
I'd say just reading a bunch of Wikipedia articles is more than enough.

I'd say just reading a bunch of Wikipedia articles is more than enough.
You have shakespeare and gay rights and whatever.
I saw this lady's horrible tweet too, but I think it's fair to say most of the discussion happened outside of its context, before people unearthed it.
Maybe it's the "grass greener on the other side" type situation. I like to believe my culture—Russian culture—is very salvageable, despite what it looks like right now...
Since like last year you don't need a visa for up to three months. If you want to stay and work you'll need an actual visa.
Afiak hose commercial VPN services are on borrowed time in Russia.
That's funny, but is the show any good?
Libs love to parade the 75-90 vs 90-present contrast though.

Libs have been slipping "genocide" into their proclamations from the day one which shows how the word lost all its meaning.
Supposedly there wasn't much modern equipment fielded until a day or two.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/
Now we're cooked. If I can't see Dune 2 in the theatre I'm going to be pissed.
Kinda feel for Americans. They can't have shit, let them at least be proud of cool looking planes.
Wait, it's not an academic article, it's an essay. Still, it makes a lot of good points.
Greg Egan's Diaspora is a hard sf novel set in year 3000 where most of the planet is given up to nature and the majority of humans, billions upon billions of them, live in like five 10 meter cubic supercomputers powered by geothermal energy. One of my favorite novels but you have to be a huge nerd to really enjoy it.
Yeah, this is a drum I've been beating in for quite some time. I love Culture, but it's not particularly radical and Banks seems to have been a lib. Culture is basically what libs want to see "the West" as. Progressive, prosperous, untouchable in its hegemony. Graciously interfering with more backwards weaker civilizations for their own damn good.
Look to Windward is a particularly revealing example.
Culture secretly meddles in affairs of cat people's backwards cast civilization, trying to get democratic forces to power through bribes and what not. This backfires spectacularly and leads to a cat civil war killing a good fraction of population in process. The cats are pissed at the Culture. They sent a civil war veteran who lost family in the war to go 9/11 on the Culture's massive space station. The attempt is easily thwarted and it's cat architects are brutally tortured and murdered by Culture's super special forces robot agent.
Published in year 2000. You can't make this shit up.
If anyone is curious I also read an academic article with the same sentiment.
Oh I remember this. Also that Lord of the Rings comic was fun.

Sounds like a gambling addiction.
Give me the link to the pod. This sounds stupid as hell.