Sculptus Poe

Really, allowing mods to permaban people in large major subs is worse than any of it. It gives those mods way too much power, and they mostly use it to ban opinions they don’t like.

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I just updated through Ninite and it went to 8.8.9.

But… But… Um… “BoTh SiDeS” … there, take that logical and totally reasonable arguement.

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I don’t hunt. I don’t even own a gun, but I know a lot of hunters. My office has random rifles lying around on a regular basis, and every inch of the conference room is full of various heads. I don’t think any of those hunters would like that attitude either. They are pretty careful about what they hunt.

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I have been reading the Far Side for 40something years… I’ve probably seen this comic hundreds of times at least while looking through the books. I just realized that the kids didn’t break the window.

I never ran back to the couch so fast as when I went to make popcorn during my Enterprise binge and forgot to bring the remote with me.

I always wondered why there could be a shortage of coal and fossil fuel since it should be constantly made on various layers. Then I looked it up. Seems like that is all there will be in any quantity, especially for coal but also for fossil fuel though I have seen less about whether more fuel is being made by the biomass that falls in the ocean… I can’t find that information on a quick search when I’m supposed to be doing cad drawings right now … heh.

I would legitimately watch robot boxing.

I think that is coal. Almost all the coal in the world was made between 300 and 360 million years ago, between the times that the right plants showed up for coal production and the bacteria showed up to break them down too fast.

The wizards had indoor plumbing starting in the 1700s. Most of the world didn’t have indoor plumbing until the 1800s. It would be hard to read the books and not know Hogwarts had plumbing. Your bad example notwithstanding, yes the wizards are ignorant of a few things that make no sense even though they use magic for every mundane thing, and it makes less sense since children would have to completely rely on their parents for any magical utility until they were pretty much grown. It doesn’t take away from the story, but if she did the worldbuilding like Tolkien, she probably would have noticed this and made small adjustments.

Fossil Fuel comes from dead plankton and algae, much older and more plentiful than this poor fellow and his colleagues. He isn’t going to achieve his aspirations.

I’m going to have to read The Blazing World now. I’m surprised I haven’t heard of it.

Well, if you include Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), you would have to put Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (1634) and Lucian of Samosata’s A True Story (2nd century AD) ahead of her.

I’ve listened to “A True Story” years ago but can’t remember any of it. Reading the synopses, I think all three are closer to fantasy than Sci-Fi. So I still Put Frankenstein as the first true Sci-Fi book.

Best is always subjective, but I think she is squarely in the safe zone for wearing the label.

Definitely one of the greats. Her characters have a life that is missing in quite a few of the other greats. Her world building and story telling are fantastic, especially considering she didn’t do the kind of historic world building Tolkien engaged in before even telling his stories. J. K. Rowling definitely belongs on the list of great authors in general, not just great female authors.

Mary Shelley has to be up there for inventing Sci-Fi.

dagnabbit