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A whole lot of military films will be coming out soon. You'll see older ones showing up on streaming service and new ones soon to follow. Sure, a few are, in fact, very good movies. But here's the caution:

Any film featuring the US military is paid for by the US military. They have the final word on what comes out. These films are recruitment tools. Same applies to TV shows, and doubtless many will soon be showing up.

Do not be fooled by these films and shows. They are designed to bring in new recruits. When these are released, there is a surge in new people enlisting in the military. These recruits swiftly discover they were fed bullshit, but now they're stuck due to a contract. Going AWOL, away without leave, is desertion. You will be caught and put on trial for desertion, and they are not light with the sentencing.

Please, for the love of fuck, do not enlist with the military. You are cannon fodder. They do not care about you.

Recruiters are told to lie. To do whatever it fucking takes to enlist new people. Do not fucking fall for it.

These films and shows are recruitment tools paid for by the military. It's why they're so big, glamorous, and quickly made. Enjoy what you see, but don't sign up. It's a fucking lie.

6irlpet

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

fakesleepwalking

phone in bed can range from comforting to mundane but phone in parked car will have you feeling like you've never done anything right in your entire life

queercodedangel

And this causes children to be perceived as failures (either by themselves, their parents and/or society at large) when they are not successful according to the logic of capital. It's one of many ways capitalism has commodified our relationships.

Engels expressed the general idea of this in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

orcboxer

Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

totallynotgayforyou

orcboxer

Poob has it for you.

clovrplayz

fun fact one of my friends has a cat named poob because of this post

orcboxer

oh my god a poobling

werewolfetone

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

werewolfetone

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

angel-derangement

I hate it too tbh

This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

ashenmind

the-ghost-king

I was so busy trying to find a discord alternative I was not investing enough time into the ao3 alternative that doesn't exist

elbiotipo

Fuck that post going around saying "you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don't need to explain everything :)" I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don't explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don't explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you

elbiotipo

Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don't care about "themes" or "enemies to lovers with found family", I didn't ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don't try to change the subject, I'll stop pointing the gun when I want, I'm trying to have a conversation here,

ever-so-slightly-monstrous

gold in them there tags

derinthescarletpescatarian

Sorry to commit the sin of being serious on a joke post instead of joining in on the bit but it is actually a good idea to get serious about, like, two or so food or fabric items per book. Reading a scifi novel where some characters on a space station are sipping orange juice in an Important Meeting provided by the host and it's revealed that it's real orange juice, shipped up from Earth, not the artificial stuff that gets manufactured in orbit, adds some real richness to the world and the personality of the orange juice provider and their dynamics with the person they're sharing orange juice with. Having your fantasy characters sip hot chocolate at a ball with a foreign diplomat and having the diplomat mention how lucky they are to have so much cocoa when it doesn't grow well in this climate, and they sure hope that their trade deals with the cocoa growing nation remain strong in spite of the threat of war with their neighbour and it potential to upset trade routes, in the diplomat's home country cocoa is almost impossible to find and they'll miss it so much when they leave, gives some real grounding to both the setting and its international relations as well as giving you a lot of things you can imply via said diplomat depending on their specific attitude. You only have to do it with a couple of things, it really goes a long way for establishing depth and trust in your worldbuilding.

Anyway rant over back to The Bit.

chaumas-deactivated20240115

I’ve talked about The Potato Question a few times and I think this grossly mischaracterizes the essence of it. Yes some people latch onto it extremely literally but if you dismiss it out of hand you are not really engaging with the meat of it.

“Where did the potatoes come from?” does NOT mean “Give me an exhaustive ethnobotanical history of your crops!”

It’s a shorthand for asking if you are taking a western imperialist worldview for granted in your worldbuilding (and reacting with hostility when a hypothetical reader interrogates that). Are you buying into a particular cultural mythology of Ye Olde Fantasy Europe by having the norms and resources available to your setting be those of a white supremacist revisionist fantasy? Why does your society have the culture of an extractive colonial empire if they have no imperialist interests?

You don’t have to engage with these sorts of questions but if you aren’t willing to give them thought then it will show in your writing and a certain percentage of your readers will think you lack insight into the world you created.

freshlypickedmint

rice, like humans, is mostly water. thus, eating rice may be essentially equivalent to cannibalism. and as we know, cannibalism is frequently used as a metaphor or even stand-in for gay sex. therefore eating rice can be seen as the same as gay sex. in this essay I will

freshlypickedmint

I have faith

hellsitegenetics

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Closest match: Equus caballus genome assembly, chromosome: 19 Common name: Horse

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freshlypickedmint

YOU. I WAS WONDERING WHY THIS WAS GETTING NOTES AGAIN ALL OF A SUDDEN.

clownboybebop

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know