GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world Posts 73Comments 1,194Joined 2 yr. ago
Okay, doing this Sudoku-style where I can only draft one from each row and column for my fellowship, here's what I came up with:
I've only ever found one zip-up hoodie with decent insulation and pockets deep enough that my phone won't fall out of them if I'm not careful, and you better believe I'm taking good care of it.
Sandalpunk
I work at a used book store. Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is a great seller, one of the best selling titles we ever get in, in fact. As a result, we keep raising the resale price on the thing each time a new one comes in, and it keeps selling. I've never had to mark down a Communist Manifesto for sitting on the shelf for too long. It's a textbook example of supply and demand in action... and I think that Karl would kind of hate that.
Jesus fucking Christ, Cannon again.
Getting closer to Snow Crash all the time.
You should never post anything online that you wouldn't be comfortable shouting at the top of your lungs in the middle of your hometown.
There's actually a very good stage play about this exact subject.
He became the devil.
Nothing moves The Blob!
I got some of these that clip on to my glasses for miniature painting, and they were very nice for being able to flip on and off as needed. Looks like these come in different magnification powers, which sounds handy, depending on one's needs.
You know what you call a doctor who got all Cs throughout college?
Doctor.
One human being, even armed with a spear or a bow and arrow, can do nothing to a mammoth but watch from a very safe distance. A cooperating group of human beings, armed each with similar primitive weapons, can destroy a mammoth, and, indeed, such hunting groups managed, long before the birth of civilization, to drive these magnificent creatures to extinction-as well as other large, but insufficiently intelligent, species.
Of all tribal species, only Homo sapiens developed a technology, and, as it happens, there is very little in the way of technology that a single human being, starting from scratch, can develop. A group of human beings, with diverse talents, are much more likely to have the succession of ingenious ideas that bring about the growth of technology.
Not only that, but the growth of technology seems to require, inevitably, the development of larger and larger co-operating groups to maintain that technology at its level and to bring about further growth.
The development of agriculture required a large population of farmers not only to till the fields and weed and hoe and sow and reap and do all the work required to produce a year's supply of food, but also to make the implements needed, to construct and maintain the irrigation ditches, to build walled cities and collect armaments to protect themselves from surrounding tribes who, not having sown, would be glad to collect the reapings by force.
Fortunately, the development of agriculture made it possible to support a larger population than would have been possible without it. In general, it has been true that advances in technology have both produced and used a larger and denser population than before.
To make the technology work, moreover-and this is the crucial point-there must be co-operation at least over a political unit large enough to be economically useful. Through history, as technology has advanced, the size of these economic units has necessarily increased from tribal patches, to city-states, to nations, to empires.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981