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Mike Miller's avatar

Ah, Vakho and Ganhkran. Two nice entities trapped in a less than nice world. Nice to get a true glimpse of what's going on with the Ambassador. Powerful scene, man.

Fucking Nigel playing the fucking "we're full" card. Yeah. The thing which makes him dangerous is he's a smarter and much more subtle demagogue than most of those currently operating in our world - and people are dumb enough to fall for the blatant. Nigel is gearing up to do damage.

Mike Miller wonders if he accidentally inspired DCI Miller's toe tail. Though his was a calculated ploy ploy to "humanize" himself before setting some hooks.

Sigh. "Nightwatch" comes to the SDC, and, if we're lucky Holland with Zack Allen his way over to the hero team later. In the meantime, he's gonna direct his paranoid detective brain at his own partner and go down the wrong path for at least a while.

At least Holland isn't a content moderator for AI training... That's a so-far-beyond-crap job for any (mostly) reputable online platform. Unfortunately I've yet to hear of a platform truly providing proper counseling for people they're driving to PTSD. Then again, maybe there is no proper counseling for a job which is "Filter Out the Literal Worst of the Worst, Kthnx! Bye!"

No, we're not out of the "Trump Age" of the USA. I hope I'm wrong, but I think he's the catalyst for something new and ugly which is barely being held back right now... But don't look at polling on the political views of adolescent US boys. It's depressing. TL/DR they're moving right-wing. Yup, the USA has thousands of those kids from last chapter in the making... Next year may signal a quicker collapse beginning, or the next decade could swing back towards a more progressive/global community view.

I mean I grew up on Star Trek, Space: 1999, Doctor Who and a whole bunch of that 60's-70's Sci-Fi which was basically "Boy, if we all could get along reasonably well and have our cultures and countries co-operate, we can do great things."

But a few days ago I ran into a rare foolish Irisher espousing an insular philosophy about Ireland not exporting anything ("Irish salmon for Ireland") and trying to eliminate all imports. Didn't have time to fully attempt to educate him, but I think I made him think about the importance of global trade with pointing out neither tea or coffee can grow in the Irish climate. Or oranges, pineapples, or bananas.

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Chris Patrick's avatar

Thank you for the shoutout! Really appreciate it 🙌🏻

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