The Thrill Of Shopping
With the season of good cheer bearing down upon us, like the walls of the Death Star trash compactor, patrons are reminded that any Christmas shopping done via this Amazon UK link, or via the widget in the sidebar, results in a small fee for your host at no extra cost to you.
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Oh, and open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
But, you know, in a jolly kind of way.
Communism: I had a fellow grad student from mainland china. He grew up in an “education camp” where they sent all the professors. He would do anything to avoid going back (this was before China modernized).
The wokies here in the US seem to have a fondness for communist china. During Covid it was “racism” to blame the communist regime for covid (as if a government was a race). They like the idea of arresting people for thought crimes (especially in England btw). They never imagine it could bite them. Idiots.
“disability”: it is now fashionable among the young to declare they have PTSD from Trump, or ADHD, or something something and demand not just oppression points but special accomodations.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin, when you give up freedom for safety, you are neither safe or free.
Utopia is almost, by definition, dystopian.
No, it was three–a father and his two sons. I just checked and it’s in “The Tale of the Adopted Daughter Part 2”.
CORRECTION: There are two robberies in the book.
In the first (in “Variations on a Theme”) a single young man tries to rob a cafe belonging to Lazarus’ adopted children Joe and Llita, and his head ends up on a spike. (The children were slaves Lazarus purchased to emancipate.)
In the second (in “The Tale of the Adopted Daughter, Continued” three men (father and two sons) try to rob Lazarus’ homestead and get their corpses “fed to the jackals”.
Recall the Larry Niven stories in which it is a capital crime to fly on manual controls over a populated area.
Time for an upgrade? AR-15’s etc?
“In his hand he carried an ancient and trusty weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic.”–Bored of the Rings
A jolly solution.