@paulwillard81 @wonpilesqued It's a 12 hour audio book that has to be cut to a 2.5 hour movie. Unnecessary things needed to be excised and the coma resistance stuff wasn't necessary.
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@wonpilesqued I was shocked that the coma-resistant gene wasn't prominent. And if it was, it was a very small, passing line of dialogue. In the book, he survives the trip because of his proximity to the Astrophage w/radiation. It's how he knows Rocky was also able to survive.
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@BigDickBarclay In the end Rocky visits Grace in his home and tells him that their scientists have observed that our sun has returned to full luminosity.
Grace is also significantly older and more run down by the effects of Eridian's environment and there's no consideration of going to Earth.
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@BigDickBarclay The book is simultaneously better and worse on this point.
Before Grace makes the decision to save Rocky, he's planning on seeding Venus on his way back to Earth because he's concerned that due to the collapse we may no longer have the coordination to send another ship to Venus.
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Okay guys. Can I be a party pooper stick in the mud about the new RySlop? Or is it too soon?
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@tszzl No, because the book mentions a couple of things.
The astrophage has a range of ~8 light years.
They require a Venus like planet for reproduction in the solar system.
Any alien society sufficiently advanced would figure out a solution without the need of traveling to Tau
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@Alonso_GD I can't wait until we can region block retards.
The issue isn't planting on a grade, it's running modern farm equipment on it.
Yeah sure 500 years ago terraced farming was fine, for poor sustenance dirt farmers. We're past that.
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“You can’t grow crops in a 35 degree slope!”
Indigenous people 500 years ago:
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]
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@Tantaburs @aakashgupta @u2537655119221 Yes, he's an idiot and double counted.
I don't know why, other than to make a retarded point.
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@aakashgupta @u2537655119221 So you say the $2500 is because of gas flight and hotel but then you add the price of gas flight and hotel to the 2500/head to make it 7000?
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That road is Route 1 in Iceland. A week driving it costs roughly $2,500 per person. Flights from the US run $500-600 round trip. Gas is $8-9 per gallon. A glacier hike is $125. A night in a decent hotel near Vatnajökull is $160-200.
Total tab for two people to spend a week staring at that glacier instead of a monitor: somewhere around $7,000.
The median American household earns that in about 18 working days. Sitting in a room. Staring at a screen.
The people who actually drive that road on a random Tuesday in March fall into two categories: retirees who stared at screens for 40 years and saved enough to stop, or remote workers who figured out how to stare at a screen from Reykjavik instead of a cubicle in Ohio.
Both paths run through the screen.
The photo is real. The freedom it represents costs $7,000 and 10 days of PTO. The device you’re reading this complaint on is the same device that books the flight.
fardeen@fardeentwt
the world looks like this and we’re expected to sit in a room for 8 hours a day staring at a screen
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@AlanRMacLeod Bitch, send them your country's money and stop complaining about us.
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The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation.
No empire in world history has ever held this much power.
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@KelseyTuoc What's your stance on the Colorado Baker, or any general anti-discrimination statue that imposes restrictions on private businesses?
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These are all deeply unpopular, deeply immoral bigoted and discriminatory policies. They are a fight worth having, and worth having very vocally. This is a free country and Republicans do not want it to remain so for trans people or private businesses that want to serve them.
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This has been very frustrating to me. Republican states are moving to retroactively invalidate drivers' licenses the state issued, make it illegal for private businesses to set their own bathroom policies as they see fit, and ban adults from transitioning.
Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth
New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @voxdotcom gift link: vox.com/policy/482762/…
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@finmoorhouse @SeanTrende That could have been written by Kamala Harris.
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Thinking about the time our high school English teacher gave us a poem to analyse
When we finished she told us it was Donald Rumsfeld’s WMD press conference, and that was the class
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@jondelarroz The US withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, he's 55 years old.
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The New Firefly animated show writer Marc Guggenheim hates you:
"If you voted for Trump... there’s nothing I can do for you... I marched against Vietnam... protested Bush I and Bush II, marched against Trump 1.0 and 2.0 and will only stop marching and protesting when the legs give out."
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@SectEVOn @DanFriedman81 That's how I do it, enjoy your 30 seconds of juggling asphalt niantic.
