He said it was blown out of proportion, don’t put words in his mouth.

There were literal TV spots on whether or not planes will drop from the sky. The threat was overblown.

Lots of people did tons of work to keep systems online, but even if they all failed the end results wouldn’t have been that bad. Money would be lost, but loss of life due to Y2K would be exceedingly rare.

Sure, but why?

What is gained by a holo-display in your hand? It looks futuristic? If you wanted the experience of talking to someone face to face, why would they be a 6 in version projected into your hand? Why not face to face?

It’s solving a problem that doesn’t even need to exist. Hologram stuff is poorly thought out in media.

Worse than that, when they are talking on a hologram phone the speaker is always looking down at the hologram and the hologram is looking up at the speaker. On both ends. If it was a hologram of the speaker they would be looking down.

It depends on the goal of the base.

I’ve always wanted to do a fully automatic city block, where each block produces exactly one resource, but get bored before that happens.

I’m currently working through seablock, and that’s some crazy spaghetti. The limited space and the general lack of speed means that there is a lot of tearing down and optimizing my builds. In traditional Factorio resources and space is basically unlimited so optimization isn’t necessary, in seablock a clogged belt means the entire factory stops running. So now I’m focused on efficiency.

I was surprised by how good season one was. Season two was great fun. I hated season three.

I feel they tried too hard to make serious points and failed at telling good stories. They wanted to have big thoughts, but just weren’t entertaining.

It’s not easy.

When I feel myself rushing I try to think about why I’m in a rush and what I’ll actually gain. Like maybe rushing through a task will let me play a video game or something, but what does that do? Let’s me relax? Why not relax now and try to enjoy what I’m doing, or at least avoid having to do it twice.

The journey is the destination.

I have a problem with rushing through things. This has helped me slow down and appreciate what I’m doing. I’m not doing something so I can enjoy it after it’s done, I’m doing it to enjoy what I’m doing.

The people who are galvanized by this are people who would vote for him if he wasn’t charged. We shouldn’t let treason slide.

Green. All other colors are objectively inferior.

Memory called empire was good, as was ancillary justice.

I’m currently on ancillary sword and loving it.

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I think these are good recommendations, just not for OP.

My wife and I just ran through the whole murderbot series. They are such a fun read. I’m convinced that the author plays/has played a ton of Shadowrun.

I love that book.

The reading of the book becomes part of the experience of the book in a way that feels unique and engaging. If you like the format being part of the story I have to recommend S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams and to a lesser extent the Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd.

You seem to like character driven stories with fantastical elements. The stories you list I put in the category of “weird shit happens to people” which is distinct from space operas and world building, which is most of sci-fi.

You might want to look at the nightside books by Simon Green, for pulpy action mysteries in a fantastical London. American Gods by Neil Gamain for a world just beyond our sight. Or maybe even Horrorstöre by Grady Hendrix for a haunted IKEA.

For me, it was, sadly, Final Fantasy Spirits Within.

I don’t like the movie, but when it was in theaters every one of my friends wanted to see it, and schedules didn’t line up. Buddy is in town for 3 days “hey let’s see a movie!” Every time it ended up being that damn movie.

I ended up seeing it in the theaters 10 times.

If China sent 3k troops to Cuba I wouldn’t care. 83k would be alarming because a sudden change from 0 presence to a demographic group would make me worry China was invading Cuba.

83k is a lot more than 3k. But you knew what when you started arguing in bad faith.

The only people upset about this are those that want Putin to win.

Good point.

Russia has a substantial number of nuclear weapons.

Before their failure in taking the Ukraine it was widely believed they had the second most powerful army in the world.

Russia would lose a war against the west, but it would cause significant damage, to state otherwise is being naive.

It’s not polarization, it’s true.

It is possible to oppose funding for reasons other than being controlled by Putin. There is no evidence that anyone who voted this way hold opinions to that effect. There is substantial evidence that they are funded and supported by Russia.

Being upset people use a shorthand phrase for a politician being influenced by a foreign power is just another way of defending compromised politicians.