I’ve read the English translations of the trilogy. If you like mystery, high-concept sci-fi, and epic storytelling, the series is pretty terrific. But if your into rounded and compelling characters, especially if those characters are women, your going to have a bad time.

Kinda reminds me of classic authors like Heinlein.

Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner

It’s a memoir by one of the handful of Uboat Captains who survived WWII.

Somebody should tell JD Vance that watermelon jokes are older than political correctness, by about a hundred years.

(they date back to reconstruction when watermelon was one of the first cash crops the former enslaved people were farming)

It’s wrong for some random citizen to torch someone’s democratic agency. That’s what the Electoral College is for.

This guy should be pilloried.

I still haven’t played Wasteland 3 or Divinity Original sin 2 even though I own both. And Balder’s Gate 3 is due to get discounted at Christmas. At some point, you have to measure RPG purchases against your life expectancy.

Nobody wants to covalent anymore.

I think it’s time to consider the possibility that our grandmas and pop-pops are not tricked or indoctrinated, they just plain old support fascists.

The person who’s job it is to get Harris elected is optimistic? Would you be surprised if Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles are bullish on Trump’s chances?

Prices are falling in Florida, and inventory is stacking up.

That movie from the 90s is so horny that it should have been called 50 shades of Vlad.

AI is like the office worker who’s the nephew of the CEO. They’re never going to go away, but can be useful for tedious work, so long as someone checks behind them.

Ocean trash comes from plastic manufacturers. Responsible wealthy countries ship their dutiful recyclables to garbage pits in poor countries.

Most poor people don’t even have the education or resources to polymerize crude into poly-vinyl, it’s harder than you’d think.

What makes you think it’s good for the wealthy? This article is from the WSJ, not the Jacobin.

Spoiler: tariffs are bad for everyone. Regular people won’t feel the pain immediately, but if your the kind of capitalist that imports goods, especially from factories you’ve moved to Asia, the pain starts on day one.

Look at the bright side, implementing Trump’s tariffs would cause two unprecedented events:

1. it’d be a steak through the heart of the neoliberal economic hegemony
2. economists as a group might finally make a prediction that came true.

When the federal government shows up to help… for free, suspicion is a valid response. Not to mention that the South has experience being occupied (not for long enough).

But the government putting people in camps for bullshit security reasons? Madness.

Just more evidence that the behavior and ideology of religious people doesn’t come out of a book. Protestant Christianity must be the best example of this. What other ideology could account for both liberation theology and prosperity gospel? I’d go further to say that the number of denominations is equal to the number of Protestants.

This is why it’s so foolish for the non-believer to have opinions about how a “true” Christian ought to behave or ought to believe. In order to make that claim you imply:

1. The authors of the Bible had a message
2. That message was accurately recorded
3. That message has been accurately preserved.
4. That message is clear and understandable.

At that point you might as well start confessing your sins because while you might lack belief, you’ve kept the faith.

I had to look this up, In case anyone else didn’t know. DW.com is like NPR, but for Germany.

There was relevant scandal in 2020 where the Guardian reported on racism, misogyny, toxic work conditions, and antisemitism at DW. DW responded to these accusations by cutting ties with a partner news outlet from the Middle East, and firing a handful of employees after their socials were trawled for"antisemitism". (two of whom sued successfully for wrongful termination) DW also updated their code of conduct to read:

Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust is also a reason for which we support the right of Israel to exist

Which could be read as benign if we didn’t already know that Israel’s “right to exist” is a cudgel to label any anti-Zionist sentiment as antisemitic.

During the early '00 flight sim fans were enjoying a Russian game called IL2. The other offerings from Microsoft and Janes just couldn’t compete with the level of detail in the flight models. Turns out, the people working on the game were all trained in aerospace engineering. The guys who went to school to work for the famous Russian aviation firms were making video games instead because it paid better.

Did you guys know that the American/ German Bund and other nazis were the target of Jewish brawlers organized and financed by gangsters like Meyer Lansky? They would interrupt meetings, throw stink bombs, and split scalps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky#World_War_II_involvement,_1938-1945

They kept it up until the American nazis suddenly lost all popular support at the end of 1941 for some reason.

Who decided that the best use of the Obama’s is to scold black people? Are they going to ask black men to pull up their pants next?

Black Americans are the most reliable Democratic voting block, women and men. And everybody knows it’s more hostage situation than love affair. We get this shit every election cycle, and it’s just as mad as Republicans panicking because evangelical support slipped from 68% to 66%.