Also great. A fun series but dense as hell.

Ursula K Le Guin, Alaistair Reynolds, Margaret Atwood (For the Maddaddam trilogy,) Jules Verne, John Windham.

I recommend House of Suns, Terminal World and Revenger.

I’ve found much more genuine, honest discussion on here than other platforms. More people say thanks when someone corrects them. I feel like I’m talking to reasonable adults, for the most part.

Thanks for pointing this out. I usually read articles on mobile so I was able to find a feature I didn’t know about. For anyone else on android: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-articles-reader-view-firefox-android

Is this an angelfire website in the 90’s? Who the hell thought a background amalgamation of moving images was the best way to present printed media?

I just can’t with these websites anymore. I find it almost impossible to read when there’s a embedded video as it is.

Sounds like you don’t even have to do anything to make it dangerous. Heck, let’s just chuck broken microwaves at the Teslas.

Speak for yourself. Gimme that drama free dick.

This is the mindset to have when new people discover anything you enjoy. Great way to put it.

I agree with that. Red Mars was great but the second one felt like he only expanded on all the least exciting parts of the first book, so I didn’t finish it.

His explanations are why I read any of his books. I find his prose dry and bland, even if he’s telling an interesting story. I stay for the fun facts.

Clear-cut facts are dry as hell, too. No emotion, no worldbuilding. Saying “I went to the baseball game this afternoon” is not as engaging as “Scott’s kid hit his first home run today, you should have seen his dad cheer!”

Beautifully phrased. Make science about science again, not about flash in the pan personalities.

The war with AI didn’t start with a gun shot, a bomb or a blow, it started with a Reddit comment.

I knew one that said “Meh” so I assume they all do it.

When he said “Her husband…” and another skink came out, I lost it. I hope they had a wedding. I hope there was a reception. I want to know the guest list.

I just called out “Red Eyed Crocodile Skinks!” to no one. Fucking love these guys. They say “Meh” when you poke 'em.

Hey.

Because otherwise the thief would return the phone to it’s rightful owner?

It still worked as a phone.

Calling features “Security” when they significantly reduce the secondary market is a convenient way to increase profits.

In person at an apple store.

I bought an iphone used off a friend who stopped being my friend immediately after. I never wanted an apple product, but my phone broke, I was poor and he sold it to me for $50.

I didn’t know you needed the apple id and password to SIGN OUT of anything. I sent him messages, did the whole “click here to request a new password” thing so he would get an e-mail about it…to his apple e-mail which, let’s be honest, no one uses.

Not being able to use the full functionality sucked, but I could manage. What was worse was receiving pictures and messages intended for him.

I did what any sane person would do and brought it to the apple store. The first person who helped me repeated “Our security systems protect your privacy” so many times, no matter what I said, I lost my shit, shouted “I would like to sign out so I can stop seeing nudes of this guy’s girlfriend!”

They didn’t help and I bought an android.