Missed hearing you in vague republican bickering due to accent (5)

Could that be a legit clue for the same?

It is a bit weird that the two best movies I've seen in 2025 both are at the intersection of music and the supernatural.
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You should also be able to rank *all* the candidates if you want, not just some of them. Also, I think you should be able to say after your explicit rank is done, you want to follow one of the candidates rankings rather than no vote. Then candidates themselves can have an official rank to follow.

A good overall bill as multimember RC is the way to go. Rounding to the nearest odd number of seats isn't clear to me (999,999=1 seat,1,000,001=3seats). Encouraging multimember districts with 5-7 elected seems ideal. RC should be allowed when not multimember too.

Is there now a crimson coward organization to parallel crimson courage?

Obviously depends on maturity level but I think something like Narnia; Wrinkle in Time; Fionavar Tapestry; He Who Fights Monsters might be reasonable recommendations on a continuum from appropriate for youngest/pre-teen to older-teen maturities.

No, not in my opinion. There are some traumatic events and mature themes covered (but not explicitly or graphically), but I think it would be more PG-13 than R if we were using US movie ratings.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Lived up to the hype, well worth reading. A little outside my genre as I'm usually more SF/F than contemporary fiction, but I understand why this was the book of 2022.

I regularly read in public (on kindle, so a little harder to start talk about the book), so we aren't extinct. Technically when I did it today I was reading non-fiction (Abundance on Libby), but 95+% of what I read are novels. It is true that sig. more women read novels than men, but such men exist!

Do we need more Mothmas, or do we need more Luthen, Kleya, and Saw and less Dedra, Partagaz, Krennic, and Syrils?

Good take, in both cases the shows took series/properties in more adult/mature and darker directions, that were both true to the original, but also different/more than the original. Although I think Andor is actually more similar to Babylon 5 in terms of theme and message.

Nearing $20,000 / person over the past two days (I think right about $19,000 / person if the rough $6.4 trillion news reports are right).

Another way to put that in perspective is if that amount was sent as a dividend to every person of any age in the US, that would be about $6,000 / person.

And if anything I think it gets even better through season four. You go til you can't go no more. And then when you don't know where to go, go where you're needed.
They still have the chirping that you'd expect from Shoresy, but they amp up the family/friendship/teamwork significantly.

This is a good project idea. If you don't already follow Rebecca Watson (@skepchick.org), she does this too in a number of youtube videos (most recently about the mis-reporting of the covid vax pre-print articles which would be one candidate). Transgenic != transgender would be another timely topic.

I read this as part of Life's Library book club 4 years ago. It was a prophetic selection.

Welcome to blue sky Matt! So far I've found this much better than the alternative sites.
If you haven't already, I'd recommend going to Feeds and searching starter packs and browsing some of those in topics/people you might like. Following (and/or blocking) can be easy from that.

Congrats, how does one actually vote for this? The call to action on the web page is to vote but clicking on the podcast doesn't seem to vote and just takes you to the iheartradio page for that podcast. Is there a fan vote ballot page somewhere?

So it isn't a general policy. And certainly for authors whose works I've liked in the past I'll often start reading their newest works right away, even if the start of an as yet incomplete series. It isn't a 1 size fits all, but I don't think it is crazy to sometimes wait on incomplete works. 5/5

All that said, I do read lots of series that are incomplete or new, some because I don't know it is the start of a series (best when a book is both complete in a story and also part of a series), some because it comes highly recommended from awards or booktube or the like. 4/x

The dangers for me of reading series that are epic in scope, uncomplete, and in progress are multiple. One is that I may forget plot or characters if there is a long gap in my reading, another is the series might not finish, and lastly I may forget the series itself if the gap is too long. 3/x

I was late to Wheel of Time so on the advise of some in the late 90s that the series might never be done, I decided to wait until it was done, and read it once Sanderson was publishing the end of the series.
These were both mega hits so my slowness to join in shouldn't have had an impact on them 2/x

I think it is a reasonable position to take some of the time. I read GoT in early 2000 and decided to wait on the full series until it was done (revisited that position to read the ASOIAF series when HBO adaptation was announced to be able to read before the TV show came out). Also, ... 1/x

Yeah, the long term average since 1960 is above 3.5 percent. Pretending 2% is normal but anything even marginally higher is not, is silly. I question why 2% is even the target rather than 2.5 or 3, or best a range of 2-3%. That and tracking maximal employment at least as closely as inflation.

Great choices of authors: I had Snow Crash for cyberpunk and nearly had Kay's Sarantium as my political choice but decided it wasn't really archetypical, just really, really good.

A really good fun question. I think LotR might be cheating in epic fantasy, but something like Belgarion might be a classic fantasy archetype. In cyberpunk I might go Snow Crash. For ai/robots Sci fi maybe Caves of Steel. For political fantasy I guess ASOIAF although maybe a little too grimdark.

I love all those parts for me, but some how JS&MN just didn't click for me. Books whose footnotes I enjoyed include Babel or Bartimaeus and I also liked Temeraire series for Napoleon as well as Baroque Cycle, but again Strange and Norrell just seemed long and slow.

Why did U.S. homicides spike in 2020 and then decline rapidly in 2023 and 2024? In 2020, the average U.S. city experienced a surge in its homicide rate of almost 30%—the fastest spike ever recorded in the country.

Well worth reading: www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

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Worth watching again: A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifest...

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