Especially when you’re forced to use a complicated method to do basic calculations with. People should be allowed to learn different ways to get to the same answer.

It’s more than that. I see it as insurance for humanity if we started permanently settling the moon. Then not even an asteroid could wipe us out.

For sci-fi check out The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi. It’s about an interstellar empire that can only navigate through wormholes that are now closing up. The last emperor foresaw this and is trying to save as many humans as possible while fending off political rivals and assassins.

For a similar series check out Foundation from Isaac Asimov. It’s more of an anthology of stories over the course of a millennium but Asimov has a brilliant way of piercing the story together through the vast gaps in time.

I haven’t seen anyone recommend The Expanse here so I’ll go ahead and do it. The show is a faithful adaptation given the complications that came from having to change networks and deal with some… Problematic aspects of some of its actors. The book series however goes into greater detail and goes beyond the 6th season to some of the best parts of the story in books 7 through 9.

My current fantasy fix is the Cradle series by Will Wight. He’s not as well known as Sanderson but he’s a diligent writer and has some interesting world building and magic concepts. If you want to start off light with him you might want to check out his Traveler’s Gate series, it’s only three books long but has great pacing.

The Powder Mage series is a very decent military grimdark fantasy that features a world with 17th century technology and some interesting magic systems. The story’s decently written but it’s the battles that caught my attention the most. It’s always interesting to read about how some mage soldiers do a line of gunpowder like they’re sniffing coke to make bullets travel unfathomable distances and snipe out enemy generals on the battlefield.

He won’t. Just toss him as a lost cause like George RR Martin and Scott Lynch and move on. You’ll feel a lot better when you finish a different series that took way less time than what Rothfuss did writing his only 2 novels in the series.

There’s a movie plot in there.

What a feckless chicken shit of a man. I look down on the New Yorkers who keep voting for this guy. They’re as bad as Ted Cruz’s constituents.

Ahh yes. Cut my teeth on the 5th edition of that book.

His peace is that of the mass grave.

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They don’t even need to burn fuel to turn the ship. If it has reaction wheels or CMGs they can do it by making a few minor adjustments in the gimbals or reaction wheel speeds.

If it falls off the surface edge then it’s a drop-out.

I finished off The Venture Bros and it makes me sad they were forced to conclude the series so suddenly. The final film did wrap up some loose ends pretty well though.

Older games were a lot simpler too. No loot boxes, multiple forms of currency - some of which could only be bought with real money, invasive DRM, season passes, content pulled back by selling it to you as DLC, extremely long game times artificially extended by things like mapping gimmicks, giant and almost barren worlds, and unoptomized graphics requiring top of the line graphics cards that would still turn your room to a furnace.

What’s the chai treatment? Giving the captured pilot a cup of hot chai and photographing him to show how humane they are?

We’re looking at him through the lens of 2026. At least he pushed for the Affordable Care Act and repealing of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The man wasn’t a saint but he sure as shit is better than what we have now. Yes I’d rather have a socialist like Bernie Sanders but this is all we have unfortunately and if I had to make a choice between the two administrations I’d go with Obama 11 times out of 10.

Of course. It worked for Vietnam after all the combined ordinance used in WWII was dropped there and its neighbors of Laos and Cambodia. Oh no wait the US still failed spectacularly. Is the US gonna have another forever war just to hide the president’s role in a massive pedophile ring?

It’s still better than splitting up its functionality among three different and even more complicated systems because upper management likes the pretty graphs they produce for their PowerPoint slides.

We’re fed so many lies all the time and when a big, obvious one like this shows up in the stream it’s just another jolt of alarm that my system can’t keep taking anymore. If we lived in happier and more peaceful times I might have enjoyed it even.

Its not uniquely American. Plenty of Mexican and Japanese bars have TVs too. Mexican and American bars love putting on a sports game while Japanese ones show a lot of music videos.

May he lose his fucking dairy farm. I have no patience left for these obstinate fools.