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2 months agoDon is an addict. No matter how much money, women or success he gets, it will never be enough. He’ll chase that next high to the end of the earth.
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3·2 months agoGod Save The King
They: “I don’t even.”
You:“… lift, bro?”
I should care less.
7·3 months agoPerfect human beings don’t exist. Apparently there’s a religion positing there was one perfect human, but we nailed him to a cross for interfering with business.
Here’s a thought. If you were able to get away with Almost Anything ™ and were surrounded by people praising your genius, dashing good looks and boundless generosity towards their persons, how long would it take for you to lose your moral compass, you think? You would pretty soon lose your frame of reference to the normal people, and your empathy would follow. And that’s assuming you’re not 2nd or 3rd generation ultra rich, in which case you never had it to begin with.
Succession is a very good TV series exploring the mindset of such people, if you want to see it in action. Otherwise, history is full of examples - such as Nero, the greatest poet to ever set fire to Rome.
I know there are exceptions, like everywhere else in life. But those tend to cultivate humility as a habit, like other people go to the gym.
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi was made for this, I swear. His latest books also read a lot like movie scripts are contained therein.
Charles Stross’ Laundry series has a ton of potential too, if less Chtullu is required, I wouldn’t mind a Merchant Princes series either.
I heard rumours about Forever War being optioned at some point, but nothing came of it.
7·4 months agoI have another pair just like it at home.
Yes, and if 30 people can sing a symphony in 2 hours, imagine what 120 people could do.
Hours spent working is not the same as productivity.
Twice as many people assigned to a project does not double productivity either.
I could go on…
Don King had an alternative thesis:
https://youtu.be/o4qo161MRNE?feature=shared
You should probably do it twice, before and after. Just to be on the safe side.
1·5 months agoAgree on the silliness. Still loved Darwi Odrade as a character.
And Brian’s best work doesn’t come close to Heretics, which for me was the weakest of all of Frank’s books. It’s like a cargo cult construction, all cardboard and no substance.
I really loved Romero’s work. And who knows, maybe this will be great. But then again, it might be like Brian Herbert’s Dune novels - a shameless, mediocre cash grab built on top of his father’s estate.
Either way, I stand by what I said: enough with the torch passing. This ain’t a family business.
Yet another blatant Hollywood money grab. Romero = zombies, that’s sure to sell big. It’s in the genes, man!
Enough with the torches. Go do your own thing.
Alan Rickman was a treasure. RIP
Joining the club 😂
#Wordle1069 3/6 Grade: B-
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ F
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ F
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+
Nevermind hackers. Look up “corporation in the middle” attacks, which is a prime example of subverting secure channels at scale.
If you don’t own the hardware, nothing you do on it is truly private. Ditto if someone else has admin access to your hardware (eg BYOD scenarios) . Inserting a root certificate into the OS is trivial in both cases.
In all fairness, I was just looking for an “I” word with unused letters and C on a different spot. Sometimes you get lucky.
Hero.