> turning gay into a broad political issue encompassing a lot of ideologies that many people find off-putting

When was it otherwise?

Novel contributions, poetry contributions, short story contributions, and so on.

One wonders how you would have felt about the 1973 prize if you had been alive at the time.

Some countries mandate that cell phone cameras make a sound.

> could presumably leave anytime

That's a big presumption.

I'm sorry, I forgot. Women can never be held accountable for their actions. They are just helpless innocent babes in the woods, perpetual victims of the universe. The only crime they can truly commit is being attractive in a sports ad.

> They also have a nasty habit of....

This is extremely not the case.

> In high trust societies, armed people are very polite people

Surely you could name three such societies?

Just go to ChatGPT and ask:

List 20 high trust societies

I'm asking you, and furthermore I'm not asking for a list of high trust societies, I'm asking for ones in which "armed people are very polite people".

Switzerland, Wyoming, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, most Rural America.

Anyway, ChatGPT can answer your questions. Or just visit your local gun range. I highly recommend it.

I grew up in rural America.

The original claim was: > in high trust societies, armed people are very polite people

In my experience, there was no connection between being armed and being polite.

> Or just visit your local gun range

Went to one many times when I lived in Texas, I think I've inhaled enough lead to last me the rest of my life.

"An armed society is a polite society" was originally said by Heinlein, who for all his faults would have had something to say about outsourcing your thinking to a machine.

I grew up in Rural America too. In my experience, armed people are very polite.

I don’t outsource my thinking to a machine. I was asking you to not outsource your thinking to a stranger, since I am not your private encyclopedia.

I'd split it at 99.98% original, 0.015% Anthropic, 0.005% Chinese, and that's being exceedingly generous to the AI companies, there should be several more 9s and 0s in there.

Kate Elliott's great, she had a couple of what I thought were recent duds ("Servant Mage", "Keeper's Six") but the "Crown of Stars" and "Crossroads" series are all-timers.