I liked this one fine, but not enough to understand all the raving people do about it. I enjoyed it, but I definitely don't consider it a must read, and I probably won't reread it. I've heard people say that they have a hard time finding other books they enjoy as much as Blindsight, and I just don't exactly understand what stands out about it to so many people. I also was kind of turned off by the evo-psych vibes the narrator gave off when talking to his girlfriend. Idk, I'm not a hard science person and it's certainly hard sci fi, so maybe there were some aspects of it that flew over my head in that regard.
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While this is absolutely true and I don't wanna sound at all like I'm downplaying things, does anyone have information on why we haven't seen any deaths yet despite the high fatality rate?
Eating in bed is like: oh god oh fuck there are crumbs everywhere and this is a sensory nightmare someone please make it stop
The anti lunch break stance makes sense for a tory politician, but what does she have against sandwiches? She claims she eats steak for lunch, does she cook it the night before and eat a cold steak at her desk while she works? Does she cut it up into bite sized pieces before as well? Because there is no way you can cut up a steak and eat it while working. You can sit at your desk and pretend you're working, but you cannot cut up a steak and eat it while working unless you have three hands. None of this makes any goddamn sense.
Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen is a good one
Yeah. I recently got a job I really like, but the fact that it's bookended by at least an hour each way of sitting on a cramped bus moving at the speed of a light jog makes me hate it nonetheless. Fucking sucks.
Adding to this, I hate transit stations that don't have ticket machines. The BRT station near me has an indoor waiting area, wifi, an arrivals board, but no ticket machines. Gotta go to some random convenience store almost a kilometre away to reload your card instead. Why do they do this.
Oh my god, there are far too many to name and I'm always looking for someone to listen to my ranting about terrible transit. Sorry, but for asking this question you're now going to get a very large wall of text.
1: A lack of signal priority. Countless hours of collective human time have been wasted in transit vehicles waiting at completely empty intersections for a red light to change because the traffic signal uses the state of the art technology called a timer.
2: Terrible right of way. Way too many transit agencies place their transit lines not based on where demand is highest or where transit will be most effective, but just where land is cheapest or where the transit agency already owns. The principal rapid transit line in my city runs along a river because the city already owned the land, but it means that literally half of the area surrounding the transit line is just completely useless because it's water. Highway median transit is another example of this, which can often lead to…
3: Terrible land use surrounding stations. Almost without fail transit stations in North American cities are surrounded by parking lots, highway interchanges, or just straight up undeveloped land.
4: The North American light rail obsession. Nearly every single new or recently built rapid transit line in the US or Canada is done using trams, often running partially on the street, with absolutely no consideration for if this is the right transit solution for a given city. Link in Seattle is a good example. It's absolutely absurd for a city the size of Seattle to have light rail. A city of 4 million people in any other developed nation would have a proper metro, but because Seattle is in America it gets a shitty light rail.
I may return to update this later but this was all I could write for now
Insane Chinese Clown Posse?
Juggalos with Chinese characteristics??
Fair enough, and sorry for my response being kinda rude. Social media makes me assume the worst of people and I need to work on that. Also maybe it's a skill issue on my part, but I cannot make beans and rice (or any other legume) that isn't bland without some onion and garlic.
Never thought I'd see hexbears chiding people for not cutting out the avocado toast. Could that number be lower? Certainly. Is the problem here people spending too much on groceries? Certainly not. I'm not about to blame people for spending more than the lowest possible amount on groceries when they're tired, overworked, and short on time. If someone comes home from an 8 hour day that's actually 10 hours because of the commute, I can't blame them for putting a frozen pizza in the oven instead of busting out the pots and cutting boards to make beans and rice for the 5th day in a row.
Fair enough, that interpretation makes sense to me, and I'm glad so many people found a book they enjoyed so much. Also thanks for the recommendation! I really enjoyed both Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, so I'll have to check that one out.