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

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/

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.

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/

And they need to keep asking questions that piss him off.

Except this is not true. Immigration does not depress wages. It boosts the economy.

I’m against immigration (for purely economic, not for racist reasons!)

I really hope you are being sarcastic here.

So they are trying to force the company to admit, “no we are still committed to anti-consumer policies to boost profits”, is that the point?

Some buddies and I actually got an old firebird with a blown head gasket for lemons. Got it running, and then realized how much more we would have to pay for all the safety gear… We were still willing but had some disagreements for who was gonna pay what when and so the main backer pulled out and the dream went up in smoke…

Where did you get this, or did you build it yourself?

You do the cheese smoking yourself?

My dad was a Coastie. He signed up during the Vietnam war. He liked to say ‘we SAVE lives’.

I would vote for a slime mould over Trump. I genuinely believe it would make better decisions