ChatGPT.... The concept of single biome planets, such as a "desert planet" or an "ice planet," has its roots in the early days of science fiction literature and has been a popular trope for many decades. This idea likely stems from the desire to create exotic and easily understandable settings for science fiction stories. Here's a brief overview of its development:
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Early 20th Century: While it's difficult to pinpoint the exact origin, the concept of single biome planets was popularized in early 20th-century science fiction. Writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, in his Barsoom series (starting with "A Princess of Mars" in 1912), depicted Mars as a predominantly desert-like world.
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Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938-1946): During this era, authors like Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury began to explore and solidify many science fiction tropes, including unique planetary environments. Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" (1950) often depicted Mars as a desolate, arid landscape, reinforcing the desert planet trope.
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Post-War Science Fiction: After World War II, there was a surge in science fiction literature, with writers increasingly exploring the possibilities of life and environments on other planets. This period saw the creation of many more vividly imagined single-biome worlds.
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Modern Popularity: The most iconic example of a single biome planet is arguably the desert planet of Tatooine in George Lucas's "Star Wars" (1977). This and other similar portrayals in film and television helped cement the concept in popular culture.
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Influence of Real Astronomy: As our understanding of exoplanets grew, especially with the advent of space telescopes like Kepler, the idea of planets with singular biomes became more plausible, further fueling the trope in recent science fiction.
In summary, while it's challenging to determine the exact moment when the concept of single biome planets started in science fiction, it's clear that it has been a prominent and evolving element of the genre since at least the early 20th century.
Makes sense.
Dune is one of my favorite science fiction books--but only the first one.
Now I'm wondering when the trope of "ice planet" or "desert planet" or whatever started. Dune certainly really popularized the concept (and Star Wars really drove that home), but I would imagine it goes back to pulp fiction and the early days.
Not Somalia’s flag, but the flag of one of the states inside Somalia.
Ugly and boring either way.
Regardless of anything external, good job on losing weight. Getting healthier is its own reward in how you look and feel.
I read the whole series once. I generally quite enjoyed it, though it got worse the longer it went on. The book you're on was about the weakest, IIRC. I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone read at least Book 1.
There's a non-binary space captain later.
I thought the diversity stuff was handled pretty decently as it just was there. Nothing was lingered on. Besides, given today's demographics, you can guess what the future of humanity is going to look like in 200-300 years.
The author, "James S.A. Corey" is actually two people. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Ty was George RR Martin's assistant. Just as GRRM, whose writing I very much enjoy, is an activist SJW leftist, so Ty and Daniel.
(Did anyone else remember that in Ender's Game, the famous general, Mazer Rackham, was a Maori from New Zealand?)
There's an old and persistent strand of science fiction writing that is obsessed with religion. I see these books as just more of that.
It's coarse and rough and irritating.
Thought experiment.
If the vast majority of immigrants crossing the southern border were whites who voted Republican upon citizenship (see, e.g., Cubans), would democrats support unlimited illegal immigration? Would Republicans?
If the vast majority of doctors, professors, etc., said publicly--without fear of cancelation and harassment--that women are women, men are men, and transgenderism is a disorder, would leftists still believe the science?
No.
You're missing the point. The shepherd protects his flock. The shepherd protects his flock from threats both internal and external.
Jesus was tough and critical to his followers. He challenged. He pushed.
"Force people into submission" is not a message of Jesus. Nor is a "live and let live" attitude towards his followers. It's those who are held to a high standard.
https://english.wisc.edu/programs/composition-and-rhetoric/graduate-studies/
https://english.ku.edu/phd-creative-writing
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/phd/tcr/index.php
Never doubt the ability of universities to come up with useless degrees.
I mean a lot of them have mayo...and you frequently dip in soy sauce. So ketchup's just another sauce, right? I'm kind of tempted to try this..
I love ketchup. An older guy I know who helped teach me to cook was a an anti-ketchup extremist--used to ban ketchup from burgers and hotdogs. If ever anyone deserved being called a nazi..(he was a great guy)
Christ called us to be shepherds. It is a poor shepherd that refuses to shoot a wolf.
Besides the cross, what's the main symbol of Christianity (ok fish is big, dove, etc.)? The shepherd's crook. Bishops staffs are designed to look like a shepherd's crook.
Why?
Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
You think that crook was just for looks? Hell no. Shepherds are not soft, pacifistic men who let their flocks go where they will, eat what they will, and be preyed upon by predators.
No, that crook is for whacking the sheep on the ass when they go astray. The hook is for yanking a wayward sheep back in line and even rescuing a fallen or trapped lamb.
This idea of a soft, effeminiate, pacfistic "live life as you will" Jesus, is ahistorical and flawed.
It's speculated that Michaelangelo may have been austic, and for him, it seems to fit (poor hygiene, insane dedication to his work, insane work hours, erratic social life, etc.).
