Ridley Kemp
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Commented on Some notes on the worst-case scenario
Lots of todays anti-semites seem to have (or pretend to have?) no problem with Israel. It's very odd. Ain't it though? We live in interesting times....
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Commented on Some notes on the worst-case scenario
I'd rate this scenario as plausible but unlikely due to there being so many moving parts (not everyone in the administration or influencing the administration are on the same page) and there being so few applicable precedents for this situation....
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Commented on Policy change: future US visits
Very much my take on it as well. Most of it strikes me as unlikely to get much traction or likely to go disastrously if it does....
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Commented on Policy change: future US visits
As a Texan I can only say...can't blame you at all. It's terrifying here. I've never seen anything like this (for point of reference, I was born during the mid-sixties and don't personally remember the civil rights movement). And, as...
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Commented on Evolver
Good point, and I can't argue. Although, with the primary reasons for the endangerment of the great apes exiting the stage, they might come back with a, ahem, vengeance....
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Commented on Evolver
Several other commenters have pointed this out, but I'm curious as to where you see the other primates landing in this scenario. I know it's overly simplistic to suggest that our closest cousins would simply move into the niche we...
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Commented on What are you reading this summer?
I recently finished Lavie Tidhar's Central Station. It's a collection of intertwined short stories set in a version of the future in which many of our science fiction takes came true. It was recommended by a higher power (in this...
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Commented on A plaintive request
The police in the U.S. are finally starting to take online threats and harassment seriously, responding to them proactively instead of insisting they can do nothing until those threats become reality. It is unfortunate that they only made this change...
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Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
Reading this really made me appreciate parts 1 and 2 of Seveneves....
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Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
Before I answer, I'd like to note that the two most "throw the book at the wall" examples of supposedly-sympathetic narrator who didn't deserve any sympathy I've encountered were both memoirs. I couldn't read either Henry and June or American...