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@SteveSkojec Yes but “non-quotidian prose” does not make a great story on its own. At some point people are either captivated or they aren’t. No amount of Shakespearean composition can hide bad storytelling.

FWIW, I think the prose in The Expanse books is infinitely better than anything in Weir's novels, but I still think Weir tells a great story. It's OK to have solid, quotidian prose if your Hero's Journey is solid and your narrative arc is compelling.

Andy Weir is one of the most successful novelists of our generation. Both The Martian and Project Hail Mary have gone on to be successful Hollywood films at a time where new stories aren’t getting a lot of play in cinema. PHM is already one of the most successful films of all time. So it fascinates me to see a bunch of amateur writers or those with a fraction of his success taking pot shots at his prose. He’s a master storyteller. You don’t reach that level of breakout success if you’re not. Stop criticizing the people who have already proven their skill and work on your own!

This isn’t necessarily true. A lot of the materials used in both solar panels and wind turbines are recyclable, especially with modern hardware. Now, whether said materials are or aren’t recycled is an entirely different story. Just because a material is recyclable does not mean it will be recycled.

@peterboghossian “Many right leaning accounts is doing X” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Many right leaning accounts are now openly advocating vigilante justice and denial of trials for suspects who commit heinous crimes. While the urge for vengeance is understandable, extra legal violence has no role in civil society.

@agaharu555 @sow413 @LitupSparky @jiro_0026 I can feel how peaceful this is

@LitupSparky @jiro_0026 @sow413 私はお花見をしています。 うまく訳せてるかな。 日本は桜のシーズンで桜を見ながらランチします。 夜も綺麗で、水辺や湖に月明かりが反射して、夜桜を楽しめるんですよー。

🟡🟡キンタマキラキラ金曜日✨️ みなさん素敵な週末をお過ごしください☺️

@TRHLofficial “I believe” is your first problem. “Let’s take a poll of random x people” is not getting you any closer to solving your first problem.

What is the most probable?

I don’t really care if this is unpopular, but I think what really happened to Charlie goes deeper than just some fagg0tt with a gun; I believe it was orchestrated by evil people with motivations so menacing and sinister, they spit in the face of God.

@Sassafrass_84 The Queen Miss Lucy

My daughter brought her boyfriends dog over, and Bailey is rocking the daddy chair. My hubby is like there's a huge dog in my chair. Yea. She is a Boss Babe. This is Bailey Boo. Let's see some puppers or cats.

@watatsuri That's what we use here in Pensacola! It's the best bait!

2日で海外のフォロワーさんが2000人増えた！ありがとう！ でもわたしは多分日本人の中でもちょっとクレイジーwwwなタイプだから気をつけて！😂釣りに行った時に、フナムシを素手で捕まえて、釣りの餌にしたりします

@BlueBoxDave If you don't read it, it will stare at you in disappointment.

How did you read Infinite Jest:

@ConceptualJames @conmomma As the great Thomas Sowell says “As opposed to what?”

What you see almost endlessly from Tucker Carlson, "Comic" Dave Smith, Theo Von, etc., and the rest of the blackpillers amounts to a Critical America Theory. I'm not making this up. I'm explaining. Critical Theory was developed by neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School in 1937. In an interview in 1969, Horkheimer explained what the Critical Theory is. He said (closely paraphrasing): "I developed the Critical Theory because we [Western neo-Marxists] realized we cannot articulate the good or ideal society on the terms of the existing society. What we can do is criticize those aspects of the existing society that we wish to change." In other words, a Critical Theory believes everything is so captured and corrupted by power and those who benefit from systems of power that it isn't even possible to talk about a better situation in clear terms. All that's available is criticism of why the system/society isn't better than it is. This activity has come to be known as identifying or "making visible" the various "problematics" in the existing system. A Critical Theory OF SOMETHING would focus this general mode of engagement into a particular domain. For example, a Critical Theory of Race in America would believe that racism is so endemic to a society and embedded within its systems to the benefit of whites that we cannot articulate a true "antiracist" vision on the terms available to us. All we could do is identify where "racism" manifests and criticize it for being there. We call that program "Critical Race Theory" because it is a Critical Theory of Race. What it does in practice is (1) identifies "hidden racism" in everything (criticizing those elements of the existing (racial) system they wish to change), called "identifying problematics"; (2) induces more people to think this way; nothing else. What a Critical America Theory would look like is not being able to articulate what a good or ideal America would look like on the terms of the existing America but criticizing those elements of America as it exists that we wish to change. That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system. Leftists, including the whole of Critical Race Theory, do this endlessly. From Derrick Bell's (founder of CRT) 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law, forward, it is a relentless racial Critical America Theory. That's why it exported poorly and often hilariously to other countries that don't have the same law or racial history. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980) is another example, a very naked example, of a work of Critical America Theory. Specifically, this book goes through every chapter of American history, from pre-founding (Christopher Columbus) to the present (1980 at the time) and catalogues how America cheated "the people," mainly workers, indigenous, racial minorities, and women (the intersectional coalition). What I'm telling you is that the blackpillers of Podcastistan and X, etc., very notably including Tucker Carlson, are doing a socially conservative variation on Critical America Theory. Whether Carlson or "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) from The Blaze, the undertone of every message is plainly "you don't hate your (real) country enough" as compared against an imaginary ideal that doesn't, can't, and won't ever exist. The Blackpill Comics all do the same thing, relentlessly identifying "problematics" and alleged hidden systems of control that delegitimize the country as it actually is against a standard that isn't even real. The thing is, Critical America Theory is a Critical Theory of America. That is, it is a Critical Theory. That is, when you participate in this slop, you are taking on a critical consciousness about America. Having a critical consciousness is being WOKE, by definition (of Woke). This slop is Woke. When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially Leftist slant, we call it Woke Left (or just Woke). When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially conservative or Rightist slant, we call it Woke Right (which is just Woke too). They are both Woke. They are both toxic. They are both false enlightenment into a kind of terrible darkness, entitlement, malice, despair, hatred, and failure. Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.

