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I got a Pantum laser printer and it’s free of all the rent-a-printer crap that the big ones are pulling now. It was easy to set up with my Linux system too.

Until and unless they break up these predatory property management companies, anything they do push through won’t be anywhere near enough.

I went to a Mastodon server where other anarchists are.

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet

I seem to have misplaced my violin as it’s so tiny.

But to quote their ridiculous ancient book of nonsense, you reap what you sow.

The day they stop trying to shove their own personal religious choices down everyone else’s throat and criminalizing what should be a woman’s own bodily autonomy is the day I stop feeling this way.

Too bad medical science can’t invent a killer virus that takes out right wing fundamentalists with pinpoint accuracy.

The capitalist oligarchy will never allow UBI. They want people desperate and starving so they’ll take any crumbs tossed their way.

Michael Moorcock is classic, I’m not sure what’s in that volume but he rarely disappoints.

Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl are afrofuturists, and I love their work.

The rest I don’t really know but the price is right.

One of the top reasons I finally went Linux and I don’t regret making the change one bit.

I used Power Delete Suite but with the API changes it may not work anymore.

I got my first Linux system two years ago when I was 57. I took one of the COVID checks and bought a Linux laptop from System76. I had the choice of PopOS or Ubuntu so I just took straight Ubuntu. It was set up and running when I unboxed it and everything I need to know how to do I can just do a web search for. And that’s really not much. Best of all the thing starts up in seconds, when Windows was always taking its damn sweet time and shutting itself down for two and three hour updates when I needed to use it. As for gaming, that’s what my PS5 is for.

Buying a pre-built, pre-installed Linux system was perfect for me. It might be what would work for you too. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of where to start.

People know the difference between fantasy and reality. Unless someone’s questionable anyway I don’t think pretending to be evil will change someone. People play violent video games and don’t tend to go out and shoot up their neighborhoods. Same thing.

Good for you for listening, and good luck.

I’m speaking as a woman who’s been hit on at work. We’re paid to be nice to the customers and too many customers take it as some sort of come-on. It’s uncomfortable to be put in that position and you should be thinking of her comfort at her place of business above your own desires if you’re really into her.

I personally don’t think this is a thing. Acting is pretending. I used to LARP an evil character but it was all just role-playing. Being able to use one’s imagination and walk in another’s shoes (evil or not) doesn’t change who you are as a person. It just makes you a good actor.

It’s not appropriate to ask a woman out when she’s working. Service staff get hit on all day and they’re just trying to work.

You can slip her your number if she shows up at your place of business and leave the ball in her court though. If she doesn’t contact you then there’s your answer.

If you liked the Expanse you might be interested in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series, and for the same reasons.

As for your original question, for me the important part is good writing and story telling. Some writers’ styles just turn me off no matter how good or important the work is. Narrative style is what makes or breaks a book for me no matter the genre.