minus 320 degree salt solution viruses and fungi, though?

I hope there are efforts at de-dessertificatoin while the getting is good.

that's the function of life, purpose is self-imposed

darebee.com is the best

How would the chart look if we acknowledged the foreign origin of the language we call English?

I recall it being reported as an amputation, and that likelihood being the thrust of the news coverage - but maybe it wasn't a foregone conclusion and they managed to save it. I didn't want to focus on it, as it was a vacation - and I was around the same age as the victim. On a separate year, a body was found floating the the pool I had watched the rescue from... it wasn't the luckiest of spots to stay, I guess.

To be clear - the skepticism from my family was that there was any shark attack at all, but I appreciate your fact check regardless.

Six is a much higher and more concerning number than I would have guessed for the region - so thanks also for the warning!

About 30 years ago, I was on vacation at Myrtle Beach. A little boy paddled out to watch dolphins more closely. He was on an inflatable, with his legs in the water.

Sharks follow behind dolphin pods, watching for opportunities to eat older, sick, or younger dolphins.

Chomped the kid's leg off at the knee, while I was in a pool overlooking the sea. It was one of those vacation spots where parents could pretty safely leave their kids to their own devices - and my family (absent at the time) didn't believe me until it was shown on the news that night.

Covid might consider this more uplifting than humanity.

I'll never understand readers who think it's an author's job to make them like characters.

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

The stroke idea is fairly sound - I've seen that happen with other authors. Clive Barker's massive decline seems due to the blood poisoning and health issues he's had (along with a lot of trauma - some of his causing).

My money was on Card having some scheme to take credit from a ghost writer at the beginning of his publishing career.

Truly - the language doesn't seem to be Card's at all. The whole things stinks to high heaven.

if only the "why not both?" meme was popular at the time

don't miss The Other or Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

it's depressing, if you like that

They really are just about perfect reads. Soo comforting and optimistic compared to the general circumstances people find themselves in today. She's absolutely right when she says they are for anyone who needs an escape or a respite. I will always buy Becky Chamber's book upon their release - she's incredibly good, and her work feels so timely and important. I share her work with everyone.

He's absolute fucking trash, these are charitable sentiments, but you do you.

Card is deplorable.

It's very hard to believe he even wrote the first couple Ender books.

Dude's a proud nazi - overlooking shit like that is a no-go.

Baby proceeds to rescue someone else from the car.