At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom. Literally everything is covered in dick stuff. Source: 30+ years of using public restrooms as a male.

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    22 days ago

    1Q84: never ran across it, but from the wikipedia article:

    novel’s excessive repetition, clichéd writing, clumsy styling and unyielding plot.

    Which is pretty much where I was with TBP, so I can’t imagine I’ll rush out to read this.

    Regarding translation: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/s3zm9t/the_threebody_problem_is_not_good/izxm5l2/

    I’ve read other chinese authors translated by the likes of Ken Liu and I see nothing like that, enjoy them well enough, before and after reading TBP. So the usual “your closed western mind can’t conceive of the Chinese style” argument kinda pisses me off when I get it back in discussions of these books. But I’m used to that reaction, so I don’t take it personally anymore.

    Yah, I was thinking of the attenuation issue there, and not to mention that eventually the powerful transmissions go away in order to use low-power, high-bandwidth satellite bouncing instead of blaring away at 1kW to communicate. I imagine we’re already much quieter than we were 20 years ago.