This chart really makes no sense at all. How does Lord of the Flies lie at the intersection of The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451?
One’s about an ultra-conservative theocracy, one’s about government surveillance and propaganda, and one’s about destroying books because people’s attention spans have reduced past the ability to read and they’re too long/confusing/depressing. I guess authoritarianism might lie at the heart of all these? Meanwhile, though, Lord of the Flies is more about the dangers of unchecked groupthink and how it can lead to violence and cruelty.
Whenever I get a capcha of anyone on a vehicle, I always make it a point to highlight the entirety of the driver too because I’m not going to just let Google train its self-driving vehicles to just ignore that every motorcycle has a rider on it.
Krummholz trees are trees that have been shaped and scoured by the wind, its definitely a thing. Hard to say for this one, though. Looks a little too healthy and full to be Krummholz.
It’s pretty common for places to be sister cities with far away places. Even small towns on the West Coast of the US are sister cities with places in Scotland, South Korea, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Ethiopia, Poland, Nigeria, etc.
Society (lemmy.world)
...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails. (telegra.ph)
Happy Halloween! (lemmy.world)
That’s it, that’s the whole meme. (i.imgur.com)
Cyber woman with corn
An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
Location on a map: www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-…
Tree shaped by the wind (lemmy.world)
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