“Fucking primates can’t even harvest energy right.”

I got an ARC of Foundryside, and it is just as awesome as the Divine Cities.

I think the reason we haven’t found aliens is that they don’t want to be found. The assumption is that a species is more highly evolved than us, right? If they see how we treat each other, that is my best guess as to why we haven’t seen aliens.

Of all of those Karl Schroeder’s The Million sounds the most interesting.

I was lucky enough to win an ARC of Varley’s “Irontown Blues” on Goodreads.

here’s my blurb:

Foundryside sounds like the most promising one for me this month. Bennett is awesome.

That is rather surprising and good news. To bad Trump will not listen to him at all. Hell, he barely listens to people who supposedly share his own ideals. I guess if they phrase every policy decision on “this is how it will benefit you”, he may listen to it.

“like all the other good things he’s done”

Mm-hmm. 

Son of a bitch, I’ve actually spoken with this dude several times. Always seemed like a good type, not that that will mean much in the face of the Trump administration.

One correction: He is not nominated as the presidential science advisor, but director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Traditionally, that position has also been science advisor to the president, but there’s no requirement that he is invited to ever do so, and given how much Trump detests being told anyt…

Oklahoman here. We were surprised by his nomination, too. We all presumed he’d hire some Pruitt-adjacent oil-and-gas geologist or something of the sort, but Droegemeier has a lot of respect. A colleague is on an aerospace and automation board with him and has had nothing but good things to say about him as a colleague.

As an Oklahoman, I’m glad to see somebody appointed from out state who isn’t a whack job.

I feel like if any of these people had to face actual religious persecution, like being assaulted because of their beliefs or having their churches firebombed, they would drop dead in shock that such a thing is even possible because they’ve convinced themselves that greetings from supermarket checkers and the color of…

“Why should Christmas be our enemy? We should not go to war with Christmas, in fact, I think Santa Claus and I would be good friends.”

Right, we can’t control that. But we can control what we’re personally responsible for. Also with that, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

We’re talking about climate change here, so CO2 - not CO, particulates and NOx. C’mon man.  They could have focused on improving vehicle fuel economy or accelerating development of alternative fuel or battery powered vehicles.  They did not.

No one, until BP knocks at their door with suitcases full of money.

Shitty scientists, and assholes.

the automakers would literally not do a single thing if regulation didnt force their hand. They have only innovated because they were forced to. They, and all extraction based industries will be happy to watch the world and hteir kids/grandkids live in a climate ravaged world so they can make some extra cash now. 

It’s important to note that the very limited slice of scientists who chose to dissent from the scientific consensus did so because of narrow interpretations of absolute proof coupled with outright greed. They found a ready audience of industry willing to amplify beyond any conceivable level, where the voice of 0.1%…