All Quiet on the Western Front

Tells you everything you need to know about war. First book which made me cry. Everybody should read it.

Requiem for a Dream

Huh? Don’t you sort your ranks by size? Having good marchers somewhere then requires all the soldiers to be the same size.

When I was starting to hit puberty, my mother got a severe depression, culminating in a suicide attempt. I remember her for the following ten-ish years as just sitting on her chair and reading or in her bed. When she managed to have a shower, it was a great day for her.

My father managed it all. Still had his taxing job, but now doing all the household, cooking, raising the kids and being supportive for my mother. He was there as father, as provider, as a husband. Eventually my mother was healing and back to her former, energetic self.

I don’t know how my father did it, honestly. My wife and I are struggling with managing our two children as is, if my wife were out of the equation I’d collapse immediately. Granted, my sister and I were a lot older than my kids are now, when shit hit the fan, but still…crazy impressive.

So yeah, basically he is a role model in perseverance and a lot of other things.

Au contraire, it is in its prime time to be racist on Facebook or Truth Social and post sharepics how the Earth is flat and vaccines make autists. Would be funny, Voyager be like “I’ve been to the edge of the solar system. It is all fake, there is a wall here like in The Truman Show”.

Yep, it does. But then again it is in line with how copyright works today: I can draw a Mickey Mouse comic for my child as much as I want, I cannot publish it.

And most parents would not have the time anyway to cut out “all the children’s books”. I love how I could create one that my daughter wished for for her birthday, but it is not a serious dent into our book spendings or library rentals.

I would love to see regulation, that any contet created by AI cannot be used commercially.

I love e.g. that parents can make their own children books, but nobody should profit from all the stolen work of artists.

Have you tried Andor yet? That show is crazy good.