I know Trump is fat, but it still wouldn’t count as a mass shooting!

Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.

I’ve read the Expanse (and loved it), but that’s definitely not what I was thinking of here.

he doesn’t do female characters well

Understatement of the century?

I cringed so hard reading “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” that I nearly DNF’d it.

But, for the time it was written, it was probably one of the more progressive things published.

Ha, 1319 was the one that came up when I did a search for this!

No. I’ve read “The moon is a harsh mistress” (oof, it did NOT age well), but I’m thinking of a different novel.

Doing a search now…it might have been “Farmer In The Sky”. I remember the theme being a pretty heavy “move to the frontier, throw yourself into back-breaking work, prosper” type thing, along with one character in the book making a big deal about apple trees.

I think I read a novel with the bread basket theme at some point, but I can’t quite place it. Heinlein, maybe.

Funny, garbanzo beans are probably my favorite. Total opposite!

We have a chickpea casserole, a roasted halloumi and root veg + chickpeas recipe, and a “marry me chickpeas” dish that we particularly like at my house. They’ve become a staple in the menu here over the past year.

We also like black beans for a number of things. We like pinto beans too, but it’s harder to find uses for them.

Frakkin’ toasters.

I was thinking poetic justice, personally

I replaced a 10-year laptop in 2021. I probably could have eked out another year or two of use, but I don’t regret getting a new computer when I did.

We didn’t start the fire…

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

Add a comma? Also hell,

Calling the boiling point of water simply “warm” is a bit sus.

“Everyone gangsta 'til…” 😂

Yeah, that’s rough. I don’t know if there’s ever a “grow out of it” for mental health, just better days and worse days.

Oof.

Thank you!

Some context would be nice for this post. What is this “widely shared” quote? Is there some controversy I’ve missed?

I’m not super motivated to go watch YouTube videos, especially something introduced with this kind of framing. Also, the “research” links are broken when I try to follow them.

I’m somewhat interested in the origins of RPGs – I’ve heard stories about playing D&D in the 70s from a couple of buddies – but something about this video description has me feeling cautious.

For me, it’s being excited to receive socks as a Christmas gift.

More broadly, I felt like a “real adult” at 30. I still don’t feel like I have it all figured out, though. Still struggle. Just different from childhood/teen years.