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AtheistIntelligence, to random
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Those damn satanic equal rights!

TomMarcinko,
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@AtheistIntelligence

Beyond parody.

mishellbaker, to random
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Crime rates are lower than they've been since the 1960s. Why is everyone so afraid?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-believe-the-myth-of-high-crime-rates/

TomMarcinko,
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@mishellbaker

"In the end, fear begins to hold us hostage much more than the risk of crime ever could."

TomMarcinko, to random
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Waiting for reactionary congresspeople will cite cicadas as a sign of God’s alleged displeasure.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Spent some time in bed this morning finishing Murakami's MEN WITHOUT WOMEN. I may need another short story collection or one of his novels to fully scratch the itch; it's like Jandek, when I get in the mood nothing else will do.

TomMarcinko,
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@lilithsaintcrow

AFTER THE QUAKE is a really good collection.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Unbelievable that even the US Congress could be this short-sighted.

https://www.savechandra.org/

mckra1g, to random
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I just got a message via LinkedIn from a man who tracked me from another social media platform that is currently overrun with Nazis. He wanted to let me know that he loves boobs.

This is what it's like to be a woman online.

🙄

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@mckra1g

A friend of mine who was being stalked on the bird site was followed over here by the same guy.

She's off all the socials now.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Suddenly conservatives like “intellectual diversity,” when it means shoving their ideas down students’ throats.

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Half an hour of All Things Considered stories on one bad Republican idea after another.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Another day, another inflation story that manages not to mention record corporate profits.

It’s just a thing that happens, that we have no control over.

Except somehow it’s Biden’s fault.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Thinking about Reagan for some reason (we still live in the world he & Nixon built).

Even when I really disliked him, I could fall under his hypnotic spell.

Before I learned to hear dog whistles, I would sometimes find myself nodding and think “Well, that sounds reasonable.”

Until I realized it couldn't possibly be.

I imagine that happens today to a lot of people.

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In the 80s I worked in a building with a then-novel open office plan. The co. used white noise to dampen sound. I could feel it pressing on my pineal gland (I swear). Leaving the building was like coming up from underwater. I should have quit that job for a number of reasons.

https://boingboing.net/2024/03/12/white-noise-could-be-damaging-your-brain-study.html

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When I was 14 Oscar passed over "2001: A Space Odyssey" for best picture and screenplay, so I decided the Oscars were bullshit and not to be taken seriously.

I've changed my mind about a lot of things since then.

But not that.

TomMarcinko, to kindle
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Having a hard time on with certain titles adapted for ebook by

They try to send me to the net to get a free book but it won't let me read the book I just bought to try to open.

(Two by Stanislaw Lem, oddly enough. It used to be PDK)

I guess I should reluctantly stop buying new books on Kobo.

I never had this problem with and Kobo does not seem interested in trying to solve it other than giving me a refund.

TomMarcinko,
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just told me whoops we apologize; the book we sold you is not compatible with the e-reader we sold you.

That is just the way life is. I’ll just have to take my chances.

They are not even offering me a refund for the books, let alone a replacement reader or an explanation of why this is an acceptable situation.

They have my money now, and I’m a sucker.

I wonder why and are allowing this to happen.

TomMarcinko,
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hasn't even offered me a refund for the two books they admit are not compatible with my e-reader.

They seem to be suggesting that if the book IS compatible with my iPad, what do I want, egg in my beer?

If I wanted to read books on my iPad I could use the free app without paying for a Kobo reader.

TomMarcinko,
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Really amazingly bad and tone-deaf customer service.

It is emotionally wrenching to buy a bargain book by PKD or Lem and then find that, oops, nice try, dude, but you can't read this book on the device we sold you; sorry....

TomMarcinko,
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I know it's tedious to air customer complaints, but after asking really nice and getting nowhere, public shaming seems to be my only recourse.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Kobo users: Monica Byrne’s amazingly good sff novel THE ACTUAL STAR is on sale for $1.99 today:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-actual-star

TomMarcinko,
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IMO it’s a landmark in the genre, as groundbreaking as THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS.

I really like it. It’s one of the few recent novels I’ve read twice.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Consumer advisory:

That NY Times piece "From Dune to Decadence," with the amusing graphic of a sandworm sliding off the movie screen, is by Ross Douthat.

If I'd known that I wouldn't have given him a click.

It's too late for me, but save yourselves.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Sister-in-law, when I said I was actually almost looking forward to phone-banking now:

"Me too. Was waiting for Katie Britt to get up and take a Sunday roast out of the oven."

TomMarcinko, to random
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Cats are not as smart as dogs. They just seem so because they are quieter. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

TomMarcinko,
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@Catawu

They ARE better at gaslighting.

TomMarcinko,
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@thepoliticalcat @Catawu

I didn't mean to cast aspersions. I was only repeating what I'd heard, which could be wrong.

TomMarcinko, to random
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Guns: If tens of thousands of people were dying at intersections because there were no stop signs or traffic lights, wouldn’t you want the government to install stop signs and traffic lights? Or would you say to hell with that, you have the right to drive and that’s that, end of discussion?

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