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Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

It's the sequel to Children of Time that won the Hugo award a few years ago.

Children of time may be the best science fiction book I've ever read (out of hundreds), and I've been devouring everything else by Tchaikovsky ever since.

The dude has range, and has been incredibly prolific over his career.

And the writing style is incredible. He makes incredibly complex concepts/plots very very easy to understand and follow.

Have you tried... working in (non-corp) tech?

It may be for you.

I imagine it's more about discouraging any kind of official organising or institutional support/advertising.

Dangerous for politicians to promote it, or charities to give it resources/attention.

This keeps the scale of the boycott low enough to make less of a difference.

Also I guess it tries to shift those on the side of the ban to be the "moral authority".

Headline is misleading. Article doesn't say what happens if he doesn't pay.

Which is his most favoured strategy.

So I'd really like to know.

I really believe that in the normal functioning of the court, that this would actually happen.

However I'm going to wait until the first dollar leaves his account before celebrating anything.

My partner says I'm not allowed to consider anything like this a success until he suffers an actual consequence.

Being issued a fine in this case is not yet a consequence.

What happens if he doesn't pay?

I really want him to pay, but his previous behaviour makes me think he just won't.

And there's a limit to what anyone else can do about that.

Come up with the money or secure a bond within 30 days

Or what? Does anyone think he's actually going to pay?

He's going to Alex Jones it at worst, and at best do the same but smarter.

The "not a nazi" platform is strong.

But is it strong enough?

He wasn't wrong to say those things, but it was really scary watching it.

Thinking "it's ethical that he do this, but what will it cost us?"

How many votes? How many fractions of a % of the total vote did this push away from Biden?

I also don't want to be marketed at. If it's good I'll find out organically.

And I don't want to find out about it at/before release-time. Because then I'll want to buy it on release.

That's the time the game is most buggy and least optimised (maybe also unbalanced too).

Complaining it didn't sell well enough on release is some real crybaby stuff as well.

"It didn't go exactly the best way I wanted it to go 😭😭"

It's to keep score.

It's super gross.

Also power.

He's said under oath he's not a journalist, but an entertainer.

But yeah he's very influential, and very convincing if you trust him enough to not dig into what he says.

Ah good point.

So your issue is a matter of labelling rather than science.

You put a rope on it. The rope goes around the generator shaft/alternator as it would be with a steam/wind turbine.

There's a lot of that going on at the moment lol

For sure. My dog is a mutt so had a very low sticker-price indeed.

I wonder if it could be argued that I've invested a lot of money into him (via the vet)?

Though I suppose those were maintenance costs...

The training probably improved his value though. I wonder what monetary value could be put on it to get more attention for him from the police etc.

You get the first hundred a month for free.

Maybe you could ration it for when you need high-quality searches?

Combine this with the life extension technologies being worked on and there's some real potential for a really small group of people to just have everything forever.

When they have no use for us, they'll have no fear of a general strike.

Then what?