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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

If ICE does to flannel what Hitler did to his mustache, I'm going to be livid.

Okay, how about you're Jimmer, you're Jimmy, and you're Jim Bob. So you all get to be some version of Jim and we don't got to be in, fuckin... Cats.

And that radio telegraph operators weren't using three letter Q-code shortcuts since the early 1900s.

Nothing. Recently lost my job and have absolutely no confidence that I'll be able to get another; so life is pretty much at a standstill until something happens with that.

Thanks for confirming this. I'm atrocious at recognizing AI and thought I was just overthinking these reviews because there were a lot of em dashes

The IT Crowd

John Spencer's scene as Leo McGarry describing being an alcoholic.

The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that... I woke up in bed with both of my executioners. Lovely couple, they stayed in touch! Can't say that about most executioners.

I'm lamenting the fact that this scenario means I've lost all my fountain pens, but I'd go with #5 in a .38

I definitely did on this one and it's a good reminder that I'm amplifying my echo chamber by getting lazy and only looking at headlines.

I've always like the way Sam Harris describes this in Letter to a Christian Nation:

It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver-lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ. It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves - socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the US government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religion dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.