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@DanFriedman81 Ive never seen a single person do the scan properly. Most people that even use the feature (very few) point the phone at the ground and move it a little so they dont look like weirdos.
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Pokemon Go has a daily quest that asks you to take a panoramic image of a nearby point of interest with your phone. The reward for this is an in-game cookie you can feed your Pokemon.
They mobilized the game's global player base to collect a tremendous amount of data and give it to them fake cookies.
NewsForce@Newsforce
POKÉMON GO PLAYERS TRAINED 30 BILLION IMAGE AI MAP Niantic says photos and scans collected through Pokémon Go and its AR apps have produced a massive dataset of more than 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation for delivery robots, letting them identify exact locations on city streets without relying on GPS. Source: NewsForce
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@SarahTheHaider It's particularly funny to speak of "feminism" as if it's one concrete thing and not something that has multiple definitions that have changed over time and across various populations.
I mean it has academically defined "waves."
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“Hope it helps!”
9/10 times I engage earnestly with a “critic”, they turn out to have no interest in returning the favor.
My mistake, Cathy, my mistake.
Cathy Reisenwitz@CathyReisenwitz
@SarahTheHaider Feminism is orthogonal to liking or disliking men. It’s the movement against sexism. I hope that helps,
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@LaurenzRod @Aella_Girl She lives in Nigeria, I feel like that context is important.
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@Aella_Girl I couldn't tell if the post was sincere or paralody.
I think she believes it!
Sad.
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This is such a good example of the "men are beings with agency and responsibility inside them, while women's agency and responsibility comes down from their environment" view
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I wore a shirt with “Girls Just Wanna Have FUNdamental Rights” today and an older man asked me, what about the boys? I told him they have rights already and he responded with “girls are doing so well in school now while the boys are failing. Then I go “boys aren’t failing because
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@adetola_AA I have no idea if this is true or not in Nigeria (it seems reasonable that it would be) but it's obviously untrue in the US & Europe.
Any women replying to you affirmatively from those regions are delusional.
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I wore a shirt with “Girls Just Wanna Have FUNdamental Rights” today and an older man asked me, what about the boys? I told him they have rights already and he responded with “girls are doing so well in school now while the boys are failing. Then I go “boys aren’t failing because
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@aniRando_ @patwalz @jbarro The math of a while at City worth of windows is astronomically worse, is it's 1.7 per building than it's billions for a whole city.
What are you even talking about, your math is atrocious.
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@Tarnational @patwalz @jbarro 1.7 mill aint gonna cover, recovery, disposal, and disinfection of an area plus labor cost times enough employees or contractors to keep up with a whole ass city full of dead birds. You aint paying pennies for that type of operation
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These bird glass mandates are such bullshit. We *eat* birds. But we're supposed to spend thousands of dollars an apartment to stop them from flying into windows?
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@EleanaLittle One argument that this bill wouldn't raise costs was that builders could switch from glass curtain wall to masonry and brushed metal. But the nonprofit developer estimated costs of about $3000 per apartment for this not-very-glassy building. Can't reduce costs by reducing glass.
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@CyberdyneC @SandyofCthulhu Why are you just skipping over the "quickly and resoundingly?"
That's precisely the part everyone is calling woeful and embarrassing
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@SandyofCthulhu I mean WW2 they just got defeated quickly and resoundingly. Their choice was to die en masse trying to resist with their entire conventional military in a hopeless situation or surrender and avoid being destroyed, and their choice was perfectly respectable
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One of the problems I always had while being the "history guy" for the Age of Empires series was that everyone always made jokes about how terrible the French were at war. Whereas in fact, France was such a force to be feared that during the 1600s and 1700s all of Europe usually had to band together to stop her.
It all goes back to France's shameful performance in World War 2 (which was pathetic). That humiliating loss has echoed through the years. But I had to explain it again and again and again to people. Then they would say something like, "Well Napoleon lost." Even the somewhat historically literate, who knew of Agincourt and Crecy, were surprised when I explained that France not only won the 100 years war, but they won it stunningly, laying waste to British Continental pretensions.
I blame France's abysmal performance in the Franco-Prussian War, WW2, and Dien Bien Phu. Get your act together France. Be the France that terrified all of Europe and fought literally every other nation to a standstill in 1697.
Daily Roman Updates@UpdatingOnRome
Stop the French hate.
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