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No one’s left, everything’s gone, Kharak is burning

Sad choral adagio for strings

I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving…

But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?

More compelling than the edit, thank you for posting this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67582813

^ an article describing some of the reason Kissinger was such a vile person, including how he shares some of the responsibility for the rise of the Khmer Rouge

Apparently this was not the first serial he tried to write in this universe, which is why so many of the side characters are so fleshed out.

I remember enjoying the interlude with battery a lot.

Did you find anything else that you enjoyed in a similar way?

Exactly! find it so hard to describe though, over the course of reading the thing Taylor changes so much, the world changes so much and your understanding of the world gets so much deeper.

This makes it very hard to explain the later acts or why they were good though.

Have you read anything else that hooked you in a similar way?

As demand for the final product is reduced manufacturing should slow down and the rate at which byproducts are created should be reduced in proportion.

A similar thing is happening in other industries too, if you try to buy a new gore-tex raincoat today you will struggle, since the company behind the brand have discontinued their pfas based fabric and are trying to release a more environmentally sound replacement.

Not that either of these is a complete solution in isolation, but hopefully they will have a positive effect.

I have this a lot, but the most it has happend was about 10 years ago with the webserial worm ( https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ ), I read it so much. I read it before work, I read it during lunch, I read it when I got home, I went to sleep late etc. etc.

When it was done I had forgotten what to do with my time, I wound up re-reading it again but slower at a few chapters a day rather than turning myself into a gremlin for maximal reading efficiency.

If you want a summary, it’s a superhero story, which usually really isn’t for me, but something about the tone of the writing and the way the world worked in this one made it work.

Powers are incredibly varied, but the strongest characters are the ones who know how to use their powers well, the protagonist exemplifies this, where she doesn’t get a cool flashy power but she figures out how to use it so well and adapt to each situation that she becomes terrifying.

I also liked the charactersation of the heroes and the villains, where the heroes are somewhat vain and egotistical which means they do good things when the cameras are rolling rather than being “morally good”. the villains are mostly just people on the edges of society for a mix of reasons which means they do what they want, but I think since then “The Boys” has also done something similar so the effect may be lessened.

Curious if anyone else on Lemmy has wound up reading it.

I’m not sure it’s particularly left or right leaning, there was a ban on social media, protests against the ban and the protestors were shot by armed police which sparked more protests and riots, the major grievance seems to be political corruption.

I don’t think any of ^ really slots into a traditional left/right framework, that said the more I read about Nepalese politics the more confused I become.

the corrupt government they are overthrowing is a coalition between Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist). Although prime minister Oli comes from the communist partner in the coalition despite them being the minor partner? But I have also read that they unified ml party merged with another communist party a while back?

Either way, glad to see corrupt politicians being replaced.

Looks good, I like the use of the splitter near the bottom to filter out the plates so only gears go up to the red science line.

Would

It’s becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs

Red states already do this, the supreme court has already ruled that it can’t review gerrymandering cases, newsome isn’t doing this to get a win, California is likely to elect democrats with or without the new maps, he is doing this to highlight how messed up it is that this is allowed.

Since the beginning of our history, our capital city has been continually shaped and reshaped by the diverse communities that have called it home. If some people think we would be better off without jerk chicken or jollof rice, without Rye Lane or China Town, Ramadan or St Patrick’s Day, without the films of Sir Steve McQueen or the songs of Little Simz, without Yotam Ottolenghi’s food or Emma Raducanu’s backhand – I don’t think they’ll find many Londoners who will agree.

In fact, the evidence is that Londoners have more positive views on lawful immigration than the rest of the UK, and that’s not a surprise. Because we know we have nothing to fear and everything to gain.

This so perfectly sums up the biggest thing I love about London 🥰

I love when someone posts an AI response to support their argument, then someone else asks for the prompt and it shows that the asker must have had to go through a dozen iterations of prompt to get the answer they want

I also fall into this trap semi regularly, a happy medium I have found is a missable items guide that doesn’t tell you how to play or where to go but it does tell you “make sure you get item X before going to place Y as that’s your last chance”

It means I can be happy to play sub optimally knowing that if I really want I can go back and collect anything I missed later.

This has been quite good for Clair obscur

No, if matching your words to your thoughts would hurt someone the correct solution is to change your thinking.

Agreed

How do you reverse a chemical castration if it’s later revealed the person was wrongfully convicted?

You stop the regimen of drugs and the primary effect ceases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration

I’m not arguing for the policy, I think violating someones bodily authority is inherently evil and should not be on the table even as a result of a criminal conviction.

But I think our objections should follow the science, we should object to the harm caused to the (falsely)convicted while on the drugs rather than the permencance of the sentence.

The difference is that chemical castration is typically a course of drugs that alter the body’s hormone production while it’s being taken to reduce sexual desire/function, when the subject stops taking the drugs the body returns to its natural hormone balance.

Physical mutilation is a one off, permenant, irreversible operation.

The problem is that the term chemical castration is wildly misleading in its attempt to describe the process.