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I'm sorry, but this book sucks. There's some interesting ideas on the sci-fi/setting side, kind of, but nothing we haven't really seen before. What is TERRIBLE and caused me to bail out on the book about 40% through is the simplistic, one-dimensional, downright
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I just don't know how we, as a country, improve the quality of life for everyone here when shit like this happens basically with impunity. Is our starved regulatory state so... bereft of any institutional pride that it can't even get it up to execute a
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Yet another entry into the grim field of "Shit Is Always Getting Worse"... So abouts mid-December, I read about a project someone was doing that appealed to me: clean up your thousands of digital photos by going into your photo library and just spend five minutes each day
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But first, a brief digression... I've read pretty much exclusively via Amazon Kindle devices/apps for 13 years now. I like having a lot of books on me at all times, being able to read wherever I am, in a pool, on a beach, in line at the
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Ferris' career has grown long enough to where he's one of those authors that people either really like or really hate. I haven't read everything he's done, but a lot of it, and I like the dude's whole thing. And that
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Instacart Is Going to Make Shopping Suck I read shit like this and harken back, depressingly, to the first time a gas pump shouted ads at me while I was trapped there. “wow. suggesting more commercial transactions at me while i’m literally trapped in the middle of doing one.
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Man. Probably shouldn’t have started 2024 by reading this cheerful tome. What we’ve got here is basically a tier above “airport pop history” book (I do not mean that as an insult; pop history books are fine, and this book’s scholarship and rigor is a level above