You shouldn’t repeat rumors you heard without any actual evidence at hand to back them up. That’s just baseless gossip. It’s poison spewing from your mouth to the ears of anyone who hears you.

I’ve also read convincing theories that he was on the spectrum, which could explain a lot of his challenges interacting with people, as well as his obsessive tendencies.

3 comedy points.

Who sneezed on my beans?

Yes.

If you can show me Roman furry artwork (for a friend who really wants to see it, of course), I’ll withdraw my whole line of comments.

There was a post the other day about a “powermod” from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.

I’ll be checking this one out. Thanks.

I’m hoping this thread can provide some good alternatives for keeping a running “want to read” and “have read” list, because that’s all I use GR for, and I do like that it syncs with my kindle and updates that automatically when I finish a book. The reviews are typical social media junk, not very useful for finding books to read.

However, I do enjoy how they do the occasional giveaway. I got a free copy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower that way.

I just recently learned that OpenLibrary.org has a similar “want to read”/“currently reading”/“already read” feature, so I may migrate my lists over there when I have time.

Learning about his actual history is honestly one of the things that bounced me out of that series. I just couldn’t keep rooting for a character who was essentially a genocidal monster, when the narrative clearly wanted me to be sympathetic toward him and believe he had reformed. I didn’t feel like he had anywhere near the level of remorse or even justification for his atrocities that he should have, and it was even worse that nobody around him seemed to care much about them either.

Once the magic of the worldbuilding wore off, the series started to feel like a clockwork mechanism that I was merely watching unspool after winding up its intricate gears for two thousand pages.

Coming down from the trees was a pretty big blunder. Nothing but losses ever since.

Don Quixote was apparently begun in prison.

It’s also not really very good. Worth reading for its historical value, yes. For its artistic value, though? Heck no.

It seems plausible that the vapor trail of changing air pressure behind a bullet could create a momentary channel of increased conductivity and/or particle density as air rushes back into the void created by the passing projectile. I wonder if the effect is persistent enough to enable a static discharge all along the path though.

Sure, but yelling isn’t going to have any risk of accidental collateral damage. Encouraging a bunch of fucking idiots to shoot wildly at clouds seems asking for tragedy.

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I just want my phone to stop changing its to fucking it’s. Goddammit, stop fucking changing a valid word to something else.

You could train them to stop that.

It boggles my mind how many cat owners just submit to the will of their furry little masters.

They are smart, and thus can understand some level of cause and effect. Which means that they can be trained. For my cats that has always been as simple as “you wake me up, you get locked in the laundry room.” It only took a month or so for them to get the message.

Xzibit said it was okay.