Yes there are vampires, and at the moment (70% of the book) I still dont completely get why, honestly… But I’m sure I’ll understand 😁

OP, from China Mieville, let me suggest “the city and the city” a sort of detective story in a city that is split in 2 in a incredible and original way. I liked it more than embassytown

At the moment I’m reading Blindsight by Peter Watts, pretty mindblowing story about what life, what is conscience, what is real and what not. Still halfway

Already happened

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-says-gps-led-her-onto-seattle-light-rail-tracks/ar-AA24M15G

It’s advertising: they think they are “free” and really wanted to have a car

My possible explanation: breaking road rules is pretty common among all categories in Italy, unluckily:

https://feddit.it/comment/19978163

In Italy road rules are generally regarded as mild suggestions. Bikes and motorcycles on zebra crossings, cars engage in junctions even if they are not able to free them before red lights, causing gridlocks, and many things even much worse than that.

It’s a general problem, but people driving cars as assholes are concretely more dangerous.

I agree, but cars are the perfect booster for this behaviour: people is isolated from outside, protected with an heavy metal box that can move fast, scare people, act as a weapon, take a lot of public space. Without cars and car culture, the entitlement would be much weaker, and less dangerous

It is bad because what happened with Elon could happen in the first place.

One person can control it and do what he likes with it, that’s bad

My grocery setup:

I use a couple of bikezacs and have a frame connected front rack

Totally agree. That part is awful.

But the general ideas behind the trilogy are completely mind blowing and extremely clever, and I find it difficult to find something similarly breakthrough. Maybe the space Odyssey series?