If people want to move to your country it means your country is doing well! If they're willing to brave the Darien Gap or risk their lives on the open seas or the threat of federal goons that's an amazing indication. Reverse migration only happens when you're a miserable nation of no value

it's how he makes himself feel special.

yes, ecological specialists. I am glad we agree.

and It has him, somewhere

when I was single and flush, I liked paying, because why not? whee! random money! but many women paid for themselves/let their date pay for it as a signal.

which led to some awkward/unexpected outcomes.

the LBK people also seem to have been ecological specialists, not generalist farmers. usually agricultural populations bounce back, but if the specialist knowledge wasn't transmitted...

it's doubly interesting because the LBK material indicates an egalitarian culture. not many signs of rank or position... except ending up headless in a ditch.

mentioned elsewhere that as an American, conformist pioneer agriculturalists in a hunter-gatherer landscape reminded me of THE CRUCIBLE.

spooooky sorry wrong holiday

yes, all that jet fuel vaporizing in the huge atrium to create an equally huge fuel-air explosion in Todos Santos.

(I wonder if Niven was inspired by John Portman-designed hotels, which still look futuristic.)

the text is wherever old Usenet posts have gone.

(you boil them first, let them cool and skin them, then glaze them in the oven.)

the beginning of RINGWORLD has a scene where a 200-year-old man is teaching a 20-year-old woman "straddle position," which tells me Niven's far future Earth is wildly backwards in two completely separate ways.

is this a front like the expensive but almost worth it rice pudding place?

what I think is throwing people off from this understanding is that psychotherapy was an elite, urban, professional, emigré and also Jewish-coded phenomenon for so long in the US, but today it's, I dunno, some self-diagnosed wook on TikTok.

waves in Asian birthright citizenship

oh shoot you're right!

c) magistrates now judge cases in the Octagon, where plaintiff and defendant engage in trial by combat

please, the lost George R.R. Martin series is the Tuf Voyaging ecological engineer series of short stories, which is as sexless as the issues of Analog where it appeared.

this is sold out in most sizes

the finger on the monkey's paw curls for greater class mobility

(though class mobility has dropped so what the hell is going on with these people oh)