Winter was cancelled because Millennials flooded the comment section with downvotes.

>Or as the company in the article is doing, raising them to invite 'hunters' to pay to hunt them.

The farmer isn't raising wild boar, just regular farmed pigs.

When domesticated pigs escape, they revert to wild pigs in two generations.

I've never found that identifying or not identifying with a character because of their gender was why I did or did not enjoy a book.

>fight an invading species

Burmese Pythons have devastated the mammalian populations of Florida, with some species down by 92% since 1992, when Hurricane Andrew first let loose the snakes from pet stores.

I think drones, with infrared cameras & AI-pattern recognition software, could help ID pythons in the wild--sorting by size--and when one is located, humans in the control base alert other humans in the field to move, and kill them.

The invasive snake is estimated to have a population of 180 - 200k, and regular snakes hunts--with cash prizes--struggle to bring in more than a few hundred at a time.

Oh, the better-than-thou card, eh?

>you have to repeatedly state

No, I don't. And even if I did, it takes two seconds, "Sure, he's a dick, but let me finish telling you about how awesome Ender's game is..."

You don't have to, but I am willing to separate the art from the artist.

His science fiction is remarkably progressive.

>I’m sure there’s gonna be some stuff.

Self-entitlement is something that has existed for probably 50,000 years.

Imagine being of the first few generations that learned to make fire. Their kids grew up thinking fire was just an everyday thing, and probably let the embers go out on too many occasions, only to have Mom & Dad come home and be like WTF, why did you let the coals go out?

Because we can just get them going again.

I wasn't gone all day hunting wooly mammoth just so that you could let the coals go out. Back in my day keeping the coals going was the most important thing.

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When a generation introduces a technology or a better implementation of an older tech, the next generation grows up not understanding the importance of the technological leap that was made. It has always existed for them, so they don't value it as much as the people who mainstreamed it.

Whatever tech people born in the past 20 years mainline is going to be taken for granted by their kids, and in 2060 the people born in 2000 are going to look at kids born in 2030 as being entitled asshats.

Okay, so their kids are, at most, 8 or 9 but probably younger? They are still mostly cute. Wait until they are teenagers, and watch Millennials complain about the younger generation.

>Bill has some terribly stupid and uninformed gripes about millennials and Gen z

Very strongly agree with most of what you said, but I will disagree with this.

Bill cites Millennials' desire to complain about everything, but their voter participation is about 25%, which is abysmal, and so many issues would improve if they would just fucking vote.

Also, every generation finds fault with the ones that come after it. Just wait until Millennials are parents, and grandparents and watch them complain about the younger generations.

Every generation makes some things better, and some things worse.

Agree with everything you said. No comedian can satisfy every particular audience member all the time--nor should they try, or it is even possible.

Colbert was brilliant on the TCR, skewering conservatives while pretending to be a conservative, even getting invited to the Whitehouse Correspondents' Dinner to roast Bush in 2006. But now? His monologues are decent, but usually not anywhere as good as his stuff from 15 years ago.

Trevor's best work were his editorials on race, but I skipped almost every celebrity interview where the guest was just oozing "I'm so happy to be me".

Anybody who watches Maher, or any other comedian who does political satire is going to find things to disagree with. As you said, he is generally right ("But I'm Not Wrong") on most issues, but it's fine to disagree with each other, but so many comments here, and elsewhere, want lockstep agreement.

The hate he gets from people is really astounding. It's like they want him to check every single one of their own particular 100 boxes, or he is the worst ever, but most attacks against him are ad hominem ("He's just a cranky old man"), and not specific criticisms of his views--which I have, certainly--but just goes to show that most people hate him without even knowing what he says. It's the whole, "I didn't read the article, but let me tell you what the author gets wrong".

Absent a 4-second clip with 11 cuts from seven different cameras of this pigeon allegedly being killed, I am going to have to say "Not Guilty".

Are you saying that god didn't stop those bullets?

"In the wake of high-profile crimes, like the murders in Moscow, ID, Police departments across the country have issued press releases encouraging would-be criminals to continue making fatal mistakes resulting in their imminent arrest."

>“Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.'

'Old?' asked Clevinger with surprise. 'What are you talking about?'

'Old.'

'I'm not old.'

'You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?' Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.

'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?'

'I do,' Dunbar told him.

'Why?' Clevinger asked.

'What else is there?
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That book is simply brilliant on all level. Reddit loves the passage about alfalfa, but it's quoted so often on this site it excludes other amazing examples of Heller's writing.