Eric

Eric

  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Given how many monsters are at least close-enough-to-human and/or sentient/intelligent that idea is distressing....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Goldilocks became a great advocate for it and other bear rights ("The Fourth Bear, A Nursery Crime Novel" (Fforde, 2006))....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Some societies that might be described by us as generally intolerant are moreso than others even within one basic broad description, though. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_people_and_Islam ....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Well, it would be high time that the "limited" of limited liability corporation weren't interpreted as it is now. (As I recall, too, either in our host's "Rule 34", or in its predecessor "Halting State", or both, "corporate audits" were...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    I'm guessing that joke has its origin in her only recently learning that she is in remission....
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Weird. All I knew was that I was -exceeding- pleased with the deserved recognition of Seanan McGuire and Ursula Vernon's work in the best novel and novella categories-- and that I hadn't afterward heard anything else about this year's Hugos...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    for that matter, Sinclair Lewis' warnings....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Munro, actually, and his last words aren't known definitely (Wikipedia has "according to several sources") - as far as I know, anyway. I wish people didn't see all of his output through the lens of satire, tangentially; "The Unbearable Bassington"...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "Not sure which they you're referring to"... The sentence began: "We have a similar discussion in Germany since 2022:" German society and military, I believe....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I hope that, were a major US Republican Party figure to condemn political violence (whoever by) as strongly as President JR Biden* did in a recent speech, that it could have -some- effect on this burgeoning (somewhat one-sided?) civil war/stochastic...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Good point. According to https://www.militarytimes.com/news/election-2022/2023/01/03/breaking-down-the-number-of-veterans-in-the-118th-congress/ , there are only 4 Representatives in the whole US House (435 people) who served in Vietnam. (John Kerry's still alive but serves in another role, as United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. There's...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    ah, a student and promoter of the advancement of calculus, she was?...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    I had to search to find out that AOC meant "Appellation d'Origine Contrôlee" and not the legislator from New York State's 14th Congressional District (whose initials appear in another comment in this -same thread-! )...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Time spent (served??) on Quora has completely convinced me that Magas and some other Trump supporters are even worse at detecting satire than people like me on the autism spectrum and furthermore, don't really get the notion of a "conditional...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Well, the precise point of an interlocutary appeal is that it’s one you argue is important to make before a trial. Supposedly this would be true of judging inmunuity. I’m hoping that would take the courts about 2 minutes, most...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Yep, was listening to that too. Will the -real- Michigan GOP please stand up? ;)...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Thanks for this....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Absolutely sounds like him. (RIP.)...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    but at least we'll all go together when we go. Now where did that delta go for every epsilon?...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    now that I look, also the very-very-short-lived sequel Bring Back Birdie. Which I actually caught, probably during previews (around September 1981) and which closed soon after....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Allow for a slight change of pronunciation and there's Charles Strouse (*1928) (composer and lyricist who wrote Bye Bye Birdie, Annie, and other musical plays and movies...)...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Meaning to read some Lem. Tarkovsky's Solaris, and at least the beginning of the 2013 movie "The Congress", both based on stories of his, are good and good-so-far respectively :) and incline me to want to read the source material......
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Well, you know, ebenso....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Not sure what it says, tangentially, that I did fine in calculus (the dental pun at the beginning of the preceding course did not hurt- I have a close relative who's a punster and a dentist, at that) and flopped...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Also, clearly, I had the dates of the Luddite movement wrong- although there was an Enclosure Act of 1801 as well as the original one of the 16th century. (And yet -another- in 1845...)...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Girdlestone's book about Mozart's piano concertos used to exist in a Dover Publications reprint, which used to be relatively inexpensive. (The former may still be the case, the latter less so of Dover's reprints.) Dating myself (... well, at least...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Mistake acknowledged, I'll have to have a look at that. Thanks....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    My guess, and that, I believe, of one author I read on the topic many years ago whose name I do not, unfortunately, remember, was that under the- very well-known, of course- circumstances*, it was a death sentence either way....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    In my experience, share allows you to share on various platforms, including copying into the clipboard, the URL, but maybe not......
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    the "share" (cup with upward-pointing arrow) widget doesn't help?...
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