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  • Commented on Chicon 8 schedule
    Those anti-covid precautions seem wise considering the persistently high baseline of infections, and Im sure you know this already, but please be very careful on planes whilst on the tarmac. In-flight ventilation is pretty good and will protect you in...
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    Ofc, any efforts to get us all fossils and avoiding the collapse of the biosphere is welcome, but I would suggest taking a look at the latest rethink report who suggest we can get 90% of the way there with...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    Trump's only real hope now is that things are tighter than projected and it comes down to Pennsylvania, with SCOTUS shutting down ballot counting early. Otherwise it's hard to see a path for him. National polling is far outside the...
  • Commented on Dead plots
    Yeah, I would suggest a look at Marwan Khreesat and his PFLP bomb making activities might be in order. The intelligence community consensus up until 1990 was that Lockerbie was his 5th Toshiba cassette bomb and the case made at...
  • Commented on Dead plots
    WRT Lockerbie. Its been a while, but IIRC the bomb was was most likely planted by the PFLP, built by a Jordanian double agent, and paid for with $10 million from the Iranian foreign ministry with intelligence support from Syria,...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    If we're getting Bond Villain on it, a couple of small nuclear devices planted at strategic points on Greenland's bedrock would probably be enough to completely destabilise the ice sheet, prompting an AMOC shutdown due to the influx of fresh...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Im not sure I can envisage any historical actors who would have had the motivation to try something like that, and I reckon the growth in security infrastructure is down more to the basic instincts of power. However, I think...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    How much for a global assassination & sabotage programme? The systematic murder of oil and big ag executives would have a fairly major chilling effect on those within the industry. Obviously taking out politicians and the ultra rich would be...
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    Yeah, I think there may be an unpleasant surprise in store there. I could easily see the CTA being suspended during such a crisis, and we will have our hands full dealing with Irish passport holders anyway. Also, there is...
  • Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
    The point about the insurance industry is; what happens when one of these hits the US every year? When major industrial facilities, skyscrapers and critical infrastructure are destroyed on an annual basis? When homes in coastal cities globally become uninsurable...
  • Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
    Presumably this is going to have a major knock on effect on the insurance industry. There must be strategic planners out there already calculating the expiration of the very concept of home insurance and the managed wind down of domestic...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Ireland has a (constitutionally-backed) ban on abortion. Ireland's politics is dominated by elderly white Catholic males, even though the ban is extremely unpopular among the young, female, and non-religious (now an outright majority) and is illegal per the ECHR... ...Ireland...
  • Commented on Some notes on the worst-case scenario
    The major flaw I see with the thesis is wrt intentionality. I dont think that much of this is deliberate, rather the logical outcome of chaotic actors, greed and entropy. In a desperate quest to try and see the bright...
  • Commented on Playtime is over
    Find 8 people who think like you and organise a group. Ask each of them to organise another group of 9 people. When you have 10 groups organise a meeting. Talk about practical ways to fight back. There are endless...
  • Commented on Playtime is over
    We need a global movement, but that will only grow from local grassroots campaigns. Clicktivism and letter writing wont cut it any more. Everybody who isnt a fascist, from the centre to the far left needs to wake up, unite...
  • Commented on State of the Charlie
    "Soldiers will be allowed to enter only with their personal weapons and uniform presentation of certificate of wear / officer. Citizens will be allowed to hold a gun presenting a valid license" Reminder to self - dont annoy anyone at...
  • Commented on Nom de Teleport
    Stephen king used 'Jaunt' as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt...
  • Commented on Second childhood?
    I could live off 'Existential comics' and 'Hark, a vagrant' forever. Big fan of SMBC as well. 'Crossed wish you were here' was a guilty pleasure for a while....
  • Commented on From the hemline index to the vampire/zombie ratio: SF/F by the numbers
    Shame the data runs out in '08. There has been a huge boom in zombie novels from about '06 or so - since WWZ was published... those appalling Del Toro books with the zombie/vampire hybrid thingies, the abysmal Brian Keene...
  • Commented on The myth of heroism
    "We're probably still 20-30 years away from a superhero novel willing the Booker prize" Kavalier and Clay was certainly worthy, though not strictly speaking a 'superhero' novel. http://www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-Adventures-Kavalier-Clay/dp/1480537209 See also, Jonathan Lethem's 'Fortress of solitude'....
  • Commented on No. Words.
    This is heart wrenching news, not only because of the waste of life of a talented human being and the grief and pain his loss will bring to his family and friends, but also for the more selfish reason that...
  • Commented on The jet lag game
    Whenever anyone mentions teleportation I always think of 'the jaunt'. Not the best or most original tele-frag story, but it stays with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt...
  • Commented on Big Guns[1]
    Anyone interested in the economic factors of rage killings could do worse than reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824 Its not exactly watertight, and there's some pretty wild dot connecting in there but it's an interesting take with some good insights....
  • Commented on Of Blood and Honey, And Blue Skies from Pain
    Alan, that is reasonable, I wasn't aware of the history here, and Im sorry to have caused you trouble first thing in the morning. I'm not really interested in a flame war, but, as I said, I found Greg's comment...
  • Commented on Of Blood and Honey, And Blue Skies from Pain
    Forgive me if I dont agree that your single paragraph 'clarifies the matter', and Im happy to abide by the wishes of the moderator and not continue the discussion, but just to point out, that I used the term 'pseudo-genocide',...
  • Commented on Of Blood and Honey, And Blue Skies from Pain
    Dear god Alan. Can you please point out where I have breached the moderation policy? Also, are all historical crimes off limits, or just the ones the English have perpetrated? You get a minuscule credit for deleting the first comment,...
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