@publius @Infrapink @tragivictoria @koorogi @cancel
Yah -- I've had "discussions" with a few capitalists, especially back in the day on G+, and... it's an awful lot like a religion.
Like the original, except Ginger is a science influencer, Maryanne is an engineer, and "Lovey" got her wealth from building an online business that did extremely well by providing decent customer service, ethically sourcing materials, and actively supporting its worker-owners.
Maryann and Lovey take most of the initiative (with Ginger helping to explain their plans to the others and thereby the audience) and the men recognize M & L's genius and stay mainly in a supporting role, sometimes asking leading questions which result in unexpected solutions.
This being 2025, they all had phones and even some laptops with them, and they're able to contact civilization before the end of the first season, and are rescued.
The story then moves to their post-Island lives and explores how their teamwork on the Island has been a sort of epiphany for them, causing them to question a lot of their priorities and spend a lot of time together figuring out how to use their newfound power as a team to solve systemic social problems.
This comes especially in handy when they discover that while they were stranded, the US government has been taken over by fascists. They spend most of a season deploying new media systems to help people work together to overcome the fascists and send them to live on the island (with supervision, to ensure they receive all the compassion and care they tried to deny to everyone else, and also to make sure they don't harm the island's flora and fauna).
In the 3rd season, Lovey founds a Fully-Automated Luxury Gay Aerospace company (they are more or less a polycule by this time, with only The Skipper -- who is a bit old-fashioned -- not really getting involved in the cuddling, preferring a sort of Best Dad / supportive-paternal role) with Maryanne overseeing the engineering team and Ginger doing regular podcasts detailing their research and inventions -- all of which is, of course, open-sourced but with a license which prohibits use by any individual with an income of over 6 digits or any organization that does not meet their standards for democratic ownership.
(P.S. The title comes from the fact that Gilligan, encouraged by the love and support received from the others, realizes she is trans and changes her name to "Lillian". Many fans consider her egg-cracking episode to be the highlight of the show. Her role in the show becomes largely emotional support, as she helps the others work through their challenges by comparing them to things she went through as a closeted trans AuDHDer.)
@Infrapink @publius @tragivictoria @koorogi @cancel
Efficient at extracting wealth from the rest of us (and burying it in a pit), yup. :queer100:
@publius @Infrapink @tragivictoria @koorogi @cancel
Okay, add that to the list of things that need to be illegal after the revolution.
Am I the only one experiencing this issue with #Facebook email-links on @Vivaldi in which I click on a link sent to me in email, it loads up the page in Vivaldi, I see the post for a second or three -- and then the post is replaced by... well, this (see image)? #faceBug
(It works properly in Firefox, but I'm still blaming FB for whatever JS shenanigans they're using that requires tight browser-compatibility instead of just, you know, HTML/CSS.)
@StillIRise1963 cf Pleasantville -- a rather interesting exploration of "whiteness", now that I think about it...
@Eetschrijver @Tooden @StillIRise1963 Ahh yes, the No Bells (Just Bats) Appeasement Prize.
@oldguy52 @StillIRise1963 We should make sure that when they're out of power, we recreate for them the world they envisioned for us. ([smile/curtsey] -- or in Southern, "bless their hearts")
@riley The sequence of comments doesn't really make any less sense than many things :D
(ref: Möbius comment)
Anyone have a good sleep specialist in Chicago?
Need someone who is good with parasomnias, REM disorders, and won’t be overtly fatphobic ideally
@sus Can we hire some moose to deal with ICE? They would seem to have plenty of experience... ^.^
Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode:
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will
@ai6yr "...underscoring political tensions surrounding California's disaster recovery appeal the ghastly Trump regime's arbitrary vengefulness against anyone who won't submit to their destructive agenda"
There, @LATimes -- fixed it for you. ([plea for mass media editors to start calling it like it is and damn the torpedoes, instead of constantly trying to stay below the radar and/or appease your fashy employers])
