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Top Hard Science Fiction novels, based on 36 lists.
Congrats to @andyweirauthor for his novel The Martian for getting 24 recommendations from 36 lists.
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Buyers: "How much will this house cost me?"
Sellers: "What's your budget?"
Buyers: "Well, it was 500K, but with these new fifty year mortgages, I think it could stretch to million."
Sellers: "I have an astonishing coincidence to report."
Look, I don't know exactly who's retarded enough to need to hear this, but if you throw money at something, you get more of it.
Which means that if you subsidize demand, you get more demand.
And if you have the same supply, and more demand, price goes up.
This is how the federal Stafford Loan program made college a gateway to permanent debt slavery. Subsidize demand, price goes up.
The reason people don't understand this is that most people are only smart enough to think about individuals, not populations.
They think if you have more money, you can buy more things, as if things come from the item store in a Japanese console RPG, where the store always has infinity stuff to sell you, and infinity money to buy your loot.
People who are capable of thinking about large groups quickly realize that money is just a way of distributing things.
Like, there's a limited supply of things, and you're just choosing who gets them. Having more money doesn't make more things.
Except... it should, shouldn't it?
Eventually?
Like, if apples get super expensive, because somebody invented a new kind of apple that's so delicious that everyone wants them, then the price of those apples goes up, so more people start growing them.
So why doesn't that work with houses and colleges?
Why don't the super-inflated prices of those things inspire profit-minded people to make more?
It's almost as if there were some sort of gatekeeper, whose permission you needed to make a house or a university.
But that's impossible, because this is a totally capitalist country, so you can just do things, right?
Anyone up for being a beta reader for my next project, a Military Sci-Fi set on an alien world?
Fans of Aliens and the Abyss would like it. DM me
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Mathematics.
Occasionally, a "Fractal Wasp" emerges from the fabric of geometry, Mandelbulb 3D, self-similar geometry, and iteration. [Select to magnify.]
By MANDELWERK, deviantart.com/mandelwerk/ar…, Licensing: "CC BY-NC-ND 3.0"
Maybe a hot take, but here it goes:
Slower-than-light interstellar travel is just as unrealistically bonkers as faster-than-light travel.
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“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation.
Photo also by Baudrillard.
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Sonic and Baby booms.
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"Last of the Mohicans" was released on this day in 1992. Incredible historical epic from co-writer/director Michael Mann. Stunning Dante Spinotti cinematography.
Highlights: Wes Studi's unforgettable performance (he should have gotten an Oscar) as Magua; emotional powerhouse score by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman.
My favorite film of 1992. It's also among my five favorite films of all-time.
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2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention.
The effects were similar to being 10 years younger.
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Watching the level of backpedaling and linguistic gymnastics over the last several days reminds me of Orwell - 1984.
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If you love Hollow Knight, and Silksong, and want more bug-on-bug action. Then check out Space Ants: Never Say Die.
It's an action Sci-Fi for all ages about survival and never giving up.
If the genders were perfectly equal, then there'd be no need for two genders, and the entire course of natural history, where gendered sex differences exist in nearly every species, must be wrong.
If Gen-Z boys don't believe in gender equality, it's because they've never experienced gender equality growing up in a world in which:
• Masculinity is called "toxic" and they're made to feel like creeps just for existing.
• College admissions openly discriminate against them.
• They have to walk on eggshells because any comment taken out of context can get them fired from their job or expelled from school.
• All of their childhood heroes have been turned into incompetent buffoons who take a backseat to "strong female characters".
• All of their role models have been "subverted" and "deconstructed" for "problematic tropes" to the point that they're no longer recognizable.
• Their behavior growing up was pathologized by their teachers who didn't see it as normal boy behavior and treated them like defective girls, and they were put on behavior-altering drugs.
• Having the audacity to ask a woman out on a date while being less than perfect gets you mocked on social media or worse.
• If they become victims of domestic violence, they can't seek help because they'll be laughed at, told it's their fault, or told they deserve it.
• They have no hope of ever starting their own families because they're still expected to be breadwinners despite all of the obstacles put in front of them since birth.
• They're met with hostility and mockery and shouted down if they complain about any of their problems.
Fear the monster you created because they will show you as much sympathy as you have showed them, which is none.
There is autocorrelation in reality.
Life is a Cauchy Distribution, not a Normal Distribution.
