JReynolds

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• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  The most recent Tom the Dancing Bug is right on target for this blog post....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  The school I went to for Grades 3-4 had its 100th anniversary in 2016. It's a well-kept old building, and was interesting to walk around. Although I couldn't remember where any of my classes had been. Who knew that 35+...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Bard isn't supported in Canada, so I can't ask it the question I wanted. Like Charlie, 15 'facts' about the Hundred Years War. Have to wait....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  What's left is going to resemble the West Bank Hard agree. With Russian 'settlements' periodically going in and taking the best Ukrainian land, while the rest of the world says "you really shouldn't do that" while doing nothing to stop...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  There's a really good article about a real-life meeting between Angela Merkel, Dr. Ruth and Dr. Kissinger in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/dr-ruth-dr-kissinger-and-trumps-cruelty-to-families Dr. K was talking about the necessity of keeping refugees out of the US. Dr. Ruth talked about...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  there's fuck-all the UK could do about it Perhaps the UK would invoke Article 5 of NATO - "An attack on one is an attack on all". I can't imagine that the USA would like to go to war against...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  You were compiling (d/b and our code) on a dual floppy system? Luxury! I used to dream of having things that easy. I had to do all of the compiling by hand, with a pencil....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Aargh. All these YouTube links, just as YT chooses to crack down on viewing with adblockers. No, YouTube, I don't want to watch your durned ads. No YT for me. Sigh....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Robert Prior @ 1083: Aliens come to Earth, aghast at our savagery. A brave volunteer spreads a substance that causes those inflicting harm to experience the same harm (psychosomatically, IIRC) I read and enjoyed that too, back in the day....
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  Greg Tingey @587: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a REFORMER True. However, did he have the political skill to get the needed reforms through Austria-Hungary's dysfunctional government? (More realistically, did he have the skill to pick the team that would do...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  You may be referring to the Younger Dryas, which did cause a rapid temperature decline and further glacial advance, around 12.9 kyr. However, before the Younger Dryas kicked off, what would eventually become the UK was still a periglacial area...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  How about: (1) there is an augur on staff, but (2) bad things happen (including the death of said augur) because there is no path that leads to a happy ending. I think that this might be what is happening...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Scott Sanford @492: If I were Putin I'd be sleeping somewhere secret, secure, and distant from Moscow for the next few weeks, just in case. Not sleeping in the same place twice in a row is always a good precaution....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  That tends to happen only after the conquest is over, and the savages are conveniently dead or confined to reservations. Harry Turtledove published Vilcabamba in 2010. Aliens landed 50 years ago, conquered the bits of Earth they wanted, left the...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  "what is actually wrong with our habitat's life support?" (it's tenths of percents right now, but the voyage (or the mortgage) has some time to run, and the implications are stark) via actual doing of science. Moz and Heteromeles have...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Had the crazy insight the other day that a kid born today that made it to the age of 77 would see the 22nd century....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  The Bad Guy has already won in the Laundry-verse (I imagine that by Dec 31, 2015, all countries have been taken over by some Elder God). No sign of them getting bored, of course....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  A couple of tropes spring to mind: Island in the Sea of Time (ISOT), where an area and everybody in it are switched with the same area in some previous time. The original S.M. Sterling Island in the Sea of...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  For any who might have missed it, Charlie exists in the QC-verse....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Yeah, if it's transphobic, include me out....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  +1 to Sleepless Domain. The author is fully aware that she's writing about child soldiers, within a culture that makes use of child soldiers. Gil. A syndicated cartoon, now almost at the end of its run. Fun humour, by the...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Here's something I noticed yesterday. Ads on Twitter are suddenly much more of a thing - but only if you're hostile to Trump. Twitter feed for: Sleepless Domain, a US-based web cartoon that is apolitical regarding Trump (author is Trump-hostile):...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  H'mm. Maybe have Trump guarded in prison by USSS agents who are themselves in the slammer for something? In return for reduced sentences or something....
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  I do, actually have an old-fashioned brass-knob-that you-pull doorbell! Which, needless to say confuses some idiots, who try to PUSH IT Your doorbell and luck are similar then. Neither works when you push it.......
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Ah, benefiting from hard-earned wisdom while young. You might like Claire North's The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Harry August is born on New Year's Day 1919. Lives his normal life, dies... and is reborn as Harry August on...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  deer to Haida Gwaii To eliminate the deer, you'd probably have to have a couple of skirmish lines of people walking from one end of the islands to the other, beating the bushes as they went. They might not have...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Not to mention total lack of (or even any interest in) life extension ISTR that somewhere in the sequel series, they tried ret-conning it as 'increasing lifespan makes societies collapse'. Maybe so. However, I'd be tempted to travel to one...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  For what it's worth: I saw an entertaining cartoon about climate change just now. More true than I would like....
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  "what does a woman want?" An answer from a couple of centuries ago: from "Several Questions Answered" What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Kazakhstan is the largest uranium producer Don't forget that they are the number one exporter of potassium. They also invented toffee and trouser belts. According to the Kazakh national anthem sung in the documentary Borat, of course. I too was...