dayofthedaleks

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   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   Are you perhaps thinking of Octavia Butler, here? Le Guin was white.
2. 182.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   Glad that the Voice of White Flight Suburbs could chime in. Edit: Also, it looks like Kwame Kilpatrick hasn't stood for office in more than a decade. Exactly what axe are you grinding, here?
3. 183.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   You should consider Charles Stross' 'Laundry Files' series then!
4. 184.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   Huh, I'd never known the Australian use as a synonym for jakes/outhouse!
5. 185.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   Fyi... for that expression you'd want to use 'dike,' not its homophone.
6. 186.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   “You’re not getting anything,” he said. “You understand? Nothing. You’re getting nothing.” Empty man consumed by his own emptiness, leaves shiny baubles behind.
7. 187.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   191 films were released by the top 10 US studios in 2015. I bet most 24-plexes screened them all, plus more.
8. 188.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   Grandiloquence, or using words like 'grandiloquence.'
9. 189.▲
   by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

   'Get a horse!'
10. 190.▲
    by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

    I do! As I recall, he sort of was a terrorist though? Something about the planning or discussion of apartment house gasline bombings? They didn't even need an agent provocateur to produce evidence for this one. On a semi-related note,
11. 191.▲
    by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

    It's nice to think the market would solve this but you're basically describing the Horn of Africa, where overfishing has led to piracy because no other viable options exist. Meanwhile depletion continues by the last desperate fish
12. 192.▲
    by dayofthedaleks 8y ago

    So... the Bene Gesserit breeding program to produce the Kwizatz Haderach, then.
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    by dayofthedaleks 9y ago

    I know it's some ways off, but I like to think we eventually will be able to create bespoke bacteriophages via genemods, tailored both to the patient's genome profile and the infection at hand. All the exciting cancer stuff right
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    by dayofthedaleks 9y ago

    (citation needed)
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    by dayofthedaleks 9y ago

    snoopy RFID