Nemo

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

She'll need to work with the home country to get baby issued appropriate citizenship and identity documents, but just to travel home? Birth cert and mother's docs should be enough.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

IIRC the mother needs her own proof of citizenship and proof of birth for the infant.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's cleaning day! I try to make day one of my (Monday-Tuesday) weekend the day I ball hard on laundry and yardwork, then in the afternoon I pick one room and deep clean it and in the evenings I clean out the fridge. Then on the second day I do paperwork and make the kind of phone calls where they put you on hold while playing videogames.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and some guy who's name is harder to remember.

An inventor uploads a schematic to the Internet for a cheap, easy-to-assemble device that lets anyone (or almost anyone) "step" into parallel earths. A nearly infinite stretch of untamed wilderness sees people abandoning the polluted, crowded, government-run Old Earth in search of new opportunities. The catch: No iron or iron alloys can "step" across, sending these new earths back to the bronze age.

Also: Zeppelins that are also reincarnated Buddhists that are also the first true machine intelligence; robot cats; libertarian communes; sapient nonhuman primates; sapient nonhuman non-primates; radioactive ziggurats; space programs to parallel moons; and grumpy survival chicks.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

You slid it over one shoulder, not like a messenger bag, and hold it there with one hand as you walk.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

News to me, I thought it was Italian.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. You can't smell over the Internet, anyway.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

no one believes you

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hey now, Canada completes in the World Series, too!

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a jazz fan? Not a rock'n'roll fan? Not a hip-hop fan?

How about transistors? Or the Green Revolution? Or the polio vaccine?

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