pyr0ball

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[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago

Hello Anxiety, my old friend...

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How is it less problematic? I've only ever worked with the other two

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Bruh they're a copywrite law firm (read as patent troll) with a database and a tech company attached. Pretty much all they do is fuck other people over

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've found the expanse to be somewhat loosely analogous, but making the associations is a bit of a stretch I guess.

UN is America, Mars is Israel, Belters are Palestinians or other brown folk.

Or they're any number of similar analogues.

Spoilers from the last books (post the current end of the show)

! The entire premise of the current leadership is endless unchecked growth

! This mirrors the Laconian goal of superiority through holding onto what's basically a free infinite energy machine, only it's not really free, it's just being stolen from neighboring universes who's very advanced inhabitants really don't like that.

! We see the same hubris from the people in charge thinking that just a little more control or a little more power will be enough to save us, when really the answer is to let go and stop trying to control everything