I'm sorry for the down votes, I don't think your comment deserves that. If you feel glad you didn't have children then I'm glad you didn't. People are allowed to want different things. Children are not an easy life choice to see through and there shouldn't be any shame in knowing you don't want that.
barkingspiders
joined 2 years ago
Love this thread so much, so many good recommendations. Thanks everyone for sharing!
I used to load this map up with low grav and bots and sit in the tower with sniper rifle blowing off steam and heads, so many good memories.
I read my first Ted Chiang this year! I think my favorite was his short story "Tower of Babylon". It dragged a bit for me but "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" gave me a lot of food for thought with the current LLM mania. I'm looking forward to more.
My favorite "book" this year was Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Omnibus which is a collection of a couple of his books. The world building, physics, vast timelines and very human characters really did it for me. I still love Ian Bank's Culture Series more but the Xeelee Sequence has been a lot of fun, highly recommend (if you're into sci-fi).
Honorable mention goes to Charles Stross, I finally read his Accelerando and while it didn't trip my trigger as much I felt like it really captured something of our current zeitgeist and had a lot of great moments that will stick in my head for a while.
just want to say I have been shopping for a grinder recently and this thread has been very helpful, really appreciate all the input offered!
I just want to say I enjoy all the comments here
You mean the same stuff that's on my spinach and in my poop?
I really enjoyed this, tx for sharing!
I'm pretty sure the real issue is resource allocation, we have tremendous resources and the knowledge to use them, they're just mostly owned by a very very small percentage of the population and the current system supports that, like it mostly has throughout history
Wtf?