Was it Bill Grates?

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There's no way to make zombies work.

They would dehydrate and dry up pretty rapidly. They would run out of energy, regardless of what's making them tick, also pretty rapidly.

They couldn't possibly be strong, they'd be more like elderly cancer patients, doddering on for a few hours before collapsing in a heap, never to move again.

I think China fully meets every bullet point of "civilized."

The US has had similar laws on the books in various states against infidelity, oral sex, and so on that just don't get enforced.

An onion-y headline would be something like:

"Chinese province enacts ban on abortions after the 60th trimester"

How is that oniony?

Are they badasses? violent?

Or do they run away?

I feel like you could just run up and kick it to death.

I don't get it, and I'm 80% sure there's nothing to get

Instead of apologizing, you should have followed up with, "No rush, but I'd mainly like to see improvements in areas A, C, and D. Let me know how you plan to proceed."

Well that's pretty fuckin awesome

3 is nonsense.

That's not a problem to solve, it's a Douglas Adams joke.

I think people want to be Walter White more for the broad field of knowledge, quick thinking, incisive decision-making, self-sacrifice, and ability to carry out a task to its completion, and less for the willingness to break several laws.

Likewise people idolize Tyler Durden for his bold vision, charisma, adulation from peers, exciting exploits, and ability to have lots of awesome sex, and less for his blowing up stuff.

People's lives lack drama and excitement, and they feel admiration for a protagonist who can act swiftly and competently in a pinch.

Thoughtlessly conforming to social norms is of course not ideal, and sloughing off outdated and ossified traditions is healthy and key to adaptation.

But knee-jerk rebellion just for its own sake is execrable and should be treated with hostility. Our ancestors were not all a bunch of deluded, doctrinaire fools, and a great deal of wisdom has been laid down by people that learned what does and doesn't work.

When lacking a depth of insight on a matter, it is probably better to go with the house rules rather than upending the table.

While varying one's speed forwards in time is demonstrable, I think regressive time travel is absolutely impossible forever no matter what.

The past isn't a place you can go to. It doesn't exist and cannot be brought into existence by any combination of actions.

I'd rather have OP give it to me

Possible in some particular situations, yes, but not the norm.

I can't just go over to my friend's house or the library and have access to everything that's on my hard drive.

That's a fair point, but the ones in this case who will be profiting will be the cloud service providers, just another service hundreds of millions of people are paying for in perpetuity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpzKG0Nou2k

[points] HAW-HAW

I read another of his books, it might have been The Sound and the Fury.

I don't remember details but I remember not liking it much.

It wasn't anything like the feeling of angry disgust I got from As I Lay Dying, though.

I can't answer what my favorite book ever was. Not like "ooh, there's so many," just like I usually don't keep track of them in my mind that way.

One recent read that struck me very favorably was The Death of Ivan Ilych.

>Gorgeous writing and interesting topics

I see people say things like this, but I don't get it in even the smallest sense. I found the writing to be execrable. Inane and pointless. Reading it I felt that Faulkner was pointing a pen of disdain at his audience. As if to brag to his fellows, while thoroughly drunk, "See what drivel I can set down in print, and they'll lap it up, the dogs they are!"

This was perhaps my least favorite read of my entire life.

I absolutely hated it.

I have a theory that there are different loci of cognition in the brain with competing inputs, but a particular one of them generally gets its way almost all of the time. The overruled loci are in something of a power struggle with the preferred one, each seeing an incomplete portion of all sensory input and having an incomplete cognitive toolkit for decision-making.

In this framework, intrusive thoughts are the demands of one or more subject loci, clamoring for power inside their grey milieu.

Also, we like intoxication and substance abuse because it temporarily upsets this detente and shunts more decision-making power towards cognitive loci that are generally denied it.