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I'm REALLY well read and I have a hard time finding new books to read. I need an audiobook for train ride->plane flight->bus ride tomorrow. Please halp!
  • Can I just say thank fuck I found someone else who doesn't like three body problem.

    It's not just the heavy handed politics. It's literally everything about the book. Narrative devices used are absolutely garbage. Oh there's a video game for some reason, and people LARP as Newton and Qin Shih Huang down to their exact personalities. Why the fuck?

    In the second book there's an entire section dedicated to the protag's fantasies. A woman should have at most a Bachelor's so she's smart but not smart enough (paraphrased). What the fuck? And don't get me started on the suicide bomb strat that immediately saw the Muslims and Japanese roped in.

    The characters are incredibly dull. They just do one thing, but they don't even do that well. Oh here's Mr. Army guy; personality: army salute-y pragmatic unfeeling. The only character that has an added dimension would be Da Shi the policeman, but adding one more dimension to a point simply results in a plane.

    People claim he had innovative ideas for sci-fi. They do realise that the Dark Forest Hypothesis was proposed by someone other than cixin, right?

    This turned out to be a rant -- could you tell I hate-read this book cause it pissed me off to no end?

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  • You're right, and an upvote for you. I've seen colleagues who encounter a 90% drop in efficacy when making the leap to Phase 1 trials (and this is excluding safety concerns!).

    It is rigorous and thank everything the Process is put in place. But I specifically used Oxycontin as an example for a pertinent reason. Rigour isn't applied to everyone equally, and I think that itself underscores a need to think critically.

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  • I agree, we should probably trust the doctors more than the crazies on Facebook or wherever they get their nonsense. But I think it's also dangerous to place blind faith in doctors, who themselves are susceptible to misinformation and advertising. Oxycontin adverts appeared in NEJM, doctors went "wow I should prescribe that", and that didn't go well.

    I think trusting Science is most important. Read peer reviewed articles and read them critically.

  • [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
  • Tunic is amazing! Although the combat feels very clunky (maybe I'm spoiled by sekiro).

    Thankfully, you can just turn on reduced difficulty, since the beauty of the game lies not in the slow combat, but the puzzles and puzzles within those puzzles. Also the main character is adorable.

  • Malaysia bans Israeli owned and linked shipping citing ‘cruelty against the Palestinian people’
  • I think the people who downvoted you don't actually understand that this is really Malaysia being antisemitic. This is a country (my country, mind you) that has a term for the Jewish Agenda (Agenda Yahudi), and thought that the vaccines were haram because the Jews were purposely putting pork serum into it.

    I'm against Israel as well, but you'd think people would have some nuance when discussing topics like these.

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