Love your music Tyler, but I wish you would leave your posts here for us to read.

Remember when we thought the tea party was crazy?

The GOP excels at informing the uninformed and giving false hope to downtrodden.

He is Putin’s blower

He’s a groper

As the great philosopher and poet, George Bush, said:

Fool me once can’t get fooled again!

This time all he might need is a couple of dodgy decisions in some swing states. “Oh my the Dems are cheating well the wonderful governor of state X can overturn the election results and the delegates can vote for who the think the people really want.”

You have to play to the rules as they are written, not as you want them to be.

Any vote for a third party in a US presidential election is a vote against your preferred major candidate . It’s really really simple.

It’s a very sad indictment of how broken their electoral system is but reality is what it is.

So just the regular Olympics then?

Right or wrong your searchfu has hit something perfectly matching his description.

Haha good one…voting registration is not exactly in vogue these days.

I just got the same result

Thanks for posting this. I’ve added a few to my list.

The first culture novel is Consider Phlebas.

Start with that.

Maybe move to mars?

Compact/xover SUVs don’t weigh much more than an equivalent sedan. They’re basically slightly larger hatchbacks with a bit of height in the cabin.

Yep, I agree 100%. I feel a very strong connection to the author of a book when I’m reading it. When some incredible fist pumping revelation happens in a book I get an intense sense of “you magnificent bastard” about the Author and I think I’d feel an emptiness experiencing such excitement from an AI.

Just don’t get the guy musk hired.

You’re supposed to not like a business based on how much they support gay rights!!!

The whole story and explanation stretches credulity a lot, however I would say that the pace picks up and the backstory develops significantly in the second season (if they stick to the books)