benignintervention

It's all so exhausting. Like most of us, I left Reddit to get away from centralized control of communication on the Internet and the constant performative division, but it's almost impossible to avoid. Each platform seems to foster its own flavor of identity with no tolerance for nuance or common ground. I try not to block instances or communities so I can stay up to date on the current tides, but much of it is so reactionary and tolerates nothing less than complete loyalty. Then, every day a new line is drawn in the sand by some faceless account going one step further in one direction or the other and that becomes the new accepted and expected position.

I deeply enjoy the fediverse and especially how genuine most of the users here are, but the choice is still between an echo chamber I make for myself or the echo chamber constructed by the loudest voices.

Agreed

In the US it's illegal to grow poppy if you know what it is

Fair enough

Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said "hard science fiction." Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It's a mood

But then again, as Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏

Genichiro

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Your Undivided Attention discussed an important point missing from the article, which is that ChatGPT advised him to hide his activities and concerns from his parents. This doesn't necessarily absolve the parents, but it does add a layer of nuance to the discussion

Probably because English is the international standard and tourists speak it

I don't see any artifacts but I can't find the image on their website. Excellent shit post material though