Legendary sci-fi writer Dan Simmons has passed away of a stroke.
Hyperion is one of science fiction's greatest literary works. He was amazing and inspirational, and he kept out of the public eye in recent years after the left went after him for questioning climate change.
He will be missed.
@FoodProfessor 160% doesn’t add up. I remember paying $9 for a 1kg bag of Lavazza at Costco about three years ago. Now the exact same bag is $25. It crept from 9 → 11 → 16, and suddenly it’s 25. That’s way more than 160% and honestly pretty insane
@Microinteracti1 Canadians didn’t ‘decide’ anything -the government yanked US spirits off the shelves. Now I have to cross the border just to buy a decent bottle of wine because of the morons in charge
We made our war very comfortable for the world. We considered everyone’s interests. We acted carefully and reasonably.
Africa has nothing to eat, and African children supposedly need stolen Ukrainian grain from the occupied territories?
Sure — go ahead, take it, enjoy! It doesn’t matter that Ukrainian children are dying under shelling; the important thing is that African children don’t starve!
Indian taxi drivers need Russian fuel?
Of course — send your tankers into the Black Sea and keep financing the war against Ukraine! We get it: nothing personal, just business. You need money, and we’ll endure it — we’re already used to it.
I believe it was a major mistake to allow the world to put on soft slippers, grab a beer, sit comfortably on the couch, and watch us being killed on TV. Because when you now ask why the world has suddenly stopped caring about our problems — well, why should it care if everything is fine for them?
You don’t call the maintenance service when you have electricity, water, and functioning elevators. So why expect others to react if everything is working perfectly in their lives?
For the world to help us, we must take away its slippers, pour out the beer, and smash a window — so that it HEARS, FEELS, UNDERSTANDS why we’ve been shouting under its windows for so many years.
Children in Africa are starving because of our war? I’m sorry, but who gave you the right to prioritize African children over Ukrainian children who are being killed by shelling? I reject such senseless discrimination!
India’s GDP might slow down because of a shortage of Russian oil? Well, maybe that will finally make them think about how to end the war — instead of cozying up to Putin and making money off our suffering.
Striking Russian tankers is justified, and such strikes must continue — regardless of the vessels’ ownership, and regardless of the interests of our partners.
Closing the Black Sea to Russia would be the best sanction possible. And we must do it to survive. If someone doesn’t like it — go to Putin and demand that he end the war and free Ukrainian land. That is the only way.
Author: Serhii Marchenko, a Ukrainian soldier