Black people finally got control of South Africa.

They didn’t slaughter all the apartheid whites, which seemed very gracious at the time, but that’s why we still have to deal with Elon Musk now.

In the Vietnam war, fragging the officers had a big impact.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

But he wanted that prize for himself and he’ll never let that resentment go.

I love running Libby on my Boox

Is Anna’s Archive something people pay for?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yHnGLf/

Sorry about the Tiktok link but it’s a great somg

She forgot to be a billionaire

That was incredible. New holiday tradition…

Christian feudalism imagined Islam as it’s enemy (first thing that popped into my mind, I’m not an expert)

Link to book one?

Everything stank of stale smoke

https://youtu.be/N2rZxCrb7iU

First YouTube I saw

But we like war

Kumma teddy bear … enthusiastically responding to questions about sex or drugs.

It’s right there in the product name

Was it as good as they say?

I loved Joust, back in the arcade days.

First time I’ve heard about GtayJay. Any reason you prefer it?

People are naturally resistant when told “what to do” so advice isn’t often very helpful.

Can be kind of mean spirited