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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Say what you will about the Nazis, they did get America to the moon first!

Well you know! They were under a lot of stress at the thought of having their secretaries send out emails to fire 10,000 people!

Ironically, I feel like there's parallels between transing kids and the satanic panic. In both cases you're manipulating kids into saying the things you want them to say. We learned how careful we need to be with kids during that time, there's no excuse now.

No matter where I go.... I'm reminded that Ohio exists... The Horror...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6ccOMOFeU

Started playing this song because my son was saying mama and not dada. It worked (and he likes the song, too!)

That's a good point. If you have a strong and good culture then you don't need a strong government because people will do the right thing without the spectre of government. With a bad culture, you can have unlimited punishment and people will refuse to do the right thing.

Something I've come to realize recently is that we have all kinds of data on all these big societal changes that have happened since WWII, and the data looks terrible! But it seems like nobody is interested in actually saying the things that are true.

Anyone ever thought about how odd it is that youtube has 6 or 12 hour video essays, and their focus right now is 20 second clips?

This season, they're remaking Trigun, which was a popular manga and anime in the 90s. It's about a gunman on a desert planet who is a pacifist. It has heavy Christian themes in part because the author was a Christian in a nation of Shinto and Buddhism.

When you remake a beloved property, you get a built-in audience you wouldn't have otherwise gotten, but at the same time you're also taking on the expectations of that property. Trigun isn't a 4 panel comic about a big fat cat that loves to eat, it's a property with deep and important themes that a lot of people count as important to their formation as people. If you take on that property, you're accepting the benefits of working with the property, but you're also taking on the handcuffs of working with that property.

That's one of the nice things about Japanese media in particular is they're not stuck in remake zone. They've got a good pipeline from webnovel to light novel to manga to anime, so when someone decides they want to tell a story they have lots of opportunities to do so without relying on a 30 year old property. When someone does pick up an old property then, it does mean they need to be careful. People will take what they're doing seriously, and it's not just remake number 42069

Trigun means a lot to me personally. The story and its themes hit me when I was a teenager and shaped my adult view of the world. It was also something my brother and I shared and bonded over. I don't hate the new series so far(The first 4 episodes of Trigun the anime were a waste of time imo and really hurt the anime, so having one episode of introduction before jumping into the real story is a good choice), but of course I'm comparing it to the original anime and manga. That's part of the point of calling it Trigun.

The big thing I'm waiting for is I need to see some big emotional dramatic moments. The moment where Vash finally pulled his gun to save the people really didn't hit hard this episode, but we'll see what the lost technology actually does, maybe the arc hasn't climaxed yet.

"just"

There's layers to this...

"maybe mastodons end game is to get bought out by one of the big players!"

Any journalists who even think about thinking about writing a sentence like the above needs to stop writing and start reading because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the platform.

Considering there was a recession last year and they just lied about it...

It's cool guys, we can just keep spending forever and there will never be negative consequences because debt is always good!

ERP projects while the working man is barely able to keep the lights on. Sounds like government to me!

classified documents should be stored in the balls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTyH2noIHU

The new series is going on right now. I don't see how they can match something like this.

Yeah, unless your job is playboy billionaire philanthropist, Vancouver is out. A SFH is about 2 mill, and that's after the plummetting values in 2022.

Canadians call BC Bring Cash.

But first.... I have to tell you about the one love of my life. Hitler!

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