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This one always feels like it takes some extra thinking when I see it pop up. You can vote. I can vote. I don't feel much different from before now that you can vote. But I think rights aren't privilege. You or me getting to vote is a right. Pretty simple. What privilege usually crops up...

Poe's law and all. Mein Kamf disproves you right there. It specifically targets a group with hate. But I think we can rule out works that specifically target a group with hate. Those are inherently offensive. That's their goal. We can also imagine a book the espouses a political view that...

Exactly. Though there are some boundaries I see forming in my own research. Quite some time ago, an Australian author wrote an excellent book about aboriginal's experience. Won awards, got respect from aboriginal communities. He did a good job, back in the day when aboriginals were not gonna...

Exactly, and thank you for getting my point. For the guy who didn't.... Illegal stuff is illegal. Death threats, burning down a house, etc. Heck, hurting somebody's ability to work is slander/libel and worth a crap-ton in court. maybe the system doesn't work on enforcing that stuff, but it...

True but in France, they are mourning the loss of a teacher who was covering the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and killed for it. I think we can all agree that extreme consequences like that are extreme, illegal and covered by laws in most countries. So let's stick to the Twitter Mob level of...

Okay, writer guy here. Not famous. But I wrote a few things and got them published and I've studied the industry. Sensitivity readers are for making sure that when I, white guy, write some black guys into my story, that they aren't negative racial stereotypes. the drug dealer with a tooth of...

Add a cup of racism to the mix as the narrative of "had to be aliens" was really a function of "us white people don't know how to make a pyramid without our technology so the brown people must've had alien help."

We watched it. Liked it. Not sure how that one guy is gonna pass the role down given he's all by himself.

But I like candy corn. Making orc and vampire teeth... Also, did not get any candy when I got my flu shot. Kinda bummed now.

I waited 3 hours to vote yesterday. And of course the red shirt marine corp blowhard in front of us talked the whole time. And at one point he noted how everybody started spaced apart and by the end we much closer together, see how it's all a nothing. That's the problem with stupid people. They...

They hand them out like candy at pharmacies and normal doctor's offices in Texas. Where do you live that only a hospital can administer a flu shot?

Lamplighter

finished it last night. Not as happy with it on writer-centric reasons. Maybe I've learned more. Maybe I just wouldn't have done it that way.

Except that as noted by arguments about going to Mars to stave off a catastrophe on Earth would foster tech advancements. Big goals lead to big advancements. Heck, I think you floated that concept back then. Same thing here. If we set our hearts and minds to saving a planet's lifeforms...

Nah, I knew it was a big novel chopped in half by the publisher. Plus as a writer who studied Butcher, I have a decent grasp of why he does things. :)

yeah, I realized that and put Dread Nation aside (only at chapter 2) and downloaded Battle Grounds last night before the internet spoils everything. I'll resume Dread Nation after. It looks like a good read.

Been awhile. Finished Peace Talks by Jim Butcher, Binti by Nnendi Okorafor. Next to Last Stand book by Craig Johnson and just started Dread Nation by Justina Ireland.

I went from a Motorola Razor when those were cool to iPhone 3g, then 4, 5, 6 and 8. Before the 6, you could get the mid-size model for $300 because the carrier subsidized it and sell the prior model for $150-200, making it modestly priced. Upgrade every other year (my wife got the alternate...

2022 purportedly. Wife was bummed. Not exact info, but when she heard the news, it was much longer than a year.

There's the Turing Test for AI and now, we have the Morrus Test for assessing if a lifeform is capable of playing a decent game of Scrabble. Any lifeform that fails has been wasting its time.