[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

The SJWs aren't the ones abstaining, it's the centrists on lemmy.ml

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Some comic-book events feature a black Superman, and that raises questions about whether Kryptonians coincidentally match every ethnic group on Earth

Not exactly, but they have dark and light skin. Krypton's red sun is a big deal in Kryptonian health. Kryptonian communities living closer to the equator would probably evolve higher melanin the same as humans did. Actually, light-skinned Kryptonians require a bigger suspension of disbelief than dark-skinned ones do.

And obviously the racial dynamics between dark and light Kryptonians wouldn't be the same as on earth. It would depend upon factors like the shape of continents, the location of arable soil, of large herbivores and of predators, and of minerals.

Fun fact: swords made out of meteorites are a common trope in Japan, because Japan has poor iron and big mountains.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

They can steal your data if you're logged into a PSN account, and down the line the plan (which they don't want to admit) is to get PC players paying for a multiplayer subscription like on console.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It's barely composite, it only has two prime factors.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, sorry, I meant the other Russian Genocide Joe. The one who banned being gay.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah but who wants a Nazi as their ISP?

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Light hearted. It's a tone indicator

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

M for Manchester (1807)

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Today's sarcastic mimicry brought to you by someone who underestimated Poe's law

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

AKA the hamburglar's costume

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