I usually cook, but every now and then I get a craving for cheese stuffed crust pizza. It’s not a daily thing! xD

TIL. I guess there’s good CEOs after all? Also never knew Little Caesars sold stuffed crust pizzas. I’ll be ordering that for dinner! Thanks!

TIL. Looks like they’re out of stuffed crust at my local grocery, but I’ll buy them next time they’re available. Thanks!

Please elaborate, or point us in the direction of some book, video or resource that might parallel the two? I’d love to learn more.

Ah, but see, the beauty of the English language is that 50% of the time we don’t actually care whether something is spelled properly unless it’s formal academic writing or something official. We can make do with whatever, and guesstimate our way through almost anything!

The written word. Just think about how much that has completely revolutionized communication all around the world. We can receive firsthand accounts of events from thousands of years in the past, on the other side of the world, from a civilization that hasn’t existed since the Pyramids. We can learn the sagas and myths of countless cultures around the world. There’s a good reason that the very act of writing itself was considered magical for eons. In many ways, it still is.

Samurai. Literal nobility, regular baths, nice clothes, fitted armor, regular training, and at least during the Edo period, low risk of actually having to go into battle (doesn’t apply during the prior periods of course). Good food, good rice wine, poetry and music, good literature, intellectually stimulating conversations.

Contrast a cowboy - saddle sores, dust, caked sweat from weeks without baths, cholera, gangrene, bandits, native raids, long hours, and the blazing desert sun.

And the pirate: nothing to eat but hardtack and freeze-dried cod until you make port or board a merchantman, hunted by the Royal Navy, surrounded by fellow pirates who haven’t bathed since the last port call, constantly alternating between seasickness and landsickness, cramped quarters belowdecks, constant risk of drowning, and when you finally go on a raid, you’re getting shot at by grapeshot and 16-pounder roundshot at effectively point-blank range.

Samurai, any day. raises cup of green tea

Same, I want this place to succeed!

Ooh! Will you be posting some clips of your works here?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended edition

Spoke for a solid hour with Peter Zeihan, author of The Accidental Superpower, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Very knowledgeable, and much taller in real life than I expected. I highly recommend his books.

Revolution it is.

So how do we reverse the trend? They didn’t start out that way, like you said, it was designed. So how do we undermine those designs?

Thanks! I like writing every now and then, and I’ve had this very image stuck in my head for a long while.

You never set a time frame. So here’s a far distant future vision.

Ideal? I think far, far greater scale.

Imagine a world where technology and science has reached its absolute zenith, where things we view as impossible miracles are a reality. Entire worlds appearing from nothingness, wholly formed and terraformed to perfection, in the blink of an eye, on a whim. The power to rearrange the stars of the sky like sand on the shores of an infinite sea.

Absolute immortality for all who desire it, unaging, with the ability to appear and become anything you desire - male or female, anthropomorphic or otherwise. Dysmorphia, sickness, hunger, disease, all forgotten concepts of a distant past.

The very fabric of space and time bends, and any child can travel at whim to the heart of a star without harm, walk effortlessly upon the surface of a neutron star, explore the vastness of distant galaxies with a single step.

Those with conflicting philosophies can craft their own worlds, experimenting with what they believe things should be like, and compare their findings.

A pipe dream utopia? The science is there in theory, though separated from us by countless eons of time. Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as Arthur C Clarke once said. Utility fog, ship of theseus style immortality and more await, if we can come together as one.

What if we wanted to reject and change the new norm, just as we rejected Reddit and Twitter and started the Fediverse?

Going on leave soon with my family.

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You should try making them! Maybe everyone else is doing the same and just waiting for someone to make it.

If you don’t make it, they definitely won’t come, so might as well make it, right?