You don’t need multiple pages for that you just need cladistics. Whales are tetrapods, and tetrapods are lobe finned fishes.

It’s the high point of the entire Ender series/setting, imo

Yeah, Card is a Mormon, one of the worst types of KKKri$$tian, and a virulent bigot. But the Ender sequels especially are beautiful books about learning to understand and even love people who are completely alien to you.

How he managed to write Speaker for the Dead is a great mystery.

EDIT: David Weber’s politics are also extremely bad but Honor Harrington is still fun. The biggest suspension of disbelief is a functional monarchy.

We’re gonna have that thing where the Pentagon-backed Syrian Moderate Rebels are fighting the CIA-backed Syrian Moderate Rebels but for Mexican cartels, huh?

Instead of directly answering the question I’m gonna suggest some books/series that helped form my own love of reading. These should not be taken as a list of unproblematic books whose messages I wholly endorse, but simply as a list of books that kept teenage me up all night completely immersed in reading.

• The Warrior’s Apprentice (and the rest of its series, The Vorkosigan Saga) by Lois McMaster Bujold

• Redwall (and its series) by Brian Jacques

• Animorphs series (starting with The Invasion) by K. A. Applegate

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and the rest of its five book trilogy) by Douglas Adams

• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

• On Basilisk Station (and its series, Honor Harrington) by David Weber

• Ender’s Game (and its sequels) by Orson Scott Card

Huh, didn’t come up on the search for “cool,” should probably be added to its tags so it shows up with the others.

continuing Abenomics

wishing her a very

I’m still playing Where Winds Meet. I’m almost at max level but my martial arts development is still lagging behind.

I’ve also been playing this phone idle game called The Tower, which has many numbers going up.

They’re famously a tax haven for billionaires

there are a lot of idiots out there spouting nonsense takes about DEs.

Just fuckin’ try it

I think that’s all the burning flags we got

Bluesky was always going to be bad, no “microblogging” platform has ever been or can ever be good.

“I deliberately broke the dogshit default browser because I’m not allowed to uninstall it” isn’t the flex you think it is.

I just really need the seamless experience of running a new debloat script every month to stop whatever new spyware Microsoft is pushing. I value my time so much that I want to waste it fighting my operating system at every turn.

Your average reddit atheist is still KKKri$$tian. They have not thoroughly purged the brainworms of their KKKri$$tian upbringing.

This is also why so many of them pivoted to just being islamophobic.

A good national anthem is designed to be sung by the whole crowd

toilet paper usa is doing their own counter halftime show because the regular one is too woke or some shit

Payday constitutes a short term interest free loan from the working class to the owning class