DIE ALREADY!!

I hate to tell your this but his mother lived to 106…

We don’t talk about Fight Club…

The author, James Clavell wrote 6 novels set in Asia that span 400-ish years. Shogun - 1600 to the last set in the 1990s.

Shogun is one of the best but they are all worth a read.

My rating of the Series.

Shogun & Noble House tied for first. (both were made into mini-series in the 80s)

Tai-Pan

Gai-Jin

King Rat (his first novel, based on personal experence in WW2)

Whirlwind

If you are going all the way back, movie wise, you can start at Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the first one is not the strongest.

2, 3 and 4 make a good trilogy.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Made mid '80’s.

Current politics in the US: Our guy (that is ten years past retirement age) is so much sharper than your guy. (who is also ten years past retirement age)

If you had been a fly on the wall, you would have seen the lines on the table…

I understand Children is not the strongest. That said I think of God Emperor as the best book in the series as it is a great counter point to Dune and finalises the deconstruction of the lone saviour mythology.

Give them advice about how to do it to someone else.

The vast majority of people (i include myself in this) will fuck it up in some way and end up harming themselves. If you seek to destroy someone’s life and you don’t actually end it, you leave behind someone who has nothing left to lose and is highly motivated to find who is responsible.

If you destroy someone’s life they may end yours.

you eat dog shit?

You don’t notice when you step in dog shit?

No but only because I stopped using google search years ago.

It has been getting worse for the last decade.

Watched this for Stanley Kubrick, following his filmography for a while and his ambiguous portrayal amused me.

While Kubrick directed Spartacus, Kubrick himself did not consider it was a Kubrick Movie.

He did not control the script. He had no control over the production or the final cut. The original director was fired from the production and Kubrick was brought in on the suggestion of Kirk Douglas as they had worked together three years before on Paths of Glory.

While the finished product is excellent. IIRC Kubrick hated being a gun for hire and the studio meddling in the production was a big reason that he never worked on another film without having full control of the production.

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

Sita is a Hindu name. I assume they are upset that the Muslim male lion has a partner who has a Hindu name.

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Not really. Just that consciousness is an incredibly complex thing that we don’t really understand.

Dissociation as a side effect of a medication I was on.

It is really hard to describe. It was as if I was a passenger within my own body and mind. I was watching myself do and say things with no feeling of presence or control.

Why is the British empire so aggressively hated right now?

You communicate in English, so the British empire will be the focus.

The colonies we had were far better treated than most colonies of the era, or ever to be honest.

Reads early Aus convict history and the extermination of the Aboriginal people. … Are you fucking delusional?

If you want to educate yourself on the subject I suggest reading The Fatal Shore and Aboriginal wars:

New book reveals sophistication of Indigenous tactics during frontier wars

The killing times: Australia’s map of frontier war massacres updated

We didn’t rape and pillage as much as everybody else so we were the GOOD GUYS!!

You are not to blame for the actions of past members and of the society you live in but to hand wave away the historical reality of colonialism is not helpful in any way.

Yes, every people’s history is filled with this shit, that does not make it better.

Simply put.

We wouldn’t notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City