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@kaminenmosher I think sometimes a dream you think you experienced in full is just a few brief moments which come with confected memories of what happened before. When you wake up you remember it as a continuous narrative but you didn't really subjectively experience most of it in real time.

@EugeneMcParland Yeah well some of us are weary of the unabated murder of Ukrainians and the destruction of their country while we continue to require them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs. Is someone telling Biden that?

Octavia Butler's terrific 1998 novel, Parable of the Talents, depicts a dystopian US ruled by fundamentalists. President Jarret seeks to rid the country of non-Christian beliefs, using the slogan.... "Make America Great Again."

And I miss her.

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@cdb_77 @jon Nice. I was on a train in Southern Connecticut one night, it was behind schedule and a passenger was going to miss his connection to the Long Island Ferry. The train conductor contacted the ferry company and they held the ferry for him.

@sjuvonen Well, unlike, say, PNAC, they neglected to engineer a dramatic world-changing event which would grant unprecedented powers, cow and silence dissenters, and shift opinion broadly in their direction.

@Extra_Special_Carbon @Npars01 @Nimbius666 @gimulnautti @noellemitchell @dragonsidedd

Great Scott! (Whoa, this is heavy.)

There's a lot of debate on the topic, but purportedly at geostationary distances the maser beam spread would be sufficient enough that harms would be pretty small and mitigable ... perhaps even negligible compared to those of legacy energy sources. I'm not going to try to link a lot of resources, I'd just be googling for them same as you.

@Extra_Special_Carbon @Npars01 @Nimbius666 @gimulnautti @noellemitchell @dragonsidedd

Solar power satellites are where it's at, baby. Can also be repurposed as a Starlink-zappers, for planetary demusking.

@BashStKid Hang on, the ability to create virtual realities entirely in my head in which I have superpowers isn't itself a superpower? Ffffff....

@bodhipaksa Some of us manage to have our own daydreams of wild popularity and cheering crowds, right inside our heads, perfectly customized to our emotional needs slash delusions of grandeur. And these simulations can run for for hours on an order of chips and soda.

@Nimbius666 @gimulnautti @noellemitchell @Npars01 @dragonsidedd

"Too cheap to meter" nuclear is just a few years away... and has been for 60 years now.

@BashStKid @fulelo As the Joker said in Tim Burton's Batman, "never rub another man's rhubarb!"

. @fulelo I'd be surprised if Palace officials, the Special Branch, etc. hadn't investigated him years ago when he was trying to buy his way into their society, and that's part of why they froze him out. They knew it'd come out eventually. But of course they said nothing publicly.

@dtwx @aral Which was an act of domestic terror and already illegal. Also it wasn't a case of boobytrapping an innocuous device: the marathon participants were not misled into using them into cook beans.

@cstross @bruces And if you release it on the upswing, it becomes a spacecraft

@srue In every sense except meaningfully, legally, actually, or outside of your head.

@sjuvonen And don't get me started on those greasy Puritans in Massachusetts...

@sjuvonen It's fun saying to them, "I know right, it's like the 2 million Scandinavian immigrants that flooded the upper midwest in the 19th century all over again. We real Americans never recovered!" or something similar about the Irish.

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