On the weekends, it was routine for me to hop on my bike once my chores were done and just take off. The rule was just had to be home by dinner time, or call from whichever friends house I was at if I couldn’t make it back in time. No cell phones.

Thanks, I’m usually better about that. Fixed in my comment as well.

Probably tekwar. I don’t think I’ve ever seen mention of it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0111385/

https://youtu.be/5rQklSmI_F0

Enterprise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise

I think you’re the first person I’ve seen correctly attribute this to the New Yorker instead of a 4chan green text or copy pasta.

I’ve been seriously considering picking up a trumpet and starting a ska band with some of my other middle aged friends just for shits and giggles. Seems like a lot of fun.

This describes my CISO to a fucking tee.

I’m on the older side of being a millennial. When I was in highschool (late '90s early 2k), guidance counselors were absolutely telling kids to just get any college degree they could and there’d be a job waiting for them when they graduated.

On the other hand if they didn’t get a degree they’d be losers working jobs like having to be a garbage man and or would probably end up as homeless drug addicted losers.

That was the beginning of the end for me. I think by the time I got to that part the series had already been going downhill but I remember that being a really sharp turning point.

I tried to press on a little further. The introduction of the straw man nation with the innocent child king who’s only existence was to be blown the fuck out by the brilliance of objectivism is when I finally decided I just couldn’t go on.

Ooo, I was trying to think of what to answer in this thread and you just reminded me of another Orson Scott Card book, Empire.

Absolute trash. Prior to that I had read all of the Ender and Bean series and loved them. Didn’t know much about Card personally, but picked up this book because it was supposed to be tied in with a video game I was looking forward too.

Reading this book is how I found out what a shitty person he really is. It was basically all him hitting you over the head with his shitty fascist ideology while jerking off to a bunch of military porn like a dollar store version of Tom Clancy. I never did play the game.

My sister’s gateway was the Disney Pocahontas movie. She would have been around seven or eight when it was released in theaters. She fell in love with the story and the characters, knew all the songs etc… and so she wanted to learn more. So then she got real history books about the time period and biographies of Pocahontas.

And that’s when she learned grown-up’s lie.

I also really enjoy it!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema

In short, the latter.

I saw a quote years ago about “common sense” that really changed the way I thought about it. I wish I could remember now where it came from.

“The problem with common sense is that it is common, not good.”

Lately I google for someone that should give me a direct, exact result. First five links are fucking paid ads.

For anyone that hasn’t read it, the book Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman is a delightful read. Especially the bits about him fucking with security during the Manhattan project.

Well, considering the character is said to have been based on William Randolph Hearst, you’re probably quite right to be concerned.

You’re thinking of American Samoa which is different from the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and a sovereign nation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa

I really enjoyed reading 40k books when I was younger, but they’re generally shit writing. The kind of complete schlock that is good when you want to turn off the brain.