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Is it possible the Christians are projecting? Everything makes more sense if you replace Queer with Priest and Transition with Confirmation.
Fame and fortune guaranteed in the state of Tintucky
2023-06-07 14:23:04 +0000 UTCI know it was all for laughs but that Livestream when you did Ian's job performance eval was one of the most hilarious shows ever. Congrats Ian on the baby - you may need to upgrade your unicycle to a tricycle now
Victoria
2023-05-29 12:24:26 +0000 UTCPatreon goal: Ian will name his new baby Gary!!!
Chris Ward
2023-05-28 22:53:55 +0000 UTCCongratulations, Ian! Another hipster will enter the world!
Jay Voigt
2023-05-28 17:42:30 +0000 UTCOMG CONGRATS IAN!!!
NSaneAtheist
2023-05-27 06:13:41 +0000 UTCOH hell yes on this. There is a LOT of Asian authored SF and it is very different. I haven't finished the 2nd and 3rd of the 3 body Problem because WOW, heavy. I'm currently reading the second of the Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee (The NineFox Gambit, The Raven Stratagem, The Revenant Gun), which has a strong Korean folklore influence. Last year I read Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao and I'm just waiting for the next book coming out next year. It is classified as YA but that's not how it felt to read it. (Why can't I put paragraph breaks in??) The Anne Leckie's Imperial Radch series played with my head a good bit, too, because it delves into ideas about identity and gender identification. There's so much great stuff and I won't live long enough to read it all, but I'm working on it.
The Beautiful Thumb
2023-05-26 20:01:53 +0000 UTCThats the version I remember as well.
Kelley G
2023-05-26 12:27:10 +0000 UTCIt is the empowerment of people's actions that is the issue which is driven by these organizations that is the main problem. The adage: "Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. Religion justifies good people to do bad things." This is true in my experience. These cult indoctrinated people vote and get into government which makes laws. This is the problem.
Jeff Codling
2023-05-26 11:53:01 +0000 UTCWhen I moved to the SF Bay Area like 8 years ago, my girlfriend and I went to literally every Ethiopian restaurant in Berkeley and Oakland. I had never had anything like it before, and it's amazing! The vegetables especially, like you said. Misir wot (red lentil) is my favorite.
William Evan Barnes
2023-05-26 05:58:07 +0000 UTCCecil, I was YELLING agreement and book recommendations at you on my drive home! Seriously, Three Body Problem and the rest of the series are amazing, and so is the Children of Time series! The Children series are truly amazing. The first one actually helped me reduce my decently strong arachnophobia by considering the inner lives of fictional sentient spiders. Just you wait till Children of Memory. If you want to experience a series that also feels incredibly different from Western fiction, I highly recommend Ken Liu's Dandelion Dynasty series. He named the genre he created with this series Silkpunk. It's a really cool fictional alternate history of East Asia, sort of in a steampunk style, but entirely unique. It's seriously fucking cool. If you're in the right headspace, you should for sure check out The Fifth Season and the related series. Really creative and intensely dark alternate Earth climate disaster with some magic (?) / future science powers too. It starts out really intense and stays there though, so be ready. You definitely need Neal Stephenson in your lives. One of the greatest authors of all time, I think. His sci-fi defines and exceeds the genre. I just recently finished reading all of his written works. If you want a shorter one off, go for The Diamond Age. But if you want to really get into the marrow, go for Anthem. If you want something in the middle, Cryptonomicon is excellent! Finally, I can't recommend The Name of the Wind enough, if you haven't read it. It's so gorgeous, painful, inventive, and moving. I literally can't die until Patrick Rothfuss gets off his ass and releases the third book and I read it. The series is too deeply twined with the processes that keep me alive. So waiting more than a damn decade for the final book sucks, but at least I'm temporarily immortal as a side effect. Anyway, I just wanted to rant about books on Patreon even if you don't see it, rather than excitedly yelling about books to myself in the car. Happy reading y'all! Also if anyone has recommendations, lay them on me. I absolutely devour speculative fiction.
William Evan Barnes
2023-05-26 05:55:28 +0000 UTC1000 homo djs did a version of Supernaught with Trent Reznor on lead vocal. His voice is distorted, I believe due to some disagreement with his record label at the time.
LisaLisa
2023-05-26 04:22:40 +0000 UTCThank you Cecil for your salt-replacement suggestions! I'm going to try them out with a mushroom quesadilla this weekend
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2023-05-26 02:49:25 +0000 UTCYAY IAN!!!! I missed him since y'all stopped doing the livestreams, which I still miss sooooooo much!
NSaneAtheist
2023-05-25 22:24:18 +0000 UTCDude, cixin Liu's three body problem is amazing... The dark forest is a beautiful examination of the fermi paradox. Great recommendation.
Steven Bickel
2023-05-25 20:23:15 +0000 UTCOk I have to, on some level, disagree with the idea that religious individuals aren't so much the problem as the organisations. The organisations are made up of the people. Neo Nazi groups aren't a problem just because they're a group. The individual holds the ideas and they're constituting the organisation. Id like to say that ive learned that religious people aren't talked out of their beliefs by in-the-moment agrument, and so i'm not as well served by having those debates. But the truth is, I'm less willing these days to confront the day to day religiously, mainly because that's had too high a social cost. My social groups aren't willing to tolerate it and as such I've become more isolated. Relaxing my stance and regulating my language, while within a social context, allows for me to fit more comfortably in social situations. I think that this is a particularly fine line that Skeptics walk, and the path of least resistance lies outside of it.
Bob Brady
2023-05-25 19:48:15 +0000 UTCEthiopian food is amazing. I don't remember any Ethiopian restaurants in Chicago, but Winnipeg has lots of them! Doro Wat is so good, but I love the vegetarian fare! lentils and cabbage get taken to new levels. The bread is injera. It's made with teff flour. I believe it's fermented, which gives the bubbles and sour flavor. It comes in large pieces and it's used to wrap the food, or torn off and eaten with the food, no utensils needed!
Kelley G
2023-05-25 19:36:52 +0000 UTC
