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24 days agoThe funny thing is that the person who approved the law increasing the prison time for that crime was… Bolsonaro.


The funny thing is that the person who approved the law increasing the prison time for that crime was… Bolsonaro.
Why is Dune even considered good sci-fi? It’s more fantasy than Star Wars. Except for maybe replacing the ornithopters with blimps, you could change everything to a pseudo-medieval setting and it wouldn’t change anything in the story.


The Dune books.
OK, not boring, but nowhere near deserving the praise they get.
I’ve only managed to get through the first two.


non-cursive is infuriatingly slow to write.
When I got a beagle I was warned that the race makes for great alarm dogs, but terrible guard dogs, they will bark a lot and then become friends with the burglar.
IMO the “year of the Linux desktop” will come when distros are designed for people who shouldn’t even be allowed to use sudo.