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Adding in - if you watch the first season of the Amazon show, it’s pretty accurate to the books. The second season went off the rails a bit, but the recent season was alright (other than Anthony Michael Hall being a pretty one dimensional actor).

If that’s the reason why, I would skip it. They don’t spend a lot of time on it. Plus, in the early books there’s some unnecessary cringe parts where they felt the need to shoehorn “love interest” into the story. In general, they’re decent “boss battle” books. Easy reads that aren’t going to make you think. Beach reads for guys, I guess.

Stick to the road. Beware the moors.

Exactly. Humans are wasteful and expensive. One day, capitalists will realize if they don’t hire any humans, nobody but the capitalists will have money to buy anything.

I read all the Jack Reacher books a couple years ago, and one of the fascinating things about the character is his aversion to owning things. In some of the books, he talks about it a little and it’s an interesting insight to that worldview. I think they kind of stopped talking about it in newer books, and the character has gotten kind of less interesting because of it. At one point, he inherits a house, and that seems to become a minor trauma for him!

Ok. You mean the ban of specific guns or types of guns. I do agree that assault weapons bans are troublesome, mostly because the people deciding what makes a gun an “assault” weapon don’t really know what they’re talking about. That said, I do think there are weapons that the average person should absolutely not be able to purchase. At least, not without formal training. Beyond this, guns in general are still available, and if legislatures pass these kinds of laws, they can be rescinded with the next election if the population wants that. While it’s not ideal for gun enthusiasts, it’s not like they don’t have all sorts of alternative options.

Sources for gun bans passing?

It’s going to be a long 3-and-change years if someone doesn’t realize that “move fast and break things” is not a good way to run a country.

It’s already been a long 5-years since January!

The Great American Cultural Revolution is underway! Everyone make sure to get their little gold book!

This is also why insurers start publicly losing their shit when insurance sign-up rates start falling for 20-year-olds. Those young folks help pay the bills of the old sickly folks. It’s basically a sort of pyramid scheme where the maintainer of the scheme takes a fairly large cut of the proceeds.

I would agree that it’s not socialism, but it is market manipulation. The US didn’t just bail out GM. Right now, AMD’s like, “WTF y’all!?”

“Losing?” No.

“Throwing away any chance of?” Yes.

I remember thinking the first one was fun, but haven’t seen the second one. Is it worth it?

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Doesn’t really matter for today. We’re just making a list for historians to argue over long after the inevitable fall. The US is not a country of laws for the ruling class.

When crime goes up because nobody can afford food or a place to live a Democrat will be in power, so they can blame him. All working according to plan.

Probably more like $90 mil to build the room. &110 for the _privilege _ to build it.

Had this same feeling.

UN over there rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.