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A Candorville comic strip, and a brutal flame war remembered

May 24, 2023
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About twenty years ago, when we Gen-Xers used the term “flame war” to describe arguments with random strangers - and when we waged our wars with quotes and links instead of quips and memes - I was a regular at TrekBBS. I got into it one day

with someone who had viciously mocked my suggestion that because starships travel at relativistic speeds, the Ente…

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