Was thinking yesterday about how even the celebrities famous *right now* (who I often barely recognize) will be, at best, old stars when my toddler is old enough to be into celebrities.

Imagine that you own a network of billboards, and you’ve allowed people who pay you $8/month to spray paint dicks and swastikas on them. How many billboards do you think you’re renting to Pepsi after that

Yeah the primary ads write themselves. Hard to imagine anyone surviving short of a full on party switch, and even then it'd be risky.

Literally the same today.

The books are even better at both the geo (galactic?) politics and the science part of science fiction. As in there's key plot points on the problems of bleeding zero g, the impossibly hard task of finding a ship in the vastness of space, and when to start decelerating to not crash.

The real gem is here is how many damn people are standing around him watching him take a selfie. What a narcissist.

This is a perfect cross section of @darthbluesky.bsky.social's prime interests

On the contrary, dividing militaries is a very common coup-proofing tactic, precisely because it prevents one general from amassing the power to succeed while also ensuring competing factions will exist to defend the regime (even if only because they want to be the one winning a coup).

Woah woah woah, are you suggesting that Hunter Biden may have been less than honest in his business dealings?