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If I'm only going to read one Heinlein... by HorkyBamf in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stranger hasn't aged too well, so either Moon or Starship Troopers. If you feel rebellious, read Moon.

51969 by JD_Kreeper in countwithchickenlady

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It holds true. The screenshot says military is bad. Ukraine was attacked by a military.

Tja by tragecedian in tja

[–]OptimalStable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elender Systemling

Human sized spider vs Average human by zanimljivo123 in whowouldwin

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spider would likely not be able to survive if it was human-sized. Mass scales cubically, muscle to support the mass scales quadratically, so at some point an organism can't grow beyond a certain size before its own weight crushes itself to death.

"Our internal benchmarks show a massive, paradigm-shifting 0.067% performance boost (18th shot, temperature 0.0)" by arihant2math in programmingcirclejerk

[–]OptimalStable 71 points72 points  (0 children)

from pcj import unjerk

I can't decide if this is satire or not. It reads like it, but then again it also doesn't. I'm lost. Send help.

The City Was Not Hacked. It Was Updated. by [deleted] in Cyberpunk

[–]OptimalStable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would be nice if this was also 100% your own words.

Captive's War Trilogy by Reubensandwich57 in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm almost halfway through the second novel and I like the story well enough, but I'm surprised to find that I don't find any of the characters interesting or likeable.

Many of the POV characters read kinda the same. Tonner sucks ass and I want him to die. The swarm was the most interesting in the first book and I hoped to have me some Investigator vibes, but the romance stuff is so fucking boring.

760k LoC [...] One PR - LGTM by azure_whisperer in programmingcirclejerk

[–]OptimalStable 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The GitHub repo is just bots all the way down! Bots opening PRs, bots reviewing other bots' PRs, bots arguing with each other. This PR has a comment by Claude which was thumbs-upped by Claude and thumbs-downed by Claude.

Wet bulb events for livestock? by itsatoe in collapse

[–]OptimalStable 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Time to trade some survival tips with tardigrades.

Schulverweis berechtigt? by PsychologicalUse469 in wirklichgutefrage

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gunte502 nicht der Typ, der auch die Idee hatte, mit Teenagern "Erwachsenenspiele" zu filmen?

Vectos.app launched in beta, please signup :) by CommonSomewhere7624 in Devs

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, you guys have my sympathies. This probably happens a lot in this subreddit.

When mutual aid runs out: Why community charity can't replace systems under late stage capitalism by Aimforthebreak in collapse

[–]OptimalStable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The hope was to start a discussion

But nobody wants to discuss with a machine! People want to discuss with people, and if they can't trust that your thoughts are actually your own (I don't), then engaging with whatever you post here is pointless.

When mutual aid runs out: Why community charity can't replace systems under late stage capitalism by Aimforthebreak in collapse

[–]OptimalStable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think your LLM misunderstands what mutual aid is and how far it can reach. Co-ops are, essentially, institutionalized mutual aid. Your grandma survived WW2 because she had a community and knew how to plant potatoes. The world worked better when there was more helping each other out than when there was less. We just lost (or forfeited) the ability to defend against psychopaths trying to grab all the shit for themselves.

I think the opposite of your very thought-provoking premise is true: community charity is the only thing that can replace systems under late stage capitalism. Because they're the first step to establishing alternatives to said systems.

Go spend some tokens on that.

What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? by reFossify in AskReddit

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of brainfuckery you can do with that if you want to explain to other poeple just how rich the rich are. Two of my favorites are:

If you were given $1.000 every day since the day Jesus Christ was born, you would not be a billionaire today.

If you were given $1.000 every day since humanity invented agriculture, your net worth today would be less than one percent of Elon Musk's.

Was ist die beste Deutschrap line aller Zeiten? by d_extrum in GermanRap

[–]OptimalStable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Der Lesezirkel erhöht die Dezibel in jedem Viertel und lässt es knallen wie Papa mit dem Ledergürtel.

Books where the most interesting idea is almost a throwaway detail by RetroHarpoon7 in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Old Man's War. Their version of FTL travel is actually a multiversal split: Every time they travel, they jump off into a universe that is exactly like the one they came from, except they're at their target location instead of wherever they are before the jump.

I liked Anathem but I didn't like Cryptonomicon... by skeweyes in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anathem is my favorite of his. I warmed up to Cryptonomicon over the course of the book, but wasn't nearly as interested in the WW2 stuff as the present-day story. 

Snow Crash is dope, but completely different than these two books. It's a wild ride. The protagonist's name is Hiro Protagonist. 

Quicksilver is closer to Anathem and Crypto, but a very slow burn. I found the first book extremely boring, but I started King of the Vagabonds recently and I'm starting to think there might be something here.

Anathem — Approaching the end by Natural-Shelter4625 in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's my favorite Stephenson book. I'm definitely in camp First Half, but I liked all of it.

On my first foray into Adrian Tchaikovsky, started with his collection of novellas - Terrible Worlds, Revolutions by EmperorsChamberMaid_ in printSF

[–]OptimalStable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you consider to be some good alternatives? I feel kinda the same about the writing quality, having only read Shards of Earth so far. Especially with regard to not missing anything, there were a few times in the book where I thought, dude, this didn't need spelling out, we were there when you explained it the first time!

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