That could be it - many elements are familiar, although the title isn’t at all, but I have read a lot of Fredrik Pohl. The plot synopsis also doesn’t mention the characters finding out they had been married before. Maybe that’s a small detail that just stands out more in my mind.
Yes I understand why people say antagonistic things when they’re angry or passionate about something. What I’m saying is that it does no good to turn potential allies into adversaries by hitting their hot buttons. Unless you want your content to only be read by people who are already on your side. Not that echo chambers are all bad - tbh sometimes we need them. The issue before was that there have always been men who treated women like objects. It’s also always been true that there have been other men who didn’t. The phrasing isn’t THE issue but it is AN issue, and it’s avoidable by not hanging onto the idea that there’s only one conceivable way to say something.
Reminds me another story about an idyllic world where almost nobody worked and everything was provided. At one point a crew showed up to repair a house, and everybody gathered around to watch, marveling at their work clothes and tools. One guy yearned to use tools so he started making little craft items at home, and trading them to people for worthless little tiddly wink tokens they used for friendly bets on sports. Then his neighbors started doing the same thing and they got a little economy going, using the tokens as currency, until the government got wind of it and squashed the whole thing because commerce was illegal.
All the comments assume everybody else isn’t also immortal. I forget the title and author but there’s an old sci fi story (or novel?) about a future where everybody lives for centuries, and they’ve found that the brain only retains a certain amount of experience. They have long careers, get tired of doing whatever, re-educate and do something else, or even have multiple families they eventually forget about. A couple of the characters are surprised to find out they used to be married like a century earlier. To me that seems vaguely like reincarnation, and I kind of don’t hate the idea. I really don’t see any downside to that scenario, or even just going on forever.
People are focused on having regrets and negatives that last forever. But buck up li’l camper, you can learn to move on from stuff. And I say this as a dad whose daughter had cancer at age 10 (she survived). It was hell and I wouldn’t want to live through that whole period again, but I don’t consider it a reason not to want to live forever. The trick is to learn how to cope with these things and not let them outweigh the good experiences you have.
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I think the practical result would be the same as any existing upvote/downvote system, because people don’t objectively evaluate content for being well researched or thought out or expressed in good faith, they upvote what they like or agree with and downvote what they don’t. They’re going to do that no matter what you tell them to do.
False dichotomies and flat truisms don’t start conversations tho, they end them. Yes, men have been treating women like sex objects since forever, but men have also NOT been treating women like sex objects - it depends on which men you’re talking about. And that sentiment does NOT equal simply ignoring that marital rape exists. The world doesn’t consist solely of extremes.
Think if you said getting AIDS was something gay men did. Statistically pretty true - the vast majority of AIDS cases among men are gay man - but do you think that would be a productive way to approach the subject?
Had to look this up. Dr. Pepper was formulated in Waco Texas by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton, for the soda fountain in the drugstore where he worked. Some say his employer, Wade Morrison, named it after a Dr. Charles Pepper, the father of an old girlfriend. But the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco has been unable to confirm this story.
LOL the first trick is my go to. I regularly read Washington Post articles in notepad.
My mom told me Dr. Pepper was made from prune juice, which I guess is party true about the original formula.
…or that Dr. Pepper’s degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.
Yep, that’s what I heard. They also do overnight backups so it needs downtime, kind of like people.
So they’re more worried about misinformation about the results than misinformation that influences the actual voting. Well alrighty.
Unrelated, I can’t help noticing how much Altman reminds me of Luke Dunphy from Modern Family.
Not true! Stein had a profound influence on the 2016 election, when she got more votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin than Trump’s margin over Clinton in those states. That doesn’t necessarily mean her voters would have voted for Clinton, but getting Clinton voters was definitely her job.
Third party? More like ten or twelve! I was gobsmacked when I saw how many presidential candidates were on my ballot who I haven’t heard of.
Doesn’t seem that hard to get. From observation it appears that grown men can still long for father figures.
Fake, like his fake union workers ad and his chinese-made fake-patriotic merch.
Yes. I also don’t yell at them to get off my lawn.