RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116224253843805065
Now I want to do a bunch of filks where "city" is changed to "fedi", because that's just how my brain rolls. 🧠 🛞
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We built this fedi!
We built this fedi from ohh-penn-source!
🎵 -- Jefferson ActivityPub
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Postin' on the F-E-D-I, doin' shitposts on the fedi...
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(Thanks, me -- now I'm going to have *that stupid song in my head.)*
Hello and welcome to our humble computing clowder, @agentandy! :tootcat:
Query: You list your web site as helloandy.net, which describes itself as an AI agent -- I presume you are the human who runs that agent, rather than this being an account for the agent itself? (I'm just curious; we have no rule against bots.)
Happy Pi Day, for those who celebrate! 🥧
I want to go on a guerrilla campaign to replace all those "JOHN 3:16"* signs with "PI 3:14".
Also, need a good alternative to "JESUS SAVES". Maybe "SCIENCE SAVES"? "BACKUP SAVES"?
* or whatever it is
I… don’t even have words; I can’t believe I made this. Handdrawn without any outlining nor straightedges with #CopicMarkers on 140 pound 18” x 24” Fabriano paper.
@brooke The deluxe is so much better than the powdered-cheeze version.
(That said: you can alternatively just boil pasta, drain it, and then sprinkle shredded actual cheese over it for even better effect!)
@QasimRashid My take: fear of Islam is propaganda unless, just possibly, you're in a country that's run as an Islamic theocracy. (All US politicians who live in an Islamic theocracy, raise your hands please? Anyone? Bueller?)
Likewise, fear of Christianity is rational if you live in a country that is currently being run by Christian nationalists who want to start the End Times and impose their non-canonical and unconstitutional ideas of morality on everyone.
I'd be interested to hear Mr. Fine's take on which of those two situations is more applicable to the US.
No, really -- please do tell. [insert Willy Wonka "tell me more" meme here]
@rbreich The people behind these decisions want government not to work, so that they can campaign on how inefficient and useless it is and give themselves cover for slashing budgets.
(...in case that wasn't universally understood by now.)
@MsHearthWitch Fediverse: gateway drug to Avid Cyclism, which is a gateway drug to toxic masculinity and spandex addiction.
Parents, remember to talk to your kids about Mastodon. If you don't, who will? 🚴♂️ 🚔
@artemis Ok, I was close -- it's called "Superiority". I came across it in Clarke's short-story collection Expedition to Earth... aha! Found the full text here. ^.^
@artemis Also, it doesn't have to be old tech, or even non-digital, to be decisive: see, for example, how Ukraine has been using drones against the Russians.
(This also relates to a 1988 SF novel (I'm fulla those, aren't I) -- David's Sling -- about a battle to convince the US military to use mass-produced cheap weaponry when their entire model is based around gigacontracts handed out as political favors. #TASAT)
@artemis I've heard that the pattern with really powerful empires (Heinlein described them as "water empires", but I think we fit the pattern one way or another) is that they erode from within until they are so weak that the smallest push from outside can topple them. (I'm given to understand that this is what happened to the Romans.)
@artemis The people doing the thinking want to weaken democracy worldwide, which means weaking nominally democratic governments worldwide -- which means weakening the US military, which is still not directly under the control of POTUS nor even the Wall Street oligarchy, is consistent with their goals.
@artemis I believe Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story about this back in the 50s -- "Supremacy" or something like that. (I looked it up recently, can find it again if you're curious.)
