The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.

I'm a terrible sleeper. Like disaster zone level. I'm nearing the end of "Project Hail Mary" which is perfect for me; Very easy to get into, engaging story, not engaging to the point you wont fall asleep (mostly and I'm OK with the "mostly" bits).

Ones I've read and felt were similarly good for sleep:

• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Three Body Problem #1
• All of Ted Chiang's stuff
• Murderbot (got bored with this a few books in)
• Recursion
• Artemis

I'm trying to choose from one of these and could use a recommendation, specifically with sleep in mind:

• Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
• Old Man's War (John Scalzi)
• My Friends (Frederik Backman)
• Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy)
• The Will of the Many (James Islington)

Any other recommendations gladly accepted.

Two for me:

1. The moment you feel tipsy it's time to ease down. You have a stomach full of booze that's going to make you more drunk even if you stop immediately.

2. If you think people are good, you're probably right and if you think people are bad, you're probably right.

People are good IMO.

85% of the population oppose blood sports. Government votes to keep it anyway.

Love this channel. The video is light on any spoilers but if you really just want the meat the list is in the description (though you'll miss the honourable mentions if you go this route).

I'm currently making my way through The Third Reich Trilogy as an audiobook and it is hands down the best researched, most in-depth piece of history I've ever read / listened to.

Evans must have spent half his life in primary sources and uses that research to great effect. The book includes many diary and newspaper extracts from the time for example (including liberal use of Goebbels diary) and goes into detail in all sorts of areas that paint a very clear picture of everyday life in Germany at the time.

It's long (around 90 hours audio or over 2000 pages) but I have learned so much from it.

Presented as a gift in 1848 to Thomas Francis Meagher from a small group of French women sympathetic to Irish nationalism,[3] it was intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union between Roman Catholics (symbolised by the green colour) and Protestants (symbolised by the orange colour).

Bit of an embarrassment here. No attempt to shoot them down or use electonic warfare on them.

They hovered over a naval vessel but "there was no ability onboard the naval vessel to disable them".

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person (edit: /s for the non-Irish; He's a cunt)