The public library has tools and such in a lot of places.
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The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Lyndon LaRouche. I'd occasionally run across a few of his minions out leafletting and they oozed that culty wacko vibe.
I couldn't tell you, TBH. I have only read the series of books.
Well it's a series, but Three body problem. It should have been right up my alley, but I got so tired of every decision by every character being stupid that I couldn't be bothered to read the last fifty pages of the last book.
Even if I charitably assumed the point of the book was to show that people are weak and stupid, the series was such a ham-handed strawman as to undercut its own commentary. And even worse, it had just enough interesting ideas to lead me to believe it was going somewhere worthwhile, but it never did.
It's been years and I'm still pissed off that I wasted a week on it.
A sign that reflects the eternal truth... You don't buy beer. You rent it.
You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.
Rule number one: the kids are alright.