I’d love to know how much it cost, in dollars not soul-drainage. There’s no way it was the appropriate amount - $0.

Counterpoint:

Just how long until he’s reduced to venting through Pennysaver ads?

I feel this discussion is incomplete without Simone Giertz’s terrifying chopping machine or at least her soup robot

Somebody needs to tell 2020 that I already drank that beer it told me to hold and it needs to gather up its children cause the damned pool is closed.

I feel ya but now is not the time to give up. I got a bat. That bitch is leaving one way or another.

Poor teen’s. The are so feeling bad this days. I hear they just got over being over-smarted by moose and squirrel.

I’m more interested in how they will portray, in an industry that is notoriously squeamish about pissing off the Chinese, the crushing cruelty of the Cultural Revolution. I’ve only read the first book but I seem to remember that being a fairly important bit for at least the first half of it.

I read The Fifth Risk, which I would recommend. It’s not really primarily about Trump though. I actively avoid images/video/audio of him so I can’t imagine having to slog through anything in which he is the most prominent figure.

Big Hand Tool Rescue fan here! I even got a pair of the wrenches for xmas (eventually, heh).

As a cracker-ass-cracker myself, I am happy to convey that the correct answer is:

It’s OK. Biden doesn’t actually want to be president. I feel like that is pretty obvious. So all that matters.. the only dang things that matter... are:

He does have a tendency to do either a last chapter hard swerve (Seveneves, Anathem) where you have to back up a few pages to see if you missed something. Or there’s the ‘OK, I’m tired of writing this, here’s the end.. boop de poop <fart noise>‘. Cryptonomicon in particular is like that.

Ehh, it’d be better as a mini-series sure. But someone serious could get it down to 2 hours. Hell, Aniara covered 6 million years in less than that.

Or.. here’s a crazy idea. Just make a film of Seveneves. The first sentence is “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.”

Among my friends we’ve always called it Building the boat. The rag-tag heroes of the story must (in montage form preferably) build, repair, scavenge parts for, and paint.. always there has to be paint... something to, if at all possible, win the big race.

or, how can we get more Trump supporters to follow this advice?

I was making my way through Walmart last night and passed by two ladies talking while maintaining proper cart length social distance. While waiting for them to move away from the chicken breasts I overhead about various bits of corona-wisdom, like hand-washing, disinfectants, wipes, etc. While this was going on I…

Scorpid Sting (not to be confused with a Scorpion Sting, which is a fruity “girly” drink):

The entire family would gladly shove a rubber chicken up their butt, on camera, if it got them 10 minutes worth of attention. Which, fine... good for them, you do you, etc. But let’s not pretend they should be held up as anything other than a lesson on “how not to behave”.