I fight the battles of today while planning for the battles of tomorrow. Today, I’m willing to alliance all the way over to the Dems, because today’s MAGA conservatives pose an existential threat.

Once that threat is contained, my alliances shift left to the SocDems.

Once that battle is done, my alliances shift left to the DemSocs.

And so on, one battle at a time.

It doesn’t really count when you just call the person you’re fighting with a liberal because they don’t agree with you on absolutely everything.

90-95°F?

True, but people cleaning things in the kitchen doesn’t make it the cleaning room. It’s the passing lane, speed is a byproduct of the actual purpose.

Old stuff I’m partial to classic prog rock and jazz fusion (Yes, Chic Corea, Frank Zappa, etc.). New stuff is kinda all over the place, but the more genre bending the more likely I am to like it (black midi, KGatLW, The Comet is Coming, etc).

There’s no such thing as a “fast lane”. “Fast lane” implies that there’s a speed fast enough to justify staying there, which is false.

It’s the passing lane. You use it to pass slower traffic in the middle lane before getting back into the middle lane. If you’re not passing people, you do not belong in that lane.

Yeah this is almost exactly upside down for me. Most of my favorite music is from before I was born, and as I’ve gotten older I’ve only gotten more into new music.

If I’m not mistaken, the actual contention between Columbus and scholars was about the size of the Earth. Columbus believed it was substantially smaller than scholars estimated it to be, and if he hadn’t gotten lucky running into America he and his crew would have starved long before they reached their intended destination.

I use a Rubik’s cube in pictures when I’m trying to show the scale of something, so maybe this is just me, but he looks child sized.

So, this is the power of the spiral… not bad

This is Baphomet slander. They’re not evil.

Dude 100% thinks “capitalism” means commerce. Do market socialism and call it a day

I heard the Bad Lip Reading logo in my head

As someone who had FernGully on VHS, there are marked similarities, though it’s not exactly 1-to-1. The main conflict is resource extraction, although instead of a gung-ho colonel we get Tim Curry as literal pollution. The protagonist gets transformed to fit in with the locals, but it’s an accident by one of the locals instead of deliberate choice. Instead of a cranky Sigourney Weaver, we get a spastic Robin Williams as a bat.

Overall, Avatar is closer to FernGully than to a lot of other going-native movies. Environmental conservation is the driving theme of both films.

I wore a bandana pirate-style

But my hair was only shoulder length. I’d probably combine that with a bun.

This actually has a name, it’s called Goodhart’s Law

To imagine the geodesic from c to d, pretend a hair got inside your condom.

It’s a fun enough sci-fi show in it’s own right, I like the whole Brother Dawn/Day/Dusk thing. But it is not really a faithful adaptation at all, and is super frustrating to watch when they just change key story elements.

That’s awfully presumptuous. His argument is to cater your suite of strategies to the citizenry you’re surrounded by, and their class consciousness. Strategies ill-suited to the material conditions you find yourself in do not help your cause. Insofar as the proletariat is invested in the system, you must use that system.

Yes, obviously, endeavor to enlighten them. But the people are slow learners, and just because your leftist friends are ready to derail the tram does not reflect the class consciousness of your countrymen. Even the Germans in question had a higher level of class consciousness than modern Americans. Lenin’s argument logically extends.

Of what? If you’re ideologically opposed to voting in bourgeois elections, read what one of those goo-goo-gaa-gaa Marxist books had to say on the subject