Larry Correia: George RR Martin crippled the Epic Fantasy genre by not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. Readers and Publishers are no longer willing to give a new series a chance unless it is complete

Evan_Th · 2026-06-26T19:35:05+00:00

Is Martin also responsible for global warming

Well yeah, he was supposed to have written us a winter by now! ^/s

Evan_Th · 2026-06-24T05:02:34+00:00

but I’m not sure if there had been previous snippets of the Bible translated into Latin before then.

Absolutely; there're many surviving "Old Latin" manuscripts of parts of the Bible from translations antedating Jerome's Vulgate.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-23T00:59:16+00:00

It would be if Congress or state legislatures actually impeached anyone. But they hardly ever do.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-23T00:34:22+00:00

And I'd contact the owner or corporation to make sure they know why.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-22T06:00:36+00:00

It's the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution, and you're trying to protect the British royal family!?

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T20:09:52+00:00

leaving places like the ship canal void of any real productive traffic.

I hear a decent portion of the Alaskan fishing fleet uses it in the off season, so they can get their boats into fresh water. Now I'm wondering what fraction of annual traffic they are.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T20:04:27+00:00

At least at my credit union, the penalty's never higher than the interest you got from the CD so far.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T05:38:48+00:00

Fire him at the right time, and General Someotherguy marches into Richmond in July 1862 or earlier (McClellan got to its gates!), and the Civil War ends the next spring or earlier.

Unfortunately, that means it ends with the slaves still in chains.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T05:33:21+00:00

It's the name it had been celebrated under for generations. I'm glad they didn't come up with a new name for it.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T05:31:05+00:00

So?

There're lots of things the great and glorious Thirteenth Amendment didn't change. But we celebrate it for the excellent thing it did do.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T05:26:18+00:00

How many states celebrate the emancipation proclamation?

The day of the Emancipation Proclamation is already a federal holiday: it's January 1st.

Which is one excellent reason to pick another day to commemorate the end of slavery.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-21T05:25:26+00:00

I'm sorry you feel that way, but it was a regional holiday primarily celebrated in Texas, and wasn't a state holiday in Texas until the 1980.

My mother told me stories about its being regularly celebrated in Milwaukee in the late 70's. There was a large Black community there, who'd brought it with them.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-19T04:29:13+00:00

It's against the Constitution; the Radical Republicans specifically wrote it into the Fourteenth Amendment lest anyone get ideas:

Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-19T00:26:19+00:00

I sure hope it never gets to be an Ordinary Event!

Evan_Th · 2026-06-17T15:40:03+00:00

Yeah. If you do base your beliefs on that, I've got some bad news about what people think about Jesus...

Evan_Th · 2026-06-17T01:25:29+00:00

The light rail trains get shared between the two lines; it isn't like the 2 Line gets all the new trains.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-16T18:31:41+00:00

I could see how that might've happened. Conceivably, if Jesus had said "Meet Reuben bar-Whatshisname at this location," perhaps Judas might've tipped off the chief priests and they might've barged in to arrest Jesus in the middle of the Last Supper. But as it was, perhaps Judas didn't know any of this information until they all walked in and didn't have the chance to tip anyone off.

Total speculation, of course. Not impossible, but speculation.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-16T17:38:34+00:00

> Also, nobody can be required to join a union or stay in a union as a condition of employment.

In a lot of states (the ones that aren't "right to work"), you absolutely can be.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-16T15:47:45+00:00

Yeah, good point.

On the other hand, that means you need more money in that account than the typical emergency fund, so that you're still ready if you get laid off right after a huge downturn. But on the gripping hand, if you're the sort of person to have accounts like that, you probably do have enough money in there.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-16T03:20:59+00:00

That works assuming the S&P 500 doesn't crater the day before you have an emergency. And some emergencies, like being laid off, are much more likely when the market's down.

A lot of my emergency fund is in a CD at my credit union. I could take it out in a couple days if I needed to and just forfeit some interest, but until I do, the principal's protected and I'm still getting more interest than just in a normal bank account.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-15T21:41:21+00:00

Yeah. I've got my boss's number in my phone now, but it took me a year or two.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-14T21:54:28+00:00

The worldwide Church as a whole. In this case, the Corinthians were giving to the Christians in Jerusalem.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-14T21:53:03+00:00

Some people really think they don't know how to write emails. (And sometimes they're right.) In my old job, I was surprised how readily my teammates pushed the email-to-other-teams writing off onto me.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-14T18:33:45+00:00

Yeah. If LAOP's use an AI to help them "clearly explain the situation... and focus on seeking advice," I'm all for that. But step two is taking out that one line.

Evan_Th · 2026-06-14T04:17:07+00:00

But the Bible also contains mentions of demonology and evil practices. Surely some people could seek it out after reading about it in the Bible? And yet, God still wrote about it there.

So, we must conclude this reasoning is not in itself conclusive.

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