Finished "a swim in a pond in the rain" by George Saunders. Quite good, sort of a writers analysis of Russian short stories. Reading "Mind the science" which is also pretty enjoyable.

10 more than the last 10 years, its late in the year. Yes its a 30% increase but carnage? Also linking to an american owned paper.

Let's not do this to each other

Parent poster to you is a know nutjob, not sure if worth engaging.

I had the same thought, it's such a terrible way of talking about it. I'm guessing it means one order of magnitude.

How about "the mountain in the sea" by ray nayler? I actually have liked everything ive read by him. Not quite like anathem which really I should go back and reread- that book is fantastic

You can take a stand on something and not be perfect.

Finished "something in the woods loves you", which I really liked. Started and finished "are prisons obsolete" good, but felt it needed to dig into alternatives more. About half way through "the round house"

I love this series. Although I never cottoned on to the cringe, maybe cause I'm old

Maybe blindsight by peter watts?

Your implying Pete would be equally bad?

Agree with you, except Values was fucking terrible

Blaming voters is weird here, voting options were:

• bitcoin Pete
• carney
• Jagmet

we dodged Pete, which IMO is good. Voting for jagmet would be more likely to elect Pete. Carney sucks for sure, bit telling people who voted for him strategically to be ashamed is victim blaming, and not getting them presumably on your side.

If we had some kind of proportional rep, I'd be ashamed.