Yeah you don't find Jesus smashing up moneylenders shops in general... just that one time when they were in a temple.
BluesF
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Science fiction presents a vision of the future - it is, I think, an effective mirror for the collective thoughts and beliefs about what is to come. For much of the 20th century people were strongly optimistic about the future - postwar and into the tech boom in the 80s and 90s it seemed like everything was only going to get better.
Nowadays though... we don't have that optimism anymore. We have climate change rapidly escalating, corporation's sucking us dry, states doing fuck all about it. This is reflected in those grim police robots and dark themes, just as the shiny space ships and friendly aliens of the past reflected the optimism of the time.
N.b. I do agree with the other commenter who said audience expectations of "realism" play a role - but I also think audiences have a pretty warped idea of what is realistic.
N.B. maximize air content while minimising air movement and therefore convection. Otherwise you could just have cavities in your walls for maximum air.
It's less about reacting and more about anticipating - learn the timing rather than trying to wait for a moment and then react.
Except an actual compas, of course. They really don't need a third axis in most cases.
I agree that there's a lot of anti Romani/Traveller sentiment in Europe but I'm not sure that alone swings the political compass so wildly.
"Serious" literature and fantasy fans often don't like him.
The effects of late stage capitalism on software: it's expensive and terrible. If those billions were invested purely in quality rather than bloat we could have... Well, who knows. Better spreadsheets I guess.
Three genders!? Sign me up!
If I'm asking directions I'm probably not somewhere where I have a good sense of what's north based on local knowledge. Yeah, I can probably find North here in my home town... But I wouldn't know any of that about New York.