They don’t have to be legitimate, just saying it is enough for some to comply regardless

Having seen the show should give you most of the context you need for the novellas, though some characters will be different.

No context might be difficult, but I think they catch you up on the broader concepts as they come up.

Fight, sure, but it wouldn’t be like other recent wars.

In the calmest of times submarines have poor connectivity with the outside world, so there’s no telling what they’ve been told.

Because we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intent.

I think people are like this by default and it takes work to figure out your own blindspots and correct for them. Some people just never get there.

Maybe the Illuminati gave him the information!

The use of generational demonyms annoys me, too, because it’s such a broad brush that has only become broader with time. In reality baby boomers should probably only refer to people born in the US in the immediate aftermath of WWII, but practically it includes people born well into the '60s.

A 20-year span is too long for meaningful grouping; a 40-year-old in the same “generation” as a 20-year-old is crazy.

There’s no profit in it, is my cynical answer that I wouldn’t be surprised to find is actually true.

“I’ve said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government.”

Maybe you posted the wrong video, but he clearly didn’t say that killing security officers and burning down mosques are basic forms of dissent.

Unless there’s some Tourette syndrome going on I don’t see why anyone should have to tolerate hateful speech.

I read the books first, but I thought the show did a great job of capturing the feel and the story beats with only minor character rearrangement. I believe I read that the authors (they’re a duo who originally wanted to make a space board game, I think?) rewrote and combined some characters from the show, so nothing seemed really out of place in either retelling

Not only are there 9 books, but there are also novellas in between that give extra context if you’re interested, but they’re definitely not required.

If only we had some checks and balances in place

And Congress can just retroactively make it legal

Oh shit, new Gay Lore just dropped! What are the Ethics of Gay?

Bob, WeHadAnAwakening You’reAGirl!

Saying it out loud you’d have to reduce it, right? But my real problem with the message is how do you know when to sell the bitcoin?

I started by picking a lot of indexers, trying to cover my bases, but every search would take forever because it sifts through every match to find the best one for your criteria. In the end I pared it down to just to just a couple big ones that even I’ve heard of and it’s been fine 98% of the time.

I’ve always heard the private indexers are best, but I don’t have experience with them.

Wow, you do seem trustworthy! Same late 90s/early 2000s timeframe?

Spelling was one of the few bits of information you could get about a person without them directly telling you, so it’s interesting that even a “face” is enough in those circumstances.

They struck down his reasoning for imposing some tariffs, not his ability to impose tariffs granted by other laws or decisions.

The standards were different back then