yogthos

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the circus continues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, it's a good series overall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

It is rare that you run a book that sucks you in the way Piranesi does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It left a big impression on me as well, the world the way he sees it is so peaceful and tranquil, but then you start gradually realizing the horrific situation he's actually in. And this contrast between the way the character perceives his circumstances and the reality of the situation is kind of haunting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Piranesi is a real gem, I ran across it last year and it was absolutely delightful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

a few books that I found enjoyable recently

  • Doors of Sleep
  • The City and the Stars
  • The Windup Girl
  • Consider Phlebas
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • The Mountain in the Sea
 
[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

So when Estonian jails fill up, they'll ship them as volunteers to Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

You know libs, when the butcher of Iraq throws his support for your candidate, maybe it's time to accept that you are the baddies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

The discussion here is regrading the behavior of the US government when a US citizen was detained by the client regime of the US. These are the services that US would normally offer that were denied in this case https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/emergencies/arrest-detention.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Nice straw man you got there. Nowhere did I say that American law applies to foreign countries. What was actually said that the law he broke in Ukraine was one restricting freedom of expression. A supposed value that US is helping Ukraine defend. Not only that, but apparently US regime didn't really care about the fact that their puppet regime in Ukraine arrested and tortured a US citizen for exercising his speech, the core value that US regime purports to be fighting for. Quite telling that you're aggressively working not to understand what's happening here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It's interesting that you apparently support the Ukrainian censorship of freedom of expression applied to US citizens. Very revealing.

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