Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:18:05 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

In article <vremii$13ocd$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 3/19/2025 6:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
 
The Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments is a bold attempt to
address South Korea's negligible birthrate. In exchange for new
homes in an invigorating rural setting, certain conditions need
to be met.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/babies-forever
 
Technically, not SF or even futuristic but sufficienty dystopia-
adjacent to be of interest.

>
Would you want to raise babies next door to North Korea?

>
A question lamentably relevant to Canadians, provided one replaces
North Korea with the United States of America. One cannot easily
choose whose ones neighbours are. 

I suppose Canada will eventually use its Secret Weapon -- and outlaw
shipments of Maple Syrup to the USA.

And Trump thinks the MAGA outrage about egg prices are disturbing [1].

[1] If he didn't find them disturbing, he wouldn't be trying to
suppress them by telling MAGA to "suck it up".

Of course, as new chickens hatch and mature, the egg supply will
recover and prices will, if not drop, at least not increase any more
than any others.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"