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  • That would do it … for humans, that have built in mechanisms to resist and repair DNA damage and the like. Once silicon is damaged, it’s over for the silicon.

    I’m sure they could quickly build up shielding, but the point is space is far more radioactive than most people think. There have even been recent discoveries about there being more radiation than we even expected, making manned Mars missions far less likely in the near future, and basically removing any hope for interstellar travel without significant advancements in medical and travel tech.


  • I’m not rejecting your experience but pointing out the fact that other sorts are far more active.

    It’s not my or Lemmy’s shortcoming that there aren’t as many bots users posting on a platform that is MUCH newer and specifically in competition with the long-standing one, and your shitty attitude is going to produce the opposite result that you want.









  • Sure, everything shouldn’t be sacred, but satire is a unique form of art.

    “Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target, lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it indends to criticize.” - Ivyna J. Spyder

    Or similarly, “Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire. It’s bullying.” - Terry Pratchett

    South Park frequently makes errors that directly affront those two gems of wisdom. Their insistence on mocking everything makes them bad satire even from a basic literary perspective.




  • Not just post gamer gate. Their rampant mocking of anything “liberal” has enabled a ton of brainless chuds over the years to think they’re aligned with the social dogma. I constantly heard conservative idiots, most of whom didn’t even like South Park for their mocking of Christians, suddenly find the Prius and LA mocking hilarious among many other things.

    South Park’s psychotic need to mock everything makes them a pretty frustrating influence on the Overton Window. All they really succeed at doing is normalize the mocking of charicatures of the “other side”, which hurts intelligent discourse in general.