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Look. I'll explain it again, for the umpteenth time. I've been eating pizza since 1974 and I know what pizza is supposed to taste...

I have a copy of that anthology sitting in my Library Book TPR pile. It's a chonker, but short stories are easier for me to take as...

I dunno given the messenger here I'd be more inclined to figure that I'm doing just fine

Well, gestures (which that is) are one of those things that are in their way, as varied as language.

It's a grammatical quirk that happens when native speakers of some Asian languages accidentally mix-and-match the grammar and sentence...

I’ve lived in NZ for 20+ years now, and I’ve never heard someone who wasn’t from India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka say that. There are a few...

-- I get articles thrown at me while I look up market news. Mental Health in our society, is not supported, we are failing ourselves...

I'm sure several people here will love this:

A technology that no one really needs that also destroys massive amounts of valuable resources? Oh, not only will it get done, Wall...

Gibson and Sterling both said explicitly that they saw cyberpunk as anti-dystopian, or at least vigorously non-dystopian. Life is bad...

@jian , sounds great. Onto the list it goes. William Gibson wrote his early stories with two big influences that weren’t always...

Wow thats nuts.

And since the fax machine was invented in the 1840s, that could have been the method by which they arranged to meet and commence their...

I'm not going to say that ignoring a wide range of posters has made my internet forums experience much better. That's the whole post...