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Just a small thing from a worldbuilding thing I was writing, I'm just posting it here cause I like how the ending turned out so I don't want to just delete it. ---- Of course, there is additional nesting yet to go, for the Vazdigigi houses the center of the human world, the holy of holies. Before th...

magic princess wrote:why should women be punished for acts of resistance?

What makes you think the stuff evilsoup was talking about is resistance and not the same thing abusive men do?

Women therefore essentially developed the strategy of Resistance to oppression based on "hectoring", "badgering", and other stereotypical "angry bitch" responses of married men to their husbands -- they used what maneouvring room they could to lash out at the man who h...

I love the fact that we have been able to correspond so civilly for so long despite our profoundly different points of view. That's the kind of world I want to exist. Same here. It's a genuine pleasure, and you've actually non-trivially influenced me, even if I still basically agree with David Brin...

^ For what it's worth I find your ideas very interesting.

I disagree with a lot of them but I find them interesting.

I'm pretty sure that in the 1640s the Wampanoag didn't think there'd be six million whites living in Boston at some point in the future! But swamped they were. Those situations seem very different. The thing that really hurt (indigenous) American societies was the immigrants didn't integrate into e...

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:This idea that people being able to move freely across borders and settle in other countries has in some way undermined the State as an institution is bogus.

I imagine the borders of old timey big states like the Roman Empire must have leaked like a sieve. They generally seem to have survived that.

From Biscuit's blog: Doesn’t seem funny? Well, I had to think about it before realizing what struck me as weird about it. I’ve talked before about how hazy the actual end game of radical feminism’s gender abolition is, but this post made me realize something else:they don’t have much of a start game...

I've come to the conclusion that I've developed a really self-sabotaging toxic addictive OCD-ish pattern of thinking when it comes to my art, and if I'm going to get anywhere I'm going to have to stop myself from doing it. I remember RedImperator once saying the reason nerds spend so much effort on ...

Though I've been accustomed for a while now to reading fanfiction pieces whose chapters are almost novella-length in themselves, and with wordcounts over the 500k-1M mark... In my experience it's easy for stories to get sprawling if you're kind of making it up as you go along (I remember the last s...

Hey, stupid math question. Say I have a sphere with a radius of 10 (inches, miles, whatever). Now I draw a square 4 (inches, miles, whatev) on a side on that sphere Now say I have a sphere with a radius of 5 It will have 1/4 the surface area of the first sphere And I draw a 2 X 2 square on it. The s...

Yeah, that was a pretty cool story, Shroom.

This week I found out that the latitude where the Earth's circumference is half what it is at the equator is supposedly 60 degrees.

Funny, I'd have intuitively thought it would be 45 (halfway between equator and pole).

Spheres, how do they work???

Darksi4190 wrote:What time zone are you in?

Pacific (California).

Is it just me, or does it seem like Spacebattles has been down more than usual lately? I wonder if its servers are housed anywhere in the U.S. where there's really shitty weather. It seems to be in that near-nonfunctional state pretty much all day now. It starts working right at midnight (I've take...

'vegan privilege' How does that work? Do they mean veganism is easier if you have the time and money to carefully tailor your diet instead of just eating whatever is cheap? I can sort of see that. The, I suppose call it "enlightened consumption" movement (organic food etc.) always struck ...

A partial list of ways non-trans-women’s community fails trans women: ... •Being male-dominated (this includes trans men) I find this one kind of interesting, my impression is transmen seem to be a lot less visible than transwomen for some reason, if anything I'd have expected transwomen to have di...

Honestly, the only reason anyone fears a nuclear Iran is because then we'd have to stop trying to push them around. This is how it looks to me to: the real reason the American political class hates the idea of Iran getting the bomb is it means they lose the option to crush a non-compliant regime wi...

Yeah I acknowledge racism - this is more in reaction to the assertion that it is "not wrong" for voters in the US to favor voting a Black person over a non-black person because of the poor position of blacks in the US. Though the comparision breaks down when you consider blacks have neith...

That China thread on SDN made me wonder I wonder how big of a role proximity to the first society to have an industrial revolution plays in another society industrializing vs. ending up "undeveloped" or colonized. Like it occurs to me that the reason the West got to exploit the head-start ...

I personally don't think the problem with sd.net is any sort of vitriol or insults or anything by itself I think the issue comes from the liberal privileged-as-default-and-right perspective that laces the board combined with the massively competitive nature (so basically because it's full of patria...

What I picked up from the lecture and got confirmed by the lecturer afterwards when I talked to her was that you could definitely interpret the argument as Butler seeing vulnerability as a positive, but differences in levels of vulnerability where issues arise. It sets up situations where people of...

The ship is quiet. All I can hear is the quiet hum of fans, recirculating the air. I make breakfast for myself. Everything I do seems loud. It feels as if I’m disturbing the quiet of a temple, or a tomb. I sit down and eat. Mati and Kadi say the food from the bins tastes bad, but I’ve never had this...

evilsoup wrote:wait what is going on

That quote SDN puts at the top of their page might have been one that was actually from a Neo-Nazi but was misattributed to Voltaire. They recently replaced it with a big picture of red flowers (poppies?).