Until and unless they break up these predatory property management companies, anything they do push through won’t be anywhere near enough.
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Until and unless they break up these predatory property management companies, anything they do push through won’t be anywhere near enough.
I seem to have misplaced my violin as it’s so tiny.
But to quote their ridiculous ancient book of nonsense, you reap what you sow.
The day they stop trying to shove their own personal religious choices down everyone else’s throat and criminalizing what should be a woman’s own bodily autonomy is the day I stop feeling this way.
Too bad medical science can’t invent a killer virus that takes out right wing fundamentalists with pinpoint accuracy.
Michael Moorcock is classic, I’m not sure what’s in that volume but he rarely disappoints.
Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl are afrofuturists, and I love their work.
The rest I don’t really know but the price is right.
I just watched a TV series on Netflix about this exact scenario playing out in Poland. The rural folks weren’t having it but got steamrolled by the government anyway. High Water
I got my first Linux system two years ago when I was 57. I took one of the COVID checks and bought a Linux laptop from System76. I had the choice of PopOS or Ubuntu so I just took straight Ubuntu. It was set up and running when I unboxed it and everything I need to know how to do I can just do a web search for. And that’s really not much. Best of all the thing starts up in seconds, when Windows was always taking its damn sweet time and shutting itself down for two and three hour updates when I needed to use it. As for gaming, that’s what my PS5 is for.
Buying a pre-built, pre-installed Linux system was perfect for me. It might be what would work for you too. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of where to start.
If you liked the Expanse you might be interested in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series, and for the same reasons.
As for your original question, for me the important part is good writing and story telling. Some writers’ styles just turn me off no matter how good or important the work is. Narrative style is what makes or breaks a book for me no matter the genre.
I’ll be 59 this year and have been gaming since Pong. They’ll pry my controller from my cold, dead fingers. Also, I’m a woman as is the circle I play with, who are also all older women (45+). We do exist and couldn’t give a fuck about what society thinks about it.
Better gaming than just being a potato watching TV every spare minute with no other outlet.
Gaming’s been shown to help prevent dementia because it keeps the brain active.
Consider that the women that you’ve been trying to date that don’t appreciate gaming just aren’t the right partner for you.
I got a Pantum laser printer and it’s free of all the rent-a-printer crap that the big ones are pulling now. It was easy to set up with my Linux system too.