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Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present
on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:36AM (#50427054)
One thing not mentioned in the write up, is that there is an animal in (almost) every scene of the film. Guess with no children attentions turned to pets. For me, helped to reflect that humanity continued to want to care, if not for themselves/immigrants/‘others’…
Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalaya...
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:18AM (#49461533)
There’s a great doc by Adam Curtis about HyperNormalisation
From wiki:
It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments
Re:Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @06:47PM (#49353893)
There are only four sources of calories: protein, fat, carbohydrate, and alcohol. Fat is out. Carbohydrate is out. And you can’t tell people to eat more alcohol.
Hold my beer...
Re:In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:38PM (#48652470)
F7 gang standup!
When did the squiggles disappear? I do miss the variety in text formatting. You used to be able to animate text in Word and have squiggly double underline in different colours. Everything now is sans serif, sans variety.