Leonardo autistic? I doubt it. Was he gay? Maybe, who knows.
The "-ism" people love to claim people in the past, and they can't concieve of a world which doesn't exactly conform to modern standards and modern sensibilities. Male friendship?!--must be gay!
My favorite. Raphael. Guy had good taste! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fornarina
Ironic the 3rd place “center right” party that might work with Geert is headed by a Turkish woman.
Don’t forget Burger Becky. Or Burger Bill? Well, who knows…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman
OG trans.
Two X chromosomes, no tally whacker.
Most succinct definition I’ve heard
I didn't know he was gay. Interesting that that didn't really show up in the media (at least not that I had seen).
What about his sister?
Wait. Those guys are black? Was I supposed to know that?
It's often pretty tricky.
Traditionally if freedmen could marry a white it was like hitting the lottery--one step closer for children to "pass" and enter white society. Weird stuff happens with genetics. You can have someone who is "mulatto" (1/2 black and 1/2 white) who looks almost fully white. You can have a "quadroon" (1/4 black and 3/4 white) who looks full African, etc.
It's said that mixed individuals used to keep their nails clipped very closely, because the color of the fingernail oftened was evidence of black ancestry.
Anyway, to your question, it used to be that claiming to be white was the goal. Today, you get more social benefit from being black, so it has switched in the opposite direction.
Edit: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc., are extremely dated terms today
I enjoyed the book too. It is not at all woke or obnoxious.
The basic message of The Hunger Games is pretty great. Person fighting against powerful central government that rules with an iron fist and tightly controls what its people see nd know by keeping them entertained with degenerate bloodsports. Without getting into spoilers, all governments suck and become tyrannical, and it's up to individuals to fight for freedom.
I didn't know about this movie, but I am 100% skipping anything with that actress as the lead.
Never, never underestimate the power of men wanting to get their dicks wet in strange.
Even smart men, even successful men, even family men, even billionaire "high-quality" men.
To quote from one with who describes the Vogue article (I could not bring myself to read it):
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Sánchez uses a mug Bezos got her from Amazon, with the words “Woke up sexy as hell again” splashed across the side.” (In another life, Jeff Bezos was a TJ Maxx mom.)
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“… The phrase “Love you to space and back,” a favorite saying between Sánchez and Bezos, embroidered in her lilting cursive.”
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“‘I made her vulnerable and soft,’ says Bezos with more than a hint of pride.” (Reader, I gagged (derogatory).)
https://colormeloverly.substack.com/p/not-this-fake-normalcy-from-mr-and
You think any guy who actually comes close to their criteria is going to want anything to do with these gold digging sociopaths?
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2699859-cowboy-jeff-bezos-2023-vogue-photoshoot
A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words.
Outside of other scholar seasoning-americans who never actually watched the show claiming he was their favorite, no one gave one flying fuck about Geordi LaForge.
It's funny too. Geordi is totally a sex pest "nice guy" and would 10000% be cancelled if on today.
I've had friends who worked in mental health say that it's largely due to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Nurse Ratched, etc. The book and movie made asylums out to be so grim and oppressive that on both a personal level (people didn't want to send family members to these places) and a political level (pressure to defund and deinstitutionalize--sound familiar?), their demise was swift.
Quillette, so take it with a grain of salt, but this is actually a really interesting article about deinstitutionalization:
Askhenazi Jews are highly intelligent and have strong familial bonds and in-group preference. Jews were historically limited in parts of both the US and Europe in professions and ownership of land, property, etc. Intelligent, a religion focused on reading and legality (as opposed to Islam which has a much greater emphasis on repition and memorization), and blocked from many professions, so academia, medicine, legal profession were naturally open to Jews.
(In America you can also see many early Jews taking the types of jobs that didn't require pre-existiing wealth or land -- junkyards. merchants. actors. etc)
In-group preference is huge.
Jews are a diaspora people and a minority people. This is built into their psyche. Same for Armenians and others. Before Israel the only places where Jews were in the majority were in Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods and perhaps a small handful of cities. Again, this is core to Ashkenazi identity.
As a religious and ethnic minority living largely in Christian nations, it's natural that Jews consciously or subconsciously act against Christian mores and values.
You have a group of smart, highly educated, (and today) wealthy, people who default to opposition to the majority. It's not a huge surprise that Jews dominated the "anti" mainstream movements from socialism and communism to feminism to transgenderism.
Whining about (((muh jews))) is useless and makes the vast majority of EVEN SYMPATHETIC people ignore you immediately.
What we should be doing is non-stop calling out of Jewish privilege.
How many members of the Biden cabinet are Jewish? How deputies are Jewish? How many Jews are in the house and senate as compared to their percentage of the population? How many CEOs? How many banksters?
Call out the privilege. Don't let this be about white privilege. Use leftists' own game against them.