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Peldrigal
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 11m
Oh, how I love reading deeply reasoned analysis of the electoral system for the Venetian Doge, which conveniently omit that IT FAILED AT ITS STATED PURPOSE. Not with time, not with degradation of customs, but on day one.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1h
They even robbed from us what Futurism is...
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 14h
I am aware that North American infrastructure is solidly XX century, I am sorry about that
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 15h
With modern tap and ride terminals it takes like two seconds per passenger.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 15h
Having officers that check tickets is actually a good thing that reduces anti social behaviour, makes users feel safer, and increases ridership.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 15h
Making public transit free is so much not an obviously good governance from the toolbox of leftist solutions that not even socialdemocratic or communist countries have done it, only hypercapitalist tax haven Luxembourg (and Malta, i am learning)
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 15h
That was pretty clear of some older McConnel declarations. Five years ago I compared him to Daniel Francois Malan, but i don't remember specifically why.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 15h
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_ba...
1903 ball in the Winter Palace - Wikipedia
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 19h
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 16h
I would not have expected such a small difference.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 21h
The Finns love to pretend that they have always been progressive socialist, and it is funny to ask them about the civil war and its protagonists
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
This strongly looks like a GURPS 1st edition cover manual
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
It is actually a very nice piece of industrial design.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
Which I know realise is just a far bleaker "The Two Georges"
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
After discussing it with friends: we would read an Evans/Turtledove collab about a low rent drug dealer who tries to move some Imperial Canada Fentanyl which "fell off a truck" to the desolate and impoverished provinces of Midwest, and gets involved in a Weathermen plot to bomb the Viceroy motorcade
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
I agree with that, but I disagree with your first statement about the importance of physical fitness.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
There is a major land war fought by industrial powers with bleeding edge weaponry, and lots of soldiers are conscripts in their 40s
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
I legitimately do not understand how people who do not read spend their time. I guess they sleep a lot.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
Don't think so. When it came out it was hailed as revolutionary, pun intended, as disruptive as Evangelion. Such high praise might have been forgotten, but it's alright. Watch the movie when you're done with the series.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
Dear North American friends: "best of seven" is not a serious way to decide a sports competition. Do better.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
Good for them, but what about the entertainment value and the community-building?
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
Quaaludes is not one of them, clearly
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
The fascists did that. Reminds me of a scene in Il Federale.
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
For a sufficiently low bar of "worked", sure
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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 1d
"It is more enjoyable if you know nothing about the genre" is unfortunately true of many popular pieces of media.
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