Still might be. It’s a $3500 device. Just because it’s getting press doesn’t mean it’s going to be successful.

Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.

Pranks can 100% be harmless and fun, but if you’re ever questioning whether or not a prank is harmless don’t do it.

Do you have any recommendations on how to buy a domain?

There’s a microwave repair store in my city.

There’s always one person there when I dive by but never any customers. There’s a neon open/closed sign that changes daily so someone is there.

No clue what exactly is going on there.

Right? I can solve one in a minute to minute and a half. By normal people standards, impressive, by cyber standards I’m laughably slow.

I’m cool with that

It seems like people just want to be told what to do.

Yes exactly. Not many people like to figure out how something works, they just want it to work.

Apple’s success isn’t because it’s the best at any individual feature. It’s successful because All the features just work without having to figure anything out.

I never would’ve expected it until it happened, just barely above a whisper, loud enough for me to hear and not anyone else…

Softly spoken German in an intimate setting can really do it for me.

Loudly spoken German can also do it for me for entirely different reasons.

Not so much an incident, but an unsolved mystery in my life that I don’t think I’ll ever know the answer to:

A few years ago some friends of mine and I were going to a concert and left our cars in a parking lot in an office park near the arena and piled into one car.

When I came back a few hours later that night, there was a dead duck on the hood of my car. It was still warm, there was no damage to my car, no feathers floating around anywhere, no blood on the duck (it hadn’t been shot or attacked as far as I could tell), it was just there by itself on the hood of my car. It wasn’t duck hunting season, and this is in a city with over a million people so not a rural area.

I’ve asked all my friends, family if they know what happened, but nope. No one has confessed anything, and at this point I think anyone of my friends would’ve fessed up.

I’m just baffled.

It was like a duck landed on the hood of my car and dropped dead a few minutes before I got there on a random weeknight.

I have no clue how, why or what happened.

This is one thing continually overlooked when people bring up trade careers.

I agree, it’s solid (and for me) fun & gratifying work. I really enjoyed my time in the field and wouldn’t trade it for anything.

If it’s a skilled trade you can make more money than a lot of recent college graduates as well.

But to your point, it WILL absolutely chew your body up over time and construction sites are an exceptionally dangerous work environment. You can do everything right and some asshole not paying attention can cause life changing injuries to occur.

My advice for anyone looking at going into the trades is to get a few years under your belt, get some certifications and then find your way into an office management position.

I’m baffled at how much they screwed it up. They really didn’t need to change the formula much for the sequel to be a success. Just come up with a new portal or some excuse why the portal from movie 1 didn’t close and do the same thing as the first movie.

Instead they did whatever they ended up doing in movie 2 and killed what could’ve been a fun blockbuster franchise.

Hell they could’ve adapted one of the the hundreds of fanfics online and it would’ve been a better starting point than whatever they ended up with.

My advice, close Lemmy now and start studying.

Promise yourself to study just for 20 minutes (20 real minutes not distracted minutes) and then see how you feel.

I don’t know any Korean, but the Korean alphabet is by far the best writing system I’ve seen.

The characters make the shape your mouth makes while annunciating that letter. It’s ingenious.

I got down to about a minute and then realized it would take a lot more time to get lower than that.

This makes sense to me, I just finished Jurassic Park for the first time a little over a month ago. Lots of similarities, cool premise, I don’t care much for the characters so far.

I’m just getting into it. It’s an interesting premise so I’m looking forward to digging deeper.

The Three Body problem by Cixin Liu

I just finished Jurassic Park, and similarly the plot was fun but the characters were fine. The only character that’s somewhat fleshed out is basically a stand-in for Crichton himself and actually has multiple almost chapter long monologues talking about the “arrogance of science.”

Which is confusing as hell as the character is supposedly a world-renown and respected mathematician and basically all of the criticisms Malcolm throws at “science” and “scientists” (as if all science and scientists are some unified bloc) would apply directly to other areas of academia…like mathematics.

I didn’t even touch on the thematic confusion of pro-corporation messages while the villain is corporation-personified.

I say all of that to say Crichton in my experience is great at finding interesting scenarios and plot lines to explore, and not much else.

Aww man, if I go could go back into this series fresh again. I love this series.

If you enjoy the first trilogy the three standalone books are also great and the follow up trilogy is also fantastic.

But man, The Bloody Nine is an all time character.

I second the opinion of the audio book versions.

Enjoy!