I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that’s what I assumed.

Puerto Rico is lovely

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito-borne_disease

FYI “mouth breather” predates the setting of Stranger Things by decades. It’s also not about manipulatively forcing them to deny it: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/508300/mouth-breathing-as-slang-for-stupidity

You’d probably want height in there as well

I understand where you’re coming from, but I disagree completely. They are written in a different style than we’re used to today, but they’re masterfully done. To me, the movies are largely good adaptations, but the books are far superior.

But that’s the nice thing about taste: everyone’s entitled to their own.

That is relevant to my interests. I’ll have to pay a visit to Baltimore.

Oh man, that reminds me of a place near me that does palak paneer fries. It’s like Indian poutine. Amazing.

I bet they’ve got websites with RSS feeds. Pick up an RSS reader and subscribe to their news & announcements page.

Relevant link: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

I think they tend to be more interesting too, yeah.

I’d rate them about the same, personally. Though Brooks is at least just derivative and juvenile; Goodkind gets increasingly self indulgent.

Darknet Diaries. Full of fascinating cybersecurity stories and interviews, with both whitehats and blackhats.

Bottlescrews and turnbuckles both have one end threaded in each direction.

Forged in the Dark games are great; I haven’t gotten to play Blades, but I’ve run some Scum & Villainy (which is a space opera setting: think Star Wars meets Firefly), and it’s probably my new favorite system

MorkBorg is fun for the aesthetic, but the combat always seems to just drag on, with round after round of damage getting blocked by armor. On the up side, the rounds go really quick.

What you’re asking about there seems like it’s really: “Is something being knowledge vs belief subjective or objective?”

The answer, just like for “is cereal soup?”, is that it’s all semantics. It’s not like there’s some Authority who’s created the Platonic Form of Knowledge that Beliefs cannot partake of, and there’s a clear delineation between Knowledge and Belief. We’re just using these weird shapes, sounds, hand gestures, or whatever else to try to do telepathy and get our thoughts into someone else’s head. Like all semantic questions, what this comes down to is: have you chosen the right word to convey your thought? If people seem to not be getting it, try the other one.

There are lawsuits: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/02/crowdstrike-faces-onslaught-of-legal-action-from-faulty-software-update/

These things will probably take years to play out.

Where do you put your SSDs, though? If it’s not off-site, it’s not a backup.

Halting State was great. It actually took me a couple of chapters to realize it was all 2nd person. That’s the book that got me into Stross.

I really enjoyed the first three: they were pretty obviously just a bunch of short stories set in the same universe. The later books where he tried to write actual novels were not great though. He could do great short stories, but IMO wasn’t much of a novelist.

I’m in the US, and I bike about 6 miles in to the office; with rush hour traffic, it’d probably take me about that long to drive in. Plus, I get some much needed exercise.