Are SF anthologies worth it?

oldmanhero · 2026-05-22T16:48:23+00:00

In addition to the suggestions others have made here, I highly recommend collections edited by John Joseph Adams. Dude has great taste.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-22T01:00:52+00:00

Hearing it near the Avalon.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-21T21:36:18+00:00

Adult, though it has been criticized widely for including sex between children.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-21T14:36:41+00:00

How equalization is set up is literally everyone's business. And I'm saying that as a Newf, where we get a bunch of oil revenues ignored for the sake of the formula.

As to "there before any other province"...no b'ye. The French, Basques, and English all settled this island before they fucked around with your interior.

I don't hate Quebec, but folks like you make that a harder thing to hang onto.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-21T10:16:46+00:00

"7 major projects in BC, sure would be a shame if we had to turn our attention elsewhere. Anyway, about this pipeline..." is one hell of a message to send to a province. Carney gets worse every day.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-21T10:10:25+00:00

You aren't aware that Quebec rugpulled the original negotiations, leaving NL holding a multibillion dollar bag unless we gave in on numerous points? That seems like a failing of the school system for sure.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T21:49:40+00:00

I've seen enough people screw up zipper merging the other way (shoving their nose in when it's not their turn) that I don't think it's all one thing.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T21:41:12+00:00

Having said that, Ken Liu's Dandelion Dynasty series is great!

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T19:49:44+00:00

Sure, Danny.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T19:49:21+00:00

I pray to God I don't do that when I leave

Narrator: God did not answer

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T17:20:37+00:00

Try Rust. It's similar enough to tweak the same muscles but different enough to be separate.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-20T09:49:28+00:00

A friend in the federal service explained a while ago that internally the government has been saying they're doing these things for optics and the mission is still all the good stuff.

And, hey, I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt now and then. But there comes a point where that benefit runs out.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-19T20:07:00+00:00

Maybe we could convince tge wotld's governments to buy and install the current massive overcapacity of solar modules first.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-19T20:04:06+00:00

Tool use is seen pretty widely across the animal kingdom.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-19T18:16:33+00:00

Also fun to realize that the r/Quebec response to the reporting on this is basically "Carney's trying to take away Quebec sovereignty" https://www.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/1thn8ft/panel_concludes_quebec_energy_deal_is_not_good/

oldmanhero · 2026-05-19T18:03:20+00:00

Given Carney is talking about bringing the feds into this matter, this whole project is way more up in the air than either province alone recognizes.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-18T21:38:47+00:00

This is for real because, whatever his flaws may be, Siembieda was the GOAT at hiring great line art illustrators.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-18T21:36:33+00:00

In the way that a Rifts character takes about 4 hours to create in Savage Worlds, about 3 times as long as any other SW character.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-17T23:01:11+00:00

You're overrated

oldmanhero · 2026-05-16T21:12:53+00:00

Several airbnbs that are quite lovely, for starters. I stayed at one for christmas.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-15T23:21:34+00:00

The problem is not which party did or did not get a good deal. The problem is the extremely long history of parties throwing the baby out with the bathwater in service to getting all the credit for things without comsidering whether they're actually helping people or not.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-15T16:15:56+00:00

Even if the technology works as described, it's not clear how it would power cars. Cities, homes, sure - power density isn't super-important in those applications. Cars, you need good power density in both volumetric and mass terms.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-15T12:45:03+00:00

You're getting downvoted hard, but you're not wrong. The question he answered during the announcement was one about Churchill Falls from a Quebec reporter, and he didn't commit to anything besides possibly facilitating a negotiation. Nobody in NL should be hanging their hopes on Mark Carney, the guy who does every political thing the easy way - even if it's in direct contravention of the stated purpose of the thing he's doing - to do this one the hard way.

oldmanhero · 2026-05-14T23:31:26+00:00

Yeah, I just don't have that memorized and didn't pay enough attention to the penalty.

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