wooshkim.bsky.social
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Posted online then got publishing offer, I think
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I'm redpilled on sinecures. Give people money and free time and great things can get done.
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The life of the party and the most successful seductress in town.
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Barchester Towers (1857) is very chill about one character's inability to walk, even by modern standards. There has to be a fuss made about making sure she has a sofa to recline on, but otherwise she's the life of the party.
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Going by the reviews I've read, the book isn't actually overly sanguine on immigration
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That would be because the predominant liberal nation in the world before the US spent all its national energy on opposing revolutionary liberalism and regicide
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I thought he was an exceptionally talented logistician who unfortunately got tempted into throwing caution to the wind just once?
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Plus sequels have naturally inflated ratings since they are disproportionately read by people who already enjoy the author's work
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Can't expect much from a site that considers Gulliver's Travels and Moby-Dick the worst books ever.
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Having only seen one season of The Expanse, I'd wonder how much of that the later seasons get up to.
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If you’re interested in a remotely comparable novel, The Mouse That Roared had a more upbeat, light-hearted mockery of Cold War mutual annihilation
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I assume there's some "they fought well because they were segregated, after integration the army was ruined" revisionism out there.
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Are there other examples from the war of artillery having such a great effect? Malvern Hill?
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She features accounts of visitors from the few remaining neutral nations for 1942-5?
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Is it true that he has a thing for evil lesbian dominatrices?
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And yet there are still people who think it's all part of the 5D chess plan to intentionally wreck the country and create a billionaire-ruled Moldbug dystopia
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Speaking as an Asian American, I find it exceedingly difficult to not feel these things.
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Maybe not 10 years ago. People sure were frightened 8 1/2 years ago.
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grimmest periods of the whole Holocaust.
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Thousands and thousands of deaths in Hawaii and the Philippines were not exactly motivating people to fight because America was "being made to look weak." And things were hardly starting to "wrap up" for the embattled, slaughtered Chinese and European Jews in November 1941 - it was one of the
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a) Given that the shooting war is already a reality, it’s hard for me to see nuclear deterrence as something useful and not a danger
b) Wouldn’t their preferred haunts become very, very dangerous?
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What are the ballistic subs doing during second sino?
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Turns out the fire budget is $800M, so this cut is not great but not a total gutting
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It's bothering me a lot that what's going on is eerily matched up with the depiction of the 2031 LA megafire in The Deluge by Stephen Markley
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Little question, what are the ballistic missile subs doing during 2nd Sino, given that people aren't keen on nuclear war?
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Isn’t it Thomas Sowell’s argument that black people acquired a culture of poverty from poor whites?
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In World of Warships, the amount of damage you do matters about as much as the number of kills, so getting kill-stealed doesn't feel like too much of a loss
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He was good, but was he better than Vermeer?
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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - only 656 pages, so not that long
The Last Chairlift by John Irving - just 889 pages
Bubblegum by Adam Levin - 771 pages
Ducks, Newburyport - the most recent thousand-pager I could find, but that was five years ago
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Anything he says that might alienate his slobbering followers is a good thing in my book.
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Ever since Abu Ghraib and the public debates around blacksites and Guantanamo Bay, I've had to quietly grapple with the knowledge that a huge proportion of Americans see brutal repression as fully acceptable and compatible with liberty.
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The use of "fires" in the plural is still a curious thing to me. Does it refer to anything other than the application of firepower?
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Every day he becomes more caligula-like than I’d previously been able to imagine
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So more like Joe Hill writing a book in the Kingverse
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Harkaway is Le Carre's actual son
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Do you mind me posting everything?
www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
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Where can I read this?
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I should read Lewis' "Main Street"
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That is clearly not why all the other people are dunking on him
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to "ending slavery was not good"
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I have the context because I first saw it from the screenshots. In fact, it because of that context that reading the post as pro-slavery looks so nonsensical to me. Anti-voting positions tend to be dumb and bad, sure, but I don't see how you get from "voting for Lincoln was not what ended slavery"
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backwards, mismanaged Nazi slave system."
How is that fundamentally pro-Holocaust.
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If you wanted to apply the argument to WWII, it would go
"Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill might have gotten their countries into the fight, but it was the deaths of millions of young soldiers that stopped the Holocaust, and ultimately, the superiority of industrialized modern war economies over the
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I've been looking at all the outraged reactions to this post, and I don't get how they're interpreting it as pro-slavery. It's clearly focused on pointing to the masses and the wider economic structures of the country as being what ended slavery, with it being taken for granted that it was a good th
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I've run into people like this many times and I've never quite figured out the internal psychology of someone who wants to converse at length 1 on 1 with someone they have no desire to listen to or understand
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Greg Egan does this crazy thing where he extrapolates how physics or geometry would be altered by switching a plus sign with a minus in some principle, and then writing a novel around the weird universe it implies
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This is a second time I've found out that an alternate history writer whose work far exceeds anything I've done is younger than me
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Gene Wolfe was on to something with his Ascians who could only speak in quotations from approved texts.
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Here's the map I made
i.imgur.com/29Fx89j.jpg
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I find it quite difficult to worldbuild outside of what immediately concerns the characters in a story I'm writing.