why must everything fun be so bad for you??

thanks for finding the paper and summarizing it! yeah i can definitely see how this wouldn’t really be as effective as they touted, especially with the vector problem. though there are a lot of different viruses that could be used as vectors right? i knew someone who did research into parvoviruses and it seems like they could work too. i still think it’s a cool idea though and i’m hoping it finds more applications.

so many against me songs are depressive yet really beautiful. joy, searching for a former clarity, i still love you julie, and especially paralytic states. that song is like a knife in the heart for my dysphoria lmao.

my mistake, i seemed to have interpreted her to be a cop for some reason. my point still stands with the random NCPD activities around the map.

theoretically it should, everything after the ? is literally just tracking shit and parameters, everything before is purely navigation stuff

yeah the lynch one is great. im definitely partial to the new dune's depiction however, it's much larger and the smoothness is so imposing. it resembles the sandworms a lot more, which i think is an interesting detail.

if you're interested in searching for number stations (something thats really easy to do with shortwave SDR), check out priyom for schedules of the number stations

because the first movie didn't really portray the point, a lot of people recently discounted dune for being a glorification of the "white savior" which is really sad because it is indeed a deconstruction of that trope and warning against people who try to embody it. just one of the inherent faults of adapting the huge amount of text herbert wrote for the story arc lol

satire is one way to put it, i would say more of a warning from frank herbert about charismatic personalities who use power structures in society to gain power and do terrible things, their actions then feeding a cycle of tyranny and violence.