Cripes, what an asshole

I love East As North

Yeah, I always put my potatoes in the microwave for 6:66, or if they’re somewhat larger potatoes, 7:77.

Despite the black line covering his eyes, I can still tell: This Is Timothy.

To be honest, it’s not even her performance; it’s the fact that “villains chewing the scenery” has become a trope in itself the last few years. Doctor Who was the worst for that, and poisoned me against it everywhere in SF

It’s not happening and it’s not worth discussing. Our sovereignty is non-negotiable.

I wasn’t a fan; she kept chewing the scenery so much it was almost like the plot had to pause every time she started another soliloquy

Mine just throws a fit every decade or so, and stops generating heat.

Also, it’s the most famous appliance in my house because a video on YouTube of me opening my dryer door has almost 500k views

Sadly no, I’m not one of those cool Ant People

I can smell moulds that nobody else can smell; at least for several more weeks until the moulds get mouldy enough.

It’s basically the most pointless superpower. I can smell the cereal in the cupboard and tell my wife that it’s gone bad, but she won’t smell it so she’ll eat it and then nothing bad happens except possibly to her gut microflora

My feelings on books 2 and 3 are complicated; but I hated book 2 because I saw the ending coming from a hundred pages in (“ohhh, this is gonna be tragic AF, right?”) and I just in general found 2 and 3 to be much darker than I like. I mean, those books are both SO dark.

But dark doesn’t mean they were badly written, or even badly plotted, and both books still had moments of incredible beauty, or stunning revelation, or twisted WTF that made me gawk.

It’s a good series; I just think Steven Erikson is too mean to his characters. ;)

Finally on Book 10 of the “Malazan: Book of the Fallen” series by Steven Erikson, “The Crippled God”. Been a long road getting through this series. Started at the end of June. It’s had it’s ups and downs. I adore Book 5 but hated books 2 and 3, and I’m not a fan of how many plots are surely going to be left unresolved at the end of Book 10.

…I guess that’s why there’s another 17 books in the series or whatever, but I’m likely done with it once Book 10 is done.

Is… Is that something he’s done before?

Animal Well is like, 40Mb

In America, people may have to pay over $1000 a month for health insurance, which may or may not even cover all their medical needs. People still need Bank accounts; cities are built without public transportation so vehicles are required just for the ability to feed and clothe yourself. This isn’t a “consumer” issue, this is a systemic structures of our civilization issue, where the needs of the many are less of a concern to politicians than the loudest voices of the few.

Nevermind lobbyists writing laws wholesale; supply chain management systems owned end to end by single companies; and Wall Street / vulture capitalists destroying companies (and lately hospitals!?!) to extract their wealth.

We need to structure civilization so that Money isn’t the only, single end goal of all endeavors; and we need to ensure that Greed is kept in check.

Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.

Yeah, it’s not bad. Pretty sure it falls into the genre of “cozy” science fiction

WTF

Ahhh, just what the internet needed, another Hot Take.

Yeah, I don’t know why he wanted to dig into semantics when there was such a more salient point being presented. Weasel is applicable

Hear hear

Relinking this one that I found in a different thread from yesterday - https://youtu.be/laUPeXZlPEg?si=9S4bFYNCbQ-ciOLT