Cannot recommend? Or cannot recommend enough? I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but that’s exactly the sort of brain typo that I would make, giving my audience exactly the opposite claim to what I’d intended, and based on context, I think the latter is what you were going for?

I’ve heard of Earthsea, but had no idea what it was about. Now I may need to pick it up. I rather enjoyed a more recent story with a similar plot, written by an author with, shall we say, less progressive opinions.

I use this as well. I haven’t had any issues.

4 - Lies

3 - Damn dirty lies

2 - Statistics

1 - Israel saying it’s trying to flood Gaza with aid

Mass extermination, from the sounds of it.

You cannot have… my coveted… iiiice… creeeam… baaar!

Agreed. Narrator does sound like Ren.

How much did it cost?

But if it truly is superior, won’t I as a consumer favor those recordings with spatial whatever it is by listening to them more, thereby encouraging the producers with more money because of the increased streaming over the others? Surely making such recordings a favored class where payments are concerned is just a form of double dipping?

I love those. They’re underrated. Crackle is pretty nice, too.

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Dropkick Murphys’ The Season’s Upon Us yet.

“We just learned” is a bit of a stretch. Here is a Medium post from 2020, which cites previous interviews and Jon Ronson’s 2015 book “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” that explains the problems with the infamous experiment: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/have-we-gotten-the-stanford-prison-experiment-all-wrong-fad09471e79c

Edit: Ah, title is straight from the Vox title, and that article is from 2018

It isn’t so much the volume of typing, it’s the typing a thought-out answer to all those various articles and responses that seems curious. I type at a pretty fast rate, myself, but I don’t consider someone else’s comments and think up (and then type) fact based replies in that timeframe. My comment about typing speed was more me implying that a 3-day-old account that is responding that quickly to that many people on so many subjects in such a short amount of time – well, it walks and quacks like a bot.

Hmmm, how on earth is it possible for you to have replied to 26 different posts in the last 60 minutes, across multiple articles, many with multiple paragraphs. Fastest typer in the world?

That’s a great solution to win an election if it were easy to find a golden candidate that people like and can’t be portrayed as less than ideal by the other side. Right now, I’ll happily settle and vote for less than perfect if that candidate is the only one not courting fascism. And I certainly won’t go throwing my vote to someone else just because the only guy standing between democracy and tyranny isn’t checking all my boxes. No, sir. Democracy is too important to throw away just because “I don’t love one candidate and actively fear the other, so I just won’t bother.” Democracy is my single-issue this election. Get out and vote, because this time, democracy is cracking, and it is at risk of collapse to fascism.

You’re basically correct, in this case. I’ve chosen my official “side” as that of humanity. I’m not fully certain what that means other than I feel for the protestors/people of both sides and don’t want bad things to happen to either. The governments directly involved here, such as they are, are in the business of revenge and power. The people in general are being played by their governments, pawns to be sacrificed or otherwise used to further the purpose.

I bought the series on DVD a number of years ago. I don’t think I made it through the first disk. And I think that’s a shame, because it seemed like so full of potential for the first handful of episodes.

I listened to his autobiography years ago. I thought he sounded like he’d mended his alpha bro self delusion after nearly dying. The book ended, iirc, early in the Andromeda run. Then covid came, and I think he’s landed a couple keys shy of a full keyboard. Bless his heart.