I know, I thought I’d expand on it

Hmm…a troll domain.

“httpscolonslashslashslashdotdotslash”

Oh, sure, sometimes you can find a unicorn job that pays enough and is flexible to allow that 32 hour work week. Most people aren’t in a position to be that picky, though.

Fair enough! I’m also Old Enough that hearing about my childhood as “the 1900s” kinda hurts. Just feels wrong somehow, y’know?

Eh, WWW started in '91. What milestone happened in '95? Only thing I can think of is Windows 95, but that was a general computer thing, not an Internet thing.

As for early Internet era…to me that’s the mid to late 70s up through '91. TCP/IP dates back to '74, so that’s a workable starting point (or maybe ARPANET, ha).

The list of people so dangerous they can’t be allowed to fly, but too innocent to arrest.

I’d call it self-preservation more than generosity (or Beyond Generosity, heh). The point of forgiving is to let it go as an emotional burden that you carry with you. It’s incredibly hard to do, but it’s necessary for one’s own sense of peace.

Lois is my all-time favorite author on the strength of Curse of Chalion, but I bounced off the Penric & Desdemona series with Book 10. The way it started with a plague felt Too Soon after COVID.

Hmm. I should try reading it again. I loved the series otherwise.

I know Trump is fat, but it still wouldn’t count as a mass shooting!

Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.

I’ve read the Expanse (and loved it), but that’s definitely not what I was thinking of here.

he doesn’t do female characters well

Understatement of the century?

I cringed so hard reading “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” that I nearly DNF’d it.

But, for the time it was written, it was probably one of the more progressive things published.

No. I’ve read “The moon is a harsh mistress” (oof, it did NOT age well), but I’m thinking of a different novel.

Doing a search now…it might have been “Farmer In The Sky”. I remember the theme being a pretty heavy “move to the frontier, throw yourself into back-breaking work, prosper” type thing, along with one character in the book making a big deal about apple trees.

I think I read a novel with the bread basket theme at some point, but I can’t quite place it. Heinlein, maybe.

I was thinking poetic justice, personally

I replaced a 10-year laptop in 2021. I probably could have eked out another year or two of use, but I don’t regret getting a new computer when I did.

We didn’t start the fire…

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

Add a comma? Also hell,

Calling the boiling point of water simply “warm” is a bit sus.