Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you’d probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.

Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t. Trust me, I was there. I know. The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didn’t look much like the pictures you’ve seen of him.

Noir

She had the kind of legs that kept her butt from resting on her shoes — a size eight dame in a size six dress and every mug in the joint was rooting for the two sizes to make a break for it as they watched her wiggle in the door and take a seat at the end of the bar. I raised an eyebrow at the South African merchant marine who’d been spinning out tales of his weird cargo at the other end of the bar while I polished a shot glass.

Fluke: or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

The whale was into a section of the song they called the “green” themes, a long series of whoops that sounded like an ambulance driving through pudding. A less trained listener might have thought that the whale was rejoicing, celebrating, shouting howdy to the world to let everyone and everything know that he was alive and feeling good, but Nate was a trained listener, perhaps the most trained listener in the world, and to his expert ears the whale was saying — Well, he had no idea what in the hell the whale was saying, did he?

Bloodsucking Fiends

Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below. A low fog worked its way up from the bay, snaked around columns and over concrete lions to wash against the towers where the Wests’ money was moved. The financial district: an hour ago it ran with rivers of men in gray wool and women in heels; now the streets, built on sunken ships and gold-rush garbage, were deserted quiet except for a foghorn that lowed across the bay like a lonesome cow.

First time I’ve ever seen/heard transpire used in that way. I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000!

I’m glad you’re starting to use a thesaurus. You’re about to experience a whole new world of language! Maybe now you won’t struggle with the tougher words.

Buddy you picked one (one) sentence from my original comment, decided that was the only relevant bit of information, and then blabbered on about what it means to move the goalposts.

I’m not your buddy. As I said, I don’t care about your opinion, which the rest of your original comment I responded to was. I addressed the question you asked which has basis in fact. What good did the moon landing do for the average man? Lots of good.

The reason I pointed out you copy/pasting the definition is because you clearly wanted it to look like you came up with that yourself. You didn’t put it in quotes and you didn’t add a link (unlike your other comments where you either provided a source or put a statement in quotes).

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were the head of the MLA (that’s the Modern Language Association, I’ll let you click the link to work out why I referenced it). Let me cite something else for you:

Definitional terms often fall into the category of common knowledge, meaning that they don’t necessarily have to be cited.

You aren’t consistent, it makes you a bad writer.

Or maybe I start with casual language because this is a message board and then get real specific with my language when dealing with people like you. Either way, that’s your opinion and, as established, I don’t care about your opinion.

Are you not “moving the goalposts” by focusing solely on me making fun of your language and the definition of the phrase instead of the original discussion? You are dismissing my claims and demanding I talk about how smart you tried to make yourself sound.

Do you need the definition provided again? I’m responding to the insult you started your last reply with. I addressed the parts that I had something to say about. I don’t really care what your opinion on the moon landing is. Certainly not enough to argue with you about it; just your garbage question.

And the reason I pointed out your language is because it sounds so different than your first comment that it’s obvious that you took it from somewhere else

My first post which was a quote and two links? I’m sorry you struggle to use longer words but not everybody does.

(you literally copy/pasted Wikipedia’s definition of “moving the goalposts” you aren’t slick lol)

I did. Do you get mad when people provide a definition from a Dictionary too?

Bro it doesn’t make you sound smart to use words like “fallacy” and “tacitly” 💔

I’m sorry I have a vocabulary? You should let people know you struggle with big words.

I don’t need “moving the goalpost” defined to me.

You clearly do since you didn’t recognize when you did it.

I don’t see how I could’ve “moved the goalpost” any more than you are doing right now.

This right here is moving the goalpost:

I also struggle to see how the scientific achievements required going to the moon (Besides learning about earth/moon origin). The other achievements like wireless tools and head seats did not require a moon landing.

Where in my comment that consisted of quoting your question and providing two links that answer that question did I address any of this?

Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed (the links provided to address the specific quotation from you) and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded (“how the scientific achievements required going to the moon”).

Who’s to say the technology would’ve been made w/out the moon landing?

I assume you meant wouldn’t have been made without the moon landing? Either way, this is tacitly acknowledges the technological improvements made as a result which would be “good for the average man”.

See how this is a pointless argument we’re both making?

I’m not arguing with you. You asked the question and I provided links with answers to counter the allusion you were attempting to make that it didn’t do “the average man” any good.

As I already stated, what you seem to want to debate is whether it should have happened and your about 60 years late for that discussion. I have no interest in arguing that with you or anyone because it happened and that’s not going to change.

And btw the first question isn’t an argument or my main idea. It’s a question added for emphasis.

Yea, and it’s a poor question, which is why I addressed it specifically. The moon landing and the space race leading up to it led to numerous advances and improvements for everyone, including “the average man” (sexist language by the way).

Using that question for emphasis is disingenuous and attempts to minimize all of the advancement that occurred as a byproduct.

Both of those focus on political and cultural achievements, which in my opinion, do not help the average man. They were achievements in propaganda and leave out a large part of our population.

Might want to work on your reading comprehension.

Technology developed during the Apollo Mission has made everyday life easier – and safer.

That’s the first paragraph from a section on one of those links that’s about technological advances.

I also struggle to see how the scientific achievements required going to the moon (Besides learning about earth/moon origin). The other achievements like wireless tools and head seats did not require a moon landing.

Maybe not, but that wasn’t the question you posed, it’s where you moved the goalpost to. The US went to the moon, that happened already; but there were any number of achievements that resulted in life improvements for everyone while it happened.

What you seem to want to debate is whether it should have happened and your about 60 years late for that discussion.

What good did the moon landing do for the average man?

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I’m assuming this menu is specific to the Voyager app rather than to Lemmy itself:

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You’re missing a \.

There have been many extinction events in Earth’s history. There have been five big mass extinction events and several smaller ones.

There have now been many studies focused on the question of whether humans were a key driver of the QME. Many suggest that the answer is yes. Climatic changes might have driven an initial decline in large mammal populations — small population crashes — but human pressures are likely to have thwarted their recovery. Large mammals survived previous periods of climatic change, but the arrival of humans put pressure on already-depleted populations.

Pursuit predation/persistence hunting has to be one of the most metal characteristics about humans.

In a different article it says that he would use the Insurrection Act of 1807 so somebody cares about the law of the appearance. They’ve already listened to rulings from the courts, albeit slowly and impartially.

Does that source explain how they’ll circumvent Posse Comitatus?