I think I understand a bit better now, thanks for your interesting comments !

You asked for something politely, someone gave it to you politely, and you politely conceded the argument.

What is this place?

I get that taste has a lot to do with it, but usually when I read one of the SF “classic”, even though I don’t like it I can see what other people like in it. Ubik is really one of the first where I didn’t understand this. I just read an article saying that what I consider a lack of connections between the different part of the story is in fact a writing effect, to make readers have a “dreamy feeling” while reading the book. I hadn’t considered it that way, and was looking to analysis like this, I’m not trying to tell people my taste is better, just wanted to have their input on the book

Exactly, this is known as the Jevons paradox

Not saying he did, but he 100% would if he could

Who controls the couriers though

Still better than when everyone was talking about the no poop for 3 days guy

No.

Me, living in France, where a cafeteria room is mandatory, 1-2h long lunchs are the norm and your employer has to give you at least 4-5€/day to buy lunch:

Not blockable by any government would be a positive in my book if it didn’t imply bloclable by a single billionaire with huge mood swing. Don’t forget how musk switched off starlink in Crimea at Putin’s request when the Russian realized starlink guided missile were heading towards their ships (Source

TBH he even started a concurrent of it, so he probably expected Twitter to lose value

Are you sure about that? Joinmastodon indicates 819k MAU, would you have a source you can share ?

“Millions of people” if only…

Yes. Can we ? Eh …

Keep us updated!

The kind of sentence you write when you’re still 20 words from the target your editor set for the article

How the turntables

You’ll never allow him to leave the sandbox?

Oompa-Loompas need their pools