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The first thing I thought of. Beautiful version.
Did the wall clock say 2027? There still time for our in house robots then.
The English description says "Russia, 1987". This is incorrect. It's 1984 (before the Perestroyka polity), Uzbekfilm studio in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan). Interestingly, the crew surnames are some Uzbek, some Russian, some Korean (Tsoi) and even one German last name.
Alexander Rozendorn (famous dude), probably not a Baltic German?

Lagniappe: https://archive.ph/2026.02.07-024423/https://www.aljazeera.c...

Overheard: "an אנגלו-סקסונית is someone with really weird ideas about religion"

Does 2022 count? Looks like VVP sent some of his best; not only ABP but also MAG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leiz5L-B6Vo

EDIT: a Dorn, that can be part of a Baum, but otherwise I'm not getting many hits for А?Р. ЭРР?

Ah egregious kernel-bug that I haven't fixed yet :( Looks like inner sharpbigot/schizo indeed got confused with E? maybe not quickly fixable, so I'd better find a win-win way to leverage it ;)?

I know a person who published(!, but easier to check) citation-bugs of this variety (not defending this, just pointing out a possible WASP-slav superposition condition :)

"Orthogonally", PH might have (linked)some answers to your presumed queries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940953

Hilarious YouTube comment: the image you inspired of collecting nickels* in front of cultural steamrollers is beginning to look like GOAT

(*Well-bred dogs as "nicklers of men"?)

how dare you make my feel my own feelings
I’ll always upvote Bradbury; what a master. Isaac Asimov used to talk about “the big 3” of science fiction of his era: himself (natch), Arthur C Clarke, and Ray Bradbury. The more I read of all those cats, and boy have I read them, I came to see that Asimov was wrong, and that Bradbury was a different and better writer altogether.

Bradbury’s stories are about people, deeply real and deeply feeling people. This thread is young and already comments are about how Bradbury made folks feel. He was a humanist, like Ursula LeGuin, and less interested in exactly how the ray guns worked. Frank Herbert seems like this to me as well, very humane, opposite of Greg Bear and Kim Stanley Robinson and (later stage) Neal Stephenson.

If you love Bradbury then take a look at Ian McDonald. When I read “Rainmaker Cometh” for the first time I had to do a double-take, so sure I was that it was a new Bradbury story.

I read this in high school English class. It remains one of my favorites.
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I upvote anything Bradbury or Teasdale.

For anyone interested, here's a short game I made in 2 days for Ludum Dare back in 2019, which was inspired by the original poem and Bradbury's short story.

I didn't have enough time to balance the gameplay and add more scenarios, but it's a neat experience and contains one of my favorite personal musical compositions.

https://badsoft.co/games/soft-rains/

I read this recently and wanted to post it on August 4. You jumped the gun!
The paragraph about the stove making dozens of breakfasts as the house collapses at the climax of the story is what always stuck with me most. It would take a better writer than me to say why it works so well, I just know it does.
Poor dog. Depressive story from The Martian Chronicles with very futuristic smart home depiction. Not unusually dark for Bradbury though.
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The moment in time described in the story cannot be very long after the implied nuclear explosion, because surely the house cannot have more than a couple weeks' worth of bacon and eggs in stock.

Oh, just remembered this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM (Content Warning: NSFW!)

I have a calendar reminder on August 4, 2026 to send a message to my high school English teacher from 20 years ago, for having this date stuck in my head that whole time.
August 5, 2026 is the date mentioned in this?

I put a note in my calendar!