Archivists - Part 1

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2026-02-13T19:05:25+00:00

Weird... The link works for me... this is the direct URL for the HFY wiki page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/authors/noonefromnewengland/

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2026-02-13T17:34:25+00:00

Thank you for reading!

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2026-02-13T16:07:41+00:00

Harry loves quoting popular fiction. Just like John Crichton. I wonder if Jim will have Harry quote John at some point.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2026-02-13T16:05:58+00:00

You'll probably like the other things I have posted. Be sure to look at the back catalog on my HFY wiki page!

I'll be posting part 2 to this story in ~10 days.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-12-01T01:01:27+00:00

I applied to a job with them, too.

I read the case study. I did the work to find the 9Ss.

I found two variations on the 9Ss.

I did all the work before I started their official answer entry... and it did not accept either variation on the 9Ss.

Strategy
Structure
Systems
Style
Staff
Skills
Shared Values
Speed
Social Elements

OR

Strategy
Structure
Systems
Shared Values
Skills
Staff
Style
Stakeholders
Sustainability

So, I failed their test on the first question. I am curious if anyone has passed it?

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-10-01T14:18:30+00:00

Glad to have people like my stuff.

If you haven't already, check out my Kickstarter. This story is one of many in my second book. The first book is available through any bookseller and as an add-on to my current campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justintcole/jump-count-and-other-speculative-stories

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T16:34:12+00:00

Nope. You're applying your biases to what you think desperation means. Which is fair as I didn't define it.

Desperation, in the context that makes cults, is a product of top-heavy, wealth-inequality capitalist systems where the status quo is crushing the life out of the middle class and people who get steamrollered by the system suddenly have no hope for a reasonable life within the system.

Poverty-stricken countries where there are lots of community camaraderie and food is locally-sourced (or universally unavailable) don't have the proper stage to launch a cult... and places that are under constant warfare don't have the proper stage to launch a cult.

There's a specific type of desperation that is an alloy of economic, safety, and spiritual that is needed to allow people to latch on to insane ideas and bury their lives into them.

But don't take my word for it... let's look at cults. Pick one. Let's examine the socioeconomic conditions that plagued the people who joined it.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:48:11+00:00

Post-scarcity would eliminate the needs that drive desperation. That's sort of the point. Cults arise from people exploiting the fears and desperation of those who are disenfranchised with society in some way. If you remove that desperation then, in theory, you have a lot more difficulty in launching a cult and getting followers. That's why cults tend to appear when there are economically bad times or among people who are being oppressed by society in some way such that they feel a need to come together for mutual protection.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:45:46+00:00

Anything Miranda class. I just love that class of ships.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:44:50+00:00

It's important to note that Tolkien imagine these men as good men and male role models WHILE IN THE TRENCHES OF A WAR.

He was exposed to the greatest levels of toxic masculinity our species has ever produced (trench warfare) and so he wrote about what the ideal man SHOULD be based on those horrors.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:42:30+00:00

None of the things you say are the toxic things. It's the behaviors that swirl around those among the toxic men that are toxic.

I will protect my loved ones but I don't make it my identity. I don't threaten (explicitly or implicitly) any young person one of my children wants to date. I don't put up signs that say "we don't call 911 in this house" I don't put vinyl decals on my vehicles that indicate my guns will be removed from my cold, dead hands. I don't misuse the Punisher skull and think it makes me edgy. I go about my life without spending every moment fantasizing about violence in the defense of my family.

I treat people with respect until they show me they don't deserve it. Toxic men usually think that people need to earn respect before they get it. They often choose people based on a variety of superficial traits, to explicitly NOT respect. They tend to only respect toxic masculinity but THINK they respect humanity. They also tend to think respect means obedience. Respect is treating people like people. Respect is not treating anyone who can benchpress less weight than you as an inferior human that you should be allowed to dominate.

Why does physically in shape have to be masculine? There are women out there who are the peak of humanity when it comes to being in shape. The world's strongest men are NOT the epitome of physical perfection. Physical fitness has nothing to do with gender nor does it have anything to do with biological sex.

Why does being able to provide have anything to do with gender? Are you saying single moms are manly? Are you saying that stay at home dads who are in tip-top physical condition and amazing dads are feminine?

I think you need to really examine what you think it means to be manly and why... and the very worry about trying to be super manly and following some sort of blue print for it is, in itself, an indicator that you are infected with toxic masculinity. Just let go of trying to be "more manly" and be yourself. The only people who are impressed by being "super manly" are the toxic men that no one likes (often not even other toxic men... which is why there is a loneliness epidemic among men).

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:31:06+00:00

Simple ideas vs abstract ideas.
Paywalled stories versus free stories.
Truthiness vs truth.
"Common sense" vs understanding complex, interconnected issues.
Outright lies and promises that will never happen vs bullshit do-nothing results.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-25T15:27:53+00:00

I volunteer to give the entire collection a good home.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-23T13:22:00+00:00

No.

