HessiaNerd

My beater is getting picked up Tuesday. I'm donating it as it's more expensive to replace the cat than its worth.

Slate looks interesting

Never read Hyperion. That's pretty gross.

I wouldn't recommend Anderson Dune books.

Pohl has some classics Heechee Saga Space Merchants Man Plus

Ringworld

Vernor Vinge: Fire Upon the Deep

John Scalzi: Old Mans War Series

I gotta say I think Three Body Problem is not very good. Some interesting ideas and an interesting perspective re:Chinese revolution, but as a story it was weak. Plus when you get to the second book it drags out the premise so much and relies on basically deus ex machinima to handwave the plot holes.

I think the point of the post is that the solution being used to this problem creates other issues. If you instead spoke freely and beeped yourself, people would get what you are saying and the censorship would be more in your face.

Didn't cost him a dime.

Have you read the Mueller report? Did you listen to the impeachment testimony? It's clear there were connections and impropriety, there were multiple people around Trump who were convicted with plenty of evidence. Paul Manafort is one seriously slimey piece of shit.

This revisionist bullshit is some truly Orwellian nightmare fuel.

My boss used to use zoom but when he scheduled a zoom meeting office would put a teams link in too. When it was time for the meeting everyone would just click join in the office reminder and jump on the teams call. Every time. Eventually he gave up and started using teams.

I do have to say I like having my team on there and being able to contact or be contacted by contractors outside the company easily. Zoom had more audio issues in my experience as well. Teams often selects the wrong audio output but I just know to switch and it works whereas zoom breaks audio half the time for me.

I feel old when I think of all the steps we had to take to start the most basic game. Rewind tape. Hit reset on the counter. Find index of program you want and fast forward to that position. Enter load command. Play on tape. Wait. By the time it was loaded and we started recess was over.

We had an Apple II gs at home and used PET computers in school. I remember loading Artillery into the computer from a cassette.