I loved Enders Game, Enders Shadow and Speaker for the Dead. It had a great emotional importance to me. Especially Enders Shadow, it was one of the first books I read that properly described starvation. I went through a lot as a child, and Beans story of a starving, smart, small kid really resonated with me in the period after my own tribulation. I don’t think Shadow has the same impact on people without some of my experiences, so I chose to use the main arc and I’ve always felt that Ender would rather be remembered as The Speaker more than anything else. Probably silly, but I’m fine with that. In short, I agree, Enders Game is the better book. Speaker is just the pay off.

Moby Dick has always infuriated and enthralled me. I read 5 pages, hate myself. Start reading again in 15 minutes because I can’t get it out of my head.

The odyssey

Speaker for the Dead

Eisenhorn

Count of Monte Cristo

The Emperor of All Maladies

Moby Dick

Lords of Silence

All Honorable Men: History of the war in Lebanon

Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology

The Biology of Cancer (Weinberg)

Japan to 1600

History of Medieval Russia (Martin)

The Baltic: A History

On War (Clausewitz)

The Back Channel

Timbuktu (Villiers)

Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.

Edit: Fuck it, I’m having fun. Here are a few more I remembered while roasting a bowl.

Dune

Amulet of Samarkand

Venice (Madden)

The Golden Compass

First and Only (Abnett) - read the first omnibus

Harrisons Manual of Medicine 18th ed

Gomorrah (Saviano)

The Gunpowder Age (Tonio)

The Money Illusion (Sumner)

I use both. I like some aspects of each better. Reddit mostly has some specific large communities I can’t find on lemmy due to size, or lemmys demographics just not enjoying that topic.

It’s amazing how they tolerated people preaching for violence against women and immigrants for over a decade, but all of sudden their passion for non-violence is so extreme after a rich white guy gets killed.

My rss app combines 44 different news sites into one long feed. It replaced multiple apps and makes checking an assload of news very easy.

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Just be clear you are an option for help if needed, other than that be nice and don’t over worry. People with limited mobility like to run their own lives, just the same as we all do. It sounds like you’ve been a pleasant neighbor, keep it up and continue shoveling if you want. Snow is usually considered fair game for anyone willing, and people almost always appreciate its removal. If you don’t want pay, say it’s not something you accept for snow removal. Pretty normal for people who grew up in snowy cities to volunteer some shoveling time. If they ask you to stop, you should heed their request.

Extremely short sighted and stupid decision. The only people that will support it are the Google fanboys.

Because those have nothing to do with each other. You can also drown in your bathtub. That doesn’t mean water falling from the sky is an instant drowning. Quantity, method of exposure and context matter a lot when gauging how dangerous something can be.

ICE exhaust is poisonous, it’s significantly less poisonous when diluted by a large chunk of atmosphere. How much so isn’t a simple question, and it becomes much harder for the average person when it’s health effects are delayed for years to decades and those effects often have comorbidities with other risky behavior.

This is exactly why education is important, these things aren’t actually that apparent after we cleaned up some of the more obvious consequences from the start of the industrial revolution.

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I screwed up my dual boot a year ago and it was happiest mistake of my life. Forced me to learn linux, and now I feel like I live in the matrix with all my bright green terminals on i3.

Fallout New Vegas, had me fantasizing for weeks about being a desert cowboy. My wife and I finally went to Vegas and we visited a bunch of spots from the game. We played FNV all week together and then we went up the strat tower to get a birds eye view of the city. It was a really fun experience.

Game definitely shows its age now, but it really sold the atmosphere and dragged you into it when it came out.

More authoritarian bull shit from India and the BJP.

I’m liking bluesky a lot, seems like they rolled back most of twitters toxicity. I’m seeing a lot of communities jump over and I’m all for it, we need more options on social media.

That’s unfortunate, but it still needs to happen. Mozilla will adapt.

Makes sense to me, most people who own them seem to drive like jackasses.

Go Team Venture!

Google needs to be broken up by government.

About damn time.