It is required whenever someone inquires after a new fantasy series to mention Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It is really a cut above the rest. This is technically a spoiler (but only if you're braindead), but BotNS is between SciFi and Fantasy. In my opinion Book of the New Sun is to SciFi what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy.
You can have kids in graduate school. I know from experience; I can recall the beating I received for fucking up the floppies with some of my dad's thesis work on them. People are so lazy and unwilling to compromise.
she believes the termination of her pregnancy ultimately helped him build a successful law career
Can someone explain this to me?
It does not seem like it. It's interesting though. She clearly made the play that we are so used seeing at this point and did it fairly early on (way back in '03).
She clearly could not cook and did not care much about it. Then she needs a project to garner attention, so she picks a hobby for the lack of a better word, and proceeds to muscle in. Same shit as any culture vulture; this is why gatekeeping is important. It worked though, she got published and a movie deal. I'm just glad that an elderly Julia Childs thought her blog was stupid.
Gorusch has some idiosyncracies
It's hard to make any reading of Bostock without concluding he's a raging moron who wears a normal person skinsuit most days of the week.
People who wield diplomacy as a bludgeon really make me want to wield bludgeons against them as bludgeons.
I want you to know that I'm stealing this and adding it to my daily lexicon.
the original version
Journalists are so far up their own Orwellian asses that they can't help but say the quiet bits out loud.
I love that last bit. If you suggest school kids should not dress like street walkers, you must be a pervert. In light of groomer teachers, the resistance to modest dress codes seems a lot less like organic teenage rebellion and more like some people on the faculty want a good view.
This bit from her wiki really gets me:
Prior to her Julie/Julia project, Powell had never eaten an egg before she tackled Oeufs à la Fondue de Fromage. At various points in the blog, Powell confessed to loathing beans, olives, anchovies, salad, spinach, eggs and even fresh peas ("little green sacs of wet flour").
This, and that everything else looks like fake schizo posting and a best of /pol/ 2020-present.
The date of the first blog post is 23 August and the first post this year on the wordpress site was 24 August (prior posts were in 2007).
EDIT: looks like we drew attention to the same things EDIT2: Domain registration is after first post on frenlyfrens
Check out the 15 year gap in post history: https://web.archive.org/web/20221028184025/https://godisloving.wordpress.com/author/daviddepape/page/2
And the website referenced by some news outlets: https://www.frenlyfrens.com/blog . And the whois: https://www.whois.com/whois/frenlyfrens.com
Which is kind of what I was trying to say. If the US has no endgame, that is concerning. When it comes to a nuclear exchange, an endgame is not really required on both sides. Or at all.
So what's the hang up on "trailers"? Because I admit I feel a bit judgmental myself.
I agree, though I am loath to support Amazon Home.
This is one of the things I'm having trouble understanding lately. The West is doing everything but go head to head with Russia. Their guys are saying its dangerous, our guys are saying its dangerous, and nobody seems to care! Redditors acted like a bad cold was an extinction level event and claim global warming will kill us all. And yet here we are looking at the possibility of a real nuclear exchange all and the people who are into current thing don't seem to realize it.
I'll say it: a nuclear exchange seems more likely today than to was during all but the tensest parts of the cold war. Why? Because no one seems to think it a real possibility. And Americans are getting sloppy.
Immigration. This is a real kicker. Folks living in large coastal cities can't see it because for better or worse they are used to the faces they see every day being multi-ethnic. If you live in a smallish American city, you can see it in real time. Without getting into any racial politics, if you live in a city that was lily white 15 years ago and today it is filled with Spanish speaking immigrants, you know that something has changed.
If you look at the housing situation in these small cities, the "poorer" parts of town that used to be a family's first option for a starter home are filled with illegals renting from boomers and yuppies. South Park's "they took our jerbs!" is a lot less funny on the housing side of economics if you're a tax paying working class American trying to find a home for your family.
Unfortunately, projects like these are where "makers" and engineers part ways. It's the boring bits of engineering that always get people: costs, safety standards, and scalability. In this case, for example, where does the foundation for the house come from? You can't 3D print it. You need an earth mover or a bunch of Mexicans with shovels to dig it out. Ok there goes one of your biggest costs. Now on to printing your house. Concrete is pricey even before you create a fancy mix design that can be extruded and not slump. Any cost savings here? probably not. Now your house needs a roof. Well, if you can't print overcuts with plastic you're not doing it with concrete, so a standard truss it is. Again, no cost savings. If you've got this far, you haven't saved any money and we don't even know if your house will pass structural/safety muster. I hate to be a downer, but a lot of these idea are just bad. If you want cheap construction, we'll have to look elsewhere.
No. There was never anything to save. Any understanding of the man behind the original work would lead you to this conclusion. Tolkien would HATE Amazon and the consumerism it embodies. It would be like a zombie Goebbels writing and staging a sequel to Fiddler on the Roof.
You actually need to promote along the lines of those cultural values first, and merit second. That last part kills me a bit, but it's an imperative against the smart Leftists and criminals.
I don't think this is as bad as you suggest; I think it's just very hard. If someone does not align with an organization's values and is promoted upward, they will eventually lead the organization off mission.
Say that you lead a group whose goal is to teach financial and economic literacy to teenagers, and you are looking to hire a teacher. You have two choices: a Nobel prize winning economist who is an excellent communicator and a bit of a Marxist, or some shlep who read Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" and understood only most of it. Which do you hire and promote? The economist is far more meritorious. But the shlep will do his job and ultimately further improve on the financial and economic literacy of your students.
Note I can only claim that last bit BECAUSE we reject Marxist ideas as valid. That is the hard part: picking your dogmas. Dogma is not the dirty word progressives suggest.
The only bits of Andor I have enjoyed are the bits without Andor. The Imperial Intelligence and the Corporate Security guy seem to be the only things that hold my attention. We just got a heist movie a few years ago, not sure why they're retreading that. Disney should have licensed and adapted a Le Carre novel. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy set in space would have been fun.
Thanks. Now I need to start a nazi cat folder.
I agree with Orwell and the Imp in general about women being the fiercest supporters of the party. But there are always going to be some people, including women, who don't buy the party line. I find it interesting that censorship can signal to people that they're guilty of wrong think. Just knowing that wrong think exists and that it has enforcers can be an awakening for some. This is something that we have in common with the "antivaxxers" in the article.
They're leaving out the bit where the black guy went back outside to get his gun. The firefighter died protecting the store clerk, but the DA won't admit it because the black guy didn't make it back inside.
Long time lurker here. Somone want to fill me in on haterjuiced?
If I recall he's just the typical assmad sees-nazis-everywhere type. This correct?
It is also possible for hypocrites to be right. If it turns out a man working to combat domestic violence is a wife beater, it does not make his position against wife beating wrong. It can chafe for the rest of us, but the truth is the truth.