aRe ThE sAmE!

Then every time Democrats try and pass something meaningful, but are blocked and sabotaged by republicans who have way too much power because of lazy idiots using “all or nothing purity” as an excuse to not vote, those same lazy idiots - who didn’t bother to even do a cursory glance to see how Senators and Representatives voted on bills - go bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe again. And again. And again.

Potato - potatoe, tomato - tomatoe.

You see 196 as

queer and especially trans friendly

I see it as a garden of shitposting delights.

The article makes no mention of the possibility of this being a binary system of some sort, although I would guess the physics involved for this type of burst are equally lacking in current models.

there’s /r/StarWars and /r/SaltierThanCrait over on Reddit

Those two spaces had differing stances.
There also the case of InterestingAsFuck as opposed to DamnThatsInteresting, because why the fuck does “Fuck” have to be in the title?

But then there’s shameless karma-farming duplicates, like ComedyCemetery and ComedyNecromancy.

If memory serves, this is in Lake Titicaca?

Perelandra!
I read Out Of The Silent Planet and Perelandra as a boy, enjoyed them.

But I couldn’t make it through That Hideous Strength, I put it down baffled and bored one day, and never picked it up again. Now I’m thinking I was too young for it, particularly growing up so far away from the novel’s setting in England.

The first two novels take place in Mars and Venus, so there’s a sense of adventure. But in That Hideous Strength, the mannerisms and situations and dialogue styles are akin to something like Brideshead Revisited in Oxford and/or Cambridge.

While a British boy might get the whole thing intuitively, I grew up in Mexico, so had no mental compass of that world at that age. It was all as confusing to me then as God Emperor Of Dune was later.

They could integrate something like this in a parkour and/or obstacle course, with one of those wave-making pools.

This is Old School Cool catnip.
Is there an active Old School Cool instance around these here parts of the internets?

I smoked for a long time, switched completely to vaping several years ago and still do it. I started at nicotine level 24mg - supposedly the equivalent of a Camel or Marlboro - decreased gradually to where I’m now at the lowest nicotine level widely available in pre-made juices, 3mg.

Remember that nicotine at these doses is not harmful, nor is it a carcinogenic. What it is, is addictive, and the documented harm from the cigarette as a nicotine delivery system comes from the combustion.

With that in mind, I admit that I’m still comfortable with vaping after several years, my health has improved dramatically since then.
I can breathe much better, easier. Now I don’t catch every single throat infection and flu of the season, and if I do catch one, it’s now usually so mild that I don’t even need medication to sleep with a clear nose.

What keeps me on edge is the pervasive anti-vaping sentiment, caused by the anarchic environment of the fledging vaping industry at the beginning, many nicotine delivery systems packaged EXACTLY like candy. A greedy gold rush attitude poisoned the well at the outset.
As an analogy, think Bitcoin and crypto.

This is so much in the spirit of Monty Python, I’ve never seen it before and it’s glorious.
I’m picturing the interviewer played by Eric Idle and the interviewee by Graham Chapman.

This might be when that old iPod - sitting in a drawer for years - might come in handy. Or any little MP3 player that might be in the market right now, I haven’t shopped for them in ages, but I imagine they’re pretty cheap nowadays.

It’s just hollow, mindless narcissism. Brought to you by the exact type of rude deadweight that cuts into an orderly line every time, expecting nobody to break the tension, confront and put them in their rightful place at the back of the line.

I have never, ever posted a picture of my kids online. I’ve sent a handful to family and friends via messaging apps, but only ones that are naturally flattering, and that is as far as it goes.

As it turns out, my overwhelming hunch that this is the only decent, respectful course of action in the mindless social media age, seems to be correct.
I love my kids, and I respect them as people, as individuals with a right to privacy at any age.

Those initial Population III stars do not have the same size limitation as current, metal-rich stars. Those things were short-lived gargantuan monsters compared to any and all subsequent stars.

But you are also looking at a universe that was much more compact then, with galaxies and structures bunched much closer together than now. It may be a narrow field of vision compared to the current size of the universe, but that narrow field of vision has also expanded in the subsequent 13+ billion years.

Imagine being such a failure as a human being that they drag others down the hole they’ve stubbornly dug for themselves.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Thanks, I Hate It

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Even if you don’t mind the insidious invasions of privacy that these companies have undertaken with relentless determination:

Because everything these companies touch, they sooner or later enshittify.
Because the past decade has shown that Facebook’s intentions cannot be trusted.