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I also have to finish The Long Earth series, but I think I'll have to purchase the last two.

Okay. You win. I'll read Way of Kings right after new years.

I can't stand when this is referred to as a war. It's part of the effort to dress this up as a conflict between equal combatants instead of a slaughter. Israel lost 1400 people in the October 7th attack. In the 26 days since, another 100 Israelis have been killed, mostly IDF. Nearly 10,000 Palestini...

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:52 am10,000.

My mistake... 9,000 as of last night.

The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy A family drama set in India. Not my cup of tea. It's about seemingly little events and how they can profoundly shape a person and the course of their lives. It was well done, but I just never felt connected to it. I suspect this is one I should have read ins...

The IDF bombed a refugee camp in Gaza today. And you ask, how is there a refugee camp in what is already an open air prison? This is refugees from the Nakba. In 1948, Israel seized Palestinian land and forces around 700,000 people to evacuate temporarily. Once Israel has secured it's new borders, ev...

10,000.

If you don't have time to watch Irish politicians on the floor of their legislature, you should make time. These guys are fantastic. This is Matt Cathy speaking about the current situation: Let us be very clear: Hamas breached international law on the 7th of October. Hamas targeted innocent civilian...

I don't have time for all of it yet, but two quick things off the top: Likewise, if the IDF destroyed that hospital, whether accidentally or intentionally, it would be the easiest thing to prove by providing a fragment of the rocket. There's a real disconnect between this concept and the reality on ...

I completely relate. AND if we want to bring up BLM, the parallels to the treatment of Palestinians are not a coincidence. This is how the white western world treats brown people. When I say Israel has bombed thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians and the answer I get is, "yes, but all ...

I can't recall how many posts I've started here or wanted to start here, but have given up on because it is so demoralizing, and I feel like I'm shouting into the void. A couple days ago, I typed up one noting that Israel claimed to have found evidence of a Hamas command center in tunnels beneath al...

Scythe -- Neal Shusterman My wife has not read this, but asked if I would. She heard good things. The premise is a world where humanity has achieved nearly true immortality. People can be restored from nearly anything, such that bored youth often try "splatting"--that is, "killing&qu...

Akiva wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:57 pmMatthew Perry

Right? How weird. Apparently drowned. In his hot tub.

I picture it the same way you do, and I assume you're right, that's how cartoons always portrayed it for so many years. I also assume that the last method of just trying to count all the sheep out in a field of sheep is probably the best way to hypnotize yourself and may actually be the origin of th...

Yes. On October 7th, Israel suffered a 9/11 magnitude attack on their people. We can all relate to that horror to some degree. Since that day, they have repaid that level of bloodshed 4 times over (probably 5, since the most recent numbers I see are three days old already). Both sides feel attacked ...

That is an excellent piece. Thank you. I just read it twice and am letting it digest.

Well that's not fair. I mean, I know I COULD divert this trolley to keep you from getting run over, but then how would that be fair to all the people it's ALREADY run over?

1. Then after the IDF claimed it was a malfunctioning Hamas rocket and the U.S. was quick to jump in and get their back, further independent investigation has cast doubt on that claim as well. Hamas can't back up their own claims, but independent NGO analysis says the rocket seems to have come in fr...

System Collapse by Martha Wells, a new Murderbot novel, will be available November 14th. I will read the shit out of it.

Okay, I feel I came on too strong here. I jumped into this thread and immediately started condemning the actions of the Israeli government without qualifying it or even addressing the original point of the thread. That was dumb and rude. So let me back up... Pro-Palestinian does not mean pro-Hamas a...

Cannot recommend Ted Lasso enough. We've watched it twice. Just finished a rewatch of Community. Eh. Three great seasons. Shrinking on Apple TV is amazing. Jason Seagal writes and directs and stars, and it's very good. Seagal plays a therapist who lost his wife a year ago and is now frustrated with ...

We love stories of vaguely racist people.

Pageboy -- Elliot Page This was fascinating. Elliot Page reads this memoir of his own journey, coming out first as gay in 2014 and then as trans in 2020. His recognition of both his own oppression as well as his great privilege is really moving. He is as brutally honest as possible about the key ev...

No debate. Dead is dead and is tragic. The narrative however, makes a difference. You say that kids are killed in a bombing and many people are numb to that. It feels like that's been happening on both sides forever. People who aren't directly affected can brush it off as tragic yet somehow unavoida...

I am heartened by the outpouring of support for the Palestinian people being displayed by a number of Jewish organizations around the world. It is a glad reminder that the Israeli government does not represent all Jews and doesn't even represent all Israelis, just as Hamas is not the Palestinian peo...

Here is my current understanding. If anyone has information that adds to, modifies, or contradicts this, please share... The baby-beheading claims have now been rolled back. There is no video, even though I've heard many people I know assert that there is. An anonymous source within the Israeli gove...

