yeah. I try to give him some grace as a scifi writer with him seeing the sexual revolution in the 60s based on the release of the pill and trying to imagine where the trajectory will end in 50, 100 years when you separate sex from reproduction. Still his take was kinda creepy and gross.

I think the worst example of him trying to write women was "I Will Fear No Evil". It is an interesting story as it attempts to reconcile sex and gender written from a cis man in the 1970s, but its pretty messed up. I appreciate that he seems to attempt to bring these ideas into mainstream consciousness, I just wonder if he could have done some more research.

Oregon was founded as a whites only state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Oregon

Its been a LONG time for me, but doesn't it get weird incestous and pedo at the end?

I have not seen that, I will have to check it out.

I thought stranger in a strange land would make a great miniseries. I loved that book as a teen. I read it as an adult some years ago and it didn't hit the same way. Still, it could be adapted to an impactful story today. People would learn where grok came from and disassociate it with Musk's racist piece of trash (pisses me off).

"Number of the Beast" is not one of his good ones.

I liked "I'm not ok with this", also "teenage bounty hunters"

They pushed both even when they had already canceled them. Both were compelling enough to warrant more episodes. Nope.

I'm more bitter about "the peripheral" tho.

https://www.troma.com/films/redneck-zombies/

Underline used to be manual proofreader markup for something that was supposed to be italicized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proofreader%27s_marks

Looks like it could be a Blackbraid single.

Ice cold Barley tea is the best. I sometimes mix barley tea and iced-tea (black tea).

More likely the air traffic control gives priority takeoff and landing to the highest bidder. Crashes are not in the airplane owners' interest, there are better ways to make money.

I think they were trying to white ballance off his shirt collar?

It bugs me that there is this generic description of 'files' and I don't think I've heard discussions of what to expect. Funancial records? Client lists? Blackmail material?

We know big banks helped him by not reporting transactions they were legally required to. If the financial records aren't released it's bullshit. Always follow the money. Name and shame those who proffited from him.

Havn't bought one yet. Just eyeing my next project (realistically 2 projects from now). I narrowed down the Millennium cause I think I could get the most utility out of it. If I were to really do it how I would like Id need a pbx and thats a project Im definitely not willing to take on for some time.

yeah, but Im over here trying to figure out how to connect an old Nortel Millennium so that the display works for caller ID.... (I want to put one of these in the garden)

I had a really good method for helping people figure it out, but it only worked if you didn't see it coming.

This is a truly stupid take.

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Hell yes. Is there a decent quality version somewhere? I have some potato quality divx on a spool somewhere.

I see a lot of (often well deserved) shit talk about centrists/middle ground. Honestly, it IS silly to talk about middle ground between reason and raw hate. I do, however, doubt myself if I look around and find myself spouting the most extreme ideas on a given topic. How isnt that scary to people? I dont want to be the fanatic. I was raised with talk about the middle path and the golden mean. Virtue in courage is found between recklessness and cowardice. I still subscribe to that notion, but absolutely recognize how one can lull themselves into false means based on the prevailing culture (Overton window). Still, I dont see how it is that hard to have some bedrock principals, and use those to anchor a true middle ground.