Has anyone else read “Ministry for the Future,” by Kim Stanley Robinson? It is depressingly realistic.

It’s like turning off your radio so you can read the map better.

Gotta go big screen for big purchases.

That’s how I feel about Neuromancer and most other cyberpunk books.

I love the addition of Snow Crash. I never see SF books in free libraries.

Edit: And Charles De Lint! You never see him these days. Kick ass free library, OP

Ours was "Did you hear that noise??"

That sounds just like r/SaltLakeCity

check the title, smarty pants

“Be wary of spiteful Reddit users” is not instructions for calling people names.

OP added an adjective to describe a specific class of Reddit users. The body of the OP made it clear it doesn’t apply to all users and therefore isn’t a title.

Can you please quote where in the body or the title the OP placed instructions for calling people names?

your entire post is instructions for calling people names, you drama queen.. with all the yearning and what not..

Could you please quote where the OP had these instructions?

one could argue that the prelude to the civil war started before independence, since the Quakers were anti-slavery. even disregarding that, fighting was occuring over slavery for decades prior to the formation of the Confederacy - the famous bit at the tail end of that, "bleeding Kansas", occured in the early 1850s.

a mere 4 or 8 year length of time is largely inconsequential.

The US Civil War is more significant than just the penultimate legal question on slavery. It also set the tone for politics for the next 50 years, completely destroyed the population and economy of nearly half the country, and paved the road for some of the most important Amendments to the US Constitution.

Plus the advances in war time technologies, tactics, and medicine weren’t too shabby.

What I find particularly interesting is that the Confederacy only existed for 4 years, meaning to run around with an Obama flag would more historically relevant than this shit.

“Historically relevant” or “historically significant” is really tricky thing to judge sometimes. While Obama’s 2 terms as president meant he was in charge for 8 years vs the Confederacy’s 4, I believe the Confederacy and the US Civil War they caused was more historically relevant than Obama’s 8 years as president.

There’s a whole lot of nasty from the war and immediate fall out we’re seeing feeling today.

Talk about unexpected privileges. Thanks for your answer.

Thank you!

Thank you. That sounds highly annoying.

I’m from lemmy.world. What is this bot you’re talking about? I haven’t had the misfortune of running into it. What makes it spam?

Edit: Thanks everyone for your helpful answers! Based on the responses below, I believe you should definitely defederate.

Someone has been downvoting me every time I get a response from you on each comment.

That’s interesting. That’s not what I can see on my end, but then again Memmy has been pretty glitchy the last few days.

Are you seeing my point now?

Have you seen anyone downvoting you? Even when you’re acting like a stubborn fool, your karma for this conversation hasn’t been negatively impacted.

Grizzly, Black, Polar, or Panda? What bear goes best in a shrimp boil?

Sun bear, obviously.

I feel like you are being a dick about this.

Funny, I could say the same about you.

Because we aren't people, we're weird little goblins with delusions of grandeur

Alright, fair enough. That does sound like the British.

That Walter Mitty scene made me laugh. It was filmed in Seyðisfjörður, which is around 700 km away from Eyjafjallajökull. They had even changed the map shown in the movie, so it was unrecognizable for an Icelander! 😂

I had no idea. That’s hilarious.

This is the third eruption that's occured on the peninsula in three years and it's largely died down so I wouldn't call it "exciting"

It's pretty though.

Volcanic eruptions are always exciting.