What's the worst book you've ever read, discounting self published crap?

I bought my mom Jo Watson's Among Others half a decade ago for mother's day.

I didn't know much about the industry so I thought that it winning the Hugo meant it had to be at least of decent quality. It was so bad that she said it had to read it too

300 pages of the most pretentious precious child crap

!anticommunists use this opportunity to dunk on the resident /h/slavshit commies

https://twitter.com/parirobo/status/1788116630142087299

It's a total fricking lie.

Back when I came of age around 2010 and there was a popular white privilege checklist. It was all stuff like, "when I go shopping, I can be confidemt that someone of my race will be there." Just a bunch of items that came down to, "I am the default race" in order to try to make a list that applies to white people of all income and status levels.

I went on an excursion into town today and I noticed the population was like 90% south Asian, 9.9% black, and yours truly.

I love being the town white. No one treats you any differently, because it's not like they've never seen a white person before, but you get to be the only one who is special looking. The onion ring in a bag of fries. What the frick are minorities playing at acting all mad? My only complaint is that my race would mean that people would look at me funny if I tried pulling off the forehead dot.

Universal white privilege DEBUNKED

Case closed.

student walkout at Duke university commencement as Jerry Seinfeld’s speech is announced. his introduction by university president is being drowned out by “free free Palestine” chants ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/oNLesaput3

— the great clown snorman (@iamschvitzing) May 12, 2024

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It was 20 years ago. And if you're a good actor people will get over it. He said racist shit but he's not as bad as a ton of people in Hollywood. It would be so interesting to see Seinfeld and Richards get together for one last series. (334)

A lot of murderers haven't killed as many people as Hitler, but they're still murderers. Your argument is dumb.Edit: Lot of people missing my point and defending a racist because he made them laugh once. Nice. It is very easy to go through your life without calling anyone the N word. (-106)

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It was 20 years ago. And if you're a good actor people will get over it. He said racist shit but he's not as bad as a ton of people in Hollywood. It would be so interesting to see Seinfeld and Richards get together for one last series. (334)

While that is true, I don't think that means we should forgive him (esp. since he's done nothing to make amends). I think it just shows all the more why we need to hold the scum in Hollywood accountable for their actions. (-37)

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Can't really know how racist someone is inside. He got angry at audience members talking 20 years ago and definitely acted racist and dropped a million N bombs. Go watch Dave Chappelle's laugh factory episode on the same stage afterward, it's awesome. Guy screwed up, but people do. (44)

All of us have screwed up at one point or another. Although, I have never yelled the N word because I was annoyed...Whole lot of handwaving going on here. (-21)

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I've gone back and forth wonder whether he said it because he is/was a seething racist normally able to hide his true feelings, or because he is spoiled and immature and thought it was the most hurtful thing he could say. But, I realized that the result is the same whether he's a racist "at heart" or not. He used racist language and his position of power in the moment and as a white man to belittle a black man. He may or may not walk around with racist thoughts threatening to spill out every moment, but he certainly was willing and able to fire a racist comedic weapon. Does doing a racist thing always mean somebody a racist?* Probably not, but the hurt and harm it causes is the same either way. To that end, all the attention was put on the figuring out his feelings and not the feelings of those that were hurt by what was said and who said it. *Is a loan officer a racist if they just need a paycheck and have no control over lending algorithms they've come to realize are bias... (1)

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Cancel culture is so weird. I still haven't forgiven Chris Brown for beating rhiana, but racism I can get over. Louis ck sexually assaulted other women by exposing himself and idc anymore, but I didnt find him as funny anymore either. When we find out someone cheated on their spouse, the world seems to go to shit on them but I'm just here not caring cus its not my business or illegal. There's no standard to this. Cancelculture is relative to public opinion and applied by the those in charge. People tried to cancel dave, which I found ignorant of them, and Netflix basically told them to go frick themselves lol. (1)

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Yes, let's just pass judgment on everyone based on their worst moment. Ignore everything else! Are you 12 years old??? Do you also look at yourself through that lens, or do you give yourself a pass?  (1)

No? It's just that some people's worst moments are so bad that everything else they do don't make up for it.If someone's worst moment is being rude while stressed but always a great person otherwise, they are most likely considered a great person.If someone's worst moment is murdering people while stressed but always a great person otherwise, they are most likely considered a murderer.If your worst moment makes you do something a lot worse than other people could ever imagine themselves doing, then your worst moment is probably bad enough for you to be judged by that a lot more heavily.If you don't understand that, you're probably the one who's 12. (2)

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has been fired.

