Nothing to add, just glad to be here for this one. Gonna send it to the party chat and see if we can put it on some propaganda posters for fartin or somethin

No strong feelings on the chapters you summarized, except that Little Sev is such a sad story

Currently reading chapter 11 of blued waters. These books always give me the feeling that I'm missing so much, but Wolfe does a great job of making that gele fulfilling. Hoping that's so with BotSS because I'm still confused on like so many things hahahaha. I do love Krait to an extent. Curious what sorta character that will become.

Lol "China and India" sounds like "China and Albania" to me. "China + Scranton" feels just as true

On the other side: what other option is there than that this is rehearsed and planned ? Is there anyone in the world that thinks that the robots spontaneously did this?

Don't apologize, just explain that peeing yourself is better than hangovers

I drink a full glass of water with any alcoholic drink. I pee like a ton, but that's an excuse to leave convos I don't wanna be around too or just mingle more around other people instead of being stuck. Also let's me walk around instead of just sitting the whole time. If people say "you keep leaving to go to the bathroom" I can also be perfectly honest about why and they just say "oh that's kinda smart"

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Its amazing that this only shares like 3 sounds with Yuri Gagarin and yet does feel similar. Cadence and syllables or something...

Yeah, the big difference in uptake is really integration. People can see inidivudal working programs and see the value, but the moment it interacts with another (which they also use) it exponentially increases in perceived value. The fact that these slop toasters are integrated with Chrome or Outlook is what makes them sellable. So the free variants are going to have to find some way to beat that, to be even more integrateable and universal.... but I can't imagine the answer to that problem.

Awesome work comrade, this is some dedication and could legitimately improve so many lives. I'm not transfemme or in need of this (though I am annoyed by how much I have to shave), but I think I could probably make one and bring it around to lend to any friends or comrades who would want!

There has to be a pun to find here about Hair or lack thereof with Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Hair-gone-n?

Just finished chapter 5, and I had forgotten that I'd already read ch5 a while ago. But very powerful, and I think, instead of analyzing it as "being too tired or exhausted to care about coming near antisemitism" (sort of what he says directly) we should analyze it as a sort of argument to prove that antisemitism as Europeans invented it is just not a thing outside of European racist circles. Antisemitism as a material force broader than individuals is not relevant to these discussions. It is superseded, which is obvious in the material reality that are imposed the people of the various groups, highlighted in this book. So the tactic is not useful to keep announcing our anti-antisemitism, we must focus on the current relations and how the European tropes should be ignored as European

Man Dorcas going back was so perplexing. I get the justification given, but it also felt pretty like rushed or something. I'm not sure what, but I was just surprised that she just up and left with only justification being "I have to find history"

I get that it needed to happen for the story and that she probably did long to understand more, but was there not more behind the decision than just that? I didn't catch any hints of it tbh (except for later revelations about their relationship)

The description in chapter 2 of the only acceptable people to be shown to a western audience "if he was a wolf, he must be defanged" felt like a high-brow Citations Needed by a Palestinian expert. Good stuff.

Also appreciate the way he utilizes his definition of humanity/inhuman as well as his desire to become human (feels like Fanon sitting in the background nodding along)

Oh shit I hadn't seen this group. I'm gonna catch up, I've had this book on my ereader for a while but only to like chapter 3

Yeah i definitely caught who the narrator was, and it immediately flipped the way that I understood the whole narrative. History vs historiography!

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Wtf, there's no way this is a real attempt at understanding lol.

I am going to make a claim that I can't back up but am 99% sure of anyways. This many arrows can only be distinguished by idealism rampant. Any materialist analysis cannot have this many arrows

The lead slugs felt super obvious but I was still super surprised they were just still in there lol. I feel like I had to have missed some previous references.

Just finish BOTLS, and I'm confused as fucking ever lol. Idk what happened with Silk and mainframe, and then the snowy scenes were so confusing because I was still looking for hints as to wtf happened before hahahaha. Still don't understand who was who among the duplicates. But it's whatever, I get the general shape of the ending and enjoyed it. I definitely do not get why Pas would've chosen this method of being a god. Seemed like the explanation of "keep us from fighting too much but just a little" was pretty weak imo. But I'm sure the next books will tell a bit more!

I'm liking the beginning of the Blue Waters already!