The episode came out WELL before the actual incident.

So many people sponging on our society, worthless eaters. Elderly, children, disabled people… we should have some kind of solution for them.

I only just heard this the first time recently and it’s got some stickiness to it! Definitely a song people will recognize a couple decades from now. Centuries, maybe not.

Y’all need some fibre

The Long Dark. Nothing will change. Death is only a matter of time.

Hopefully it would mitigate the spread into wild populations.

Personally I never shut up about it!

I’m pretty confident the Vancouver-Hope corridor could support commuter rail as well. Maybe Victoria to Nanaimo.

It really is as short as it could have been.

Hah, wow, sone guy sang ‘O Canada’ to ‘O Tannenbaum’. Delightful!

A raid6 array across a collection of separate disks might do it.

Not difficult, or even expensive, to find a working 20 year old machine with a 3.5" FDD. Also I work at a library and we keep a couple of well bagged USB floppy drives around for profs who occasionally need data retrieval. Hasn’t happened in a couple years though. We also have an old Dell for 5.25".

But what about the children?

It bothers me, but not so much as exclusivity does. It does not give Facebook a competitive advantage over its competitors.

Saves aquaman a few bucks

Gotta hire a robopsychologist. Dr. Susan Calvin may be available?

Space Engineers. I always end up with bricks.

Liu’s short stories are all like that, if you get the chance. What if the world had to be moved out of solar orbit? What if a small class of Chinese schoolchildren were chosen to be representative of all humanity? He has these bold, brash concepts that feel like they were written in a USA that felt that the moon was a stepping stone to the stars. Like Heinlein writing about a kid boshing up a spaceship in the yard.

Liu kinda represents a China that can dream really big in the same way.

Yeah, I felt it was largely a throwback to 1940s and 1950s western SF. Liu feels a lot like Asimov or early Heinlein. I was thinking it was like the kind of thing that a rapidly industrializing society would write as part of the cultural zeitgeist.

Delight.