Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
So basically we need to use whatever money is made from tariffs and invest in labor and manufacturing.
I meant specifically for ActivityPub & the Fediverse. Now there’s money in it.
And the enshittification process begins anew.
That’s a sub I never had much respect for. I don’t mind.
It’s easy to find fans. It’s impossible to find volunteers. This is the only alternative to what’s been termed “enshittification”, which is just corporatization of general audience media. Only three outcomes exist for media: either it stays extremely small and never gains an audience so that it never exceeds the initial infrastructure, it shuts down because there are never volunteers or enough money in donations to employ anyone, or it becomes corporate and profit seeking in order to employ people and stay live.
Only the third of those can be defined as being successful, and it is immediately related to the term coined by Doctorow.
Too many people I know have relatives whose DNR has been violated. And that bugs me.
I used to have a USB floppy drive too. Now I just have disk images.
If it gets as difficult as it used to be on Debian and Ubuntu, I’m running back to Windows.
Good question! Typically they get listed as fantasy because the magic isn’t manmade. Most definitions of science fiction require a human to have created the unrealistic element - or an extraterrestrial lifeform who is roughly analogous to a person. It’s not just that magic is present, but that it was derived from supernatural sources and not by human actions.
Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
Ah, you’ve read Heinlein and Lovecraft.
Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
Let it Be? No, no. Let it Haiku.
These are all 2024. So let’s go older.
Chicago? I dunno. I know what I’d suggest by NYC - a good pizza, a Rutt’s ripper, and a proper Philly cheese steak - with da wiz. Out there, I guess chicken & waffles or maybe biscuits & gravy? It’s the wrong time of year for green bean casserole.
Shared between us and them, knishes, kasha varnikes, and the Reuben sandwich isn’t unknown. So find a delicatessen.
Otherwise, chili. Homemade.
Had me in the first half, ngl.
So you’re suggesting that the USA must, economically, start WW3?