Never bothered with the movie, and haven’t read any of his more recent stuff. I also haven’t paid for any of his stuff in decades.

I think it’s worth reading Ender’s Game just to be able to identify the impacts it’s made on other things. The young man who wrote it hadn’t yet decided to spend his money on abhorrent ideology.

Yep, in spring Kereru feed on them.

OT is following some bureaucratic checklist when making decisions. Said checklist was probably designed by a group of people whose primary goals were “obey the legislation” and “don’t get us in the media again for stupid rules”.

There’s some Mormon dogma built in (like how Ender’s a “third” which relates to mormonism directive to have kids till your uterus falls out but the evil state wouldn’t allow it but then the extra kid saves the world (and we know the state is evil because they are using child soldiers and engaging in eugenics)) but a lot of the undertones are more in what’s not in the books than what is. They’re still quite readable in terms of prose and such. Definitely less preachy than some of his other series.

There’s a tui flapping around outside making his presence known with whirring wings and landing on things with a thump. The other day there was a kereru sitting in / crushing the spindly kowhai tree by my driveway (that tree is not mighty enough for that bird). So I guess spring is here.

I was always not thrilled about that development, it would have been in a location inconvenient for anyone who actually needs to work in the city - IMO the developments we need are ones meant for people who make the city run to live in.

Peter Jackson has bought the land on Shelly Bay. No development. I hope he builds penguin habitat.

Oh my god! It’s Bernie Sanders and he’s got a folding chair!

The goal is

But you ignored that part. As well as everything else I had written.

You’re the one making assumptions here. Or you’re being deliberately obtuse just to pick a fight on the internet. Either way, fuck you for being nasty to me when all I was trying to do was talk about the subject of the thread.

Rude much? I didn’t say anything at all about what you should do, I only said what their goal was. Way to be an asshole about it, dickhead.

Using umatrix. Difficulty is these are the ads presented as part of the feed so they’re difficult to block. Like the promoted posts on reddit.

I think they want rail between suburbs and cities. Definitely if there was rail direct from Porirua to Lower Hutt a huge amount of people who live in one place would suddenly be willing to work in the other, or vice versa.

I want to be clear I think it’s fairly annoying and potentially dangerous to glue oneself to a major arterial road. That said, the goal is to annoy people like you until you stop driving and start taking the train. It’d be a better plan if the trains weren’t wildly unreliable.

I wish they’d glue themselves to politicians instead of roads. It’s not the roads who decide to defund light rail.

If I can say shmutzfangmatten then I can say Papakangahorohoro. I bet half the people complaining wouldn’t be if they were trying to name it for a (hypothetical) historical German doormat factory instead of giving it a perfectly cromulent Maori name (I think something to do with earthquakes?).

I went on Edge, logged into Facebook, then proceeded to google various horse related things and visit the resulting websits. Now my ads are all about horses. I don’t own a horse, never been especially into them. But they’re nice and inoffensive in my feed.

salutes the general

Yep. Had an uneventful flight, now in possession of ridiculous amounts of American junk food.

Soon.

Still, cat’s safer indoors or only outdoors daytime. I see lost cat posts more often than I’d like to.