Pat @Pat@qoto.org

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Here's a button. If you push it, all humans will become infertile. No one will be killed, but no more people will be born and the human species will become extinct in the early 22nd Century.

Do you push the button?

#morality #ethics #climate #COVID19 #corruption #good #evil #peace #war #progress #extinction #humanity

@freemo @bonifartius

Wait. You can export your toots, but you can't import them?

That sounds like write-only memory.

I don't understand
also, what font is that?

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That chess-playing stream is done now, but you can see an archived video of it at:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1790028089

#chess #grandmaster #chesshustler #gameplay #games #irl #twitch #stream

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Grandmaster vs. NYC chess hustler...

(the grandmaster is on the left)

Streaming live now:
https://www.twitch.tv/akanemsko

Here's a sample...

@freemo @bonifartius

So what's the export function for? Can't someone export from one instance and import to another one?

@freemo @bonifartius

So they need to export their account info and re-import if they want their toots to move also?

@blazeward7 @medigoth

I'm pretty sure that Jesus was woke.

@bonifartius

Another similarity between the war and the pandemic is that they will do everything they can to keep it going so they can continue to rake in more money.

@freemo @bonifartius

Don't Mastodon account migrations move all the toots over also?

@empiricism

Jets, by definition, use combustion. But if the fuel that they use doesn't produce greenhouse gases, then they wouldn't directly add to those emissions.

Also, the word "private" implies an ownership status, not a technology, so I don't understand the use of the word in this context.

@AmandaHilden

Quality wise, there is no comparison between the two. ET had a huge budget and is one of the best made scifi films ever.

The Day Time Ended is a cheap B-movie that is so bad that you can hardly follow the narrative. But if you like to watch old B-movies then this one is a rare find.

@CStamp

This is one of the reasons why I like to study old films. You can see trends that give indications of what was going on throughout the past 100 years or so. One of those is how aliens in scifi are depicted.

During the cold war there were a lot of aliens that were hostile, reflecting the tensions between the superpowers. But some films, particularly those from more liberal filmmakers (what we would call today "progressives") depicted aliens as more friendly or at least not aggressive.

But after the Vietnam War and leading up to Perestroika and Glasnost, aliens in mainstream films became more friendly.

Compare that to Mars Attacks! (1996) which renewed 50's paranoia and applied it to the increase in global terrorism.

Also, since filmmaking is a business, producers don't like to take too much risk, so they tend to imitate styles and trends that have had success at the box office.

@AmandaHilden

@medigoth

I did learn something from the questioner, though. I've never heard of a Machrauchenia before. So I guess we're all "ignorant fucks" about something. 😄

Also, the questioner implies that everyone who accepts evolution is atheist, which is not true. Only a portion of people who accept evolution today are atheist. Of the twelve largest Christian denominations in the US, about 77% belong to churches that agree with teaching evolution.

http://ncse.com/rncse/18/2/what-do-christians-really-believe-evolution

@CStamp

Yeah, that's what the courts said. This alien looks more like the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) which was released a couple of years earlier.

The similarity part is with the alien contacting a kid first, and in the written word it sounds more similar. There were several "friendly alien" movies that came out around that time. Before that most scifi featured alien invasions.

@medigoth

Also, dinosaurs still exist. People put feeders out for them so they can fly to them and sing pretty songs and build nests in trees.

@bwbeach

I think the lay term is "twinkling".