(Most) people here aren’t really volcel. It’s just good to have a culture of not encouraging people to be horny online, especially in a space that can be male dominated. Helps keeps the creepiness down.

Getting mildly criticized on twitter.

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Lmao.

I just think WH40k kind of fails as satire because the type of storytelling they need to do is basically incompatible with satire. Like they have this long running universe with sure this evil fascist state, but contrasted against literal gods of death and decay and demons, which naturally makes even the fascists seem good in comparison. Also you publish like 60 books a year about the adventures of space marines from a variety of authors that clarity of satire is going to be lost rather quickly.

Someone pay me to talk about trains for 8 hours at a time please.

Unironically better than most suburbs. You could actually walk or bike to a neighbor’s house.

Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.

Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.

First guy’s at least approaching a coherent point.

You could do a lot worse than the sort of Mike Duncan thesis that revolutions only happen when a country’s leadership has completely failed in some major way. Even if you are some weird Russian monarchist, why would you like the guy who completely failed during the Russo-Japanese war, was doing an awful job managing World War 1, and then got his shit wrecked by a bunch of scrappy communists.

What the fuck? Today I learned that Spain holds two cities on the African Mainland. Totally fucked.

For the control each of the people had been given a sample shock and reported they would pay to avoid being shocked.

Good post. Thank you for sharing your experience. So bizarre to me that people would immediately grill a Jewish person about Israel when support for Israel among younger Jews is basically at an all time low.

The rest of this shit is downright messed up.

They’re also huge in industrial equipment and transportation. Amtrak’s new locomotives are coming from Siemens.