I understood that reference.

Guess I’ll really have to work for being patient… Or I’ll just break down and buy it anyway at some point.

Same! Waiting for it not to cost 80$ Canadian… If it goes on sale for half, I’ll buy it I guess

So it’s a condensed version of Atlas Shrugged, maybe with a sprinkle of The Fountainhead?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Llullaillaco

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

You can probably get lots of ebooks with your library card, for free.

Ohh, I’m gonna try this, thanks!

That one tab out of two hundred open ones that I really need right now…

Makes me think of Anathem

Very Disco!

Was that to get around the no meat on Fridays rule? Could have just eaten an otter (it lives in water, so it must be a fish).

And suddenly all the AI weirdness is a feature, not a bug.

That’s not very disco.

I think they are trying to make sure the train ride is long enough to make sense for a sleeper. If it’s too short, your might end up with awkwardly short sleep times.

Miraculously it kinda worked for the fall.

Laid off probably…

What a coincidence! I now create them…

Chef’s kiss!

This is just a recycled George Carlin bit.