Yeah, if there’s not a character I can relate to, sympathize with, or cheer for within 200 pages, I’m not going to keep reading.

Foundation Series and the Caves of Steel series are so good.

I gave Hyperion about 200 pages and they were STILL world building and offering leading secrets the author didn’t think the reader needed to know. So I just gave up.

Four legs good!

I was going to go with Iron Maiden, but Bismuth is pretty metal.

Another site tried to do that years ago, Voat, and like your story, died as a free speech absolutist Nazi hell hole.

The Nat 1 did fail though, but someone in the party had a good kit to save the day.

Shitty DM that would modify a nat 20…

I know a friend who ran out of gas while listening to the audio book, lol. If that’s not a testament to it’s quality, I don’t know what is.

Thank God. I wanted to come in and say that earlier, but no one else had. I figured most people in Lemmy wear this fit.

I went to Bible camp my entire childhood, can count the numbers of Sundays missed on a single hand my first 18 years of life, was a born again Christian, and a chaplain’s assistant in the Army. If you want to measure bone fides.

If you claim to be “Christian” why wear a label that shows you’re part of the problem?

So you’re cool with gays? Neat. Understand evolution? Awesome. Accept that vaccines actually work? Good for you. Hell, you might even understand women are not walking incubators. You’ve met the bare fucking minimum for being considered literate.

I’m going to finish with a statement and a question. There is no heaven, when you die, you’re dead. What is your heaven?

You think only 40% of Christians are against teaching evolution?? You’re an admitted Christian on Lemmy acting smug? Lol.

Whatever man, eat a duck, enjoy your paradise, and keep pretending you’re a good person. I’ll let the immigrant family you just deported know about your good vibes.

Sorry, you said 40%, but that’s about 60% of people who actually show up to vote. 40% of eligible voters stay home and cry about our unfair election system in the U.S . While feeling smug about letting unchecked fascism take over as a consequence.

Ahhh, Memphis Tennessee.

It’s using AI to filter or reduce interactions with words puritans and Chinese censors find “offensive” but to the other responses point, it goes deeper. They train the AI not to cuss, not to be able to discuss sex at all, and to avoid topics that the developers’ companies or countries don’t like. But we’re never shown what they push for or are guarded from by the companies releasing them, so the shift is subtle.

Filtering swear words is a dark path the masses are willfully following. It’s a subtle way to see if they can use AI to force us to change how we speak to align with a worldview. People need to fucking resist it.

In Montreal, I was riding my bike drunk and crashed pretty badly. I broke a tooth and was bleeding out of my mouth. I got up and kept riding home when a cop stopped me who was sitting next to his car monitoring pedestrian traffic. They took out their first aid kit, gave me some gauze, asked if I needed to go to the ER, then let me be on my way.

I feel like that wouldn’t happen in the US. I was still very drunk.

The lesson you learned was to not work at 100% or you’ll get to do other people’s work for them.

Luckily you weren’t using a lathe.

I’m moving if they don’t.