I recently reread Delaney’s Nova, and he had a lot of dialogue with no tags, and even intermixed sentences, but his characters are so well defined you can always tell who’s speaking. Makes you feel like you’re in the room with them.

We did Disneyland with a 2 and 4 year old. What worked for us was starting early, then going back to hotel at 11 and napping till 4. Then we could go back and stay until close. No crowds in the kids section that late.

He went from being an Upton Sinclair socialist to Goldwater republican over the years, but he seemed to absorb the political convictions of his spouses.

Heinlein was a shit disturber, and quite subversive for his time. He seemed to thrive undermining the restrictions of the 50s and 60s, but got lost when those went away in the 70s. I think Farnhams was an attempt to do for race what Stranger did for sex and religion, but it misfired horribly.

You will need:
- usenet provider, ie. Usenet Farm
- indexing site to decrypt the file listings and download the index files, ie. DogNZB
- newsrobot app to download posts from index and extract files, ie. SABnzbd

I recommend using a provider that offers SSL encryption.

Just pointing out the difference between Americans with Japanese ancestry and the Japanese soldiers. Funny how Americans of German descent weren’t locked up as well.

‘So instead of arresting Americans of Japanese descent, he went to war to defeat a brutal invasion force from Japan.’ Fixed it for you.

So you’re going to protest against the world’s richest Nazi by fucking over Uber drivers? Model 3s are popular with high mileage drivers due to easy charging and low maintenance costs. Direct your anger at the proper target.

I think Heinlein wrote best when constrained by the norms of the post war era. He could be quite subversive on the sly. The sexual liberation of the 70s removed his reason to fight, and I think he became a little lost.

I think the falling birth rate may be tied to the move away from an agrarian lifestyle. Kids on a farm become productive at an early age, benefitting the parents. When kids are employed in an industrial setting, this benefits the factory owners, not the parents, so less incentive to have more.

Old Man’s War, Starship Troopers and Forever War make great triptych. Great to see the different perspectives.

I grew up in a small mining town in the 70s, where the mining company funded the school as well, so technically a private school. Three classrooms, and only 6 kids in grades 7-9, so great student to teacher ratio.

Most sports people participate in, as opposed to watching, are for socialization. Barring trans women from this socialization is cruel. Elite sports are for recognizing physical excellence, and restrictions can be valid for trans women who have gone through male puberty.