote, but I do want to clarify/correct that this is not actually "earlier" vs "later" - there are examples of both all throughout scifi history - but perhaps what has entered the mainstream via adaptations, smash hits, cult classic, etc. pathways. Basically it depends if the author is writing a cautionary tale or metaphor, developing a conceptual & epic universe, telling an allegorical story, or whatever else - and then oftentimes popculture dictates which ones people become familiar with.

Anyway it's super early and as I said I'm on my phone, so I hope these thoughts are coherent and at least vaguely interesting to you. I found your question thought provoking and wanted to respond. Cheers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago
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I found this one extremely easy, unlike yesterday's haha

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Ya'll are getting newly built homes?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So all former presidents are now campaigning for Harris?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

This can absolutely change people's lives. Paying rent can make it impossible to save for a down payment. A 30k windfall (inheritance) helped my wife and I make the down payment on our first house. And then our mortgage payments were cheaper than our rent was. Even if the overall "sticker price" of a home is higher, it's a negligible difference over the lifetime of a loan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

boy, you gonna get ate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Talking to students at Stanford about startups is fine. Projecting his concerns about WFH employees for his own company onto them is nonsense and disingenuous, as Google is about the furthest they could possibly be from a startup nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What an absurd statement. Absolute lunacy on his part to compare Google to a startup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No. Even if the job becomes unrecognizable from what it is today, it'll still be around

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You got hit by an emotional support vehicle F-9000, you're dead at any speed

 

Revisiting Ti West's amazing flick with a little Joe Bob commentary and caught this tidbit in the Special Thanks.

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About 1.5 to 2 inches across. Found in Santa Cruz, CA

Edit: Thanks all for your responses!

 

New track out today. The video has them running around the woods, hiding from a cryptid frog/man hybrid, playing drums on a log. You know, usual stuff.

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Apparently this is the title track to a movie being released soon (maybe also today?) according to the band's instagram

 
 

I've been listening to Froglord a lot lately and after looking through a few posts in this community I thought you fine folk might appreciate it

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