Maturin [any]

I smoked it! That one is so good. I’ve read that book more than than any of the others. His re-introduction of Awkward Davies is one of my favorite lines in the entire series. And the battle at the end is superb. But I will not spoil it (anymore).

You should start again with 8 and go from there. That’s maybe my favorite one.

Oh shoot I was one book off! Yeah you should dig back in. And the re-reads if the first books are so good because you miss so much the first time. The audio books are a great way to churn through them. I think Patrick Tull reads them basically perfectly. And it makes it easier to get through the jargon because you can get the sense of what’s being said by how he reads it.

I think it’s in the first book but maybe the second. Stephen gets someone to take him to a bird covered island to windward of the ship (Sophie or Polycrest). Then a storm comes through, sweeps his companion and all the supplies out to sea never to been heard from again. Stephen’s only water sources are the blood of birds he’s knocked on the head and the guano-laden puddles around the island. He survives on this until the ship works its way back to the island to save him.

I think you may be mixing that with Desolation Island, where they are stuck on that island with what is left of the full crew (those who stayed with the horrible old Leopard). Their water sources are better in that one (it’s basically a light rain all the time), but they also rely on cabbage that they don’t know were planted there by whalers for the vitamin c, which gives everyone bad gas/the runs and pisses off the whalers when they find they’ve all been picked and eaten.

Shaun immediately did a Palestine ep in 2023 that I thought was superb for what it was. It also was my first exposure to Omelas.

Finally

When financial threats finally meet physical reality. All of a sudden countries care a lot less about dollar fines if it means keeping their lights on.

Salaries paid in company-issued credits that can only be redeemed at the company store

Secret third option: Wildcard

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Tell me when they are down to just ship’s biscuit, half rations of salt meat, no tobacco, and only every other ration of grog.

Hey we just met you

And you’re all crazy

So here’s my number

And call me, maybe?

The truth is, people been slinging around the monicker “chud” since the ‘80s

They juxtapose him with Luigi. The connections are, presumably

1 - we want you to hate (obv) 2 - heartthrob

obligatory

Is New York [Ukraine] in Donnyland?

Quick! Someone call Richard Linklater!!

That’s basically how an internal combustion engine works, but the gasoline has to be a fine mist and mixed appropriately with oxygen. That creates a lot of heat really fast which creates a lot of pressure if it is in a confined space. But that’s what the others are saying on this thread. Without those ideal conditions coming together, it just makes things burn faster but no real explosion.

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