My voting disctrict in Omaha is megablue so it’ll be a tough fight for them to get it back.
My voting disctrict in Omaha is megablue so it’ll be a tough fight for them to get it back.
I would suddenly feel very sad for the one of them that bottled it up for 40 years, and for the other who obviously has known for many of those years…
How about an awful shambling corpse of a book that’s trying to extend the story from a satisfying ending because the publisher wants more books.
Cultural, for sure. I had to tough it out for the first bit, only really liking the detective. But then when all the main characters got replaced over and over, I began to see humanity as the main character, collectively, and then I was hooked, which I’m sure was the intent as the story spans >!all of time in the universe 2 times over,!< It’s worth revisiting.
Other direction dude… 2nd dimension. Also that spoiler was for a reason.
You know that shit’s gonna peel like a boiled egg
Read the book please… The trillogy* is on Audible. Some truly terrifying stuff. Like, >!living in a dying universe that was once an infinite garden because of the dark forest attacks that flattened spacetime into fewer dimensions, which could happen again.!<
*the last book (or some 4th book, I forgot) isn’t written by Chixen Liu, but they liked it so much they wrote off on publishing it in the series as a means to wrap up some critical questions.
Underlegislation leads to a bloated, extortionate upper crust that weilds disproportionate power over those who rely on said financial system. There is a balance, and the problem you outline is the lesser of the two extremes.
That mentality is surely broader than fascism itself. You see it in any hypernationalist state. Rome had “the barbarians.” The British Empire had “the savages.” Nazi Germany had “the jews.” There is always an “other” when the state needs it. Unless you’re painting a broader form of fascism, perhaps.
Glue-Extractor™
That’s what you’re hung up on? There’s a whole subgenre of sharks with tits.
Let’s take a page from Helldivers and call it “Managed Capitalism.” Surely far better than rootstock /s
Religious makeup
I now explicitly trust this writer and take his word as gospel.
Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can’t escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as “magical,” even in the “sufficiently advanced technology” sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI… All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
slaps the thin red recoil line on shoulder
This baby c-oww…
Protection from grit. And because polymers that can resist balistic shock and heat had only very recently been invented by then, and it was “cool” to find a way to make it useful.
Universally incompatible.
That’s a smoke screen. Another is the “liberal brainwashing machine” school system scare. What they fear is the statistic that higher educated individuals trend towards populism and progressivism. They see higher education of youths as a threat to their political base, which turns into “spineless parents sending kids to liberul brainwashing camps funded by the gubmnt.”
Rich people