[HN Gopher] A century of science fiction that changed how we thi...
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       A century of science fiction that changed how we think about the
       environment
        
       Author : conanxin
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-07-31 04:13 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | WillDaSilva wrote:
       | > It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like
       | science fiction. [...]
       | 
       | Says a claim is axiomatic, and then immediately proceeds to
       | justify the claim.
       | 
       | Either this author doesn't know what "axiomatic" means, or the
       | same sort of thing that happened to "literally" is now happening
       | to "axiomatic".
        
         | amisure wrote:
         | Why is this necessarily so? If something is self-evident, does
         | that prevent one from commenting on how we arrived at that
         | state? The author is not trying to convince the reader that it
         | is axiomatic that the world has become like sf. The author is
         | telling a story about how the world has become like sf and how
         | the world has the potential to become like climate change sf
         | (or already has).
        
         | ggm wrote:
         | This is probably true. It's axiomatic that an english concept
         | will be both misused, and is mutable across time.
        
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       | imsohappy wrote:
       | I want to suck Fauci's dick and then I want to suck Biden's dick.
       | 
       | Kamala can't join - she's already sucked enough dick.
        
       | 4e530344963049 wrote:
       | https://trimread.org/articles/42
        
       | jesuslop wrote:
       | In "Road to Dune" there are a couple of cut chapters of the first
       | 2 books and the original ending of Dune Messiah
        
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