From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Low Quality People: The Proof
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On 9 Jan 2025 13:52:26 GMT, vallor wrote:

> 
> Last tech book I read was _UNIX: A History and a Memoir_ by Brian 
> Kernighan, which I finished on our flight to Costa Rica.
> 

Great!

>
> Currently reading _Ecolitan Prime_ by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
>

I don't approve of fiction.

The world in which we exist is far too stimulating to have
to waste time with (someone else's) fantasies.

> 
> A lot of people do plenty of reading nowadays -- it's just at their 
> computer instead of dead trees, and it's not always dry textbooks.
>

Of course, idiot.

All books nowadays are e-books.

And what is "dry" to you is stimulating to others.

But the claim that "a lot of people do plenty of reading" should be
modified to "a lot of people read unedifying trash."

FTFY.

Now get back to your comics.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


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