Grant Alba

I'd like to know who found this person attractive enough to marry? That there were more than zero people astounded me.

I don't care how she looks - her attitude and behavior is vile.

They'd be on their planes but they can't seem to get flight approvals.
.. something something air traffic control...

The terror is their existential terror at becoming just one of a diverse nation. The terror is their dread at anyone other than themselves gaining any privilege, earned or not, over them and their pets.

Bucks county PA?

There is in German!

Lots of opportunity for winemaking! We grew to love riojas after spending many vacations in Spain over the years (and living there for a few years here and there)

Luckily I have Irish citizenship. (Thanks grandpa!) So all we need to do is ... Go.

Damn kids 🤣

I'm going to have to hold off on writing my next chapters, because they need more anger than I can find right now.

Is there a market for a happy novella about a successful underdog beating the establishment I wonder?

We're working on that but kids are holding us back for a bit.

Don't do it. The lovely Irish milk cows need you!

The tariff is temporary
Good butter is for life!

Hold on one damn minute!

40 is old?

Gosh darned whipper-snappers!

If we can do it there, we'll do it anywhere, just like New York, Newwww York!

I recommend a fully bound package of Scalzi's entire oeuvre. That should be sufficiently massive as an aid to beating Abbott.

Every single one of my many (many) indian friends and colleagues have many dozens of aunties each. Every older woman in the neighborhood/village is *auntie* just as every older gent is *uncle*

Goddamn racist assholes at the NY Post (but I repeat myself)

Note that states calling the ACA "Obamacare" used to be a positive... But now the Republicans will just point at those sites and proclaim and "see! Socialism is expensive!"

I know it makes no sense, but since when has that ever been an issue for them.

📌 Kudos Rachel Maddow for

breaking this down for us 🐥

That's why RAG based models (like Notebook LM) are better (for values of better) - they model from a defined set of curated data.

Still capable of absolute bullshit but at least you know where it came from

It's just about to get worse.
Dropping the ACA subsidies means lots of HEALTHY people will drop out of insurance completely... the folks who will spend LESS paying out of pocket.
Insurance will have more unhealthy people and will get much more expensive because profits come first.

I'm nice up to a point.

I've spent 40 years being nice to clients, and senior partners, and ...

I've learned how to be absolutely fucking evil while sounding nice.

Now that I no longer care to satisfy those people, I prefer to use that power for good.

I'm not brutally honest. Just honest.

Have him do the Stanford Binet test.

We all know it's crap ... Even its proponents agree it doesn't measure what it's supposed to measure.

It's hard to "pass" without any cognitive skills, but at least he's from the target audience.

I doubt he'd make it out of double digits.

But the same truth applies.

You need to own it before you can change it.

I've been pompous.
I've been overbearing.
I've been misogynistic.
I've been stupidly certain.

I was all of those.
I have owned that..and I have tried to change.
I know I still have work to do.
I always will.

I think a lot of English speaking people have challenges with this because we only use one form of "be" for both temporary and intrinsic traits.
Many languages differentiate: I have 100kg, I have 36 years. I am Grant.

I have includes an implicit path to change.
I am does not.
And they reject it.

I think the reality is that "Women aren't usually interested in dick swinging bullshit"....which describes a lot of so-called "hard SF" , especially the "military" stuff.

Lol. I'm not interested in that shit, either.
SF is exploring "what if". Spaceships & soldiers are a tiny part of that.

I agree. The vast majority of men I encounter, as a man, disgust me. They soon realize that because i will and do say so, to their faces.

It's cost me a few jobs, to be honest, but I sustained a career along with my ethics.

Not looking for points, just wondering what the fuck went wrong?

Just bad writing!
... And had a type, per biographer. Unambiguous.
Takes no more space on the page.

A Proposal.
Congressional legislation should be able to be progressed by a quorum of the members present.

If half the house decides on a long vacation... Then such a shame.

And recess cannot exceed the median PTO in the US ( about 8 days, I believe). After that it's not recess, but absenteeism

My wife hates my sense of humor (ascerbic and sarcastic and lots of word play).

Unfortunately the MC in my first novel shared some of that humor. She hated him and the book.
I had sad 😭

But, hey. Lots of other people liked him so...

I grew up poor. I've been poor as an adult. I've also been not poor.
I've always been politically engaged. I've always been engaged in world news, in global economics, in geopolitics.

But I grew up in Scotland where education was egalitarian and free.

If I'd been raised in the US?
No clue.

There are some nice people... But they enable the bad people, they defend the bad people, they stand with the bad people. Therefore they are also bad people who cosplay at nice.

So it's a contemporary novel set in the near-term USA?