21st century Russia would turn Ivan the Terrible’s stomach.

The internet comments, apparently

It’s really jarring. Especially when someone makes him laugh? It’s like hearing Bob Ross shriek. You don’t do that.

Yes, so much. I listened to that book and his writing voice is a lot less natural, almost stilted. I’m so used to his style of highly refined extemporising that hearing him read aloud weirds me out. Dan if you’re in danger blink twice! Help is on the way just do whatever they ask!

Let’s be real, they’re audiobooks

At the risk of being super obvious… Give Hardcore History a try. It’s long, highly subjective, and the subject matter tends toward intense subjects.

Lucky duck!

I wish I’d noted which station… I think it must have been La Défense, where the exit to the tram has a gate that doesn’t read that pass, and you actually need to take a series of two other gates to get out that way.

I was pretty distracted with aforementioned clinically silly one though, so that one’s on me. Overall the whole system works very well from my experience.

Paris is really easy to get around without a car. Once I learned which gates didn’t work with Navigo anyway… lol

The only time in a week I needed a taxi in Paris was when my clinically silly kid was going to make us late for a dinner reservation.

What the fuck is a gaming browser. Browsers show web pages.

Putin’s paranoia about the colour revolutions led to retaliatory hybrid war so effective that the only way for social democracy to survive is the very thing that he feared - regime change.

If I was alone, get satellite internet and set up a solar powered remote working squat in some remote desert outpost. Far from the impending water wars.

Since I have family I’ll just uh probably still drink. My kid’s a handful.

We have middle sibling energy at best

It’s very twee, but it has ironic capabilities.

I like rhyming slang. Mostly for torturing my fellow Americans. I also enjoy clunge, jobbie, and being “sick to bastard death” about things.

The Australians have my heartstrings though, when it comes to inventive slang. They’re not here to fuck spiders, tell you that much for free.

Regime change is necessary if the free world is to survive

They haven’t. I saw Short Circuit 2 this year again and it’s really unfortunate how much the appalling racism sullied an otherwise charming film. It was especially dear to me as a kid because there was a Johnny 5 animatronic at my science museum, and it encouraged in me a lot of hope for the future. I miss having that optimism.

That’s why I’m an atheist. I’m too optimistic.

Yeah no, it’s not the best. But I’d still curl that monkey’s paw any day

Y’all paying what rent should cost just to have electrons