thanks for pointing this out, i missed it!

i think #3 is your greatest limiter. i expect more people have at least some kind of spiritual / meaning-making impulse than don’t, by a large margin.

yes, that’s the new one! it seems like some people didn’t care for it, but i loved it and i thought it was a fitting conclusion to everything that came before.

fair warning the second half is… well, it’s something else. just roll with it if you decide to read it.

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

huh. that’s the way i have always done it. backwards, apparently.

i think we were already well beyond “slowly, over the course of years.”

thank you!

it was already done at an NFL game. i think? it was already done in Congress, where (if memory serves), right-wingers didn’t feel a moment of silence went far enough and demanded a spoken prayer.

edit - to clarify, done specifically for the newly dead influencer, whose name i don’t care to type atm.

every accusation etc etc

yeah, the change in voice was so disappointing to me, i didn’t make it far in the second book.

sounds like i need to look into Liu’s own work!

what language were you reading it in? i certainly noticed the English translators changed between the first and second book, and i am curious to know how it all reads in Chinese.

unsuccessful?

the new mayor is openly gay, if that’s any reassurance to you.

you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

this is not the first time Texas Dems have left the state to try to push back against the GOP stranglehold.

btw, all the comments i read around here saying Texans deserve [whatever]? we’re fighting a rigged game in this state. Abbot, Paxton etc do not represent us all.

yeah, i don’t think a job exists where i could sustain that for any period of time before my inevitable mental and physical collapse.

i think it’s just silliness

i find it kind of creepy that this meme makes a joke of strangulation.

i can’t tell if you’re serious.

this was me, first two years of uni. damn, that was an unpleasant awakening! you can get better at this. 🙂