:cool: Looking forward to reading it.Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir [The Martian] Excellent alien encounter out around Tau Ceti. Definitely a good read. — Bitter Crank
He has always been our Marxist rabble rouser with the credentials and experience to stand behind it — T Clark
I lately haven't been as interested in rousing the rabble on behalf of Uncle Karl as I used to be. Old age, I suppose. I haven't felt the desire to participate in discussions as much as I used to. Old age, I suppose. Hey -- now that I have it, old age is a good excuse for doing and not doing all sorts of things. — Bitter Crank
Yes, pragmatism; good thing. — Bitter Crank
Where some see coincidence others see consequence. Seriously though, they probably helped to simulate interesting and good quality topics. — praxis
Because her leaving was so ugly, the moderators moved the Shoutbox out of the mainline discussions and into the Lounge. That took a lot of energy out too. It was the place where everyone got together to gossip and complain and it showed up on the front page. Now, most people don't even look at it. It goes for days without a comment. I understand why the moderators moved it. They thought there was too much disruption, and they were right. Still, it took some of the life out of the forum. — T Clark
Yep. What we really need is a real, separate shoutbox in a little box at the side, as in the old forum and a few alternative forum platforms. We can't implement that here and my feeling is we just wait till the time comes to make the move to Discourse or whatever. — jamalrob
Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir — Bitter Crank
It did hurt and I didn't give up without a fight to get it back on the main page.I understand why you did it, but it hurt. It would be great if you could figure out a way to bring it back. — T Clark
I could stand Cormak McCarthy's book The Road, just barely, but not the movie. — Bitter Crank
The threads were held together with the glue of a community and that is not present as of late. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
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