Last book: “Cast Under an Alien Sun” book one of destiny’s crucible

By Olan Thorensen

This could have used a copy editor to remove many parts and keep the entire plot.

That said, it had really nice world building, had some interesting concepts, kept my interest in many places, and was worth the read.

But I do not want to go through 6+ more books similar to that. The first book was not self contained; it was like episode one of a Netflix series.

I had issues with the story:

They sign other papers in addition to receiving salary.

Usually with very low salary one expects other compensation, besides money: but performing arts and other categories allow legal creativity.

If More questions I may be wrong, such as exact details. But have seen this in real life ( although not me) . Should consult legal expert in Texas state law

She was always well off and very connected.

Not many authors can force that kind of book deal, giving that sort of percentage, on their very first book. That took serious pull.

Additionally, some people, including me, suspect her books co-authored. And there are excellent reasons why the other authors are not publicly known. But that is only a theory

Salary in Texas avoids all that, I can hire you for a salary of 1$ a year and demand you work 60 hours. But you can quit any time

Legal in Texas: put them on salary and have them sign a few papers.

I use templeOS btw

People know instinctively when they are dating up, down or have impossible dreams.

The reasons for that is as varied as there are people, but we all have primate brains and are hard wired to select partners using criteria that can be and are amazingly flexible

Many already know Zinn, but posting it for some for whom this is new

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-otanUZGGGcnDgfr7/page/n1/mode/1up

Maths were a lot harder before Arabic numbers

That is ok; it was easy to misunderstand and that is why I edited it over

I avoid using sarcasm tags

[snark removed]

at least some of the “clearance” in the past was just picking a random black person and stringing them up then going out for doughnuts

I think the extra surveillance is stopping this enough for it to be a major source of the trend

I don’t understand the interest in these calls for justice, given that Trump has probably raped over a thousand people by now, over the decades, and he is untouchable whether he is president or not. And the only way to prosecute him is by revolution.

What I think is happening is that people are trying to prod the failed USA justice system to show some spark of life, and a lot of the rage here is more about impotent fury over the protection of these thugs, as much as over the crimes

So, a knight with shield and armor is killing people. Take away his defenses and he kills less. Yes?

When the casualty ratio is more than 1:1000 and the only reason it’s like that is because of the armor . Then helping repair the armor is a war crime.

Also stationing a huge USA navy fleet next to Gaza to prevent any organized from reaching Gaza is a war crime too. Having them move away will reduce the loss of life and allow food to reach the area.

The United States is totally complicit in this

Vowels are overrated

While it is true Sanders has actually dared to criticize Israel repeatedly. There are lines he will not cross, accusations he will not make and things he will not do.

He is the most leftward of the USA senators, which is to say he is a centralist elsewhere; and the OP is all about him doing centralist things: a balancing act

When it gets to 7%, is that when there is more malware designed for Linux desktop ?

I find babies are fine with adults crying near them as long as the adult is not showing contempt ( fake crying to mess with the baby) or panic ( babies pick up on that)

Honestly him being gay probably is better than him being hetero, for purposes of law and order and stability.

But, I wonder what his net worth is by himself?