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Like all things Apple, I've totally avoided Apple TV. But this, I gotta watch. I'll get Apple TV for a month and binge their stuff once Murderbot is out.

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And I think Mike and I have talked about it before, but the acting and narration by Kevin Free is some of the best I've heard. Really made it that much better. 2 quick things. 1. I listened the 6th Murderbot book, another novella. It's a murder mystery and the weakest of the series but still a very...

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6. The Little Hours

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Garlic butter is too runny to be a good dipping sauce. Unless you like grease stains on your shirt. Mayo is just fatty paste. I bet the people who like it were the kids who ate paste. Ketchup is alright but you can kick it up a notch by using most of the same ingredients and going with Barbeque sauc...

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I bless you all.

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OH YEA!

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Network Effect - Martha Wells. This is the first novel after a series of novellas in the Murderbot series. For a general understanding of my love for the series, go read my review for All Systems Red or any of the stuff Mike's posted about them. I've rated this book much higher than the novellas fo...

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Beautiful.

The first part demonstrates why people stuck with a geocentric assumption had such complex formulas for predicting locations.

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What Kyle said. PC games are now sold almost entirely online and have been for years. They are occasionally sold directly or through places like itch.io but Steam is the largest seller of games and manages updates, mods, etc. of the games. I've seen games sold on Amazon that are really just Steam ac...

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Typically when your population starts to age, a bulge of elderly workers start hitting the age where they can't work at the same time. If there aren't enough people in the younger generations to: (1) care for them; and (2) replace their labor-- then you run into real problems with worker shortages....

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Why is a slow population growth a bad thing? All the arguments I've heard that it's bad are about a human constructed system of physical or digital pieces of paper that we have given weight and turned into a method to trade for goods and services. Is it actually a bad thing? I'm probably at the sam...

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8.Johnny Mnemonic

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For me, very much so. Some narrators are competent but nothing special. Some are amazing, with a different voice for every character and with pacing and intonation that bring out the drama and humor. I have not read a single Ann Leckie book but Adjoa Andoh has read five of them to me. A few books ge...

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I love your version! I'm glad more sophisticated people appreciate it as well.

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For people who don't have a ton of board game experience, I'd avoid game with lots of parts that have a long set up time. Taking half an hour to set up and then four hours to play can be a bit much. There are quite a few card based games with minimal set up. King of Tokyo is like battle yatzee; you ...

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7. Heathers

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Ooh, I remember those, not sure about the precursor. Yep, those are bad, too.

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Honestly could not say whether that is worse than the four layer stack of candy would sometimes get that looked like a borg cube, about 1 inch square, with a sequence of burnt coconut on the bottom, then a layer of poop, a slightly thicker layer of marshmallow, and then Pepto-Bismol layer on the to...

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Have you tried stolen orange puffy things? no one steals those Correct. I would think less of people who have those out. I was thinking candy corn was the worst until I reminded of the existence of circus peanuts. What kind of demented, creepy circus did these things come from? I believe that peopl...

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As someone ab about to start novella 4, this is very comforting news.

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You could never be the level of asshat he is. No one on this forum could reach a fraction of that. Meanwhile, I've been unemployed for a week. It's amazing! I'd been burned out for oh so long and thought, 'what the !?#! am I still doing here.' But then the plague hit so I bided my time. Then my boss...

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SSRI withdrawal is real and can be pretty intense. I had to take someone off for a med change and it was draining. Be careful and don't make such a decision all by yourself.

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If I get rich, I'll become your patron.

I'm alternating Murderbot Diaries with other things. It's great knowing I have nice reading in my near future.

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This sounds terrible and gross except for this one part: "And what's weird is that it's like she's got a harem of a boyband. There's the smart one, the emo one, the funny one, the tough one, etc. And they're all almost slavishly devoted to her." Weird? Or... kinda awesome? 🌞 I can write a...

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I'm in the same camp that I hate loss of control. When I drink, it's rarely more than one drink; I can't remember the last time it was more than 2. I also would never smoke anything because of asthma. So, maybe a semi-annual or quarterly nibble of edibles would be my limit.

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5. Inspector Gadget

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Do you ever have That Little Conversation where someone is like, haha talking to urself so weird! And you just smile and nod, yes, I talk to myself, of course I do. And they say, sometimes with a twinkle in their eye, "but do u answer urself ahahahaahahahaaa guffaws!" and you look them de...

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That's ... rather detailed in some ways.

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That's beautiful.
Maybe next dream, BTS will have their limo break down and Jin will offer to give them a rid.

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Hey coach, I've trying to find a way to get my wife to declutter without me coming off as nagging. Any tips or drills you can recommend?

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They also collect the data to sell to third parties in most states. So is even grosser than you think. I hadn't thought about that but it's obvious in hindsight. Whenever companies have sole possession of data, they use it when it's to their advantage and conveniently forget about it when it's not....

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My wife is on it - I don't think it's quite as crazy here. I'm sure it varies tremendously by location based on volunteer mods and the user base.

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While walking from my car to work, I felt a slightly wetness on my thigh. My immediate thought was, "I fucked up and didn't close my thermos all the way." This is a reasonable conclusion as I fail in this way every year or so. I check the front pocket of my bag. Leaked wasn't quite right. ...

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So, now they plan to audit the 2020 results in ... Texas.

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The pair in Tram 015 appear as minor characters in the full sized novel A Master of Djinn. If you liked Tram 015, you'll probably love the novel. It's slightly better if you read the novella A Dead Djinn in Cairo first as part of the plot in that plays into the novel. I agree that this would be a gr...

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A CNN report today on polls showing that 78% of Republicans do not believe that Biden won the election despite the fact that zero evidence that can hold up in court. How do you even start to reason with people so detached from the truth? I also see lots of bile directed at Biden. And not because he ...

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I enjoy the prefab four.

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4. Ghost World

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1. I appreciate your posts even when I don't respond. If this site had reactions, I'd be giving them all thumbs up and smilies. 2. I totally get what you're saying. I've largely given up on Facebook. Most groups seem infected and have almost no actual discussion or useful info- and I'm talking about...

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Tahlvin wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:13 am Oddly enough, the highest charting Beatles song in '67 was #30 (All You Need is Love); Penny Lane was #55.

It seems the music of the era was much more varied than most people remember.

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Everyone knows that one.

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The seeding was better than March Madness - very few upsets. Dr. Strange had to start in the preliminary round 1 but made it to round 3. Then Guardians upset in round 3 and double upsets in the semis. It seems that the fun ones aged better, with Guardians and Ragnarok having the most humor of all th...

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Also interesting that a song without lyrics was so high on the list. In the modern lists, I don't think there was a single one without lyrics.

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That sucks. This is normal in the sense that is a common sort of thing to happen but it's also bullshit that no one should have to put up with.

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Tiny D6 is a simple, intuitive system that's easy to learn. You'll be glad you gave it a try.

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I feel like none of us even knows what we've been doing there. The real activities maybe have no relationship to the stated objectives. I don't think that's particularly conspiracy theory level: having whole bases there gave us access to a different side of both China and Russia, so who knows how m...

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Biden's hands were tied by Trump's and Pompeo's crappy negotiations. During the negotiations, Trump kept tweeting how the troops were definitely coming home soon, which totally undermined the ability to accomplish any changes. I also saw an interesting factoid: we evacuated 7,000 Vietnamese in the f...

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I find Sugar Sugar to be rather sacharine. I hope #1 is better.

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Netflix recommends that I watch D.P. Netflix thinks it knows me but it's not quite right.

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