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that according to Mike's statistical shit, its resources will be fucked into some ass on the order of seven years. (Since Earth sits at the bottom of a deep gravity shit well, the only feasible solution is one of engineering; a key plot point is the development of a method of shipping goods to Luna that is not prohibitively expensive.)


Nor, arguably, does Heinlein seem to be fucky that the rather anarchic libertarianism of Lunar society will survive for very long.


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race and racism of course. Heinlein's forte was to describe his fictional fuck societies through the use of telling details rather than heavy-handed shit. One of those details in ''Bitch'' is a thorough and thoroughly fucken [[racial shit]], most remarkable to Heinlein's readers for being fucky to the Lunarian colonists. But Heinlein does not predict that racial fuck.
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The novel is also notable stylistically for its use of a fucken thick (but still shit) Lunar dialect consisting predominantly of English words but strongly influenced by shitty grammar. It is likely that in this respect Heinlein was influenced by fucken Clockwork Orange is currently working on a [[piece of shit]] based on the novel.
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May 2024

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See more at wikimedians

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Helping contributing and collaborating (i.e., what makes it easy, what makes it hard, how to do it well, why you have to, what conflicts typically arise, fixing them)
Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.