What handwaving? How am I trying to blame the other side? Where did I write that?
What Hamas did on 7th Oct is terrible and unjustified. I support Israel's right to defend itself. That doesn't mean they have carte blanche do as they wish. How can you not see that? Is your moral compass completely off?
No. You also need to mod the body to a reptilian pattern. Some of the dinosaurs would make a good model. How about a flame wielding pterosaur?
Actually, I think violet, or a least indigo, eyes are more plausible. All that requires is an additional pigment.
And the Jewish settlers are consistently and constantly reasonable are they? Was turning Gaza in to a giant open air prison and destroying any hope for its population reasonable? Israel's killing of tens of thousands of women and children and driving over two million people to the point of starvation as well as destroying half their buildings is not reasonable and is disproportionate. You're clearly biased.
Both sides have done and continue to do bad things.
Well, Toyota was one of the HD DVD companies. How did he expect this to work out?
I give it less than 15 minutes until some arsehole settlers beat, kill, threaten or shoot at a Palestinian or block access to, evict from or steal some of their land.
Why are you so quick to blame one side? It looks to me like six of one and half-a-dozen of that other.
That was the reason I switched to Linux. Of course, I could have switched to BSD, but Debian potato was easier to install.
The hero tale is one with a long history behind it. I think it's always been the dominant style. So that's not really a legitimate criticism...not unless you are making an encompassing claim, and if you are, then it's false. (I've encountered several books with a heroine.) And the dominant style always reflects the zeitgeist. (In the late 1940's and early 50's there was lots of WWII echoes, often re-staged in different settings.)
FWIW, my tastes have always been quite narrow, and minority, but I think they've narrowed over the years. OTOH, possibly it's just that the net doesn't provide exposure to the tales that I would like. Perhaps they're still out there, but I can no longer easily browse through and tell that they're something I'd be interested in.
Part of the problem is definitely the sales channel. Grocery stores only carry "best sellers". (They may not actually be best sellers, but they're marketed as such.) 20 displays of 10 books, and two or three with only a few...probably left over from last month.) Also a few books that I already have on my shelf, from a decade ago.
Even book stores lean in this direction, sufficiently that I no longer want to browse in them. (OTOH, I always preferred science-fiction and technical books.)
But I really think part of the problem is the zeitgeist. Nobody wants to read it. It's like when the anti-hero became "popular with publishers". People found reading that stuff unpleasant, so they stopped. Except for a few. And some of those will be picked up, eventually, as classics that everyone should read. Just like "Jude the Obscure" was. Nobody that I ever met liked that story, but some academics thought it was important enough to force everyone to read it.
The last technical book I bought used grey ink for the examples. If I'd been able to see it before I bought it, I wouldn't have. I think they probably had a decent book, but the only editing was for the e-book, and that used color, but they printed the book in black and white.
Another turned out not to have any index. The text was decent, but just try to look something up.
The editors of print books are
Fiction:
12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell
Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
