Cereal production is a problem regardless. You’ve got soil erosion, depletion of nutrients (soils get exhausted then civilizations collapse, time after time after time), pollution of groundwater, falling water tables, etc. etc. Then there’s the problem of modern industrial agriculture depending so much on oil.

This was set a hundred years ago. Some of it might not have been so unrealistic then (scouting, at least, and nicknames), though the smoke signals did make me cringe. I was actually more concerned that he was a smuggler, when indigenous people (at least in Canada*) have a long proud tradition of serving in the…

This is a controversial question. When Marion Zimmer Bradley invented the Renunciates of Darkover, who send their boy children away around age 6-7 to live with their fathers (or someone they trust), women in the real world started forming Renunciate communities, and grappled with this question. By Renunciate…

I thought you were making those scenarios up, then I watched the trailer. Ridiculous. Now I’m worried about what happened to the dog.

A lot of criminals age out of really bad behaviour. A lot of really bad behaviour happens when people are still young and their brains are still developing (late teens, early 20s). So it’s possible for a psychopath to settle down into just being a thick-skinned person who needs to watch their behaviour.

You can also plant grasses that are short enough to not need mowing.

I would definitely take a husband’s surname if we had a kid together. Him having a great family I could join would also be an incentive. I think it’s probably easier to be a family together if you all have the same surname. Then you’re a team in name as well as in practice.

How does one show off one’s misogyny/transphobia by trying to pass as a transwoman when there is no specific way to prove you’re a transwoman? I mean, if a man says he’s a transwoman, then legally I think he is one, at least for the moment. You would only look misogynistic/transphobic if you told people you were…

It is weird, and a large part of it is that Trudeau himself is actively looking for this kind of attention.

It was perfect, though.

Volume 2 Hippolyta had black hair. I don’t disagree with the rest.

Dany’s a bad guy. Probably.

It has come from more intellectual people in the past. Calling terrorists and criminals losers deglamorizes them. We need to do that. I think it’s his delivery that’s the problem, not what he said.

Of course she’s a chicken. And ducks don’t have lips either.

I like ABBA and I found this movie painful to watch. They don’t sing good, and they’re a little old to be singing ABBA in public. I was embarrassed. (And yes, I am uptight.)

Bunny Dog. I insisted he was a bunny because of the long ears. Everyone else insisted he was a dog. So Bunny Dog. My mother has one photo of me with Bunny Dog and he is seriously threadbare. She threw him out when my back was turned when I was 4 (it’s one of my first memories).

This death is tragic, even if her being trans was not a motive, but even more if it was. However, you make it sound like trans people are murdered at higher rates than other people, but that does not appear to be true. If anything, it looks like trans are murdered at lower rates than women (per capita) who in turn are…

My mother, who actually enjoyed cooking, had this book. I remember looking at it, but clearly I did not read it closely enough, or was too young to appreciate it, because I do not remember it like this. If I got along with my mother, I would be making a beeline for it for a re-read.

Weird.

I’d never heard of nice cream so had to look it up. It sounds good.