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bun wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted8217 in by !deleted8217

Seems like a good enough model to me. I haven't come across anyone saying that collapse will definitely make escape easier, though. Just that there's reasons to believe it might in some cases and that we should be prepared for anything.

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bun wrote

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lol tfs. I must've missed it the first time around.

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bun wrote

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Lol I could see that. Maybe it's more like anti-civ-with-utopia-at-the-end-that-definitely-isn't-gonna-destroy-your-gadgets-we-promise. I also might be too dismissive today, could easily be that I've missed good contributions from post-civ stuff.

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bun wrote

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Acts of negation vs. positive project, at core maybe. Post-civ also seems like a rebranding of primitivism to dodge misconceptions about primitivism.

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bun wrote (edited )

Gender is like one’s personality, it cannot, nor can it ever be created by surgery.

Though I know it to be true, I wish this were easier for me to implement!!!!

e: To be clear, I was referencing my personal dysphoria. It's annoying how I can't just be like "but this hard-won knowledge!" to quell the desire for a different body.

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bun wrote (edited )

I think you might be able to read whatever interested you most first, as the stories are, in a way, self-contained. There's gaps of years between each sequence of events, such that the context gained by reading in order is a bonus and not a necessity, maybe. I read them in the order I mentioned, so couldn't say for sure, but would encourage someone who would only begin to read about Earthsea "out of order" to do so regardless.

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bun wrote

  1. A Wizard of Earthsea
  2. The Tombs of Atuan
  3. The Farthest Shore
  4. Tehanu
  5. Tales from Earthsea
  6. The Other Wind

That's how I read it, and the order in which I think each was written. Tales is a collection of short stories, so a departure in that way (though nothing jarring). IIRC, Tales offered very useful context for The Other Wind. I think there are some other short stories I haven't read... Wow yeah, a few! Catching up time.

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bun wrote

Stealing from work (often not recommended), offering to get coworkers/self food and taking extra time to read or just hang out, "cleaning" areas where nobody is and no cameras, talking to customers, taking time in general with most tasks.

With snitch types, finding ways to slow down their work pace and distract them so they don't notice you or get annoyed that they work so much harder than others or whatever: assess their work and try to make them do the things they're slowest at, find out what they like to talk about and get them going, etc.

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