I have a warning about befriending Muslims around Ramadan. Last time I did it was with some tenants I had. Late one day, one of them came running to my office in a panic saying there was a leak in his apartment and everything was getting soaked. I raced over there with my giant wrench to turn off the water and found…

This is great! I was an avid reader in my childhood, and it disappointed me to see no characters like me in books.

The author is right. There are very Asian characters books where the focus of the character isn’t about his/her Asian-ness. The Joy Luck Club, while well written and fun to read, was a big hot mess.

For me,…

This is a really good thought; all those physical controls as a check on some sort of droid rebellion! Very good thinking.

Perhaps all the above is a concerted effort to prevent droids from having instantaneous access to all the data in the universe. By not creating the infrastructure for easy data transmissions and by keeping mass storage facilities analog droids remain subservient.

AGREED.

THAT IS NOT HOW YOU FRIEND