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[–] sabik@rants.au 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_
"Taking Tesla's name is such an Edison move"

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

I do chuckle a bit every time I see the logo. It really looks like an IUD.

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[–] szbalint@x0r.be 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@gerikson @cstross

Yeah he has no self-awareness at all that in the culture universe he’d be taken out by Zakalwe

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[–] resuna@ohai.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But Joiler Veppers was taken out by Lededje Y'breq.

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[–] resuna@ohai.social 5 points 2 years ago

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

Now I think of it, he's also trolling for Gray Area.

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[–] dash@social.coop 3 points 2 years ago

@resuna @szbalint @gerikson @cstross IIRC by-as-in-close-to Lededje Y'breq, but by-as-in-responsible-for the avatar of the Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints.

But 100% with you on Musk = Veppers

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[–] vatine@mendeddrum.org 5 points 2 years ago

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ As a member of The Affront, of course he would.

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[–] pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@gerikson GSV The One With The Cool Ship Name is a vessel in The Culture though.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

"Why did you choose that name, Mind?"

"Well you see I happened to catch this "TV" show on this backwater planet and it really stuck with me!"

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[–] Mayor_of_Smartarse@mastodon.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ Wasn't that word coinedby R.A.H.?

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

correct, see edit

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[–] blikkie@hachyderm.io 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ to be fair Heinlein had some fascist tendencies too even if Stranger In A Strange Land was just good (although I read it so long ago that I might have overlooked stuff)

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[–] chaucerburnt@aus.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@blikkie @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ The bits about homosexuality haven't aged very well and there's a certain amount of "society shouldn't inhibit hot young women's natural desire to fuck curmudgeonly ageing authors".

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[–] blikkie@hachyderm.io 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@chaucerburnt @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ thanks. I read the book 20 years or so ago, so I don't trust any memory I have of it.

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[–] chaucerburnt@aus.social 3 points 2 years ago

@blikkie @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ to be fair to RAH, it's an ambitious book; he was trying to recognise and challenge society's assumptions, including his own, and nobody is likely to do that flawlessly.

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[–] jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place 4 points 2 years ago

@blikkie @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ One way to read Stranger in a Strange Land is what happens when our society is visited by a radical pacifist (who knows how to protect himself). Another way to read it is "our society is stupid and we know better how it should work". I can see how Musk might be inclined to follow one of these interpretations over the other.

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_

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[–] vruz@mstdn.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's the least of the things he appropriates. He also appropriates a chunk of the federal budget.

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[–] Cuprohastes@dragonchat.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@gerikson @cstross grok was from the Heinlein thing about the psychic kid raised by martians, who starts a polyamorous sex cult. The same book that the concept of air suspension beds came from

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[+] bigiain@aus.social 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] aschmitz@gruene.social 3 points 2 years ago

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ he doesn't grok it!

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_

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[–] Phosphenes@glasgow.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I thought it was a Heinlein reference.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

correct, see edit