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Darth Vader didn't stop being a villain just because he killed the Emperor.

Pence did one good thing after years of killing Younglings.

Growing up in the 70s my great aunt used to eat half a yellow onion with dinner almost every night. She'd cut an onion in half and plunk it on her plate with whatever she had made for dinner. I saw her peel an onion and eat it like an apple once.

The "plant" didn't answer the question for her. It's not the question that sucked, it was the answer.

Yeah, my wife works in social media. We have to let ads in.

I wish I could pi-hole.

I use NextDNS and it's good for my devices, but Google sponsored links won't work with it. Sometimes I have to turn it off temporarily to get something done.

Also, my wife works from home in social media. I can't really block ads network-wide because she needs to see them.

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We're talking about a work of fiction. Opinion is all you're going to get.

I do think that more science fiction should be translated, and I applaud the fact that it's been done. And as I said, I appreciated the parts about the cultural revolution, but the characters and ideas are stiff and lifeless with little motivation.

!Ender's Game covered the basic ideas much better, with the only novelty being the three body system itself. Nevermind that life couldn't evolve there, as evolution requires sustained pressure over time, not constant radical flux.!<

And as for many, many people liking it, you can say that about a lot of things that are objectively bad.

I guess I'll back-peddle to "It wasnt for me."

Just reread Ringworld. It's really good given it's age. Engineers is okay. Throne is no.

The ironic thing is, the more you like the first book, the less you will like the sequels.

Just, no. Book is bad.

Tried to get in to discworld. Can't.

Oh come on. The Three Body Problem is absolute trash. I'm tired of pretending the Emperor's clothes are beautiful. I slogged through the first book as a kind of challenge to myself and regret it. I want those hours of my life back.

It's only redeeming aspects are the brief discussion of the Chinese cultural revolution.

Go look at the negative reviews of it on goodreads. I agree with all of them.

Fucking Darlene. Did you try her sugar cookies? She clearly didn't mix the baking powder with the milk again.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

• Gordon Bethune

I got a non-stick crepe pan as a wedding gift. Makes it a lot easier.

Who is John Galt? Looks like we're about to find out.

I write embedded firmware for my own business' products and I fall into this trap myself.

I wanted to whip out a basic little product for my business thinking it would take two months of hardware design and a couple weeks of C.

A year later it's a neat little product...

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." - Fahrenheit 451

Papyrus

.... and then we thought, "Shit. We're making an online game. The fuck are we thinking?"

Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

This happens a lot.

I think you're being naive if you believe they don't locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

Reminds me of the guy who paid a million dollars for unlimited American Airlines flights for life. He racked up millions of miles and dollars in flights so they eventually found a way to cancel his service.