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The Live-3 numbers count for something, so pop it on today. Mute it in the background while you're doing something else if you have to. There's the ongoing debate about whether any of this matters and which statistics are counted blah blah blah but I figure it can't hurt to just turn the TV on and listen to some awesomeness while I work on other shit

I read the whole series last year (actual paper and printed words), but I've wanted to review AG in preparation for this season so I scooped it on audible. 10 chapters in and this is great! I still prefer actual reading, but Mays adds a lot to the experience. He kills it with the voices and accents, I'm loving his Bull and Anna (Nono was great in her one scene as well). I was worried that I would have trouble figuring out who is talking during dialogue (or distinguishing between dialogue and narration), but it's really easy to follow based on the voices.

Might have to listen to the whole series with him now.

This whole time I thought I was controlling Mario and Beep-O was running in front of him

I was thinking about how much of the CW plot ties into the larger story moving forward, in the context of the show and how they could cut things down to tell the full story in 6 seasons (assuming they don't get cancelled after this one). Maybe filler is the wrong word, but other than the introductions of Avasarala and Bobbie (and the last few pages with the Ring and Miller), it's pretty much a one-off story. And I guess the stuff with Fred in the middle comes up again in AG, but the show did that differently anyway. The story CW is in a lot of ways a repeat of LW (crew chases a missing girl around, turns out they were caught up in a conspiracy involving the PM), but LW was pretty consequenti

I just realized this; they weren't just extrapolating ridiculous stereotypes of the right (which this show tends to do), they were quoting somebody almost directly.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Todd_Akin

When asked about pregnancies that result from rape:

It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.

(Not trying to make this a political discussion really, just pointing out a fact about the show,

"Jews control the media." RBW is Jewish and he seems to love self-deprecating jokes like this