Scott Westerfeld Is Up There With Suzanne Collins As "Sci Fi Futuristic Dystopia Authors Who Had Something

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The site is legit, BUT they don't take insurance. So its all out-of-pocket.

Uh, just saw this:

The website is costplusdrugs.com I just checked and they don't carry Adderall or insulin, but they do have a lot.

“The opposition is nearing single digits at this point and establishment and moderate Republicans are proving just how meaningless those two descriptors have always been when applied to them. They are proving that the GOP ethos is absolutely clear: party—the MAGA party—over country. The assumption is that Jordan is promising them something, and that he will be able to deliver that something better than anyone else could. Yes, the same Jordan that former Speaker John Boehner called a “legislative terrorist.” The same Jordan who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The one who was on the phone with Donald Trump the morning of Jan. 6, 2021—mere hours before the MAGA mob attacked the Capitol, invaded their chamber, and threatened every member of Congress’s health and lives.”

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‘Moderate’ House Republicans folding like cheap tents for insurrectionist Jordan’s speaker bid

There is no such thing as a “moderate” Republican.

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Too many songs about love, not enough songs about swordfights.

13-year-old Regulus Black, probably

Hello, you may not see this but me and my older sister always get heated up about a specific word: hurt. She says it’s grammatically correct to say, for example, “that hurted” but I keep telling her that “hurt” is already in the past tense. Thus, it would be “that hurt” but she disagrees and mentions most people use “that hurted”.

As a prolific writer, please let me know your thoughts

(Also me and my sisters were not really in the best of terms but for some reason we all decided to watch Good Omens together and our relationship became really close. Thank you. )

Grammar is both prescriptive and descriptive. "Hurted" was good English grammar from the 15th to the 19th Century (just as "hurtit" still is a valid past tense in Scotland). In the 19th Century it was decided that "hurt" was the only valid past tense of "to hurt" and "hurted" fell out of fashion. If enough people use it then it will become good grammar once again.

Someone made a post about the abysmal state of Jewish rep in Rick Riordan’s universe so now I’m thinking about how I would do Jewish characters in that.

Jew at Camp Half Blood: *gets their menorah out*

Cabinmate: Oh, that’s so cool, what’re you celebrating?

Jew: Hannakah! It’s a holiday celebrating an ancient military revolt!

Cabinmate: Neat, against who?

Jew: *sweats nervously*

Cabinmate: An ancient military revolt against who?

Alternatively:

Jew at Camp Jupiter: Yeah, I’m pretty bummed out today. It’s the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.

Friend: I didn’t know that— what makes it so sad?

Jew: Uhhhhhhhh

Jew: Uhhhh