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I felt that Market Forces had the perfect setup for a four-colour satire, but then wanted to be quite po-faced about everything. Max Barry’s Jennifer Government worked better for me.
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Rascar Capac posted:po-faced Why is this the only place in the English language where "poker" is shortened this way Nobody gets their buddies together for a few hands of po
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Phy posted:Why is this the only place in the English language where "poker" is shortened this way I guess you haven’t googled this
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Phy posted:Why is this the only place in the English language where "poker" is shortened this way Don't be so po-faced about it, dude.
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Snowy posted:I guess you haven’t googled this  You know, I honestly thought I had at one point. Between that and the Picard playing the flute with someone else's hands thing, I'm starting to wonder if I jumped timelines last night. Is it still Nelson Mandela who was locked up in South Africa for years?
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No, it was Elon Musk that got locked up for years. He's doing what he is now with Tesla etc because of the payout he got after he had is conviction overturned.
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Subjunctive posted:It lacks the nuance that one expects from a high-school composition assignment, but it is fun. (I’m a long-standing Morgan fan.) I'm about 3/4 of the way through his latest, "Thin Air" I'm not in love with it like I was the rest of his stuff. There's a lot more unexplained  jargon here compared to his other stuff, and it's his usual main character of "Techno Brock Samson turned noir detective", so it just feels like we've been here before, but now it's Mars. Though you could pretty easily believe that all his future stories take place in the same world.
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CzarChasm posted:I'm about 3/4 of the way through his latest, "Thin Air" I'm also finding it a little flat and derivative of his earlier work. Even though he says that they're different universes it really seems like this and Black Man/Thirteen are a prequel to the Kovach series. He uses a lot of the same terms for made up technology not to mention the whole Mars thing.
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James Woods posted:I'm also finding it a little flat and derivative of his earlier work. Even though he says that they're different universes it really seems like this and Black Man/Thirteen are a prequel to the Kovach series. He uses a lot of the same terms for made up technology not to mention the whole Mars thing. exactly, I felt the same way about those books, they were like Kovacs novels with a different name, you know? Good stuff but it's almost like he set out to write a Richard Morgan-like novel.
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Dienes posted:clutched her pearls so hard they've turned into diamonds. Um...
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Dienes posted:Somewhere a middle-class white lady just clutched her pearls so hard they've turned into oysters. ftfy - Get your facts straight!
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mods change my name to Copper Scorpion
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James Woods posted:I'm also finding it a little flat and derivative of his earlier work. Even though he says that they're different universes it really seems like this and Black Man/Thirteen are a prequel to the Kovach series. He uses a lot of the same terms for made up technology not to mention the whole Mars thing. I'd completely agree, it's almost as though he's seen what some people have liked about the Netflix adaptation of Altered Carbon and taken that as a direction to go in for Thin Air. I quite liked the thought of Mars that was shown in Black Man but I don't feel it's quite right here. There just seems to be too much boobs and strip clubs and grunge and dirt and I'm writing this as a film script about the whole story. I must say that while I'm a bit of a fan of Morgan's for the Kovacs series, Black Man, Market Forces that I don't feel the Netflix version really works, again too much love interest, boobs, grunge, dirt and some very wooden acting. The land fit for Heroes series was interesting if not a little graphic in a few scenes.
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Dienes posted:Somewhere a middle-class white lady just clutched her pearls so hard they've turned into pastries. i think this is more correct?
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Sow hat exactly happened there? The placard says post-mining which confuses me even more.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Sow hat exactly happened there? The placard says post-mining which confuses me even more. warcabbit @warcabbitMWM Feb 16 My best guess is that a scorpion got entombed in some mud or something, and then boiling copper spilled on a crack that led to the corpse, letting it burn away and get replaced by copper? BenMS BenMS @BenMS Feb 16 Entombed is the right start, but then it's much more likely to be a slow process of copper-rich fluids coming into contact with the scorpion depositing the metal. Fluids like that could occur naturally or possibly as the result of early (inefficient) smelting.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Cuttlefish, like all cephalopods, rule. I've always known that they change colours, and patterns, etc., but I only found out last night that they can change the texture of their skin to give themselves spikes and bumps and stuff. Entirely related note for anyone in Australian: the first episode of the Barry Humphries-narrated doco Magical Land of Oz (Ocean) on ABC iview is really worth the watch !
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Istari posted:I've always known that they change colours, and patterns, etc., but I only found out last night that they can change the texture of their skin to give themselves spikes and bumps and stuff. The ones that hypnotize their prey are really pretty awesome.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpzubpIhtI
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Bogus Adventure posted:The ones that hypnotize their prey are really pretty awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHBaiLjw2vo
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Sow hat exactly happened there? The placard says post-mining which confuses me even more. You've never heard of the famous scorpion mines of Arizona?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That's not a small bird either, currawongs are about the size of a crow. That's a coastal carpet python. They can get over 9 ft sometimes.
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ElGroucho posted:Now all you need to do is get those snakes to only eat those loving canada geese in America
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ElGroucho posted:Now all you need to do is get those snakes to only eat those drop bears y'all have
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https://twitter.com/allafarce/status/1096834373859520512 This guy. Dave is a Code for America fellow who cofounded getcalfresh six years ago, and has been working diligently and doggedly on the project ever since. In that time, at least 690,000 Californians have used it to access SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (lots of people know this as food stamps.) He is a humble, pragmatic person who realized that he could put his efforts into helping people, and put his head down and did the work. He never sought personal recognition for his efforts, and took pride and satisfaction from sitting with and helping individual people through the process. He is moving on now, but I think it's fair to say that without him, getcalfresh would never have made it to where it is today. Along the way many admirers of his efforts have taken up the torch of using their skills in GovTech too. He also has helped to call attention to the costly problems systems designed to keep people who do not qualify for public assistance create for the people who need it most, restricting and discouraging the needy from receiving help. Total Badass.
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sneakyfrog posted:not really a picture but uhm this little girl is solid af im glad she exists but i cant watch young people without just getting old-annoyed
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ElGroucho posted:Now all you need to do is get those snakes to only eat those cane toads y'all have
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