pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
I suspect a lot of people are also disturbed by the process by which this was conducted. Previous significant renovations (construction of the East and West wings, Truman's renovation) were done in conjunction with Congress, paid for by the government.
I have a hard time seeing the zone of Congressional authority here: it's an executive action on executive property for the direct use of the executive. Congress has the power of the purse, it doesn't and shouldn't have veto authority over every government activity.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
Is there a consensus somewhere that the up/downvote is not a proxy agree/disagree?
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
It was not a science procedural, it was more of a techno-thriller set on the Moon. It's my least favorite but I chalk that up more to taste than quality. Andy Weir conceded in that CD interview that he probably made the main character a bit too much of an asshole.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
Well if it's shortly before midnight, presumably absorption is minimal. He would be wrong during the day though.
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PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
4d ago
RTA, perhaps this is a type of genre as an analogue to the police procedural, the science procedural, and I enjoy both.
Same. I bought The Martian back in the day, so I bought Artemis and Hail Mary shortly after release. Never imagined either one could be adapted to a movie. Andy Weir definitely likes his protagonists to be a bit Reddit, but I dig his methodical, well-researched but creative plots and the characters are at least not one-dimensional. I watched that interview with Critical Drinker and it was actually quite interesting. He was pretty candid about his writing process and how the industry works.
ETA: Best-looking space movie since Interstellar at least, and more relatable characters. I really like a sci fi story where the moral is not about the hubris of man or the cruelty of the xenos.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
4d ago
Similar, 302. Also lowest on the literary (26), and missed only one between both technical and computational. I also only chose options I was reasonably confident in and did not guess at all.
We are not burning your house down, but possibly we aren't going to put out the fire out of deference to you any more.
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