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Cavemen generally didn’t have alarm clocks

1374. I look really good for my age

Heh, yeah I guess it’s different if you have to read it for some assignment. I sort of enjoyed it in a masochistic way, although I definitely skipped parts (especially the repeating crap) and like I said I wouldn’t call it a good book by any stretch of the definition

Oo I love Event Horizon. It’s a bit of a scifi horror cult classic though isn’t it? Not exactly Blade Runner, but not Battlefield Earth either.

One of my favorite trashy scifi movies is maybe Saturn 3 (Zardoz doesn’t count!). It’s a godawful piece of shit featuring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and a baby faced Harvey Keitel. It’s astonishingly bad and great fun to watch, and there was some sort of fairly hilarious story behind how it got made too (I’ll have to see if I can dig up the blog post I read about it)

edit: there’s a whole website https://saturn3makingof.com/

But some fascists do manage to be pretty coherent. It’s just that clearly Hitler wasn’t one of them.

I read Battlefield Earth and actually enjoyed it, but in the same I enjoyed eg. watching Plan 9 from Outer Space (or the Battlefield Earth movie for that matter.)

It’s an abject piece of shit as a book, written late enough in Hubbard’s life that nobody dared edit him so there’s whole chapters that just sort of repeat, and many of its premises are so stupid it hurts, but its old-timey pulp scifi schlock feel was often very fun.

So yeah, not a good book by any definition, but it was sorta fun and also interesting to read knowing that Hubbard tried to inject his world view into it too. For example the reason why the Psychlo were so eeeeeevil was that they were ruled by the Catrists who’d eg. use psychosurgery or electric shocks to make Psychlos more compliant – knowing that Hubbard absolutely loathed psychiatrists, it’s not hard to see that Psychlo Catrist = psychiatrist.

It’s such a terrible book, not just because of… you know, Nazis, but because it’s atrociously badly written. Rambling and fueled by completely blind hate, and it sets out a vision that’s completely detached from reality.

Really gave me similar vibes as listening to Trump talk, a sort of utter disbelief that people actually think he had something worthwhile to say

Saying Mein Kampf is borderline unreadable is bold?

May you have the life that you deserve

From a historical perspective, it’s stranger that swearing isn’t normal for some people; it seems to be a universal feature of human languages throughout history and around the world.

The exact swear / taboo words vary of course, but in general it does seem like just about every culture ever has had and used swear words.

There’s a subgenre of furries that are specifically into reptiles and they go by “scalies”

So I guess the opposite of furries could be “skinnies”?

How US-centric is Ground News?

I’ll drink to that.

Learn to cherish it. Call it Bob. Send it to college.

Good on you, but people are much less likely to donate like that when compared to the platform itself supporting monetization somehow

You know why

there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

The answer that people usually give to this is something like “monetization is evil”, because apparently content creators should all work for free

I will give your suggestion 100% of the careful attention and obedience that it deserves.

I’ll be appropriating this phrase. This requires no further action on your part. Thank your for your cooperation.