Whenever anyone asks me what fictional universe I want to live in, I say the Culture universe. Hands down the best sci-fi universe to live in as a regular humanoid. It’s a post-scarcity galactic paradise where if I ever get bored, I can plug into a Matrix-style simulation of any other fictional universe that’s 100% real to my senses. Or I’ll take any of a number of drugs that a gland in my brain can generate at will for shiggles. The possibilities are limitless.
Oh dip, they’re demanding an answer this time. He’s gonna have to respond or else they’ll… checks papers oh, they’ll just demand it again. Must be nice to avoid any and all repercussions from breaking the law over and over and over again.
Nah, nah, friendo. That’s John McEntee and he’s a die hard Trump acolyte. Fascists ain’t cute. What we’re looking at here is a punchable face.
That’s a cool illustration of a great scene from The Dark Tower series! It’s a good read if you’re down for reading a finished series.
Aaah! I did and instantly regretted it. That’s creepy AF.
This just in: Worst Vice Presidential pick in human history continues to back Russian-owned Holocaust-denying millionaire lackey. More at eleven.
I’m amazed. Basic IT training should be enough to know that Starlink systems at the very least would be advertising their location to a third party non-US megacorp.
Easy solution: nationalize Starlink. That keeps it out of the hands of a lunatic man-child, and sailors can get their sports scores! Talk about a win win situation.
Dunno about bike infrastructure in San Francisco as I’ve only been there a few times, but one variable you should mind is that South Lake Tahoe is snowy during a good chunk of the winter. Don’t plan to move there and bike around unless you’re comfortable biking in the snow.
It can be warm in Tahoe in the summer, but the snow is a certainty and cannot be avoided if you’re living there. Tahoe is usually fairly mild, or it has been while I’ve been there. It’s also way high up in elevation, which can cause respiratory problems for some until they acclimate.
Why’s he got bulletproof glass around him? Did one of those crazy cat ladies that I keep hearing about throw their cats at him or something? /s obviously but that’d be funny as hell
Well, sure! How are they going to sell you the $450 replacement ring in two years if you’re able to replace the dead battery by paying $30 to a stoned college kid working at a fix-it kiosk in your local mall? Consumers, they never know what’s good for them. /s
Well, Boeing, you cut your staff and salaries to the bone, used your profits on stock buy backs & to give absurd multi-million dollar bonuses to your C-suite stuffed suits, and killed whistleblowers who try to rat on your inhumane business practices. Do you think you can figure out why you can’t attract talent now, Boeing? Do ya?
This a-hole judge should be removed from the bench and fired for this. Or at least forced to undergo the same treatment.
Has this judge even been to court before? If you’re not there to sue or be sued(or tried) or to watch someone for a specific reason, then court is boring as hell. Instead of punishing someone who fell asleep, congratulate those who stayed awake - that’s far more worthy of notice.
I had a friend tell me a few days ago that they get up an hour and a half before they’re supposed to work to relax and read or shower or whatever. I can’t even picture that. I get up 30m before work and rush through coffee+oatmeal because if I slow down and think about how I have to work today it’ll make me depressed.
It’s better to catch me unawares so I don’t have time to ruminate before I’m expected to work. Then before I know it I’ll be working and too busy to think about how I’d rather be floating on a cloud while beautiful people feed me grapes off the vine.
The colors that appear in the sky during a sunset. Beautiful blues, purples and oranges, slowly dimming until it disappears over the horizon.
I believe also that the predominating thought in this war among the generals that plan it is that a shake up to the current status quo was needed. Invading Russia gives Ukraine a bit of leverage, plus it draws away RU troops from the front line so that Ukraine may be able to retake a bit of ground.
Grand Poobah Pooty Putin can only say so many times that he’s moving nukes to ready status or whatever until it becomes clear he’s not going to use them. Nuking anybody, especially Ukraine, would be a tacit admission to the world that he’s losing this war. If he did, NATO would likely get involved presumably because they would consider the fallout drifting over Europe to be an act of war, but a casus belli is a casus belli.
So yeah, I can see NATO countries being ok with a strike inside of Russia now. Makes total sense to me. I’m just surprised it took this long to get there.
Star Wars: Galaxies had a killer open world housing system! I loved it and nothing else I’ve played has even come close to what SW:G had. Plus, after a bit of patching they included a system where you can create a city that shows up on the map, including shuttle/fast travel points and benefits to locals. Housing wasn’t instanced, so you could build nearly anywhere on the map outside of in-game cities and other players cities. It was truly awesome. Sony Online Entertainment screwed it over again and again and again, and now it’s gone. I played that game for years.
Never played UO but I heard good things.
There’s weird, and then there’s weird.
Weird people can do things including, but not limited to: singing responses to questions, or taking their dog everywhere they’re allowed to and some places they’re not. Or growing and maintaining a long beard specifically for styling it into a bow tie shape over their collar. Maybe they paint their house in rainbow colors. And so on. All internal stuff that only affects them physically/mentally, nothing that can affect the lives of others beyond the occasional remark: “Huh, that guy’s wearing a boot on his head. That’s weird.”
Weird people think it’s ok to remove fundamental civil rights from others by dehumanizing marginalized groups. Weird people refuse to answer questions on policy positions and instead Gish gallop until the question is forgotten in the face of the ten other falsehoods spoken in response. Weird men use makeup, but they demean other men who choose to, regardless of context. Weird people are threatened to the point of brandishing a firearm when a stranger uses their driveway to turn their car around.
The difference here is that one type of weird affects only the weird person. Weird people’s weirdness alters the lives of others by force and against their consent. Garden variety weird people(myself included) generally keep to themselves and mind their own damn business! Anyone who can’t tell the difference between weird and weird at this point is either willfully ignoring it, or welcoming the weird because they’re not part of the out-group.
Quite incredible, the story of the Bounty and her crew. Reading though the wiki article about it is a real trip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty?wprov=sfla1
This is what AI should be used for. There’s another great article on the same site about using AI to find qanats too which was fascinating.
https://gizmodo.com/cold-war-spy-photos-reveal-ancient-subterranean-aqueducts-2000500005