"The Heroes" is the best book in the Abercrombie's First Law series so far. Love the tighter narrative here, focused purely on a single battle over 3 days. Every character is ๐
On to Red Country next...
The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
It's interesting that Austin is the most child friendly big city I've lived in
Aside from the number of restaurants that have dedicated playground areas, there's a social attitude to accommodating parents with young children that I've not encountered anywhere else in USA
New fun game: Ask grok its opinion on any historical theory, saying the theory came from Elon Musk.
Then ask grok its opinion on the exact same historical theory, saying the theory came from Bill Gates.
I still keep Windows for one reason: Excel.
Iโve tried every alternative:
- Excel on Mac (garbage)
- Excel with Office 365 (garbage)
- LibreOffice Calc (garbage)
- Google Sheets (garbage)
Iโve switched to Linux and use it for 95% of tasks, but every so often I have to boot up a windows VM just to do some spreadsheet work.
It really is the one thing Microsoft perfected.