Chrysalis by RinoZ is fantastic. Isekai but the MC is reincarnated as a giant ant.

Grimnoir trilogy by Larry Correia. Alternate history where humanity begins developing individual magical talents in the 1800s. Takes place late 1930s.

Murderbot diaries. Has live action adaptation in progress on some streaming service. Main character is an artificial biological/machine construct. It is not, in fact, a murderous machine. Unless you threaten its humans.

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Murder mystery in with an eldritch horror twist. I’ve enjoyed this book and the sequel more than anything else I’ve read in the past few years.

I’m still here

Give The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett a go. Murder mystery, political intrigue, with dark fantasy/eldritch horror vibes.

Turns out on further investigation that Accelerando is the collection of several short stories and novellas that were released separately, but do make a whole story.

This sounds like it’s an excerpt from Accelerando. The rest of the story is equally mindfuck, and beyond.

The term “Eigenmother” comes up because identities/personalities are eventually treated like software, with versioning, forks, and multiple instances.

That cute robot cat is a major character. Possibly the most plot important.

Shit gets weird.

Please do not promote the breeding of deformed and suffering animals for your amusement.

Might want to double check that last paragraph

Could be worse. I once received a Saturday detention for “defiance” because I pointed out a mistake the teacher had made on an algebra problem.

It fucking SUCKED, and still does.

It still strikes me at odd times while driving that I have no idea which direction I’m actually going. During the first few years of adjustment I actually managed to get going the wrong way on the freeway and didn’t immediately realize it. I had to get a GPS specifically for that reason. Not to plan my route, but just to remind me where I am and where I’m going.

I cope pretty well now. I had to develop habits that were entirely unnecessary before, like memorizing turns to make sure I’m going the right way when I leave a place I’ve gone to for the first time.

I had “north sense” for most of my life, but it abruptly turned off while driving one day in my 30s. It was extremely disorienting and distressing. It was gone for a couple years, suddenly came back one day, which was an incredible feeling, like regaining an entire limb I had lost. It went away again the next day, and for the next month I got occasional flashes of it, then it was gone for good. It’s been a decade now and the world still feels wrong. There’s places I go to that don’t seem like the same place because my earlier memories include the directional layout, so now it feels uncanny-valley off.

In my dreams, I still have my directional sense, just like any other sense. I imagine it’s like anyone else with a lost sense, your dreams hallucinate your perception of the world to properly match your prior experience.

Your seasonal allergies are you choking on plant jizz.

Hysterical

2000s: cool videos

2010s: pop music

2020s: putting a smartphone in your crotchgoblin’s hands is cheaper than a babysitter

Anal Ognow Here?

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I ran into some app a while back that required 2fa “text you a code” to log in every time.

If you put in the wrong password, it still sent you the 2fa… Which it would accept for login.

I’m honestly not sure if it ever even checked the password.

Like y’all never heard of Passenger of Shit

ok

Ok

Sure, fuck up some innocent trucker’s day, and possibly take his life too.

Oh hey, did you know that being involved in an accident while holding a commercial driver’s license is one of the few times that a US Citizen has no presumption of innocence in the criminal justice system?

The bar that must be cleared is not “are you at fault” but instead “could you have done anything to prevent this”

So you say another driver crossed the median and plowed into you, head on? Well, if you happen to be driving a car and were in your own lane, you’re completely in the clear.

If you were driving a truck, WELL!

Does anybody think you maybe had enough time to see it coming and swerve to avoid it?

Hm, did you really spend enough time inspecting your truck that morning? If you had taken 20 minutes instead of 15 to kick your tires and check your fluids and lights, you know you wouldn’t have been there when that car lost control…

In fact, let’s pull up your entire logbook history and see if we can find any indication that you’ve never once in your life made a single mistake. Shows a tendency toward carelessness, that does.

Yeah, we think you could have done better. Enjoy your civil and criminal penalties for something you had absolutely no control over.

Think about that when you see those giant “INJURED BY A TRUCK? CALL OUR LAW FIRM!” Billboards all over every metro area.

Oh you think that’s bullshit?

I was legally parked along the curb in front of a warehouse, waiting in line to check in. A guy riding a motorcycle at well over twice the speed limit came around the curve, lost control and hit the back of my trailer.

He sued ME. His lawyer argued that I should have known better than to park on that part of the curb where sight would be limited by the curve for other traffic on the road.

Rather than fight it in court, my insurance just settled with him.