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Oh neat! I will check it out

Honestly didn't give voyager much of a shot. I didn't like how the UI was like an iPhone app, and I kept getting confused by it (because I'm a non-Phone user). I wasn't into wefwef for the same reason, but they both seemed solid enough.

I don't care how it tastes, I'm not drinking anything that has this much cringe on the label.

Nice! I feel like I'd read somewhere that they added it but I haven't used Thunder in weeks now, connect has become my #1 daily driver and sometimes I check on eternity when it updates. I should try to give thunder some love though,not was my #1 for a while when connect was still a little jank/less polished.

Afaik I've used ALL the lemmy apps on android. Connect is by far the best. It was kinda neck and neck with thunder and infinity for a bit, but the 1.0+ release implemented some amazing features, while still keeping the most functionality and managing to avoid the "scroll stuttering" that plagues other apps. Infinity (now eternity) is also good but account switching is more difficult and you can't block instances or communities from theain page like you can on connect. Example fo why that's lame - say you're scrolling by all and theres a bunch of gay/furry/anytypeofpornyoudontwanttosee...on many apps you have to GO to that communities main page just to block it. On connect you just tap the three dots menu and pick which you want to do. Easy peasy.

Have you tried having better luck?

That's the "you gotta take these before I wake up covered in bbq sauce and shame" friend. They're rare but always a delight

If you're using the connect app (if not, you should try it!), just tap the three dots any post you see by them, and click "block instance." Easy peasy.

Its kind of fucked either way. They're too short but a lot happens because each book is broken into thirds that are separated by huge time gaps, and inside those thirds there are also time gaps. A movie, even a long one, would be incredibly disjointed and the pacing would feel bizarre.

I imagine it's probably why nobody has made it a series or movie before even though it's such a beloved sci Fi series. You'd have to take a lot of creative liberties with it, which is for better or worse, what they're doing.

I've just started the show, and I feel like from the outset they made it clear that a LOT of the show is creative fiction to fill in the gaps. I feel like a lot of people forget just how short the original trilogy is. F, F&E and SF, collectively, are like an 8 hour read! I don't love everything the show has done (and some of the acting is atrocious) but I love how they chose what boils down to allusions in the books and focused whole episodes on what that would've looked like in real time.

I also really like how they are not afraid to completely abandon cliff hangers for several episodes at a time, while still keeping you invested in what's happening. Asimov dwas notorious for that and did it SEVERAL times on the trilogy. Oh you wanna know what happens? Well I'll tell you eventually, but first, here's forty pages introducing brand new characters on a completely different planet...300 years in the future. Bitch.

I'm in my late 30s, and I've been around the block so I'll share mine. In terms of worst time being broken up with, that was my last ex prior to my wife, and she did a number on me. It was entirely my fault and all of the red flags were there and I ignored them and she's a huge cautionary tale that I won't go into because honestly I don't like thinking about her. I didn't really get a say in the breaking up, and looking back I'm so very glad it happened but it still crushed me emotionally for a long time.

The second, and really the harder of the two, was the hardest thing I've ever done. It was my longest relationship (4 years) up until my now wife (married 3 years, together 7). I met her in my early twenties. When we both graduated our programs, we'd only been together a little over a year and didn't plan on staying together. She wasnt sure where she'd do her master's, I wasn't sure where I'd be working. As luck would have it though, we both ended up in the same place, and stayed together another three years. The last six months or so of that relationship I realized how completely miserable I was with everything but her. I loved her, I still do to this day and always will, but I hated my job. I hated where I lived. I hated being so far from my family and friends. And it got to a point where I needed to tell her and figure out how to move forward. So after a long work trip I spent 5 days with her and told her how I felt and she understood but she loved it where we were and wanted to stay for her PhD, which would be after another year of her current program...six more years. She was happy where she was and she could see I wasn't happy and we talked and thought up scenario after scenario before we came to accept that we needed different things...it fuckin hurt man. We knew it couldn't keep working without someone resenting the other and we realized life was taking us different places. We broke up 2 days in, I spent the rest of the time with her and there were many tears and lots of pain and lots of last moments together that we savored.

It hurt so badly because nobody did anything wrong. We didn't stop loving each other, we didn't stop caring, nobody cheated, we didn't grow apart so much as life pulled us in different directions. That's probably what hurt the most, is how much I/we didn't want to end it, but how we both realized we had to. Life happens and that's okay, but it hurts sometimes. I am happily married now, and she is too and we're good friends now. My wife is my best friend and I can't imagine being with anyone else. I am happy for her and her husband is great and I can see how happy she is. I am not upset with how either of our lives turned out, but I also know there will always be some regret there.

Tbf they're trying. Executive order stopped all fracking and halted in-process permitting. Project applications for new water flood injection projects are being halted because operators are trying to sneak in project that use injection gradients above the fracture gradient (which is literally fracking). Orphaned wells were legislated to be abandoned and operators are being held responsible for finding them, at ( very) exorbitant cost because they just walked away from them and now don't know where they are or how to really abandon them to the satisfaction of the state regulatory bodies governing protection of drinking water and fresh water resources. There are also moratoriums on oil pumping in several major counties with the intent to phase out all oil production.

The biggest problem California is encountering is that every operator and oil company is suing the state over every piece of legislation they pass. Literally just trying to bog down the courts as long as possible so they can either maximize profits before having to fold or adjust the existing operation or (what they prefer), buy a new governor and legislature that will roll everything back for them once they're elected.