nitrates bad for kitty

Sharks can only be found in two places on earth: the northern and southern hemispheres

The only true calamity for these industries would be losing ownership of their wells. Or us making a few iterative leaps in energy storage in a short amount of time.

The actual self quote is so much worse than the headline

“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” he wrote, reportedly reflecting on strained relationships with his brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver. “My kids waited patiently in the car.”

Much more bleak. Erikson has more in the way of heroics in the face of the bleak. Bakker you get more of human flaws ushering in doom. It has a similar sense of scale, the world building is top notch. But the passage of time and intelligence are much less forgiving in Bakker’s world.

I’ve done numerous rereads of Malazan, none for Bakker. Though it’s just as deserving, if not more so. It’s just… a lot less uplifting.

R Scott Bakker kinda scratches a similar itch, though it’s much more bleak.

Malazan, Malazan, Malazan. Literally the result of two bored archaeologists and their DnD campaign while they were out on a dig.

It hangs with the best in terms of humor, tragedy, epic scope, and heroism. It does not hold your hand, in fact it will delight in letting your hand go while leading you through a dark room. Deeply philosophical, challenges and embraces tropes in equal part, absolutely interesting magic system(s). It is hardcore hopecore, it champions the little guy, empathy, and the bright mind over the slow. Main series is finished, 10 giant books. Also a bunch of others outside that series by both creators.

Be patient with it, some payoffs take a while. Read Gardens of the Moon and then Deadhouse Gates to see if it’s clicking. It isn’t for all.

Just like he did with the Taliban. Invited them to Camp David and handed them the keys to power.

Pakistan : I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend

Tell UAP Gerb he’s thinking less. Even if aliens aren’t a thing, that dude has spent a crazy amount of time mapping the crevices our taxes fall into.

Paul is that you?

Send Ringo my love

Sure sounds like someone who is making plans to stay in office past this term.

They’ve detected microplastics in breast milk. You know what that means? It’s time to start living up to our name as mammals.

We hormonally induce lactation for everyone. All the time. Just leech out those microplastics. Nips into 3d printers.

Or that it was fine to not vote

No military and yet they just hit the US Embassy in Baghdad.

Iran can poke and probe US defenses, time’s on their side. Look at Ukraine and Russia. Despite five years of attrition, both have greatly expanded their strike capabilities in the midst of a war. You can decentralize drone production and hide it underground very easily.

No one involved in this wants those refineries to be damaged. Damaging them would be a sure fire way to make sure oil prices don’t drop once this is over. Iran will call this bluff.

They’re talking big talk, but sending in 2000 marines isn’t going to do much. Iran can play whack a mole while they wait out the clock. It’s a huge mountainous country and they only need to hit one ship in the strait to cause havoc.

Trump’s already had the gall to look around for allies to help in the strait after his year long backstabbing tour. Iran’s upped their demands because they smell blood in the water and they just need to draw things out.

He wants you to chase him

The worst of it is already gone if I had to guess. When the FBI got hacked it lost 100TB of data relating to the investigation. 100TB ain’t gonna be emails, that’s media.