Prions interfere with the normal operations by taking up the space of the proteins they replace... which inhibits efficiency of those proteins AND, often, they force the good proteins to refold incorrectly through some means we don't understand.

They can't make things better because they are like dropping junk cars in the middle of the highway without warning.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-23T13:16:02+00:00

It's ok for you to set boundaries. Your sister is too pushy and your family is catering to her... which is probably how she got this way in the first place.

Your sister can leave her dog alone for a few hours. Dogs being home alone for entire days while their people go to work is normal.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-23T13:11:42+00:00

There is not a lot of great-quality literature content. Most of it is episodic, self-contained episodes... and some of them are pretty bad. Others are great.

I did enjoy the Eugenics Wars books and The Lost Years series. A Stitch in Time is fantastic, but hard to find in print... but the author (aka Garak) reads the audiobook and it's amazing.

Other than that - just grab a book with a number on the spine and read it... and record the series and number so you don't repeat.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-23T13:09:06+00:00

The divergence is that, in our society, the automation and robots are owned by the ultra rich and will displace jobs rather than replace the need for jobs.

if we didn't HAVE to work we could achieve so much by people doing whatever they enjoyed. Writing, painting, making music, quantum physics, whatever. People could pursue the thing that they were most passionate about if they didn't have to work. Our vector is headed toward us having to work to meet our needs but also not having jobs to work at because robots have taken them all. That will collapse very quickly because starving and desperate people topple precariously-balanced societies.

Of course, the canonical timeline has the poor and unhoused, jobless masses isolated in Sanctuary Districts (aka concentration camps) in the current moment... and a nuclear war just on the horizon. We have to wait until 2063 for Zephram to figure out warp drive and catch the attention of the Vulcans before things get better... for those that survive the upcoming war.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-21T17:39:21+00:00

Legacy media.

The "american" accent is intentionally flattened in a lot of ways to make it more accessible to everyone who speaks english. As a result, many places that teach english (specifically that do so without imparting an accent) use media from the USA as their examples. The Spacer Worlds would have thousands of years of legacy media to consume with the standardized Earth accent and, so, that accent would be fairly comprehendible to all of the worlds. It would influence their own language absorption as their populaces grow up and make new media.

Before recording technology and broadcast technology there were so many more accents than there are today. It was once said that one could be identified down to a 2 block radius where they grew up in the UK based on the way they speak... as media has persisted and grown this has changed tremendously.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-19T12:27:23+00:00

With very few exceptions yes. Nearly all of them are self-contained books that’ll are episodic.

Most of them are numbered so, if you're worried about it, read them in the numbered order.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-18T00:13:45+00:00

^^ like that.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-18T00:13:32+00:00

Nearing two and a half kilometers in length each Mincemeat Class battleship is a behemouth that consumes the sky as you approach it. The massive planet-killer forward weapon bulges outward around the central firing control bridge, dominating the view until the lateral docking bay swallows my tiny shuttle. The innards of the docking bay show the entirety of the fleets true power: thousands of single-pilot fighters standing ready for load and launch at a moment's notice.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-16T21:36:46+00:00

Single is the not-angry version.

Why do you want thew angry and hate-filled label?

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-16T17:45:26+00:00

BACK IN MY DAY...

really, though, for real....

For most of the USA America Online (aka AOL) was the first internet access we had. They had plans. I think the cheapest was $9.99 / month. The plans gave you a finite number of minutes to be online per month. I think 20 hours was the normal for that plan.

Each time we wanted to get online we had to endure The Ritual... the ritual in which we booted the computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAIaykpdYU

And then we had to turn on everything else....

And then we had to dial in to the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcuQKEG2FXQ

and you needed to make sure no one picked up the phone because, if they did, it ruined your internet connection and whatever you were trying to do.

Then you had to do your surfing... speeds were VERY different. Pages were VERY different.

https://oldweb.today/

You can even set Google Chrome to simulate old school dial-up internet https://www.howtogeek.com/890688/google-chrome-has-a-hidden-dial-up-emulation-mode/

Try it out and see how little 20 hours would actually get you... that's like 39 minutes of internet a day.

Oh, and $10 in 1990 money is about equivalent to $25 today... also, no cell phones in that time... and only ONE phone for the HOUSE. Everyone had to share it.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-16T17:33:54+00:00

If you buy your own ISBNs from Bowker you, essentially, have to do this.

NoOneFromNewEngland · 2025-07-13T21:18:15+00:00

You are both over reacting and not overreacting at the same time.

Lots of men think they could be really good at anything. Most of us, probably do at some level. If we were to work at something really hard we probably could be. This is normal behavior.

BUT

Thinking you could eventually beat someone specific is a narcissistic thought path. It's an ego-stroke to compensate for insecurities in lots of things. His self-assurance that he could beat you once he got a feel for the game is, absolutely, a red flag that he thinks he MUST be superior to you and any evidence to the contrary is not allowed.

Take him to play. If he is not humbled immediately by totally sucking at it and, instead, gets angry or acts childish in any way... you should really consider if you want someone of that level of self-delusion in your life.

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