It really is but fucking hell its relentless. There were times I was reading this I could only manage a couple of pages.

The real reason Josie left.

He fell…but not for you.

If anyone doubts this, keep in your head what your idea of a British accent is, then go and find some vids of people talking in the Black Country accent. The old black and white videos are the best - its thought to be the nearest surviving accent from ‘Old’ English.

Go to the library, have a browse. If a cover (or blurb or whatever) interests you, sit down and read the first chapter or 20 pages or something like that. If, after that, you want to keep going then you’ve found a book you’ll probably like :)

Take your time, there’s no rush.

Or, alternatively, find some short story collections in a genre of tv/games/movies you like.

She’s my cousin but doesn’t she look exactly like an ongoing civilisational collapse?

Nice dentist’s waiting room you’ve created, you soulless ghouls.

Massive, massive quantities!

You’re asking individuals why groups might display certain characteristics or opinions?

So, in my opinion, I could not care less what someone’s religion is - they are entirely welcome to whatever it is they believe, or whatever variant of the parent mythology they believe in respect of Abrahamism. Lots of theistically religious people have made significant contributions to science over the last few hundred years.

But what I do take issue with and am vocally against is when religions or religious individuals assume that their particular one is the only ‘right’ one and they try and manipulate or outright force those who are not part of that religion to obey their beliefs. This comes in the form of laws and law-making institutions mostly.

I live in a country where Muslims make up a very low percentage of the population and therefore they have little to no impact on how I choose to live. Christians on the other hand have a very large influence on the laws and institutions where I am so that’s where the majority of my protesting lies when it comes to religions. If the populations were reversed, so would be my protest.

If the ordination point is the letters/symbols then those pentagrams are not inverted. Therefore, not Satanic at all.

Engines might (if you can fight your way though the crap) give you a factual answer but people can give you that plus opinions and context and personal experience.

The Idiot is very good. Better than The Brothers Karamazov I think.

I have read it before but a very long time ago and I think a lot of the societal points passed me by at that younger age. I’m definitely enjoying re-reading it with a more mature eye.

A.glass of wine with you Sir!

Their standard plan let’s you connect 5 devices.

Hornblower is OK. I enjoy some of it but O’Brian has a knack for humour and tragedy thats mostly absent in the Hornblower series.

Favourites include Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin’s Hainish cycle.

Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.

Depending on where you live and the current exchange rate, $6 might be cheaper than €5.

Generative AI produces artificial ‘art’ pretty much by definition. It’s a capitalist weapon that’s the end-goal of the algorithmic fuckery that companies like spotify, netflix etc promote, consistently producing increasingly inane beige crap so they can stop offering you a choice and start telling you what they want you to consume without the annoyance of having to use actual artists for actual art. Nothing truly original, dangerous or challenging can be produced via gen ai and all we’ll end up with is art that’s the equivalent of listening to an Imagine Dragons elevator music tribute band on endless repeat whilst data centre’s destroy what’s left of the natural world.

Fuck your opinion OP. Good job, upvoted.