geekwithsoul

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don't believe she did that in editing her husband's books.

The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband's works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Well, if he loves movies, he should do one about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige - that would be fascinating!

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 75 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because he doesn't actually believe any of this, it's all performative. It's all about creating a certain narrative that they can then exploit to keep the grift going.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, a number of people have retrofitted classic Beetles as EVs, and the modern Beetles were bigger. If BMW can make an electric MINI Cooper, pretty sure VW can figure out an electric Beetle.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

VW just needs to make an electric Beetle - how hard can that be?

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Black Mirror is too high brow for these folks, I think this is turning more into Swarzenegger's Running Man.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Great photo on the article. Is Trump aging super fast now? He looks significantly older than he did even back in January.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"real-time 2FA SMS logs routed via Twilio."

Um, Valve doesn't use 2FA SMS?

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the original was greentext about gorillas

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