GorGor @ GorGor @startrek.website

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The point of the story is

After much struggle I got some geeky friends of mine to start a book club. I suggested this as the first book based on the hype. Almost no one finished it. When we got together to drink and talk, only two others bothered to dial in (It was during COVID and we are scattered), no one else finished it.

I dislike this book in so many different ways. It has some interesting Ideas and some surprising insights into the modern Chinese view of the revolution, but as an actual story? Ive read better fan fic.

the Dark Forest sucks just as hard if not more so. the premise of the story ::: spoiler spoiler Mutually Assured Destruction

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isnt an original thought, but the author refuses to acknowledge it until the end, pretending like it wasn't obvious the whole story. then he hand waves the problems he sets up (how do you deal with an alien technology so much more sophisticated than your own) pretending like the sophons just couldn't deal with the threat. All this and the character doesn't ever really develop. Things happen to him, but we don't get any meat to his personality, just external bullshit.

I started listening to the third book because I am a gluten for punishment and I have a long commute, but it just meandered. If it was another author Id give them the benefit of the doubt, but I havnt been able to get through it.

I didn't get to get a lot of comics as a kid. I got punisher because they tended to be more insular. I borrowed friends/relatives Carnage comics but never got to finish the run. I couldn't get into fantastic 4 partly because there were so many iterations, and some of those I would get the lecture of 'well you really gotta start here and this references this story line from 5 years ago'.

Punisher was simple action and tended to have shorter story lines.

its really not, we just have cowards who are afraid of the word regulation running the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C

https://www.seleon.com/en/regulatory-affairs/fda-guidance-for-software-lifecycle/

Thats where my head went too. Does it mean something else?

My family home started off as a catalog house (not sears). My dad built it when I was 2. They, now I, have continued to change and add on to it over 45 years.

please mark this as NSFW. I watched this on my work computer.

It was hilarious, but I mean...

braaaaaa-da-da-da-da-da

Free college education if you can speak the language. As I understand it, no citizenship required.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIO86jTrQQ&list=RDtPIO86jTrQQ&start_radio=1

I have several old boards I am afraid to ride at this point including an offroad board I picked up off craigslist. I even have a broken StreetCarver someone gave me (Ill fix it eventually, definitely). Getting old and fat sucks.

BPA baby

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/

Really??? Why?

there are plenty of indie low budget fun and dumb movies I remember liking this one https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_guts_bullets_and_octane

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/

I use this with moderate success. I think my limited success is the nature of the creek constantly cycling out water.

In the US they can be bought as mosquito bits/dunks https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-bits/

It is important to note this is not a poison. It is a naturally occurring bacteria that is harmless to the food chain (Bacillus thuringiensis). That is important to me and, I think, a lot of others.

I had a really interesting conversation with my conservative, boomer, mom the other day. She talked about being young and working a job and on payday she would cash her check and the first thing she would do is get an avocado and sprout sandwich from a local restaurant down in southern California in the 60s.