I’m female, and I agree with you. It’s unfair to have it warm, since putting on sweater works, but peeling off clothes isn’t an option.
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Jesus. 77°F is 25°C. That is nuts. It’s one thing to be working in an office that doesn’t have air conditioning, so it occasionally gets that warm on summer days, but quite another to aim for it. I’m a girl, and that is TOO HOT. Are the rest of you secretly lizard people? You are. I knew it.
Who said anything about bugs? I just said we should move away from eating meat.
It would be a lot more effective to cut meat and dairy consumption (and thus production). I’m not sure of the best way to do this, but I wish personal responsibility would factor more highly into people’s decisions.
Yes, because nothing else in 1999 could have done it...
I think reading it now may be like watching something like Citizen Kane these days. Objectively you can recognize that it was revolutionary at the time but because it’s so seminal to the genre and has been borrowed from and ripped off and inspired so many other works, the impact is severely diluted.
No worries! GET IT AND READ IT. Also, read Snow Crash if you haven’t already. Snow Crash completely blew my mind.
By now it might not seem as original, but reading it in the 80’s was like getting smacked in the face with the future. Amazing, amazing book. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...”
All of the stories made me laugh, because I am a bad person. However, I will say that the bar mat shot and the eye drop trick can lose a business their liquor license, and the eye drop trick is regarded as aggravated assault, since one is, in essence, poisoning someone. Most eye drops don’t have that ingredient in it,…
Unpopular but NOT wrong.
God I WANT to like this movie (great cast, great writing, etc.)—but the time travel logic doesn’t make any sense!
Nah I agree with you, the plot twist was stupid, the extra gore was unneeded, the premise of using time machine for something that petty felt cheap too
Stupidest use of a time machine EVER.
Unpopular opinion time, woo!
Mine is a a pet peeve... not just one movie, but a whole pseudoscience subgenre:
I re-read Gibson novels constantly. It’s an obsession, really.
Neal Stephenson. I’ve read Cryptonomicon eight times now, cover to cover. I’ve also read everything else he’s ever written, most several times, especially Snow Crash. And, I’ve pre-ordered his new book Seveneves, and I’m all a-tingle about its impending release.
Seems like drones remove integrity from war. It’s like a professional boxer knows the other guy is throwing the fight on purpose; It wouldn’t feel bad for the inexperienced boxer who’s in it for the money, but for the guy who’s trained his whole life and is actually good at it that would completely suck. Another…
Very fine dust particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere do all the hard work.