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[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Am manager, hate should.

Should presumes an ideal set of conditions with perfect context.

Could is a much better term as it implicitly accepts real world conditions and a lack of total context by couching the affirmation as contingent upon only the discussion (and prior references) at hand.

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I read the Endymion half of the Hyperion Cantos this year I think the whole series is tied for my favorite Sci Fi series, right next to the Expanse books.

1- Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

1- Expanse series by James S A Corey

3- Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor

Honorable mentions: Fatherland by Robert Harris; Consider Phelbas by Iain M Banks

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

I thought the same way, then became an American engineer. Fuck a horsepower, because it's so goddamned context dependent.

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

I will appeal to the authority of deez nuts

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Does Sanders have enough life left in him to develop a far-left party? How will it differ from the existing left-leaning third-parties? How would the party stand out and "matter?" Relevant XKCD

I ask these things as a perennially disappointed minarchist classical liberal.

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is IoT LTSC a viable replacement for a Pro install in a home enviroment? I do a lot of remote desktop work to access the machine. It's either that or Linux with Proton to emulate Windows must haves at home.

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't select kids as extremely or very important.

Presumably there are seven choices:

  • extremely important
  • very imp
  • imp
  • ambivalent
  • unimp
  • very unimp
  • extremely unimp

The data is reporting the tail

 

Title.

We're planning to get the kiddo a puppy for Christmas and while reading Sterling, the Best ~~Fork~~ Dog Ever it occurred to me that I could blend in bits of wisdom about caring for a dog (no, puppies do NOT go in the dishwasher).

Are there any other Pre-K level books that could be a fun bed time story while also driving home that doggies will drink water when they want, you don't have to force them to drink?

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That depends, how far in the future, how big of an expense, how much interest can you earn, and what's inflation looking like?

If it's more than a couple thousand dollars more than a couple years out, you could possibly make useful money with a high interest bearing account provided inflation is expected to be less than about 2/3 of the interest rate of the account.

Time IS money.

[–] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Battlestar Galactica will always be my comfort apocalypse.

 

Put another way: What happens to the S&P 500 when the Baby Boomers see a spike in death rates and their estate liquidates their assets?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
 

It appears that Sync sorts by numbers > Capital Case > lower case, as noted by !RimWorldPorn being sorted above !android rather than with !rimworld in the subscriptions list as I would have expected.

It's a small thing but just seemed odd. Is this intended?

App version is v24.03.26-14:56 (122)

 

Many times Star Trek has taken us to the future only to reset the status quo at the end of the story arc. Tapestry (but in reverse?), that time Voyager crashed in the ice, and all that.

How likely is it that Discovery went to a mutable future, just one of many, especially with the Temporal Cold War, Carl, Q, Trelane, Janeway, the HMS Bounty, and any number of other temporally active agents out there in time? How locked in is the 32nd Century?

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