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I’ve read most of Asimov’s sci-fi but I’ve only read one Reynolds. It was great, I’ll definitely read some more. Thanks for the response!

Yeah I’m gonna need examples. I read a shit ton of science fiction and can’t recall having encountered this.

You might like reading about decimal time…

That’s fair. I went with Covid because J6 did have any real ongoing impact. It happened and then everyone tried to move on like nothing had happened. That was itself surreal, of course. Covid had more of the “this changes everything forever” feeling (though at this point it seems like everyone has forgotten about it)

Look, I lived through both 9/11 and the pandemic and other events besides. If you didn’t feel any weird vibes in the first weeks of March 2020, I’m guessing this is more of a You problem.

My point is that many people felt destabilized by the attack. Maybe you’re too galaxy brained for that, but maybe you can try being galaxy brained enough to understand how others felt.

You remember how weird and scary and paranoid everything was in the early days of the pandemic? That’s a bit what it was like on/after 9/11. It was a shock to the entire nation, and the world suddenly felt uncertain in a way it hadn’t on 9/10.

You’re contextualizig the attack in terms of loss of life, numbers, but what you’re missing is the vibe of the thing.

Yes! It’s the greatest show I can’t talk anyone into watching. It and The Leftovers.

Reminds me of this scene from Patriot: https://youtu.be/v4RmvPcaYw0

Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.

Yeah, I got a shocking amount of incredulity from people at the office when I offhandedly mentioned walking my dog twice a day.

That’s when it stops being maths and becomes science

I mean, mathematics are an invention. A useful one, sure, but the whole thing is just made up by people playing around with numbers and going “what if we had a new, different kind of numbers…”