I was thinking more about the villains of The Net.

Amazing. I’m not willing to exercise the permanent sacrifices that having kids entails.

Pretorians.

My preference is Nikola.

I’m asking the author because many vehement posters are also arbitrary.

If we replace “small dicks” with “sociopathic tendencies and pitiful personalities”, will you still complain?

The proper course of action would be to translate the foreign language and add those subtitles in italics.

A relationship defined in their own learned psychopathic terms.

Exactly. Promote it as community outreach, it’s more useful than feel-good Pictures at dog shelters.

Stranger has a point where you can feel in your body the whiplash of the change in tone. After the middle point Heinlein was blocked for years, and when he continued the result was grotesque.

When you start reading dialog about what happens in Heaven, when the story started as proper sf, you know that the author lost the plot (literally and figuratively).

Solid choices.

Your “best of sf” doesn’t include many recognized classics. That’s weird. No LeGuin, no Bester?

Well, when I’m not wanted I tend to burn bridges.

Does Hynek’s article convince you?

Are you referring to https://hynek.me/articles/docker-virtualenv/ ?

According to Ridley Scott. P. K. Dick disagreed.

😁

So you advocate for the abolition of money also?

I thought the idea was that the answers were to be provided by others. After all, the community is called AskLemmy, not Soapbox.

Like banks and insurance companies?

I think all the Rust devs should remove their code and leave. And when in the future the Linux devs change their tune and ask for their help, they should refuse.