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In Topic: Let's talk about Tanith Lee, then.
Yesterday, 04:03 PM
Abyss, on 17 January 2025 - 03:35 PM, said:
It remains strange to me... she has five characters, who are gods, who have names. He has five characters, who are gods, who have the same five names.
I ack that may be the entirety of the rip, but on its face with someone with Gaiman's money on the other side that seems like it would be enough to give most american IP lawyers the kind of litigationgasm that 1970s porn is known for.
Which five? The Facebook post QT and I cited sort of implies that Flat Earth has characters named "Dream, Death, Delusion, and Delirium" but going by the Wikipedia page that's not exactly accurate; their names are actually "Chuz, called 'Chuz the Mad', or Delusion's Master [...] the personification of madness"; "Uhlume – called Death's Master, or Lord Death [...] the personification of death"; "Azhriaz, also known as 'Delirium's Mistress' [...] Azhrarn created her with the intention of sowing mischief and woe upon the world, specifically to teach humans the folly of worshiping the gods"; and by "Dream" the FB post seems to be referring to "Azhrarn, called 'Azhrarn the beautiful', Night's Master, or Prince of Demons. Azhrarn is the ruler of the demonic Underworld and lord of all three castes of demons. Azhrarn is the most powerful of the Lords of Darkness, being the personification of wickedness (though the demons are also said to have invented love)." Granted, IDK if they're also referred to as just "Delusion" etc. in the books. OTOH there's plenty of earlier literature that uses personifications of death and so forth, and it's possible that they were drawing on similar sources. -
In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
16 January 2025 - 05:14 PM
amphibian, on 13 January 2025 - 12:13 AM, said:I couldn't hear any farts during MMA/jiu jitsu classes for about 12 years. (Am 90-95% deaf, so when I took out my hearing aids, I was functionally totally deaf)
In the exercise world, farts mostly get a slight smile/giggle. In the pro sports world, people shit themselves during the games or races and it's kinda normalized.
That being said, I usually did smile a tiny bit when I farted in BJJ class. The toots are one of life's small joys.
Sometimes I exercise in order to fart.
For example, I decided to hazard repopulating my gut microbiome with a probiotic feast that I've been spreading out over the past week. Uzbek fermented pickles and yoghurt, Nepali fermented---I think?---green mangos and vegetables, though since they're partly submerged in oil I'm not sure if the Nepali pickles have live bacteria... the Uzbek almost certainly do. The Uzbek fermented cabbage produces tons of gas, and I want to make sure it exits promptly through the wholesome channel.
In fact I read a few articles recommending that people take a walk after eating in order to fart:
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Walking after a meal gets your bowels moving, which can reduce bloating and acid reflux, and potentially help prevent Type 2 diabetes, according to experts
Why "fart walks" after meals are good for you, experts say - Axios
Sometimes I do a fart dance. Closely related to the poop dance, of course. To jiggle my bowels, and let them breathe out. Like a rain dance that actually works. -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
16 January 2025 - 12:21 PM
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Experts warn that a fatal "zombie deer" disease could soon jump to humans.
[...] chronic wasting disease (CWD), which is typically fatal to every animal it infects [...] confusion, weakness, drooling, and neurological issues.
[...] since the infected pigs might have caught the disease by eating infected meat, this raises concerns about our own meat consumption—especially since the proteins causing the disease only become more concentrated when cooked.
Experts Warn 'Zombie Deer' Disease Could Jump to Humans
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NATURE: "Neurological post-COVID syndrome is associated with substantial impairment of verbal short-term and working memory"
Neuroscientist Danielle Beckman @ DaniBeckman:
"These numbers are crazy. A generation of young people with dementia waits for us in the near future, and we are not prepared for that."
"Given the recent data showing vaccination helps against severe Covid, but not against its neurological consequences,
Spoiler
Paper:
https://www.nature.c...598-025-85919-x
https://x.com/DaniBeckman
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About 5.3% of American adults reported having current long Covid symptoms when the CDC last conducted a survey from August to September, and 17.9% reported ever having long Covid.
"Preventing this disease in anybody, no matter how healthy you are, is a really good thing," [...] "It's not just a matter of feeling ill. It's doing bad things to you that we can't fully understand."
[...] "The Covid pandemic is still ongoing. It's still dangerous,"
Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptake
... and of course almost no one else around here is wearing a mask (much less one that's likely to be highly effective), even in crowded indoor spaces. -
In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
15 January 2025 - 03:31 PM
The Expanse is leaving Amazon Prime, which is currently the only place to stream it afaik:
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It's recently started being listed under the streaming service's "Titles expiring in the next 30 days" list, and is expected to leave at the beginning of February.
This is true in the US and UK, and presumably other regions too. We're not sure whether Amazon is removing all six seasons, or just the ones it didn't create, but the streaming service would presumably make some reference if the latter was true.
That's a curious move given that The Expanse is an Original production for Amazon. It's possible that it's licensing it out to another streaming service, so there will still be some way to watch it online, but the other option is that its deal with Syfy means that it'll be taking it offline.
One of the best sci-fi series of all time is about to be pulled from streaming
... but it's also available on DVD.
Wonder if they might make more money selling DVDs than they do from streaming... and then once they've largely saturated the existing market they could add it back to streaming. (And/or into an AI-generated... expansion into virtual (and/or augmented) reality.) Doubt that's what they're doing though. -
In Topic: Weinstein Celebrity Dead Pool
15 January 2025 - 01:13 PM
From the Facebook post:
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This is about Neil Gaiman.
Ta-Nehisi Coates' BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME is a great book. Insightful, beautifully written, profound.
Coates modeled his book on James Baldwin's THE FIRE NEXT TIME.
We know this because Coates was open and up-front about this fact.
George R.R. Martin's GAME OF THRONES/A Song of Ice and Fire is a great series.
Martin modeled his books on a series by a French author named Maurice Druon.
[...] Gaiman modeled his series on Tanith Lee's TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH.
[...] The prose, the characters, the narrative strategies, the mythology, the story structure, all of it: Gaiman found it all in Tanith Lee's writing and never gave her any credit. [...] A simple "If you like The Sandman, you should really read Tanith Lee's books!" from Neil Gaiman would have meant so much to her career. To the livelihood of a struggling, less-privileged writer, whose amazing imagination Gaiman was actively ripping off.
People praised The Sandman comics for their depiction of gay and trans identities. But in the original material, Tanith Lee was far more progressive about lgbtq+ identities, and that was twenty years earlier.
[...] Her prose is more exquisite and imaginative, her ideas more original, her empathy real.
https://www.facebook...916607465022768
Flat Earth is an unfortunate name though, because it makes people think of Flat Earthers (I'd guess she didn't intend that?). Given the timing, this also seems like it might be too good to be true---a meme designed to replicate---without independent confirmation from trusted sources, but it certainly could be.
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