I have never in my life updated a piece of software and then said, “wow, that update really improved my experience”

It was written in 1938 but only published posthumously in 2003

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs

He fell so far from his first novel, which is entirely about an egirl explaining how communism is based

Specifically, being muddy makes you think of dinosaurs because scientists of your time hadn’t figured out plate tectonics yet so your idea of the history of the earth was a weird mix of early paleontology and bible stories.

The way it’s supposed to work is you peel the strip of plastic in the middle away then pull the two sides of the plastic wrap away and they’ll slip out from between the rice and seaweed leaving the whole thing intact. There should be numbers on the plastic for which parts to pull in what order.

Driving should be constant suffering all drivers should suffer every moment they drive

Look for a strip down the middle of the package that peels away to release the two halves

Liz: don’t do it

Brace: but if you do…

Liz: we disavow

I hate when people pretend that english doesn’t have an equivalent word to “umami”

Similarly, a man who’s a fae caster is still a witch

These fucking things are always left blocking the path. When it’s particularly egregious, I stop my electric unicycle and drag them out of the way and the goddamn things have the temerity to antitheft beep at me for moving them.

The Libreoffice UI is basically the same as the MS Office UI used to be before Microsoft fucked it up in 2013.

How is that the TTGL ideology that caught on irl? Is it that the type of guy who unironically lifts his ideology from anime just definitionally isn’t cool enough to be Kamina?

Even the linuxiest of Linux people are mad about flatpaks

The USS Constitution, launched 1797, is still owned by the navy and staffed by navy personnel in literal revolutionary officer fancy lad outfits.

Telling him about gooning was elder abuse

Literally nothing eugenicist actually happens in the book. You are inventing nonsense and projecting it onto the author.

Be predictably God’s chosen pedestrian. Openly glare and point at cars, do the “I’ve got my eye on you” thing, stare them down as you take your right of way.

The humans are actively in the process of genociding/xenociding the Portiids when the Portiids use the nanovirus on them.

Suggesting communism as a cure for arachnophobia is, frankly, deeply unserious.

That said, once the Portiids gets the humans to stop xenociding them, the Portiids and Humans spend the rest of the series doing Star Trek style IDIC communism across the stars.

Calling this all eugenicist is very silly.