Remember going into borders and realizing the sci-fi section was filled with half naked women on the covers just like the romance section. The pre e reader stuff was so bad I stopped reading.
I recall going to B&N, Borders, etc...and looking for new sci-fi and fantasy stuff and all I was seeing was teenage aimed stories that were written at a fifth-grade reading level. Even the spicy cover art wasn't selling it for me.
I love pulp sci-fi, even with the cheesy silliness of a lot of it, but has become harder to find decent sci-fi and fantasy even today.
My wife is a huge liberal. She had been a libertarian but we have two special needs kids and she went in with the best of intentions for them. Now I can't even get her to even consider listening to what I'm trying to reveal to her. The door just closes, after Trump (Not a huge fan... The running stream of consciousness he had going all the time drive me nuts) was put to pasture she mostly stopped paying attention to it. But. But when I pointed out the Afghanistan debacle.... Oh it's like he said there was no other way.
Literally beating my head on a concrete wall. It's like most were programmed to not pay attention any longer but hold with what you've been indoctrinated with.
This is madness. I am the only barrier between my children and the vax. I shouldn't be....
I dunno brother. She has outright said I'm radicalized. But I ask you what better citizens who have been born in the states would know what is like to be ruled by a fickle group of unelected officials that a mercurial at best than soldiers.
Yeah. Having investigated traumatic accidents, sometimes the brain blokes things out. So he may believe he didn't pull the trigger, because the brain box said Bad Thought and dumped the memory. He could also be a lying POS.
I get that, however, given that all we see are so-called experts claiming that Baldwin didn't do it and here is why, and then you read their narrative and you look at the weapon in question and you poke the hole in things of it still needs the trigger pulled for the revolver to allow the hammer to strike the round in the chamber and then they have NO explanation for how it fired two more times. It is as if the Hollywood and media experts forget that the average American isn't as dumb as they want to believe.
Prince Charles Speech Transcript: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/prince-charles-cop26-climate-summit-glasgow-speech-transcript
The push to mix genres was big in the late 90s early 2000s, everything was fair game to sell and compete against well everything else.
Remember going into borders and realizing the sci-fi section was filled with half naked women on the covers just like the romance section. The pre e reader stuff was so bad I stopped reading.
I recall going to B&N, Borders, etc...and looking for new sci-fi and fantasy stuff and all I was seeing was teenage aimed stories that were written at a fifth-grade reading level. Even the spicy cover art wasn't selling it for me.
I love pulp sci-fi, even with the cheesy silliness of a lot of it, but has become harder to find decent sci-fi and fantasy even today.
Why has the Vegas shooter been memorial holed?
Because of the target.
My wife is a huge liberal. She had been a libertarian but we have two special needs kids and she went in with the best of intentions for them. Now I can't even get her to even consider listening to what I'm trying to reveal to her. The door just closes, after Trump (Not a huge fan... The running stream of consciousness he had going all the time drive me nuts) was put to pasture she mostly stopped paying attention to it. But. But when I pointed out the Afghanistan debacle.... Oh it's like he said there was no other way.
Literally beating my head on a concrete wall. It's like most were programmed to not pay attention any longer but hold with what you've been indoctrinated with.
This is madness. I am the only barrier between my children and the vax. I shouldn't be....
That’s rough. An interesting thing, and I’ll try to talk about this in the next podcast… I’d hoe people get people out of cults. Which she’s in.
They don’t argue with them or try to win. They just keep giving them information for them to consider that exposes their belief system as a cult.
Be patient.
Do it in love.
And let her come to realize, through the info you share with her with good intentions… that she’s been lied to.
Then she’ll take ownership of the decision.
I dunno brother. She has outright said I'm radicalized. But I ask you what better citizens who have been born in the states would know what is like to be ruled by a fickle group of unelected officials that a mercurial at best than soldiers.
On a side note. In Iowa they are saying they are running out of the jab
Subscriber and daily podcast enjoyer here. Nick, please consider joining the Galaxy's Edge podcast tomorrow. I have questions.
What kind of questions?
Canon questions re: Nomad. And I also like hearing your voice.
OK, haven't listened yet. But thank you and Jason for the double book drop. Reading book of Joe right now.
This vaccine and needing an ultra wave transmission to active sounds like the STONE DOGS virus from the novel of the same name by SM STIRLING.
And Baldwin claiming the gun fired it self, it wasn't him.
Yeah. Having investigated traumatic accidents, sometimes the brain blokes things out. So he may believe he didn't pull the trigger, because the brain box said Bad Thought and dumped the memory. He could also be a lying POS.
I get that, however, given that all we see are so-called experts claiming that Baldwin didn't do it and here is why, and then you read their narrative and you look at the weapon in question and you poke the hole in things of it still needs the trigger pulled for the revolver to allow the hammer to strike the round in the chamber and then they have NO explanation for how it fired two more times. It is as if the Hollywood and media experts forget that the average American isn't as dumb as they want to believe.
semi-fully-automatic revolver with a 100 round clip
What happen at the Dallas high school? Why was the kid let go with so little bail?
Like how they did SHALLOW HAL?