Now that is a name I’ve not heard in a long time
You as a matter of course pronounce the last digit “ni-e-yine”, do you not? De rigueur, I would think.
I didn’t see @Apeman42@lemmy.world coming either
Holy shit, a real-life faux shittymorph encounter that I fell for hook, line, and sinker.
God bless.
Some rapier wits around here, any way you slice it.
Was speaking more towards policy and process rather than mode of transport.
Disingenuous at best, blatant obfuscation at worst.
The dearth of detail highlights the editorial stance of the publication; the term that comes to mind is cowardice.
How very strange that the article makes no mention of how the Tate brothers found themselves in the United States in the first place…
Right? Every time I fly United it reminds me how much I love Delta.
Excellent post. Well done.
Cheers and enjoy!
Snowcrash is such an entertaining romp, made all the more spectacular considering that when published, ideas like avatar and cyberspace (both terms coined by Stephenson I’m told) were wildly futuristic, bordering on precognitive, considered now passé only a generation later.
Stephenson is a seer.
Unrelated, but I can never not recommend Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon .
Magnum opus. ~1000 pages of what-happens-next, unresolved until the very last paragraph of the very last page.
Your salt flats comment calls to mind certain areas of the Exumas, an archipelago in the Bahamas, specifically in the cuts between cays where the tidal flows drain from the sounds onto or off of the flats. It is possible to sail into what appears to be uninterrupted shallow ocean, anchor, sleep, and wake to find yourself floating in what is essentially a puddle surrounded by limitless, gently undulating waves of glistening sand in every direction, trapped until the tide reverses. Surreal, ethereal, alien.
…replete with bocas of a mix of olives, pickles, and cocktail onions
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