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Stegiel's avatar

Hugo is awarded by readers to the most popular SF piece of writing in it's category. Novel, Novella, Short Story. Nebula is for the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America to vote on for best writing.

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Dean Scoville's avatar

Excellent, sad, and necessary read on all that is repellent, mad, and unnecessary.

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Katherine's avatar

Very well said. Spot on.

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Dean Scoville's avatar

Danke :)

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Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))

❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-x-preparing-for-power-sars

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Clarence, Bronze was imported to Scandinavia from the East Mediterranean. This trading started about 1750 BC. At just the same time amber from the Baltic started to appear in Mycenaean and Minoan graves. This gives evidence of active trading between the Mediterranean and Scandinavia. The sudden appearance of picture of large ships cut into bedrock surfaces and blocks at about the same time suggests that this trading took place via visitors arriving by ships. The size of the ships seems to preclude a stepwise transfer via the river systems between the Black Sea and the Baltic, but rather a travel over the Atlantic Sea. This calls for sea-worthy ships and knowledge in geography. In the Bronze Age, only the Mycenaean, Minoan and Phoenician cultures had such ships and such skill. Reaching this far north by 1750 BC in ships following the Atlantic coast of Europe implies that those people may as well have reached much further to the south and the west than previously assumed. https://novoscriptorium.com/2019/02/23/ancient-mediterraneans-in-scandinavia-bronze-age-trade/

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Till 2035 you say. Could have been worse, could have been 2030. What's with the 2030 agenda, has it been pushed out.

So what's your bucket list for the next twelve years. Such short term thinking is going to make a lot of things not worth doing. Save for old age? Hah! Paint the house? Hah!

It will solve the housing shortage problem even if there's nothing to eat after the looting.

The propaganda will be extra comedic. Well, it's comedic now.

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Stegiel's avatar

I have my novels to finish. A State to laugh at as it collapses in stupidity.

Gotta get my Hugo and Nebula before I am broken down for spare parts.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Sorry to be ignorant about Hugo and Nebula.

I have been asleep for decades.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Apropos de rien, or maybe not.

I have a neighbour friend with a pretty awful cold concrete block no windows garage detached from house.

And for past couple of months there's a lot of recorded music coming from said garage.

Neighbour friend's wife has some sort of sickness, suddenly came upon her, that she cannot leave the house without her husband and can't wash herself etc.

Previously a high school headmistress of impeccable sartorial taste and bearing with chignon hair style.

Saw her being delivered by her husband to the hairdresser. Now a butch sort of haircut. Her husband reassured her that he would be back soon.

Neighbour friend also spending a lot of time on the street polishing his BMW motorbike.

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Esteban's avatar

I will never comply

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wilson's avatar

excellent summary. How did all this happen? How did this corrupt, greedy evil get so much power? Rhetorical questions of course. Let's do a worldwide Bastille day.

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The Shadow Band's avatar

It's an insane murder clown posse

Straight down the line

They have been killing peasants

Since men were drinking wine

There's a sickness

Wants only power

Like skinny, wants fat

Run little mouse, it's a cat

You can taste in the air

It's even in our hair

The sad belief

In chairs and sheets

The evil standing

Invisible, right there

Because our minds have been trained see a sea of zeros,

And still never ever change a brand.

That someone that is dying

From anyone's not-trying

It is you

It is me

I taste the copper taste

Of too late

But who knows

Eh Serraa?

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Stegiel's avatar

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

Although its light is wide and great,

The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.

The whole moon and the entire sky

Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

~ Dogen

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