Sure, I guess it depends on your style preferences… I prefer science fiction, so can’t remember much about the sword and sorcery novels, but they’re readable, and like anything Delaney does, underpinned with exploration of the power of words, ideas, power, desire.

Stay away from Dhalgren.

Nova is probably the most space opera novel with a standard structure. Good starting place.

Babel-17 is intense and weird and fairly short, about language as a weapon. Sometimes you find a copy doubled up with Empire Star which has a plot and structure that loops back on itself.

Probably my favourite is Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand which is probably the most alien yet approachable family portrayal in SF. Sadly it’s the first half of a duology that didn’t get finished, probably because it stands alone really well.

The short story collections vary but are mostly wins for any reader.

Yeah the hippy sexy Delaney novel was probably Dhalgren, which I don’t think I have actually finished despite a few attempts, and for reference I enjoyed Finnegan’s Wake in its entirety so it’s not like I don’t have stamina. I like all the other Delaney works, though. Triton might be a slog because the main character is self centred and childish and it’s from their point of view. It has some banger scenes, like the visit to a novelty restaurant with a nostalgic capitalist theme, and the wacko performance art at one point, and details like every candidate who gets any votes is elected and represent those voters, however few they maybe. Also main character gets a sex change to run from their problems but of course they’re still a jerk lol.

This is the premise that makes Iain M Banks’ Culture series of novels so compelling.

Even though it is a massive interstellar Type2 society that is “fully automated luxury communism” many people are going to be problematic, angsty, and childish. The result is an always interesting plot.

A more thorough exploration of someone living in a relative utopia but being a long streak of misery by nature is Delaney’s novel Triton. Main character is a jerk and you get to explore why, while extremely cool things are happening all around.

Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.

Every time TFG goes golfing it costs you a quarter or so.

#ElbowsUp eh

I find the tagging system in lemmy more useful every day!

This is what false flag operations are for.

I’m sorry, did you just… oh lol never mind. I’m going to harvest this whoosh for wind power.

“OK BOOMER”

I see a lot of discussions about why MAGA-fascists have flipped sides, but few talk about ideological alignment: they haven’t changed sides, they are just revealing their alignment with dictatorships. It’s workers against oligarchs, across the globe. This is the actual New World Order.

Yes, glad for the minority cooperation and coercion. Don’t think they could pull off a winning election though.

“Well, they’re very… sensitive.”

-BC

Short answer: more atmospheric heat = more energetic weather = more extremes and variation.

Many crops don’t just need an average temperature, they need protection from extremes and the climate they evolved for. Buckle up.

Jesus fuck thank you.

I don’t want an administrator or mechanic removing my appendix.

I hate that he’s the best option now and I am actively working to dismantle and replace orphan crushing capitalism, but at least he has a resume that is worth hiring for the job. Singh just hasn’t been very effective.

I would never let toddlers near my oscillating saw nor Poilievre near the Bill of Rights. Everyone who knows Skippy hates Skippy.

One catch: members of the House of Commons have to be elected to have a seat on the floor where debates and voting happens, so until elected in a byelection or national, Carney will be watching from the gallery and directing someone to put out his opinions. It happens sometimes in Parliament. Much of his work will be in meetings anyway.

Or at least put on a mildly humiliating show of making an exception to our strict border laws about letting felons in.

Well, it’s untrue that globalization is a binary true or false benefit, though on the surface it’s a logical question.

Until you consider sovereignty. Particularly food sovereignty. It’s more than strategic, it’s the foundation of a stable, rule-of-law society. So it’s more than economics, it’s a governmental social responsibility, and self-preservation.

Supply management is a success in Canada, despite some problems, because it stabilizes society, as more small farms is more desirable in many ways than big centralized ag.

And you are right, there are a number of economic sectors we could look more closely at with a mind towards sovereignty, maybe including footwear and furniture, though food and medicines come first.

Ah I guess that was confusingly written, no you just need to have an email address to register an account, and when you register you get a verification email at that address and click on the link in the email to verify. Like almost any other social media.

I just did this to test out the process for a client who has to replace skype in their workplace, and it wasn’t bad.

I looked up servers on the web, picked the privacy DIY server, installed Element app, registered in the app using a “token” from the server website, confirmed via email - web link, and done, about 15 minutes plus figuring out the token part (had to reread instructions).