Ah, just had it backwards then, thanks

They said gamers had “hard skills” they’re looking for, but surely they mean “soft skills,” right?

Well, no, it’s not that he’s being reported on, I just don’t like how he’s positioning himself as a sewer socialism progressive while being anything but. The media is broadly complicit in that framing and I fear he’ll be the next milquetoast DNC safety pick for president regardless of the generally shifted demographics preference away from that.

I sure do wish these media outlets would stop jerking off Gavin Newsom. He’s only comparatively progressive.

Spiner does a great Stewart impersonation, I love it every time

Having seen the show should give you most of the context you need for the novellas, though some characters will be different.

No context might be difficult, but I think they catch you up on the broader concepts as they come up.

Fight, sure, but it wouldn’t be like other recent wars.

In the calmest of times submarines have poor connectivity with the outside world, so there’s no telling what they’ve been told.

Maybe the Illuminati gave him the information!

The use of generational demonyms annoys me, too, because it’s such a broad brush that has only become broader with time. In reality baby boomers should probably only refer to people born in the US in the immediate aftermath of WWII, but practically it includes people born well into the '60s.

A 20-year span is too long for meaningful grouping; a 40-year-old in the same “generation” as a 20-year-old is crazy.

I read the books first, but I thought the show did a great job of capturing the feel and the story beats with only minor character rearrangement. I believe I read that the authors (they’re a duo who originally wanted to make a space board game, I think?) rewrote and combined some characters from the show, so nothing seemed really out of place in either retelling

Not only are there 9 books, but there are also novellas in between that give extra context if you’re interested, but they’re definitely not required.

If only we had some checks and balances in place

And Congress can just retroactively make it legal

I started by picking a lot of indexers, trying to cover my bases, but every search would take forever because it sifts through every match to find the best one for your criteria. In the end I pared it down to just to just a couple big ones that even I’ve heard of and it’s been fine 98% of the time.

I’ve always heard the private indexers are best, but I don’t have experience with them.

I assume it’s UK/EU’s expanding social media laws that are driving this, in addition to Discord’s imminent Initial Public Offering coming in March. They’re trying to clean house to show how profitable they can be, the same way Reddit created their walled garden by restricting third-party connections prior to their IPO.

It’s bog-standard enshittification to please the shareholders.

Redistricting is normally done after the US Census, which happens every decade. Next one is scheduled for 2030.

I try to chill in my window seat and wait for one of the big gaps to open up, then I flip into the aisle, Scorpion my carry-on (“Get over here!”), and rush past the flight attendants to get stuck behind everybody else still meandering up the jetway.

But this will be different, everybody will pay a sort of “rent” to use this office, but it’ll be worth it because it’s so big and has bedrooms and bathrooms, and you can put your office wherever you want, and even own it if you want to

Just finished the musical episode in Season 2, which was quite silly, but it’s all so fun that it’s hard to criticize. This is a show that knows what it is and revels in it.

So kind of an incompetence issue? If they can’t even secure an indictment, what kind of crazy shit are they pursuing?

Are grand juries the finger in the dike?