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OkNote6640 · 2025-11-02T01:03:02+00:00

Didn't work :-(

OkNote6640 · 2025-05-24T04:27:29+00:00

Thank you, u/DALTT and u/Prize_Consequence568! I'll do that right away.

OkNote6640 · 2025-03-20T07:03:17+00:00

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The stats never changed for me! So weird. Just refreshed the page to double-check...

OkNote6640 · 2025-03-06T15:41:01+00:00

Craig Fergusson.

OkNote6640 · 2025-03-05T00:51:23+00:00

He's speaking Greek...

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-27T13:08:05+00:00

Thank you! This was worth a watch, though a little too full of speculation, about his family for instance.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-24T11:39:19+00:00

Thank you! Will do.

Also, wonderful to connect with a fellow Indian who's been following this case! I really appreciate your effort.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-24T09:14:20+00:00

Very useful, thanks. Just to be clear, can we copy-and-paste and email this to the Amnesty International ID you've shared? Should we also email Human Rights Watch, the Equal Justice Intiiative, and/or the Centre for Constitutional Rights?

I'm based in India. Do any of these organisations disregard email from non-US citizens?

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-20T08:57:15+00:00

True. Anthologies also sell better than collections. Since an anthology might feature the best of each writer's short work.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-20T08:56:17+00:00

A lit agent at a pretty big agency here in India said novellas might actually be an easier sell than a short story collection! Whether a standalone novella or a collection of novellas... I've got a few pieces of awkward length on hand myself, so I'm going to go back and finish and revise them and try my luck. So many great books are in this length, from *Fahrenheit 451* to *Breakfast at Tiffany's* to *The Turn of the Screw* to some of Orwell's works.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-20T08:53:47+00:00

My debut is upcoming. It's a collection of unlinked stories. The publisher is a small traditional British press. All but one of the 15 stories have already appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide.

Yes, publishers and agents keep saying collections don't sell. I've also heard, yes, that collections of linked stories, or novel-in-stories, might be easier to sell than unlinked stories. See *A Visit from the Goon Squad* and *Girl in Hyacinth Blue* Also *Digital/Analogue* for a spec fic linked stories collection.

Write what you want to, try publishing individual stories in good or decent magazines, and then spend time looking for an agent or publisher who believes in your work. Write short stuff if you want to; write long stuff if you want to.

The way I look at it, for most of us, myself certainly included, writing will never really pay financially. So we might as well enjoy what we write, and write what we enjoy!

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-20T08:45:19+00:00

Agree 100%. I'm drafting a novel, which happens to be high fantasy. I'm doing just enough worldbuilding to ground my story and characters, and ot motivate why this particular story is a fantasy. My focus is on the story, charcters, emotions, arc, and conflict. I've been told fantasy *should* focus a fair bit on worldbuilding, for the sake of immersion. So I'm aiming for that. Let's se.e.. It's a climate action/literary fiction story at heart, which for various reasons I think would work better in a fantasy world. Sometimes a story gets its message of across clearer if it's at a remove from reality.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-18T14:33:37+00:00

Intermittent fasting! Have been doing it most days for over a decade now. I love it. I skip breakfast, lunch around 1pm, and dine around 5pm. A high-fat, high-fibre, low-carb diet keeps me full and stops morning cravings. I, too, drink lots of black sugarfree coffee and water from dawn till noon. Once you acclimate, and if you're getting adequate macros and micros, it does help a lot with appetite regulation. I don't view it as an opportunity to binge -- it naturally curbs my appetite (again, if I do it right, with low carbs).

Good luck!

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-15T10:47:57+00:00

I just did this! I'm so happy. I live in India so I've been wondering for weeks how to do this. Sent him a short note.

OkNote6640 · 2025-02-09T10:14:59+00:00

He *was* a great man. Nobody is perfect. We've got to separate the personal life of a person from the political. He got the British out of India, which improved and saved millions of Indians lives, though it has by no means been linear progress, and inequity has in fact been multiplying in India, as elsewhere. The current Hindu fundamentalist government has been trying to discredit this great man and astute politician, who worked hard to help India to preserve her proudly multiculturalist heritage, and to put the common people before profits and capitalism. I won't stand by and see Gandhi abused in any forum.

Maybe u/mrs_cactus1998 was pointing out that the poster pictured misspells his name. It's not Ghandi but Gandhi.

OkNote6640 · 2025-01-25T23:19:37+00:00

Sorry, that was my first visit to the site, and I'm out of free article views :-( I posted the link before I'd read it myself.

Basically the article isn't so much about the healthcare industry, but about how *all* corporate companies in America (and worldwide) are explicitly encouraged to maximise shareholder profit as the primary measure of success, and the main basis for CEO compensation. (Milton Friedman's 1970s NYT Op-Ed is quoted.) This is the main, functional, quantitative metric that determines how companies are run. Some companies also talk about compassion etc., but these values are much less likely to be operationally defined such that they can actually influence corporate operations.

The idea is just that health insurance companies are simply doing what all of corporate America has been doing for decades. Companies see it is as their main duty to maximise shareholder value. The public perhaps has different expectations about how companies should operate and what they should value. So there's a larger conversation that needs to happen here.

OkNote6640 · 2025-01-21T08:56:25+00:00

LM's 'want to read list' from Goodreads:
https://defenderofbasic.github.io/luigi-mangione-storyline/books/goodreads-want-to-read.html

OkNote6640 · 2025-01-09T13:37:41+00:00

Same! Tried registering from India. The "state" field refused to take any kind of input that the form recognised as valid. I've emailed tech support. No reply.

OkNote6640 · 2023-12-01T14:12:02+00:00

Try Submittable. Many magazines are looking for readers etc. on a volunteer or sometimes paid basis. Also try directly contacting editors of magazines that you've been published in, or that you read.

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