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Outlook

The drone is the coolest thing.
Today, 08:38 PM

Erowind

Power to you
Today, 09:09 PM

wjfox

Yeah, I make a point of checking somebody's account/profile page when deciding whether to follow, and if they have 20,000+ tweets in a short period, it's obvious they're going to clutter-up my feed, so I don't follow. I prefer quality over quantity.
Today, 01:34 PM

starspawn0

What they write is lost in a blizzard of Tweets, completely diluting their message, whatever it is. I wonder sometimes if they are on amphetamines.
Today, 01:35 PM

Erowind

Cyborgs are weird, I don't know how people stay connected like that for 24/7 without passing out. I often leave my phone when I go out, and sometimes don't look at it for days.
Today, 06:51 PM

joe00uk

I love Natalie Wynn
Today, 12:10 PM

Erowind

@eacao Yes, I was having a conversation with a liberal friend the the other night where I was criticizing electoral politics by saying they take energy away from direct action and movement building. Playing devil's advocate he said but what if people build movements you don't like, pointing to republicans here (not alt-right.) And I said having people politically engaged in real democracy is better than them not and I'm not so hostile to conservatives that I think it's the end...
Today, 06:59 PM

Erowind

end of the world when they movement build. Point is, yes, the same applies to obamacare. Although, the majority of the population consistently polls in favor of single payer healthcare so it's kind of a bad example.
Today, 06:59 PM

Erowind

But again, I don't care what the house or senate or what and find then illegitimate regardless of party. I care about what the people want, which is a very different thing.
Today, 07:00 PM

starspawn0

An article about the UFO craze of the 60s and 70s: https://groovyhistory.com/the-ufo-craze-of-the-60s-and-70s People were obsessed with UFOs. There were lots of colorful books about them, too. It all kind of died down in 80s. The X-Files revived it a little. The X-Files was just a hodgepodge of 60s, 70s, and 80s fads about UFOs, psychic powers, Native Americans, etc.
Yesterday, 05:32 PM

starspawn0

I want to add one more thing: you know that story about Elizabeth Warren claiming Native American ancestry? Know where it comes from? In the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s, everything Native American was in fashion. People fantasized about being part Native American. People under about 30 years of age probably don't know that.
Yesterday, 11:49 PM

starspawn0

People didn't know their ancestry, and relied on stories. This was before the Internet (in its modern incarnation), remember. Some would claim "I'm 1/16 Native American"; actual NAs would roll their eyes. And when they found out they were plain white-bread through and through, it was such a letdown.
Yesterday, 11:55 PM

Raklian

We had a ton of snow one day but it all melted the next day. Here in North Carolina.
Yesterday, 07:59 PM

rennerpetey

There's been 4 inches on the ground for 4 or 5 days now with intermittent light snow
Today, 12:00 AM

eacao

Middle of Summer here
Today, 12:43 AM

wjfox

Give it a rest. FFS.
Yesterday, 07:03 AM

Sciencerocks

ok
Yesterday, 07:21 AM

Alislaws

You and Jakob could just chat in PMs right?
Yesterday, 11:10 AM

Jakob

Loony Liberals hate innovation anyway.
Yesterday, 02:16 AM

Jakob

But yes, the Western-style nuclear family is an absolutely wonderful arrangement and hopefully it will persist for centuries and millennia to come.
Yesterday, 02:17 AM

starspawn0

Well, this thread is an improvement over the last ones (but still whimpering). Imagine how complicated gender politics would be if we had multiple types of males and females... like the sandpiper: https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2015/nov/17/ruff-sandpiper-gender-fluid-bird (One rare type of male looks like a large female -- but with large testes.)
Yesterday, 03:54 AM

Raklian

You're asking Will to marry you?

lol
Yesterday, 02:30 AM

Zaphod

I am putting in plans to move to Canada in 3 years from now, maybe I'll take up the offer to speed things up a bit :P
Yesterday, 09:44 AM

Alislaws

Outlook should join a bunch of UK dating websites, The Canadian citizenship will be incredibly attractive! (along with your other excellent qualities obvs)
Yesterday, 11:06 AM

starspawn0

It sounds like to him it was partly a big joke / ego trip, and partly something he actually believed. The line between the two was blurry. Then, he talked to the mother of one of the victims:...
Jan 15 2019 04:39 PM

starspawn0

"I cracked and broke down in tears. It was the true human emotion of a mother who lost her kid that changed me. The others believed it was a fake recording and that she was in on it. It was the monstrous ugliness of the other theorists which set me on edge."

Jan 15 2019 04:39 PM

starspawn0

He passed the test. Human, after all.

Jan 15 2019 04:40 PM

Raklian

They just get better and better every year. The 2020s will be very interesting.
Yesterday, 04:11 AM

Erowind

Subbed
Jan 15 2019 10:10 PM