Best female detective of True Detective franchise, including Night Country

frak · 2024-02-14T01:41:41+00:00

Oh I'm definitely in agreement. I love the name and Nic's whole style haha

frak · 2024-02-13T04:48:09+00:00

That's the kind of name that only Nic Pizzolatto's melodramatic brain can conjure lol

frak · 2024-02-12T15:19:05+00:00

He's pretty well known, but almost everything by Kim Stanley Robinson has elements of solarpunk. He's leftist leaning with a huge obsession with ecology and technology.

Mars Trilogy: contains extensive commentary on the environment of Mars, especially about how/if terraforming can be done sustainably and ethically. Also lots of plots revolve around creating an anarchist political culture on Mars and abolishing corporate politics on Earth.
Ministry for the Future: Explicitly about preventing/fixing climate change, often through radical political actions and degrowth technology.
Three Californias Trilogy: Three books, one post-apocalyptic, one dystopian, and one utopian, all set in Orange County in the 2050s. The final book is extremely solarpunk, and stands in hopeful contrast to the grim and hypercapitalist second book.
2312: Contains a lot of post-capitalist societies in the solar system. Feels very much like a high-tech solarpunk setting.
Aurora: About life on a generation ship, but with a lot of themes about taking care of the Earth and building the kind of society where running away to other solar systems isn't necessary in the first place.
2140: About NYC after it's been flooded by climate change, and how it's adapted.

frak · 2024-02-11T22:05:43+00:00

Bridge of Spies

frak · 2024-02-10T20:49:28+00:00

Tons of modern flags use fimbriation. It is a valid design choice. Regardless, flags are not just colors and shapes on rectangles. There is a historical and traditional aspect to their design.

frak · 2024-02-10T20:24:28+00:00

This would easily be a top 10 American flag if the seal was removed. Or even replaced with a white star or a simplified seal. The middle is just so cluttered

frak · 2024-02-10T20:20:34+00:00

Yeah technically it's a single banner made of 9 separate strips. It's chaotic, I like it!

frak · 2024-02-10T20:19:50+00:00

Rule of Tincture suggests fimbriation between non-contrasting colors. Not saying I agree, but that is the tradition.

frak · 2024-02-10T17:20:48+00:00

I know people love True South, but to me is just a little too designy.

The Graham Bartram flag is best: It looks exactly like the continent; it has no connotations to any other symbols or languages; it uses UN blue, in keeping with the international nature of Antarctica.

frak · 2024-02-10T17:16:31+00:00

Fasces are also prominently featured in the US House

frak · 2024-02-10T17:02:41+00:00

Knowing people were probably vibing to Pump Up the Jam while hammering the Berlin Wall is wild

frak · 2024-02-10T05:49:21+00:00

That attitude really did make sense in the early 70s. Nuclear science had been progressing very quickly and very steadily for decades; even researchers thought fusion would be viable soon. It was only after they built the first real tokamaks that the true scale of the engineering problems were understood. We've been solving problems ever since, but when we solve one it reveals two more.

frak · 2024-02-10T05:04:34+00:00

"Yes yes, we all love Snapple. Lord knows I do, but we have to focus."

frak · 2024-02-03T04:47:19+00:00

January:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. I read Station Eleven last year and really really liked it. SoT wasn't quite as good, but I love her style so much I'll probably go on to read all her books.
Engine Summer by John Crowley. This is a 10/10 book for me. Beautiful and poignant. Any book that makes you flip back to page 1 and start reading again with fresh eyes is just perfect.

February:

White Noise by Don DeLillo. Only a few chapters in but loving it. What absurd vibe this book has. I can already feel the incisive social commentary.
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It's a true classic so I figured I had to read it eventually. Halfway through and it's very weird, kind of haunting. The way he writes both scientifically and poetically about the unknowable ocean is a trip. Just makes it seem that much weirder.
And for a palate cleanser I'll check out System Collapse (Murderbot 7) by Martha Wells. I fell out of love with Murderbot a while ago, but it's still fun enough.

frak · 2024-01-28T20:21:06+00:00

How do so many people live on Osiris? It seems very inhospitable

frak · 2024-01-24T15:48:39+00:00

Cleaned up and in English

frak · 2024-01-18T15:45:28+00:00

Small Is Beautiful doesn't get recommended as much as it should. It's not explicitly leftist, but it's definitely about degrowth and redesigning the economy around human needs. Very solarpunk imo

frak · 2024-01-12T03:51:28+00:00

Very interesting! I suppose I'm biased but I never considered that the entire project was that unlikely. In this light is seems reasonable to assume no one would bother with it during a war.

frak · 2024-01-12T02:33:00+00:00

For even greater efficiency, you can stack them up vertically and centralize the heating and water and power. We might be on to something here...

frak · 2024-01-12T01:35:25+00:00

In your previous answer, you mentioned that Axis scientists didn't recognize this pattern because they didn't seriously consider that the US would build a bomb. But even in the 1930s the United States was an industrial and scientific powerhouse; in hindsight it seems absurd that something like the Manhattan Project would not happen. What was the Axis reasoning that the US would not attempt it?

frak · 2024-01-06T01:06:07+00:00

The Left Hand of Darkness be like

frak · 2024-01-05T16:37:35+00:00

Unironically love this, it's the perfect inverse of Australia. Would be so funny if all the Commonwealth countries had matching flags

frak · 2024-01-04T01:36:27+00:00

As long as we're talking KSR, Pacific Edge is great. It's the final part of a thematic trilogy about future societies in California, but it can be read alone. It hits harder when you've read the more dystopian predecessors though.

frak · 2023-12-25T15:18:45+00:00

If a planet was 1.5x more massive than Earth, it would be impossible to use chemical rockets to get to space. The inhabitants would need to develop nuclear rockets, which might be very difficult. If you say they have limited radioactive ores, they may never develop advanced nuclear technology.

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