Adm_Drummer

I think you need to touch grass. You sound very angry about some cables.

What da heck? Garl is so sweet!

Hey, sorry to Necro an old post but are you aware of Corey's newest series The Captive's War? There's a book and a Novella out right now and they're incredible.

I'm currently listening to Livesuit by James SA Corey. It's part of their new series that released this year called The Captives War. It's a Novella/Interquel pretty typical of their release style.

It takes place in an incredibly unknowably distant future for humanity. We follow a squad of Livesuit infantry who have fused their bodies with technology to fight an unfathomable legion of alien conquerors. An enemy that has never lost a war then uses the best traits of conquered races to continue their war.

Why it's so good is because the author(s) have an incredible way of describing people and the world they interact with. Images are vivd and believable. While being so alien, and futuristic Corey manages to write a world you can imagine yourself in.

Additionally, their novellas always take place in the same world, but are completely stand alone stories from the main series so the depth of world building is just... chef's kiss

Both writers were originally working on writing RPGs and TTRPGs so their style just brings me back to sitting at a table with friends, some drinks and a Character Sheet for a hopeful lvl 3 wizard.

In my experience that's exactly it. They're the same kinds of people who also say "You know, if I was an attractive young girl I would love to make money staying home and showing my tits on the internet for money." But when confronted with the reality of it all they would rather demean people who actually do that and make more money than them.

The fact is a lot of them are threatened by women who make more money than them while also feeling like those women owe them something for being attractive. Like I said, these people do "shake their tits for the rich." In one way or the other. It's only that the people who are actually shaking their tits are the honest ones while the bootlickers cry for the boot to stomp down harder.

Well yeah. But to them that isn't "Shaking their tits" it's "Rubbing elbows with the social elite to climb the corporate ladder."

Selling your soul is still selling your soul. Doesn't matter if it's to the devil or their lieutenants.

We all shake our tits for the rich in one way or the other. Some are just a little more honest to themselves about it.

Ahhh I see. Thank you!

I'm OOTL. What Linux thing are you talking about?

You're a model in 1993. In order brush elbows with the elite, make connections and continue finding work you are given an invite by your modelling agency. You attend because this can only be good for your career.

You get sexually harrassed.

You didn't ask for this. You're trying to make a living. Titans of the industry see you as a bag of meat to toss around and abuse.

"You were asking for it."

I'm pretty sure votes like this require a certain percentage of the population to vote anyway. Like... the vote wouldn't count if there was only 15% voter turnout.

ultimately, a majority of the country had a chance to vote and a majority decided (by a slim margin) that they wanted in.

The other issue as you stated was authenticity. Of course you'll have natural dissenters. But a lot of evidence does indeed point to interference. Like people asking the poll watchers where to collect their money and becoming upset they won't get payed for voting no.

Why would you like to see a supermajority in order to join an economic union?