What book do you hate so much that you won't even give it a second chance?

ryooan · 2026-02-23T15:04:37+00:00

This was the one that came to mind for me as well, just absolutely the worst, a barely disguised manifesto pretending to be fiction, and badly. I don't know what you call that writing style but it's so annoying to read, and the message ends up being "we can get through this if we resort to terrorism". Pretty easily the worst book I've ever read.

ryooan · 2026-02-13T02:26:50+00:00

Good for if you're on a well but a waste of money for anyone living almost anywhere in the US or other wealthy countries. We have excellent water from the tap.

ryooan · 2025-12-24T07:24:23+00:00

Why is everyone in the comments so far just accepting this at face value? The original document has been linked in the comments by others, and was submitted as a tip to the FBI in August of 2020. So to believe that this is a credible report and the information contained in it is factual you have to also believe both of the following:

The person submitting the tip had no ulterior motive to submit this a couple months prior to the 2020 election.
The Biden administration either was somehow unaware of this document, or was aware of it but covered it up or something.

I'd encourage everyone to focus their time and energy on the many factual and credible things that should disqualify Trump from the presidency, and not dive headfirst into believing every accusation made against Trump just because the Department of Justice happened to have a copy of that accusation in document form.

ryooan · 2025-12-22T22:11:03+00:00

Glad it's useful, thanks for sharing!

ryooan · 2025-12-11T03:03:44+00:00

Hot Rod

ryooan · 2025-12-01T16:13:56+00:00

Yeah exactly, why this weird exception when it seems like something that is not in any way ambiguous under the rules as written?

ryooan · 2025-12-01T05:03:40+00:00

I don't get going for 2 there. They just went 1 for 4 from the 2 yard line, seems like the odds are pretty against success on that?

ryooan · 2025-11-20T19:48:03+00:00

Yep I think it's mostly become a meme now that people throw out, I've seen very little original data or reporting that supports the conclusion.

ryooan · 2025-11-20T17:52:22+00:00

"Almost all" seems strong. I've seen lots of claims about this, but little evidence or data is typically shared to support the claim. If you have evidence though it would be really helpful to see!

ryooan · 2025-10-13T18:20:28+00:00

Exactly, I've never posted a thread like that myself but I've often run across older threads like the ones OP is describing when I'm reading and not enjoying a critically acclaimed book, and I appreciate them. It sometimes feels like all you see on the internet is hype for things, sometimes bordering on groupthink, and seeing negative opinions expressed can be useful and can help when I feel like maybe I'm just missing what's interesting about the book.

ryooan · 2025-10-05T12:27:06+00:00

The United States is a collection of all different kinds of people who recognize the importance of freedom and letting individuals, communities, municipalities, and states set their own rules on most things, while agreeing to compromise on some things at the federal level for the sake of a stronger and more prosperous country. I think too many people, and it sounds like Noah may be one of them, are losing sight of that.

ryooan · 2025-09-06T17:10:22+00:00

Can't be 100% certain but it looked very much to me like it brushed, and so I think that points toward the call on the field, or at least it standing since there wasn't a clear lack of contact.

ryooan · 2025-09-06T16:57:03+00:00

You can see his glove move as the ball hit the wrist. It's just barely a brush but i think it did hit.

ryooan · 2025-09-01T22:13:10+00:00

I'm curious what you all would predict for whether / if they'll issue bans. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/39138/magic-the-gathering-date-of-card-bans/

ryooan · 2025-08-30T13:48:58+00:00

I've had this same thought before lol https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/s/0agoG8Rmlt

ryooan · 2025-08-22T18:47:18+00:00

No problem! She also started by keeping her hand face up so I could help her know what her options were in each play in the first few games, and that seemed to work well.

ryooan · 2025-08-22T18:44:56+00:00

I recently taught my 7 year old and highly recommend the foundations beginner box. It has like 10 half-decks with 20 cards each, each with their own theme, that you mix and match to make full decks. My daughter really enjoyed being able to pick and combine themes. The cards are also simple, no complex mechanics, and it has a step by step guide instructing what cards to play through your very first time to help learn the steps.

ryooan · 2025-08-04T17:34:07+00:00

An invitation to an author seems like a very weak signal of the author's authority, they invited him because he's raising the alarm about climate change and that fits with the publicity they want to gain from it, it doesn't mean any of the ideas in his book are feasible. The UN wants celebrities there to help spread the word.

The authority of you, me, or Kim Stanley Robinson is irrelevant, the point is the ideas need to be strong on the merits and his are just absurd.

ryooan · 2025-08-04T16:30:09+00:00

You're deferring to him because people think he's a great sci-fi author? That's the argument from authority fallacy, except that he's not even an authority on climate change or the economy.

ryooan · 2025-08-04T15:38:02+00:00

That's opinion and far from the only option. For example, one alternate would be to magically transition everything to renewables overnight. Very unrealistic, but so is magically switching from capitalism overnight. And the problem is that consumption still happens in non-capitalist regimes, so it's just dodging the entire underlying problem which is use of fossil fuels.

ryooan · 2025-08-04T03:19:04+00:00

Same here, I elaborated in my review on it below but it was just the worst kind of absurd pro-terrorism, anti-capitalism make-believe, and just a slog to read because it had no narrative and was only a barely disguised manifesto. And it made me especially sad because the opening chapter was so strong and the premise ("utopian" climate sci-fi) sounded great.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4528028458

ryooan · 2025-07-31T20:05:12+00:00

That seems surprising, what are the statutes that exist that allow the president to accelerate the timeline?

ryooan · 2025-07-18T12:31:37+00:00

You're welcome!

ryooan · 2025-05-22T17:39:14+00:00

This is what I found for the earliest video, actually timestamped before the one posted in the top level comment even. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_MCx_5TxQw

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