You would enjoy several recent books by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Either the fourth book in the Children of Time Series (“Children of Strife”) or, if you haven’t read the first three (though you really should), the standalone novella “the hungry gods”
What a sad projection of your own hollowness of self, to say that the very idea of changing corrupt systems of exploitation is synonymous with being incapable of critical thought. I hope you find something to fill that gaping hole in your selfhood.
We may all be nothing but drops in an ocean, but what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? To dare liken the idea of taking a day off of work to turning the sky green is so pitiful, so utterly incomprehensible a strawman, that it can only have come from someone who is, themself, forcibly repressing their own higher thoughts.
Please consider your positions (for it is clear that no consideration has occurred thus far).
“There is an order to the world” is a phrase uttered only by those enjoying the current order as applicable to them, to someone whom they clearly see is not enjoying the same. It is the taunt of tyrants, slavers, bigots, strike-breakers, fascists, and genocidal maniacs the world over.
Order alone is not an axiomatic good, and anyone who treats it like it is inherently worth protecting, or like an orderly system is an invalid target for criticism solely for being orderly, is either naïve or is experiencing an unbalanced “order” in their favour. I’ll let other readers decide which they think you are.
a federal agent or a klansman
Bold to assume that the Venn Diagram of these two categories is anything but a circle
Vampires need reading glasses in the hottest new styles as well!
You do realize that “a surveillance state where the government knows how much money and holdings everyone has” describes the entire basis of the tax system, right? The government already knows that information. So, you’re saying that you are so concerned that the government would suddenly know how much money everyone makes, and that the better solution is institutionalized governmental corporal punishment leading to permanent disability and death?
They won’t refuse trans soldiers. They will just ban any action or expression which conforms to a gender identity not consistent with sex at birth, and selectively hand out corporal punishment for perceived infractions.
I’m pretty sure that what you’re suggesting is very nearly the plot of John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”
Source? I want to read it.
As the thirteenth amendment specifically allows.
The giant chemical engines were not being compared to the alcubierre drive. The commenter was discussing how the engine of the ship in futurama, which “moves the universe around it” would fairly neatly describe the function of an alcubierre drive in layman’s terms. This is why you were downvoted.
That’s the thing: that’s still true, it’s just that Windows, Chrome and Facebook/IG are all malware, and people (of all generations) seem to fail to process that undeniable fact.
If they were only selfish, but smart, they wouldn’t be voting for politicians whose demonstrated aim is to reduce their constituents’ wealth and funnel it into a class of people which their constituents have zero chance of ever joining.
No, they’re dumb. They’re certainly also selfish, but that’s because they’re dumb and can’t comprehend the value of helping someone else, because the feedback loop on that mechanism has more than one step before they receive value back, and because the value received is most often in intangibles.
Oh no not the shitty country that attacks me and my people daily!
This is what I was asking about. It sounds like you were saying that you were in one of the various countries this country bombs or otherwise attacks on a daily basis.
And those 18 weeks weren’t even consecutive. No “longest running” title if there’s a break in the middle.
To give additional options, because Stephenson and Sanderson aren’t everyone’s cups of tea (producing insanely large tomes like Reamde, Cryptonomicon, and the Way of Kings), you may also consider the following, which are either hard scifi (requires few, if any, scientific discoveries we currently lack), speculative SciFi (requires one or two unexplained leaps of scientific advancement, but thoroughly explores the mechanics and consequences thereof), or speculative fantasy (any magic system is internally consistent, operates in particular ways, and the interactions between them are explored)
If you want something more in line with YA, but with hard magic systems, consider “The Will of The Many”, by James Islington, or “Sufficiently Advanced Magic” by Andrew Rowe.
Never heard of her, her irrelevant song, “attacks” on her, or anything that would make her stand out from the rest of the toiletpaperUSA bumblefucks, but I’m glad that you find it profound that some random person on the internet who paid money to an ethno-nationalist illegal immigrant for a blue checkmark thinks that there’s a connection between criticism of a random bigot and music sales! It’s VERY interesting to keep track of random “records” that require no less than three qualifying statements! Do you have any fun facts about the most decorated member of the US Armed Forces who is also a woman, and for whom none of those decorations are the Purple Heart? Or perhaps do you keep track of the male athlete who has won the most national titles, but never scored a point in any of the title games? I think we would all be interested in this random person’s unfounded root-cause analysis of those peoples’ achievements to precisely the same degree as we are interested in this random claim about the causes of popularity for “the longest-running, non-holiday #1 song by a female artist in billboard’s hot 100 history (since 1955)”
After looking it up, even that “longest-running” wording is bullshit, because they were nonconsecutive weeks. If the Simpsons were cancelled, then brought back after a season, it wouldn’t hold the record that it does.
What a sad joke.
The problem is that the theory of supply and demand requires the assumption that buyers and sellers are rational actors, and if there’s one thing the last 25 years has taught the corpocrats, it’s that humans are not rational, and are easily manipulated.
The other thing they learned is that, if you don’t want to face regulation, you just need to buy the government. They already knew this, but now the process is perfected.
Again, nothing but weak polemics. You know nothing of my background. Even a cursory glance at my comment history would have told you what sector I work in, and the last time I covered for a colleague was two days ago. Something tells me that the accusation of “you don’t do shit for a living” was more projection on your part.
Furthermore, it’s quite telling that your first thought when fishing for a name that evokes psychological expertise was Phil McGraw. I don’t need to have any expertise in the workings of the human mind to identify that red flag.