Seconding the thanks for the new author recommendation!

My house, we had mixed results. I was super into it, despite being in my 30s, because I love a good fantasy book and I don’t mind YA plotting (with regular beats of action and setbacks) at all. And it is a good fantasy story - a wicked king, a protagonist trying to find her identity and her power, a beautifully…

It’s like musical chairs for authoritarian fuckheads!

I’d think this would be a prototype/proof of concept for those. They’ll need to get this technology pretty advanced before they’ll be able to rely on it for major missions. This is the crawling before we walk.

I’m ready to Naruto run into orbit. Let’s do this.

Ooooooh, spoopy socialists! Zimbabwe! Venezuela! The only thing to do is continue to pour on the steam and not worry about that damn pressure gauge!

“Nobody really likes yer fancy librl beer.”

He tried real hard to pivot, and all he managed was to accidentally and unexpectedly do the splits on his Bud Light-soaked bathroom tile.

Edible, but also they’re hell on the local ecosystem and farms. They’re essentially a negative for anything living in the area that’s not a wild hog. That rare thing that’s terrible all around.

What available data? Because the things I’ve seen indicate lower rates of fatalities from most of the common alternatives, including the ones you mentioned.

Well, you get back to me on your weird hammer metaphor when you make a pancake that I can use to frame up my shed. Until then, it’s a false equivalence.

Bombings are relatively uncommon, in part because the materials are fairly closely regulated, in part because it’s technically difficult and dangers, and in part because you’re very likely to get caught.

I’m not a “ban all guns” person, and I’m even iffy on whether it’s practical or productive to try to remove the ones currently in circulation, even the assault weapons (although we really need a way to effectively regulate access to those going forward, the way we did with automatic weapons and shortened rifles and…

Just in the sense that they’re a menace, not in the sense that there are platoons of them that attack children en masse and will attempt to overwhelm someone shooting at them with a coordinated mass charge rather than run away. The most dangerous thing is probably catching them by surprise up close, where they may…

Pretty sure the answer is “Find an Asgardian that he won’t try to pound into the dirt immediately,” based on Ragnarok. I thought I remembered Valkyrie showing up to train/party with him.

That’s not even a “No,” so much as a “Who the hell invented this, and why aren’t they in an iron mask under a prison somewhere?”

It’s obvious that we’re being punished at this point for our transgressions.

Of the 34 Senate seats up for re-election in 2020, 22 are currently Republican, 12 are held by Democrats. I’m not sure about the specific states (pure laziness on my part), but a net gain of 3 or 4 (I forget which) Democratic senators removes Mitch from control of the Senate agenda.

May they rot.

As much as it pains me to give a wannabe white supremacist terrorist the time of day, the notion that you can’t shank the person next to you in their sleep for personal without worrying that you’re going to be shanked in your sleep or suffer other consequence is not a localized or modern concept, given that it’s…