Shoigu, a close partner to Putin, led the Russian MOD for over 11 years. pic.twitter.com/4wI09VjVRG

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 12, 2024

Update: there is some debate over exactly how fired Shoigu is https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1789736250540191783

मानवीय विकास विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग से ही संभव है। मानविकी दर्शन राह दिखाता है लेकिन समस्याओं का निदान और जीवन की गुणवत्ता में इजाफा तकनीक से ही संभव है

सीमित संसाधनों के लिए निरंतर संघर्ष से आज सतत नई value creation तक का सफर विज्ञान से ही संभव हो सका है#NationalTechnologyDay pic.twitter.com/h8cYcimUFa

— Anjali Kataria, DSP 🇮🇳 (@AnjaliKataria19) May 11, 2024

"Human development is possible only through science and engineering. Humanistic philosophy shows the way but solving problems and improving the quality of life is possible only through technology.

The journey from constant struggle for limited resources to continuous new value creation today has been possible only through science" - her tweet

!bharatiya !codecels take a look at her code. She should have learnt some more to simplify the code to use a loop otherwise she wouldn't have to print each letter one by one.

var = "HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY"

for i in var:

    print (i)

Lmao look at the hidden replies:

1st guy is asking her to clean her laptop frequently

2nd guy asking her to use loops

5th guy calls her code shit, says it can be done with 4 lines

The Flanderisation of millennials is not discussed enough. Their entire generation will be remembered as cringe just for the way they interact with the world. pic.twitter.com/nmVE39F3Xp

— Carl Benjamin (@Sargon_of_Akkad) May 11, 2024

"umm i might have been wrong but this says more about leftoids than me"

why are chuds this dumb?

Holy shit that show is so bad. I'd say that I'm slightly "I fricking love science" inclined (as some of you might've seen from one of my recent posts), but this shit drove even me mad. There's so much pseudoscientific, pseudophilosophical pretentious bullshit, my eyes rolled so far back I could see my own brain. Everything is bad about it, everything. The idea is stupid, the plot is r-slurred, the actors are trash, the neo-dudebro dialogue is cringe, the whole idea with the alien VR is like the Matrix if it was released 30 years too late and made as gay as possible.

God, I've watched 2 episodes of this and I'm not watching another one. Absolute trash. And don't tell me the book is better, I don't believe it. There's nothing salvageable here. Everything is bad and I could list it for hours

I would put a little fake service dog vest on this thing and take it to bars to meet women.

Sometimes, when I'm sad, I'll think about the fact that women erected a symbol of feminism defiantly standing in the way of a statue that symbolizes economic prosperity.

What's funnier is the original bull is a guerilla work of art that the creator wasn't paid to do, while the girl was erected as an advertisement for State Street capital's new gender diversity etf: $SHE

Someone doxxing in the comments smh:

The guy who wrote that Medium article is an avowed neo-Nazi, just so you know.

Not saying that makes what Steve said better or defensible at all, even, but I'd be very wary of people's intentions when it comes to stuff like that.

THE PORTAL: a visual bridge connecting New York City to Dublin

A public technology sculpture known as The Portal was unveiled this morning in New York City’s ’s Flatiron neighborhood. The sculpture has a real-time, visual live stream connecting New York City to Dublin, Ireland. pic.twitter.com/ATNBq63QeC

— Noel Y. Calingasan • NYC (@nyclovesnyc) May 8, 2024

This is what they had in mind I'm sure. Some gay little thing where they could do tiktok dances at each other.

Very cute.

It isn't turning out how they hoped.

Maybe we get another HWNDU out of this.