JohnDoe

joined 2 years ago
[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

wait, it's like not a generational issue, and isn't using generation as a shorthand for specific demographics still useful in everyday language? how else would you refer to such a group of individuals, i'm drawing blanks.

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lame, day-by-day im more satisfied with not reading harry potter (mostly cuz the magic didn't make sense to me and i kept mixing up the names of the characters...)

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they are federated? Neither is the other big community whatever it's called.

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago

Solaris! Summa Technologiae!!

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe not talking about more of what happened during the Cultural Revolution? I thought he did a good job, portraying the awfulness without getting off-topic. Or the reader may have been expecting something less banal? I've read propaganda works with a strong bend against a country's before, like Heart of Darkness, or in a more light-hearted manner, Catch-22. I'd be curious what the OP felt was too pro-china, as it was something that went completely by my radar.

I thought Liu Cixin portrayed the US quite favourably in the second book, I was pleasantly surprised. Really took a 'equal but different' approach to other cultures I feel.

Trisolarians suck though, except for that one cool one.

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

t-shirt for me

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 2 years ago

prices are lower, piracy is nearly free for most, no?

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 years ago

oh whoops, the audience or readers of harry potter. slavery is sorta a normal thing (as in, people are aware it is and was a thing) where as nose-less magic villain is more novel

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 years ago

ah ok thanks for the clarification! wish i read this before replying to DragonTypeWyvern

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i'm gonna be completely honest with you, almost everything you said after 'graduates' went over my head. i have no clue what an auror is, did you mean the aurora like the thing in the sky?

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 years ago

i think the notion of 'convincing' is the issue. it really needs to be done by men, it's not as though what women are saying is factually incorrect or the content is off, it's often the opposite i find. when i say what women or feminists i respect say i always seem to get a better response than if a woman said it or the original author said it.

it's such a shame, there's already a ton of work done by a sizeable proportion of the population and it's ignored or misconstrued :/

[–] JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 years ago

i think the cool stuff the suffragettes did would be labeled way more negatively now. the civil disobedience was rad.

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