Bruce Schneier cannot help me with this.

[snarp]

You know the XKCD guy and his issues with velociraptors? I still automatically vet every structure I come across for its ability to protect me from Threadfall. When I'm stressed out I frequently move to the optimal Thread-safety point.

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I don't remember how old I was when I read those books the first time, but I do remember a couple of things I thought:

"Did... did he just rape her? And now she's all like, woo, thanks, I needed that? At whatever my tender age is I lack the relevant experience to say this definitively, but I don't think women work like that."

"I cannot come up with an astronomical model that accounts for this at all, and this bothers me more than many of the other things that blatantly make no sense."