It would be a good idea if they read any book, so yeah that tracks.

I loved 1984, but when I was younger, I always found Orwell’s treatise on language that takes up a big chunk in the middle to be dull and far-fetched.

Boy was I wrong…

Another great short story that I never see mentioned is “Teddy” By J.D. Salinger.

There is also a Dave Eggars short story that always stuck with me from his one collection called, “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned.”

Also, almost forgot, “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce is also fantastic.

Top three short stories imo.

Edit: Yikes… without spoiling anything, I just realized that there is a (kind of dark) theme connecting all of those. Should I be worried?

I’d say it contains some existential horror…

Ephesians 6:5-9

5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

9 And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Yeah good stuff. All about equality and egalitarianism.

You can’t claim to be socialist while condoning literal slavery. Sorry.

If I’m gonna believe some wildass shit I might as well really go for it you know?

Yeah, I mean if you can’t demonstrate that what you believe is true, then why not just make that belief the most absurd thing you can possibly find?

What a weird take… Maybe people don’t meme about Christianity, because the subjugation of populations using fairy tales is not really a funny thing.

Peace and love are not in man’s nature

That’s bullshit. Capitalism is what corrupts “man’s nature,” and it isn’t some kind of inherent thing to humanity.

Holy fuck that is a wild story. I’d watch the film adaptation.

Jesus condoned slavery. Try again.

Lol it’s like reading fan fiction

It’s fine, but I really don’t like the trend of devs just using upscaling as default rather than properly optimizing their game.

I use it for porn sometimes but thats it

I started using Outlook365 in browser during the pandemic, and never switched back. Not that much better, but I prefer the web app running in Firefox to the actual program.

Plus, at this point, if I even opened Outlook proper, Windows would probably freeze while trying to index all of the emails that have come and gone since the last time I opened it.

I was talking about work emails…

It’s just a dream, Bender. There’s no such thing as 2.

I do bulleted lists in emails if it’s called for…

Y’all motherfuckers need to read more. Why is proper grammar suddenly a bad thing?

That’s an en-dash, not an em-dash which is slightly longer: —

Everyone is always assuming that these time travelers have good intentions…

Been a long time, but back in the 90s/early 00s, I saw tons of parents with their kids on leashes at amusement parks… It always made me lol at the absurdity, but it was relatively prominent.

Just look at the rest of these comments… the /s was definitely needed unfortunately.