Rolando

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Rolando,

Study for college. Seriously, just allocate many hours a day for it. it’s boring at first but gets better after a while. You don’t have to go to an Ivy League, any mid-range state college will have cool people and walkable infrastructure. If you don’t have a lot of money, do the first couple years at a community college and talk to counselors to make sure the credits transfer. Once you’re in college, be proactive and seek more advice.

Rolando,

Thanks! “The Slaying of the Spaniards” sounds like something out of Borat, but it shows how we take things like international rescue operations for granted these days

Rolando,

Yeah, but you have to spend the last week cleaning it.

And you also have to pay for it being cleaned.

Rolando,

Yep, that’s it.

Rolando,

That’s awesome, have you ever read Peter Watts’ Echopraxia? I read the synopsis and keep meaning to get a copy. Same with Greg Egan’s Diaspora.

Rolando,

FWIW the number of Active Users on Lemmy + KBin has levelled off recently: fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse(i.e. maybe we’ve stopped losing users from the summer influx? Or maybe lurkers are now commenting more?)

Rolando,

I don’t know much about Korea. Do they have laws limiting how much you can be tracked and marketed to?

Rolando,

“Ni!”

Rolando,

You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Yeah, when I read that book I was like: this reminds me of that time I freaked out in high school!

I admire the fact that the author put it online for free, and it’s a pretty good book, but it could have been better… Watts could have taken all those ideas about consciousness and humanity and produced something like 1984 or Catch-22 that embodies ideas that might otherwise get lost in abstractions. Unfortunately the ideas all get a little muddled.

Rolando,

Well, this conversation inspired me to finally read The Colonel, which reminded me of how great some of Watts’ ideas could be. Guess I’ll have to get a copy of Echopaxia next.

Rolando,

dam, I was trying to do it but you made me laugh.

Rolando,

I think if you’ve already read Echopraxia then The Colonel won’t tell you much new, it’s more like a transition between the two novels.

Rolando,

Huh? Huh… Huh!

Rolando,

fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Rolando, (edited )

if there was some kind of database or reference for instances and the communities they have, i

well, theres this: browse.feddit.de

edit: also this: lemmyverse.net/communities

Rolando,

Oh yeah! As in “cucumberring the salad will improve it!”

Rolando,

aaah! hm… do you happen to know if it’s possible for the server admin to change the owner of a community?

Rolando,

I thought the knees were Amogus-heads.

Rolando,

Yeah, when I watch sports events from other countries it’s interesting to see the commercials, even if I don’t speak the language. It’s when I have to watch 20 minutes of the same commercials every hour that it gets bad.

Rolando,

I love the smug entitled face on the shirt in the first panel.

Rolando,

“First controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft by Orville Wright, 1903” (colorized)

Rolando,

Compare to the Grublets on Ice scene in Blades of Glory.

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