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A Demon Haunted World by Sagan should be taught in school.

Go Tell it On the Mountain by Baldwin is such a beautiful work of fiction that you could totally miss the profundity of it's themes.

The problems with this book are not just "a product of it's time". There were authors at the time who could write women characters, Heinlen just wasn't one of them.

This was my favorite book when I was in my mid 20s. I tried to read it a couple of years ago and just couldn't.

Lady murdered her own children because she was fucking nuts and no other reason. Nobody disputes this. If she doesn't qualify for the 'insanity' defense, who does?

Pregnancy is a scary thing. Everyone knows it can kill it's parent, but not everyone appreciates that it regularly changes the mom's body permanently. That is to say it damages mom's body permanently. Turns out it can wreck the brain just as badly as the pelvic floor.

It's so shocking and disturbing to think about a mother murdering her own kids. So I feel like I have to point out that family annihilation is the most common form of mass murder in the US and it happens about every 5 days. Clancy's actions do not fit the pattern of that crime because the children were wanted, the marriage was stable, there was no abuse, and it's unusual for a woman to do this.

I use TrackIR.

To play a flight sim, I have to connect a joystick, throttle, pedals, and TrackIR. My throttle is a part of a HOTAS that's so old and obscure, driver installation on Windows 10 can be tricky. So I don't want to attempt to get all this gear running on Linux. So I keep Win10 on an SSD and hang my head in shame.

I prefer the Marvel-type superhero movies where they don't take everything so seriously and pretend that the premise isn't ridiculous. I guess I just wonder "why so serious"?

Batman isn't an interesting character. His flamboyant rouges gallery is essential and I think a gritty/ realistic Batman-villain undercuts that.

You don’t accidentally squeeze a trigger hard enough to fire.

Yes you do. What do you suppose trigger discipline is for?

It's trivially easy to accidentally discharge a firearm. People kill their loved ones like this all the time. Guns are dangerous and their presence is a mortal threat to everyone around them. Responsible gun ownership is an oxymoron.

The best gadget are bowl scrapers. I use them more often than knifes.

Anybody who disturbs, feeds, approaches, or annoys wildlife in a Nat. Park is a cunt. This behavior gets people and animals killed every year.

This is not such an interesting question anymore because it's a trope to blow the budget on recognizable songs in a shit movie.

But if your looking for the biggest difference in quality, I'd say Singles (1992) Not that the movie is bad, just that the soundtrack is legendary.

EDIT: also because the best tracks are original recordings and not just a playlist of already popular songs.

The interesting question is how does the pitcher hit themselves? Throw the ball around the world? Portal gun?