I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that guy on democracy now, or maybe American prestige. From those exposures, he seems to have good takes.

I always want to ask them how they’d feel if I did VOTE, but I VOTED to destroy democracy!

These pleas are always worded to suggest that this is about self actualization and you exercising by your rights with no restriction on choice, but of course they’re really always saying You must vote for the thing I want you to vote for.

Hari Pissenger

Colder war was what got me interested in him, great short story.

Ah classic I guess. Sucks, but an unfortunately prevalent mindset in that generation (my parents are also fairly skeptical about it, never having had access to it themselves).

They’re pretty fun little books, fairly unique little setup.

That’s fair to me. Also it’s for meds, which I’d assume he would at least want you to have, even if he’s self-absorbed and obnoxious (unless he also hates medication, therapy, etc, which I hope is not the case).

Is that the same Charlie Stross that writes the James-bond-meets-Cthulhu-IT-worker books?

Sorry to hear about this.

I’m not serious about this, but part of me thinks “he’s clearly incapable of managing his financial shit online, OP should just start taking his money and blaming stupid websites…since they’re gonna get blamed anyway”

You could swap in some decaf to sub out 1 or 2 of your normal cups a day. If you drink a lot of it, definitely do not go cold turkey. I did that once and started getting horrible headaches. I’ve cut way back a couple times, switching to green tea but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to cut it out completely, sigh. Went for a good 6 months onky having a few green teas but like the other commenters, as soon as I got really busy and stressed, coffee was back on the menu.