Is affection a thing that even exists?

See?

A bunch of people on the right have progressive ideas, they just either don’t care about them as much as they care about their regressive ones, or they don’t see them as “progressive”.

And these people, are they “on The Right” because they’ve already been othered by The Left? See, I myself have been accused of being a “right wing nazi chud” only a day or two ago in another thread on this same topic. To the nut case accusing me, it didn’t matter that I consistently vote Democrat and consistently vote against right-wing ballot measures, for instance I voted against NC HB2 “The Bathroom Bill” in 2016. Didn’t matter. Nut case accused the entire Democratic party of right wingedness along with me. Which means in this person’s eyes there’s no ACTUAL political action I can take that will put me on their side, I’m discarded as an enemy for the crime of being okay with Andy Weir. My irredeemable sin? Labeling terminally online gender obsessed leftists “bluehairs” to contrast them with far right “skinheads.” As thought crimes go, that one’s a capital offense.

I see this as a “it’s unclear where you stand” and I think that’s valid because to exist in modern America and not think your art is political makes you stupid or republican and I don’t think he’s stupid.

Grammatically speaking, I think this sentence has rabies. I think what you mean is, all art is political, and if you don’t think so you’re Republican or stupid. Okay, if all art is political, what statement is being made by the creator of this:

I’ve seen that assertion made a lot in the backlash to Weir appearing on Critical Drinker’s show. “Everything’s political, especially Sci-Fi.” Bullshit. Sci-fi is a useful venue for exploring ethical dilemmas, granted, but what law says that’s what it must be used for? Who the fuck are you to tell me what I can and can’t mean while writing fiction? Andy Weir uses accurate science for world and story building. By his own admission, he’s not a good enough writer to come up with the climactic “Do I continue to Earth and survive, or do I sacrifice myself to save Rocky?” dilemma; that was derived from the astrophage lifecycle. Sometimes the curtains are fucking blue.

I’m more willing to buy the premise…have you ever heard it said that all works of art are unintentional period pieces? Like, Amadeus is set in 1830, but it’s a very 1980’s movie? Part of that is reflecting the political character of its creators. So what of Andy Weir’s character do you see reflected in his works?

At the end of the day I don’t think he’s as harmful as JK Rowling,

JK Rowling significantly funds anti-trans organizations and causes. Andy Weir’s charitable contributions include The Planetary Society, the National Air and Space Museum and Space Center Houston, all to promote space exploration and STEM education. He’s done fundraisers for Marie Curie, a cause in the UK supporting people living with terminal illnesses. Based on what he actually does, I’m pretty okay with the man.

(Funny thing is, most of that is from ALttP’s manual. If you haven’t, go find it and read it, the first 4 or 5 pages read like a design document for the rest of the series)

Curly feet and crooked tail. The adorableness is plentiful and diverse.

Is that a dad joke or a father jape?

One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States…is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, “I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,” and then we start sometimes creating what’s called a circular firing squad, where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues, and when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens.

– Barack Obama, 2019

So. An examination of Andy Weir’s works indicate he’s got a head full of progressive ideas. His two biggest works have major themes of setting aside differences to cooperate to solve massive problems using evidence-based science. He writes female characters in positions of authority, in the case of Eva Stratt, he wrote the most powerful person on Earth as a woman. When writing Artemis, he gave drafts to women in his life to read for input on his portrayal of Jazz.

“I never put any politics or messaging in my stories; there’s no deeper meaning, there isn’t even any symbolism.”

Make ready. Take aim. Open fire.

Anyone else feel like the book moved at kind of a breakneck pace compared to The Martian?

Like, The Martian went through this whole thing about using ASCII instead of the alphabet with the speak and spell…to communicate with people Watney knew personally. Meanwhile Grace and Rocky just…learn each other’s languages. “I wrote a program in about 6 hours.”

So, explain why you think this is anything other than a waste of time for engineering students?

Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer and second head of Lockeed’s Skunkworks after Kelly Johnson mentions Harvard Business School in his autobiography. He was apparently sent to a program they taught there for professionals already working in industry to become more business savvy. Kelly Johnson sent Ben Rich to this program, and when Rich got back, Johnson asked him what he learned. He said “Okay let me show you.” and he turned to the blackboard and wrote “2/3 HBS = BS” on the blackboard.

I mean, that game contains the in-universe creation myth, the origin story of the series’ main villain, the establishment of four recurring in-universe races of people, and a host of ideas they’re still riffing on to this day…but this is Lemmy, no non-existent homoerotica will be left uninvented.

The Soich For More Money

And with a hypothesis.

Who figured out this is a thing that works?

Would it have been a meme 20 years ago?

White collar engineers? Paying attention to blue collar techs? That’s the plot of the next Andy Weir novel, isn’t it? A hilariously naive notion of people working together to solve problems? Sounds like his work.

I couldn’t solve all the world’s problems if I was given this power, but it would make people who are damaged in the same way I am laugh for a couple months out of the year.

There needs to be a required summer semester of engineering school called “being a mechanic.”

Okay college boy, put on a shirt with your name embroidered on it and come out here into the shop. Yeah it’s 110 degrees in the shade, you’ve got your buddy Tom Midgly Jr. to thank for that. Now take this wrench and take that bolt out. Oh it doesn’t come out because the oil pan is in the way? I wonder whose fault that is. No, we’re not gonna let it cool before dropping the oil pan, the customer is in the lobby. Yeah. It is 240 degrees. No, it doesn’t all drain out through the plug, there’s a half quart that doesn’t come out. Yes, you’re getting that on you. Don’t get any of it on the interior of the car when you back it out. Now take off the oil filter. Yes, you’re gonna burn the back of your hand on the exhaust manifold. You’re taking every Toyota oil filter off this summer. You’re gonna hold the burn mark on the back of your hand up like Tyler Durden.

Oh you’re going to be an aeronautical engineer. c’mere boy, we’re gonna take the wings off a 152 Aerobat, you get to pick the spar bolts out of the catalog, we’ll safety wire the control cable turnbuckles through those little inspection ports you types are so stingy with, and then we’ll take the bird you just reassembled up for a couple two or three hours of spin training to see if ya done it right. You ever do a snap roll? I’ll teach you more about the aerodynamics of maneuvering flight in 1.5 seconds than your physics professor did in a semester. Eat bananas for breakfast, they taste the same coming up as they do going down. And buddy they’re coming back up. Because of the special jug bolt wrench I had to buy, I’m gonna pull at least one breakfast back out of your face using nothing but stick and rudder.

It has achieved the same level of awareness as the average emacs user.

No mine is more of just a bell sound, because it heard the complaints from players about it talking all the time but it took it too literally.

Before watching, is this going to be A Fistful Of Rupees?

No, it’s some shit GuruLarry did? And Fistful Of Rupees isn’t up on Youtube anymore? But here it is on Dailymotion?