Babylon Berlin (DE) is amazing. They really nailed the tail end of the roaring ‘20s, and the subsequent market crash and rise of fascism. Great homage to old school film noir.

Gomorrah (IT) centres around a cocaine smuggling crime family. Lots of interpersonal politics within the family and between other syndicates. I think it was season 3 (could have been season 2) that dragged a little bit but the rest had me hooked.

Have you tried unscrewing the mobo from the case and reseating it? Doesn’t happen so often nowadays, but if it’s too tight (or you’ve forgotten to use standoffs) there can be short that stops it from booting.

Cabinet heads are hiring back employees who were dismissed during the mass purge

Hopefully they get to keep any redundancy payouts AND come back on higher wages. After all, if they’re being hired back then it shows their role was critical.

So aggressive. I love it!

In the immortal words of Good Charlotte:

They’re always complaining, always complaining. If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, think we should rob them.

Though ironically the Madden brothers ended up marrying rich.

New Zealand music month is great for getting out and seeing local bands play.

What all this does is accelerate the day when AI becomes worthless.

It was always worthless. Or, at least, it was always worthless thinking that LLMs were a substitute for reasoning AI, which is what it appears many people have been suckered into.

6 has unintended consequences. Always happy? At a funeral for a loved one? No thanks, I want to feel their passing properly.

I’d be fine with just 2. Possibly not good for the heart, pancreas, or liver though.

Yeah that’s a fair criticism. I can see how it would be polarising. Personally, I don’t mind a bit of slap and tickle in books and I think it thematically fits the hyper-individualist universes in each series.

Megan O’Keefe’s Protectorate Trilogy is a fun read that reminds me a bit of Hamilton’s writing without all the sex.

Just need to misidentify a suspected bomber and we’re on the home stretch to mainstream popularity.

And the specific text under the Culture entry said

All are set in a galaxy-spanning, far-future anarchist and atheist society

Sorry about that. Don’t worry it’s not central to the plot.

I love the culture series but is it really an anarchist society?

SC is also not exactly the peace corps.

Office Space on ketamine.

I see Clarke and Dawe and instantly upvote.

At least rockets typically spontaneously disassemble outside the environment. No towing necessary.

People downvoting seem to have forgotten this unpopular opinions.

I love the taste of coffee and it’s the only thing I drink other than water. It’s not just about caffeine intake and happily drink decaf along with 2 regular coffees.

Sludge metal?

Without the paywall https://archive.ph/8hhkj

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Even faker - anon claims to have spoken to a women