Car usage at a societal level, drug dependency if you want to read more.

On the positive side: I really enjoyed how it switched at the end between the third person (that gave a feeling of impartiality) to a first person, basically admitting bias along the text.

On the critical side: to make it a bit relatable,the reader needs to understand why you would ride a behemoth, and here most of the writing is about the negatives, so it’s hard to take the warning seriously. The reader is brought to think “Nobody would be that stupid! We will just handle it better” - a slightly more nuanced approach would make it more insidious and believable as a threat I think. In particular the final with the crazied king is over the top…

Overall: well build, good rhythm and nice idea. I ho sempre enjoyed the read! Thanks!

I enjoyed the read, thanks! Are you interested in constructive criticism?

Reality is a lie! And 2020 is basically the future, Bug Calendar is lying to us!

Everything by Le Guin is pure gold! I will add this one to my reading list, but I lived “The Dispossessed “ as political science-fiction, while “the left hand of the darkness” explores gender and prejudices, and “earthsea” is a series of coming of age novels. Every is so good

Thanks… well, if there is no indoctrination people might even develop different opinions! /s

Is that a hyperbole or is this factually correct? :(

Lol! My mum still asks both me and my husband (“techy” jobs according to her) to solve all her problems with computers/printers/ the internet at large/ any app that doesn’t work… the list is endless. I take it as a statement of how proud she is of me that she would still ask us first, even if we haven’t succeeded in fixing a single issue since the time the problem was an old cartridge in the printer some 5-6 years ago.

I loved that episode ! One of the few I watched multiple times (together with the zombie apocalypse)

Wow, that’s great news! Thanks for sharing! I read my father’s version, so definitely older than 1991.

I just started reading The Moon is a harsh Mistress, I’m hope it keeps up with the hype.

You are in for a great experience. Personally, Japanese teas are probably my favorites, with Gyokuro and Genmaica at the top of the list. Plenty of variety for “pure green teas”. :) Enjoy!

How did you like your first Sencha? Exciting!

I personally feel represented in at least three categories, so I’d say it does!

I’m glad to see this discussion starting gathering attention. In general, I think we should start looking more and more at car sharing over car owning: nobody needs an SUV every day, but you might enjoy a longer trip driving one. So short term rental should be incentivized to decrease the overall number of cars on the road and parking lots.

It’s already a day later! You got this, the hardest part is flowing by. How are you doing?

My little piece of advice: you don’t have to think about the future, tomorrow, next week, they are all far off. Think about now, this hour, the next 5 minutes, or whatever stretch of time seems manageable. What do you do now? Cook dinner? Watch a show? Cry in the shower? The future might be scary and too much to manage now. You’ll handle it when you get to it. Now, you only have to think about right now.

Verbena tea is calming and soothing. Lavender is relaxing. Green tea for me is a calming ritual.

You got this. Maybe it doesn’t feel like it, but you only need to do one step, and you got that one step.

I know it’s a dumb meme… but girls acting weak to get hit on is a horrible mental construct!

“Successful record attempts have employed a variety of tactics for evading traffic law enforcement.”

As others have commented, it’s a great book. Oddly, it has a very different theme than most of Bradbury’s other works, that are more dreamy and fantastic.

Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t only talk about censorship, but also about self-doubt. The main character is far from being perfect and feels deeply his own inadequacy.

For hard sci-fi I agree, but for soft one the difference becomes more and more tenuous.