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina -- Zoraida Cordova Imagine if Encanto has been written for an adult audience. And they were from Ecuador. Orquídea Montoya came to Four Rivers almost five decades ago to set down roots and escape her past. Now she claims to be dying and has sent invitations to all...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl -- Jesse Andrews The trailer for the 2015 movie of this crossed my path this morning and reminded me that I read this about four books back and never reviewed it... It was good. The first chapter kinda put me off, and I thought that it was trying way too hard. The pro...

I have two very complicated base passwords that I customize for every use based on the company and/or function associated with that use. Sometimes I go to sign up for a site, and it says my email is already signed up. If so, I can guess the password in two or three tries, based on how long ago I thi...

I started typing a long time ago and just got back to finish it now. I agree with Kyle. I am appalled when any of our employees regularly do company work on their home device. I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, and if it's a rare event reserved for unusual circumstances, tha...

Kyle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:13 am My wife and friend thought the eclipse looked really cool, but it didn't look any different to me. Weird:

Holy shit. I know it's not him, but that dude in the middle is a dead ringer for Larry Jones.

The Swimmers -- Julie Otsuka The swimmers are a group of people whose only common link is that they all regularly use the same underground swimming pool. They are bound together by the rules and by their routines and habits. Until one day when a crack appears... This short novel is a powerful accou...

And just to be clear, I agree with Phoebe and Pete that terror attacks--that is, attacks targeting civilians--are horrible and unacceptable. But Hamas doing terrible things doesn't make Israel the good guys. Or for that matter, even the least bad guys.

Aha! Apartheid. Yes, that was the word I was searching for. Thank you random internet video.

Didn't know you were replying. I thought I was alone and edited my post about five times before I was happy with it.

My opinions: 1. There's not a "both sides" to this issue in the sense of any sort of equal exchange or easy moral equivalency. In 1948, Britain stole the Palestinians' land and gave it to an outside group of people and called it Israel. israel got the choicest pieces of land and the Palest...

The Archives of the Forgotten -- A.J. Hackwith Sequel to Library of the Unwritten. I loved the first book, and I love this one. I will confess though that this one came at a bad time for me. Work's been busy, blah blah blah, and it took me nine days to get through this, because I just couldn't focu...

Akiva wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 12:45 pm Song for the day:

That video is SO MUCH!

I'm hypnotized by the giant mustard bowler.

I just found one of the articles I'd seen during all this... First is the Seattle Times on Sept 26 uncritically reporting Target's press release as news . Followed up the next day with a more in depth look after reader complaints . Essentially, shoppers reported that they didn't see evidence of all ...

I want to clarify something in all this- when we talk about "irrational fear of people different from us"- I'm not talking about Phoebe being a part of that group. And I assume no one else does either. If I'm correct, it's just something Phoebe mentioned that made Mike remember the conver...

Part of it is that I was at the gas station just before all this and an old lady was filling her car on the other side of the pump. She struck up a conversation with me and when I revealed I had family in Texas, her response was "Those poor people." I needed clarification and ultimately go...

Apparently there has been a spike in shoplifting across the nation and stores are having trouble dealing with it and have adopted controversial policies. In the last few days, I've done some spotty amateur research on this, because something about this rising tide of shoplifting doesn't ring quite ...

I will try a Sanderson novel after this year. I want to see what the fuss is about, but it is too big a commitment for my year of 100 books.

Nothing to See Here -- Kevin Wilson Another absolute gem. Lillian and Madison, one poor and the other rich, were unlikely roommates and best friends for a year at an exclusive boarding school. Now 15 years later, Madison is married to a U.S. senator. The senator's ex-wife passed, and he now has cus...

Into the Heartless Wood -- Joanna Ruth Meyer Simply brilliant. Gothic fantasy fairy tale-esque story in semi-Victorian world where we have trains and magic but no guns. At the edge of the Kingdom is a dark wood ruled by the evil forest witch. No one dares to even come close the wood, because the wi...

The kids today say, "That's rizz!"

Try it out on your family. Make it your own.

Rose and Other Lady were the bridesmaids. SARBros were the groomsmen. The dogs were the flower girls. I hate this. It annoys me so much when workplace focused TV shows do this... important event happens in your life, and the ONLY people who show up for you... your only support system... is your cow...

“We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50%, in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employee is extremely lucky to have them ...

If you do not want advice, then I will say that that sucks, and you deserve better. They are perfectly capable of helping out around the house and cleaning up after themselves. And it would be nice if they could help out or at least be more appropriative of you or... preferably... both. If you do wa...

More than anything it's the constant use of "fight them hand to hand" that tells me this was primarily an AI effort.

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