Posts by Lucy Stewart
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I'm not surprised Australian politics steers away from sustainability. Most of their economy is founded on mining. It's like expecting the oil rich nations of the Middle East to advocate cutting back on oil consumption.
And it's not just minerals; read the chapter in Jared Diamond's "Collapse" on Australia's farming sector and be very, very depressed. They're killing whole swathes of the continent slowly.
he actually tried to argue that Snopes was founded to 'make money' and so it therefore had a 'secret agenda' to be pro-liberal. Or something.
I thought liberals were against anyone making money? We are, right?
On Checkpoint this evening, I heard it being theorised that Tuvalu was now suffering from island-sweeping storm surges because tectonic activity was making it sink, rather than because sea levels were rising. Now that's some impressive circumlocution of the problem.
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The closest I've come to having a sordid past is the unfortunate sixth sense the people who scheduled fire drills at my hall of residence had for the usage of handcuffs. Or rope. Or any form of bondage, actually.
It probably doesn't count as a good sordid story because we always just managed to get decent and out of the building before the fire warden knocked on the door, but it was extremely frustrating.
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News and other shows will often not use certain words. You probably haven't heard many swear words on the 6pm news, and if they're reporting on someone who said it they'll normally bleep it out.
Even that's changing fairly rapidly, when it comes to interviewees swearing. I've heard "shit" on the news several times - largely from MPs, to be fair - and I'm pretty sure the odd "fuck" has slipped through (though they bleeped it conspicuously in post-match discussion of the soccer World Cup qualifier.) Words like "bloody" and "bugger" barely rate a mention.
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I can only drop in for an hour or so due to prior commitments, but I'm really looking forward to tonight - finally, a chance to put (some) faces to names!
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The hardest part of it was keeping a straight face while she was abusing me.
A task you performed with great aplomb, I must say.
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Are you feeling lucky?
Not particularly. I do feel, however, that the particular combination of events that caused the Younger Dryas is unlikely to recur; the Greenland ice sheet is *not* the Laurentide. Which isn't to say disruption of thermohaline circulation isn't possible, but the long-term capping of the North Atlantic you'd need for a real Younger Dryas situation is unlikely.
And, quite frankly, by the time we got to that point rising sea levels would have already fucked us over quite enough. At least there's a good chance New Zealand would have the same or slightly improved climate, should the worst occur...all we have to do is fight off the boat people. ;)
Another weapon of mass distraction to fast track in a single planetary government and currency.
Ah, conservative Christian conspiracy theories - just the way to help your cause.
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When actually, Afrofuturism posits the theory that its whitey who is the alien based on them turning up in big ships, funny clothes, weird skin and talking a strange language who surreptitiously rounded them up, shipped them off to the new world, forced them to labour against their will and essentially act as robots to be experimented on.
If you insist on trying to make people see things from someone else's point of view, we'll have a run of aneurysms, and don't you think that would be a terrible thing on a sunny Friday afternoon?
(It's sunny here, anyway. I hear Aucklanders have been tragically forced to look out the window to check for thunderstorms.)
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Still, rather interesting that Ryan is a traitor, who just wants to get married to his Hispanic finance and assimilate :)
I found Ryan the least annoying character of the bunch, actually - except for his moronic insistence on denying his fiancee any actual agency in her endangerment, but on TV I'm pretty sure that's supposed to read as "noble" rather than "stupid". If they fridge her I will be pissed.
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But if you want to talk about "lack of subtlety", go back to the original -- just in case you didn't get the kick in the balls Nazi analogy, the Holocaust survivor (!) grandfather of the little turd who joined the Hitler... I mean Visitor Youth spelled it out.
Don't worry, Craig, they've got at least two more episodes to Godwin themselves well and truly this time round.
Also note the way the only major non-white character is an alien, because, as Stargate has taught us, all black people are aliens really.
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Yes, I did. But seriously... anti-Obama propaganda? To get all William Shatner for a moment, some people really need to get a fraking life.
Nah, it wasn't anti-Obama in particular, just anti-liberals - although all the "saviour" stuff could be read as a jab if you particularly want to feel he's being persecuted. The use of "universal healthcare" as shorthard for "EVIL, RUN, DO NOT WALK!" was rather egregious - if sensible on the aliens' part, as you note.
What really got me is that there are so many unanswered questions about the Vs - why do they look and act human? Where's there home? Etc, etc - that the scientific community would be kicking up a massive tantrum over not getting answers to, and governments would be feeling very, very worried about (especially the questions regarding are there more of you and what sort of weapons do you have, and how did you get into the solar system without us noticing.)
But apparently everyone is just falling over themselves to like them, so Our Heroes can be shown to be the only ones who have Realised The Truth. Riiiiiiiiight.