[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

teens in general get some harassment too

I remember when I was a teen a news story about malls playing a high pitched sound that old people couldn't hear in order to annoy teens into leaving was going around. Never encountered it myself though.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

don't go in a space shuttle

As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I tried to think of a second rec that's also vegan friendly and came up short. Could be an interesting story - isekai'd into a world where you're expected to hunt monsters, but you reject the premise and become a high fantasy Steve Irwin protecting endangered magical creatures instead.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

You know, even when I was a kid I thought Magneto's plan in the first X-Men movie to turn everyone into mutants was fucking baller and they should have let him do it. Just 'cause that one guy turned into a water monster doesn't mean that would be the default - the X gene expresses way differently in everyone who has it.

An no, I don't think giving every human the X gene constitutes genocide, that's fucking stupid.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person's life.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I've had this idea for ages about someone who goes back to like 1000 AD and tries to introduce germ theory, disinfecting surfaces and medical devices with alcohol, etc. The conflict comes from them having to overcome medieval institutions being resistant to change, starting with them naively writing a treatise on what is currently considered medical common sense but getting rebuked for apparently not knowing what they're talking about.

Naturally, the main character wears a cute version of a plague doctor outfit.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Actually, Marxists should let capitalists do all the bad things and never oppose them.

V I Lenin

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sony tried to market the PS3 as a multimedia entertainment hub - in hindsight it was an idea ahead of its time, since that's what basically all Smart TVs are now - but the $700 price tag made it unattainable during the critical first year of sales.

it also launched with "install other OS" as a feature, which they removed later via an update.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The original X-Men trilogy was pretty good slop. It was before all of the personality had been sandblasted off of superhero films and you could cold open with a scene at a Nazi concentration camp.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Critical support for people taking as much money as they can from the US Government.

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

:inshallah:

imagining future Americans getting mad at the global acknowledgement of the Korean and Vietnamese and Iraqi genocides.

:inshallah-script:

[-] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

He infamously stormed out of a university discussion on the book because he felt everyone there was misinterpreting it.

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