Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials books. Hyperion (first 2 are best buy i love all 4 in the series). Read some of the classics like Philip k dick “do androids dream of electric sheep” and robert heinland’s “stranger in a strange land” isaac asimov’s “i robot” books and foundation series are excellent too.

Older kindles can still have ebooks transfered directly to them via usb cable

It’s not like they were trafficking the children of the rich and powerful. And they did need to provide fresh water to everyone on the island. It’s simpler and cheaper to butcher a body into the ocean than to import chemicals to dissolve them

On an island in shark infested waters, far from prying eyes, the best way to dispose of bodies is obviously dissolving them in acid and not dropping them in the ocean

All addiction is a problem. Hyper- focusing on porn addiction without any objective data on how much addiction of porn is occuring in teenagers and then trying to clumsily legislate away porn in response is bad governance.

If porn addiction is occuring at the same rate as gambling addiction, alcholoism and drug addicition then the problem is not likely to be any of those things individually but likely to be something else.

They’re relying more and more on AI coding.

They are heavy and move quickly. All it takes is one shove or trip of an unsuspecting person that falls and cracks their head.

Not enough users.

Maybe read a book or two besides ones written by fox news personalities or published by tpusa

I was 16 on 9/11. I remember watching john Ashcroft the Friday before talking about how the Pentagon couldn’t account for billions of dollars. Then i wake up on Monday morning to the planes hitting the towers.

I stopped trusting the government sometime around there

It’s a word that i liked using casually. Then i found out that its use is a signifier of AI text generation. I like the irony

Are there any original members of Ghost?