Notices by Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social), page 2

@evan I heard that it was so he could get fash tech billionaire money through Vance as a conduit.

Any of the Republicans will grovel for him.

@ryanhoulihan sigh... ill find you a giant robot

@evan I voted "mostly by person" with the obligatory caveat of "but I really have no idea!"

@clacke @jszym Ooh I shall have to watch that, despite feeling bad for poor James.

@clacke @jszym I have not watched the entire video but the giant plush pokemon fursuits mildly amuse me.

@br00t4c this sounds like a good argument for city people to get more guns.

@ryanhoulihan All the boringest youtube videos have a chatbot written script narrated by AI Morgan Freeman over arbitrary stock footage. On its own, the stock footage might be mildly interesting in a sensible context.

I would like to know if intelligent beings exist on other planets and, if so, do they have cartoons?

@JoBlakely I think "inidvidualism" and "collectivism" are unclear words that are used to lump a lot of opposing concepts and behaviors together, but if the USA was a guy, he would totally wake up every morning and say to himself "I am a maverick rebel who does everything my own way!" and then promptly go to work 8 hours at a job he hates. At most he might speed a little on the way to the office, but that would be the biggest norm he violated that day.

@evan Other; I think the main things they'd pick up on would be that the cars are bigger and rounder and that people are dressed differently.

@Rasp maybe they're making a political or cultural statement of some kind.

@Rasp I would just be confused if you told me your character was non-binary and also gay, because I'm not sure what they'd be gay for then?

@evan probably in the background and on some of the props, but of course no modern audience can read them.

This film is really optimized for 3690s (BCE) kids as far as comprehension goes.

Forest Gump, but the main character is from the Cucuteni-Trypillia archaeological culture of southeast Europe, and the movie is set in the period of 3680-3650 BCE. It is very nostalgic and full of historical references, but no one watching the movie today has any idea what is going on.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @RebelGeek99 @luckytran also they will attach a Great Deal of Importance to the distinction of how the baby is cut in half and make very subtle distinctions as to the pros and cons of sagittal versus transverse division.

@RebelGeek99 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @luckytran oh yeah, also the argument about what kind of permit would be best for the baby splitting will be a very important and subtle discussion that is given much weight. If the centrist community is divided about anything, it will about the downstream effects of different possible baby splitting permits (and also what kind of tax credits to attach to the baby division procedure).

@Rasp There was a Forgotten Realms novel with a mercenary woman who was magically created by a secret evil alliance to serve as an unwitting assassin. She looked and acted like an adult (having fake memories) despite being a newly created individual, but if I recall right there was a weird quirk where her sense of taste and preferences for food were like that of a child.

@Radical_EgoCom I dislike the annoying "Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty" talking point, because it attributes any kind of technological development with capitalism, ignores non-capitalist components of economic development and dismisses the aspects of capitalism that make people poorer and more miserable.

@mikeolson @sundogplanets Wouldn't it take a while for atmospheric drag to clear up all those satellites and debris though? I thought that was a thing that takes years or decades, depending on the orbit.

Israel can just blow up a city and killing thousands of people. The only country that might be able to stop this and force a ceasefire is the USA.

However, when you ask US politicians about this, the most sympathetic response will be a combination of "But what about October 7th?" and also "But we're *asking* the Israelis to kill slightly fewer civilians!"

You know what would kill the least number of civilians? A ceasefire, that's what.