ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
@jskellogg@tabletop.social sup
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Me: 
My Friends: ...
Me: 
My Friends: What did you do?!
Me: YOU CAN'T PROVE IT WAS ME!!!!
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I close the book with a sigh. It seemed promising, but disappointingly had paradoxes in its time travel premise. I pick up my unwinder, to get the time I wasted on the book back.
*click*
I pick up a book. This one seems promising.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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i got the words "jacuzzi" and "yakuza" confused
now i'm in hot water with the japanese mafia
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Did you know that "git checkout -" works much like "cd -" and switches back and forth between two branches?
You're welcome.
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"I put my hammer down," Thor said, "knowing only someone worthy could lift it,"
"Did someone steal it?"
"Would a worthy person steal?"
"So where is it?"
Thor stared into the distance. "A dog took it."
"Won't it return to you?"
"Not while it's held by someone worthy."
#FanFic #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@natecull That's probably why it's hard to find. Perhaps it's not treated in the english-speaking world as a Tolstoy original, but treated as "Tolstoy's translation of a Hugo poem" (and Hugo's original seems to be well described and translated in English, it's part of a decently famous collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles )
@natecull According to that page, it's a prose retelling of the poem "Les pauvres gens" by Hugo.
@natecull Russian wikipedia's bibliography for Tolstoy (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE) references a short story titled "poor people" (1905).
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Avatar: The First Airbender
(blows on hands)
(watches the air bend around the hands)
My secret is: the air's always bendy
(taps forehead, plugs brain into a dinosaur, flies it)
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What caused the spider problem? Fracking. Finally a message I can agree with.
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My Ultimate Sonic the Hedgehog take is that they should have changed the series to "Sonic, A Hedgehog" when they started introducing more of them.
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Never challenge Death to a pillow fight...
...unless you're prepared to handle the reaper cushions.
re: USPOL
@natecull I don't think there's any subtle logic there. Politics is IMO too unpredictable for subtle calculus to work. There's two main arguments that I hear:
1) impeachment in 1998 led to losses in 1998, and so impeachment now would likely lead to losses in the next election.
2) Democrats made big gains in 2018 by focusing on health care and not negative campaigning against Trump, and that should be the strategy in 2020; impeachment does not support that.
I think that discussion is unrelated Trump being an existential threat. Trump being an existential threat makes it SUPER IMPORTANT that the Democrats get the strategy right, but it doesn't really inform what the correct strategy is.
I'm all in favor of impeachment because it's the right thing to do, but I'm not going to pretend I know whether it would help or hurt electoral chances...
re: USPOL
@natecull That impeaching Bill Clinton led to the unusual situation where the President's party actually *gained* seats in the midterms. There's usually a backlash, but the midterm elections right after the impeachment pretty much sucked for the Republicans. The impeachment was in october, elections in november. The election that people think about in terms of the effects of that impeachment was 1998, not 2000.
No idea whether either 1998 or 2000 are actually relevant to 2020 in any way, but that's what people are talking about if they talk about Clinton's impeachment.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
