RavenFellBlade

Metroid.

How did I scroll through this list and not see Samus Aran mentioned?

There can never be enough Gowron.

You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite users on here. Such a goldmine!

This made my day.

Yeah, some elements of Snow Crash have definitely not aged well. The pervy sex scenes with the underaged girl have definitely outlived their welcome. Stephenson has certainly come a long way as a writer since he wrote this.

I really need to read the Expanse series! I loved the show, and I've heard the books are significantly better.

If you're gonna check out Gibson's Neuromancer, maybe check out Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Both are foundational cyberpunk.

Edit: Also, Project Hail Mary is one of my favorite novels. Can't gush enough about that one. Reminded me a lot of Greg Bear's Eon.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone, startrek.website, sh.itjust.works are all good.

You assume that the majority of them live there by choice, and not because they lack the resources and opportunities to move. It's kinda hard to pull up roots and move half way across the country when the economic and political realities of where you currently live force you to remain firmly entrenched in poverty with deliberately restricted access to any means to improve that situation.

By your logic, black people must love prison, too, because they represent a disproportionate percentage of the prison population. I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with disproportionate enforcement against them, right?

Yes! Things are looking up!

Depends. I'm dead serious when I ask this, but are you black, Latino, a woman, queer, Jewish or Muslim, trans or non-binary, liberal or any flavor of politics to the left of Right wing authoritarian fascist, or any combination of those groups? If so, then stay the hell out of any state south of Virginia and east of Illinois. They aren't just bad. They are potentially deadly, increasingly as a matter or literal public policy. If you aren't one of those groups, than you aren't in physical existential danger. You'll just be stuck in a nightmare hellhole of poverty and ignorance. But you'll be safe. Mostly.

Honestly, I've been everywhere in the continental US. Been to every state, seen just about all there is to see driving over the road for fifteen years, and I can tell you that the southeast is damn near a third world country compared to everywhere else. The infrastructure is so bad it reminds me of when I stayed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993. And it's only gotten worse. I have no desire to ever return now that I'm not required to for my job. Florida used to be the one shining exception, except now it's embracing a return to 1930s Germany. Stay out of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas in particular.

Nazism hasn't been stamped out. It's just been given a number of new names to make it more palatable. A sizeable percentage of American "Conservatives", especially in the MAGA cult, subscribe to an ideology that is every bit as fascist, nationalist, white-supremacist, and Christofascist as the Nazis. The only difference is the nation they represent. We're currently seeing a meteoric rise in antisemitic rhetoric from those same elements.

Nazism is just a specific brand of fascist nationalism. Make no mistake, there's every bit of effort to push several nations, and especially America, into a new fourth Reich in everything but name and nation.