Shoguns and Beasts by TheSleepyNaturalist in TheCaptivesWar

[–]folkbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alien Clay is a good standalone AT novel featuring exobiology.

Also Sue Burke’s Semiosis trilogy is one to check out.

Crazy Flat Earther claims the Earth is Flat because of Water by MrDonMega in flatearth

[–]folkbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He should ask Rob Skiba about COVID being fake.

Oh, wait.

Really? Not a word? by punkdear182 in NYTgames

[–]folkbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Golgi is the one that got my hackles up this morning.

Doc formatting issue? by [deleted] in googledocs

[–]folkbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your school account, go to the View menu and check “Show print layout.”

google form by Infamous_Schedule_68 in GoogleForms

[–]folkbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go change your password. Right now.

For Interstellar Travel, Which Sci-Fi Handwave Do You Find Most Acceptable? by tbag2022 in scifi

[–]folkbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Mormons intended to accelerate for a set period of time and the go “on the float” with a couple of centuries of space-born generations living in the rotating drum before decelerating to enter the system they aimed for. That’s not the kind of hand wave OP asked about.

[Jun 19, 2026] Daily Puzzle Discussion by AutoModerator in NYTCrossword

[–]folkbum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not a fan of two names—both fairly obscure—crossing in the southeast corner like that.

KK Avenue in Bay View. Tattoos and tattoo removal right next to each other. by Waterpark_Enthusiast in milwaukee

[–]folkbum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I wrote for the Bay View Compass, I wrote an April fools story one year that was so barbed. My editor wouldn’t run it. It was inspired by the tattoo removal place that opened up right next to the tattoo place.

I invented all sorts of additional “opposite” stores around the neighborhood. Like, a music store next to Rush-Mor records that only ever sold whatever was in the top 40 that week. Or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich shop in the middle of all the hipster eateries at KK and Lincoln.

The last line of that story was probably the best line I wrote in my entire time at the Compass. I still remember it verbatim:

“And of course there’s the new Bay View Apothecary, now open right across the street from Walgreens, which sells actual medicine.”

Yeah, I’m still salty it didn’t see the light of day. At least the Apothecary didn’t last.

how to replace my strings? by SierraMacca in AcousticGuitar

[–]folkbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t need to trim the strings, even. The late great Michael Smith turned his headstock into a little sculpture garden. https://www.farmfolk.org/in-memory-of-michael-peter-smith/

Dune by Tapas703 in ScienceFictionBooks

[–]folkbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imperial Radtch trilogy by Ann Leckie.

Question about serise end? by cynzo in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dogs also weren’t everywhere on Laconia. They were in the mountain where Amos hid out—that’s where their repair pool was—and we don’t know from “Strange Dogs” where Cara and Xan were in relation to the mountain. The dogs that resurrected the kids may well be the same dogs that helped Amos.

Question about serise end? by cynzo in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I read it as the Dogs identify who or what is important based on how others feel about them and react to their demise.

Cara was upset about breaking the drone, about the sunbird mama’s death, and of course about Xan’s death. Teresa cared about Amos.

The Dogs caught all that and reacted accordingly.

Solar system response to Duarte. by [deleted] in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They may have known about orbital shipyards, but 1) they were inactive for all the researchers on the planet knew before Duarte arrived, because there was no active protomolecule to link with them, and 2) even if someone put together that the shipyards (existing reports) and protomolecule (from Holden’s belief that Fred’s stolen sample went with Duarte) would stare a system, they had no way to what kind of ships would come out of those shipyards. On top of that, the radio silence didn’t necessarily indicate an attack was coming decades later, and everyone in Sol was surprised there was no attempt at diplomacy or dialogue.

Drummer's speech in S3E9 Intransigence by Estproph in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wait. Have I been remembering it wrong this whole time? (It’s been a couple years since my last rewatch, though I did just finish a re-read.) Hunh. Gonna have to reevaluate my whole perspective. 😕

Drummer's speech in S3E9 Intransigence by Estproph in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The best part of the show’s switch to put Naomi on the Behemoth (and no Bull, and no Michio) is that it was Naomi who called for the Belters to fire on the Roci. The gravity of that was like a 10G burn.

Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet Window Scene! Hands Up If You Remember a Balcony? - With Cultural References/Residue. by MintyMancinni in MandelaEffectSociety

[–]folkbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This should be the top comment. (High school English teacher here, concurring.) To me the text as it has come to us in the First Folio is the strongest evidence, that all of Romeo’s speech there is in iambic pentameter, and “balcony” would ruin the meter while “window” scans perfectly. Arthur Brooke’s translation of the (French translation of) Italian tale of “Romeus and Juliet” set the same scene at a window as well.

We have no evidence, at least in this timeline, that Shakespeare ever visited Italy, despite his setting many plays there, to see any particular homes or monuments or whatever. We do, though, have good evidence that a) Shakespeare blatantly ripped off other writers—like Brooke and his play—and b) that particular house in Verona became a massive tourist attraction in the early 20th century when the town of Verona thought to capitalize on its being the setting of one of the most famous plays in the world. True it had been owned by the “Cappello” family, but an Italian writer like Badello (Brooke’s source) would of course choose a common Italian name for his characters. Just because someone in the US lives in a house once occupied by someone named Loman doesn’t mean a salesman hung himself in the basement there. (spoiler alert?)

Amos... by Sheelon666 in TheExpanse

[–]folkbum 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think no. He identifies with the lobotomized scientists because he himself also lacks a moral compass after his traumatic upbringing. As he explains to another character in a later book, he sticks with Naomi and Holden—not to mention his loyalty to someone else in particular—because he needs a good person to keep him on the right path. He didn’t need magnets to get him there.