I've not read them all but that sort of feels like how the culture novels are.
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I'm not super involved, but I believe it's possible to engage with Wikipedia ethically and well as a PR firm or the like. But being honest is part one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PR_Professionals_%26_Editing
I love Porco Rosso. It's animated and set in the real world with real just pre-WW2 stuff happening in the background. But the main character is a pig who flies a sea plane. Someone mentions a curse once. No one treats this as weird. No one else is an animal. I love it.
Zero cost abstractions are a hell of a thing.
Everything the mutant spice baby guild thing says is beyond perfect. I love them. And the emperor just stands there reading terrible exposition terribly. I love it.
I did not say this. I am not here.
I love the idea Kylo Ren. Unhinged man child who worships Vader for all the wrong reasons. His soldiers are afraid of him and work around him and pity him. I love having such a broken villain.
I loved when Rey's parents were nobodies.
I loved that Luke was a scared and broken. Should have felt crippling pity for that guard he force choked in a Jabba's palace. Still. I loved it.
And while I'm at it. Frozen. I wanted so desperately for Hans to be entirely sympathetic and just not in love will Anna. Movie is mostly the same until Anna gets back and needs the kiss to fix her and he tries and.... Nothing. Then. I dunno. Finish the movie some other way.
I think OP measure of success was getting a job. I think they are wrong because I hear about lots of folks doing cool things. But I get where they are coming from.
I worked for them ten years ago. I was excited to do something important for once. And it was better than competing with Amazon for book sales. I was really helping.
I eventually left because I didn't think we were being a great steward of donor money. And I didnt have the best relationship with my boss. Nice guy, but we didn't clock.
Back then they spent like half their money on donations and programs trying to get more editors. That included supporting projects in smaller languages and diversity on current projects. Mostly good stuff as far as I could tell.
Where they invested their money for tech was where I disagreed. But even so, I've donated since then. They are supporting important work. Everyone makes mistakes.
Ultimately, I dunno.
I deserve whatever. But my kids don't.
I think folks saying you don't need math are right. But if you are having trouble with college algebra you might have trouble with CS. Or the teacher is bad.
Math really builds on itself at the stage where you are. Without good algebra calculus isn't going to work well.
I'd try a different teacher. Online courses or repeating the course with another professor or something.
PKD is special somehow. He's the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it's luck or my flawed opinion.