Thanks that’s definitely the word. Just had bankcards in my head for some reason, and time was of the essence.

Yeah, I kinda fell off around then as well. I started watching sometime around the end of season 2 airing, and I remember how fun and exciting it was. I’m not sure the show was meant to go on as long as it did. I think that’s a big problem with things getting popular too, is this desire to keep things going past their expiration date.

Credit where it’s due, Netflix does the limited series thing and I like that. Let’s state from the beginning: this is it. Now, Netflix also just cancels shows it shouldn’t, and that’s massively disappointing, so debit where it’s due too (that’s an opposite of credit but obviously not the right one but I can’t think of the word and I gotta wrap this thing up).

Yeah, anytime I was fortunate enough to get into something before the wave, it was awesome, and then popularity murdered it. It’s just the way she goes. So now I consume whatever it is I’m interested in and just avoid it in the public realm, and it’s fine.

I was enlisted and served with plenty of guys who think like me. Probably more who don’t, but I wasn’t alone in my left leaning. And this was the infantry, where you’d probably expect guys to lean more right.

Alphabetical order!

Yeah, old reddit wasn’t so politically charged, but that’s probably more a product of the times. There are some niche areas here where I can escape those discussions, and discussions that devolve into Linux circlejerks, though, and I like that.

Yeah, and the problem is the Internet isn’t even a real exposure, it sucks. I don’t know that there’s a replacement for just living around people, seeing them in stores, in your community, and just existing around them. Even the boogeyman seems less scary when you see it going about it’s day to day life. It’s hard to realize people are humans on the internet, especially because it is never a display of your mundanity, but if your quirks and the things that make you interesting.

That’s why Lemmy is great, because this place is mundane af.

And so you brought up the main point that I disagreed with. Why tell them who the author was at all. Here’s six stories, rate them.

And I appreciate the looking for bias thing, but I think a better study at human v. AI, one that would exclude bias, would just be to say “reD these stories and rate them one to six,” excluding entirely who they were written by.

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the fact that you basically say that the only modern media that was good was Marvel is concerning. There is so much good writing available. Books are one of the main reason I have some semblance of hope, because I know there are just so many good books out there that I have yet to read.

There’s good movies out there as well, though comic book movies have absolutely murdered creativity.

TV shows, I’m kinda with you, they’re hard to find these days.

There is no joy at all. Book four, I almost considered hanging it up, but I think the way he wrapped things up was satisfying – dark, but a great ending to the story.

And yeah, I want to see characters prevail too, and I guess I’ll keep reading because maybe one of them will!

Regarding Blake Crouch, I’m a fan, I’ve read a number of his books and enjoyed them. My wife summed up his sci-fi stories so perfectly that’s it’s comical to read them and see it. I’ll throw spoiler tags around it, as it’s a general theme.

I’ve also forgotten to respond to the prompt. So I’m listening to DCC, about 80% through book four. It’s fun. I have my gripes with it, lots of DXM, but it’s fine. It’s fun.

Reading The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, which is the fifth book in The First Law series. I’ll throw a spoiler up here too, but I just finished a chapter that was really something else.

I am hot and cold on Joe Abercrombie, but I have learned to just keep reading, because he does some great things in his stories.

Did you read Run by Blake Crouch? My wife introduced me to him and had me start there. It was a short book, but the epitome of “I cannot stop reading this.”

I have liked everything I’ve read by him. He wrote one called Famous that was very much unlike the rest of his books. And he had one called Run, which is the one that got me into him to begin with. It was phenomenal, got my heart racing.

Read it allllllllll. Absolutely my favorite series in its full capacity. Just such a great story, and the back and forth between the individual series’ perspectives is a very unique and interesting way to tell this large tale.

Anytime someone talks about it, I can’t help but feel jealous that they can read it for the first time.

It is a heavy lift, if you decide to chug theough it, but well worth it, IMO.

Colleagues, of course, with Professor Professorson.

I think the US is just bitter. They had a thing going there; Castro ended it. Cuban government took US assets. Cuban government would later partner with the soviets, including the whole nuke thing.

I was really hopeful the Obama policies would turn Cuba into just another Caribbean island, but here we are. I don’t know much.

Edit: So in short, they’re really close to the US and not aligned with the US politically, which is a problem. And you might say the same about Canada or Mexico but it’s on a completely different scale.

Clear glass. A ziplock bag. Wind. Thoughts and prayers. Sunblock - dammit.

Yeah, it’s disturbing to think it might come to that. Any violent reaction from Greenland would be playing into their hands. Whatever they do needs to be broadcast for the world to see.

What about when component rolled around. Totally fucked with my young mind, red blue green instead of red white yellow. And my old man had the nice cables too, which made it really feel like I was fucking some shit up.

Why are there so many grammatical errors in this article?

But the test was a major catalyst would eventually spell doom for commercial supersonic journeys over the United States.

Now, some 50 years on from the ban, a new era of supersonic flight seems within reach. The FAA in June for reimagined rules on supersonic flight.

Jacopo needs to step up the proofreading because it’s distracting having to reread a sentence.