@NFL_DovKleiman COP SPEED! CJ2K BABEEEEE!

“It’s only 1 guy that ever went for 2500” “25 in a season? Who?” “Me”

@ImMeme0 Imagine being so far up your own ass that you think it's "obvious that this not be tolerated". How do these people breathe?

Actress Laura Benanti got her ego bruised while boarding a plane when she ran into a group of teenagers from a theater program and none of them recognized her. Her caption read: “I guess they weren’t alive to watch The Tonys in 2008.” How many of you know her?

@xnoesbueno @instapundit Eisenhower was right. NATO should have been broken up when the wall came down. We were there to Russian expansion. It stopped.

What I think the Euros have never fully grasped. NATO was never about defending them. At our expense. It was about keeping the Russians out of there. At our expense. As opposed to having to get them out of there. At our expense. Sort of like how Normandy was never about liberating France. Sounded good, sure, and thanks for the accolades if nothing else. It was about getting the Germans out of France. Again. At our expense. So yeah, the whole thing is probly due for a reassessment. Emphasis on the assessment part.

@JonesDanny @AdamFrank4 Just change our entire energy production and distribution network, what’s the big deal?

Adam Frank (@AdamFrank4) is an astrophysicist and one of the world's clearest thinkers on climate change. And he says the public debate about the Earth's climate has NOTHING to do with science. This is why all "climate experts" seem to disagree about what's happening to global temperatures:

@ruiruicamovi Fishing pier at Fort Pickens, Pensacola Florida

アメリカの皆さん。日本の鎌倉から見る夕焼けがとっても綺麗です。よかったらアメリカの綺麗な夕焼けを見せてください！

@C_Yukimaru Yesssss!!!!!

Do you guys recommend Project Hail Mary? If so, I might go watch it at the cinema.

@Super70sSports You are underestimating it.

I don’t want to overrate William Shatner’s performance of Rocket Man, but it may be the greatest thing that has ever fucking happened.

@nyuryokuya Beautiful!

おはようございます 文字が自動翻訳されるようになったらしいね。海外の人も見てくれてるかな？ 日本で水彩画を描いてます。

@IMAO_ Two great stories made into great films over ten years apart. If there is a stronger argument for Hollywood missing the forest for the trees I haven't seen it.

Andy Weir does get a lot of credit for the movie as it adheres very closely to the great plot he set up.

@JRoberts112358 @ga16788 @esaagar Great straw man but no, it’s not ok if the Government does it instead.

@TmanInTn @ga16788 @esaagar When you talk about a government taking everything someone has, you realize that medical bankruptcy is the most common cause in America, yeah? Is it only ok if the organization taking everything from someone for getting sick is a corporation for you?

My daughter was born 10 months ago and required a brief transfer to a speciality hospital The insurance co tells me I owe nothing: Months later the hospital sends me a bill for THOUSANDS. Insurance says hospitals just send it to see if you'll pay after a service is denied

@randomyoko Americans (whether they appreciate it or not) are born in to a system that is based on universal truths, things like free speech and personal liberty. I don’t think those truths are unique to Americans but this Nation started with those truths as a foundation.

🇯🇵💬 Why do Japanese people like the traditional American way of life? At least for me, I’m not interested in some imagined version of America shaped by shallow experiences or one-sided ideology. Especially not the kind pushed by the left, rooted in a form of white guilt that, in my view, ends up benefiting communists without offering anything meaningful. In the same way people overseas are drawn to samurai, we’re drawn to things like cowboys. I also feel that people who embrace a kind of political correctness based on wanting to offend no one and be liked by everyone are, in some cases, struggling internally. I’d rather they learn to like themselves first, instead of trying to control everything around them. Even if traditional American culture were erased, I don’t think that would make them any happier. What I find compelling is the real America—the one rooted in its own history, culture, and traditions. That’s why I want America to stay truly American.