Project Hail Mary doesn’t do that, from what I recall. I think it’s just the US government/military collecting a bunch of scientists. Maybe it’s cut from the adaptation. The mission has a lengthy timeline of decades while the existential threat is already harming the planet. It doesn’t really paint the Earth in any kind of dreamy co-op light from what I recall.

It’s a beautiful movie. I like hard sci-fi drama. My SO does not. We both enjoyed it as it split the difference. It has some beautiful visuals along the way. It’s far from “men being dicks in space” like Ad Astra and it doesn’t do the Armageddon thing with the global livestream. I’m not saying you have to watch it, but it’s just a nice, well done movie worth the time IMO.

I was also uninterested until seeing the astronauts out there. I saw a comment that sums it up: “turns out, I’m not tired of space. I’m tired of Musk and Bezos and corporate bullshit in space.”

I’m still bummed that the mission was reduced to a photographic flyby without any meaningful interaction. There’s nothing especially triumphant about this trip as it was already known to be achievable. That makes me assume there’s something hidden, such as secret probes, positive PR for the US government in the most heinous of times, more cover up for the epstein files, slapping the orange name on yet more activities despite robbing the NASA budget, etc.

But, for an hour or two spread across the last few days, it was still beautiful seeing 4 humans being genuine people. They even got the “end of vacation” sad feeling 24 hours before return. I can’t decry the loss of NASA funding and be disinterested in this. I have to beleive this mission will inspire the next generation there’s still something valuable in bigger projects with cooperation and scientific endeavors. I don’t think we’ll match the power of the first lunar landing anytime soon, but from the Apollo and Shuttles to now, we’ve just been subjected to corporate spaceflight and dick swinging competitions about whose craft docks more often. For just one more time, we don’t have a billionaire’s name visibly attached.

French isn’t naturally occurring

So what you’re saying is the creator of a word can define its pronunciation that supercedes the current language’s rules?

Settings>notifications>notifications history on my pixel. Looks like just 24 hours of history, including the content

Get down from your giant giraffe and ride a high horse like everyone else. Or do you say “high” with a “g” like “gift”?

Get EV. Make it do the skateboard design idea where the chassis/drive train is a skateboard under the cabin/cargo body. Delete the bolts that join the halves, replace with bungee cords. Done.

I had a toy car at some point that had plunger bumpers that reversed motor direction on impact.

The guy who created gif says jif, so that one, for starters. I’m sure you say CD-ROM in a way that rhymes with rom-com (side note, rom is wrongly a short O here too) with a short O, yet ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Or do you say See Dee Rome? Maybe with a Spanish background, but not English. Similar with PIN, I for identification but no one says pine. GIMP photo software stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Whether you say Gee Enn Yoo or GNU, GIMP isn’t said a way that matches. The G in GLaDOS is for genetic. PAL (TV) is for Phase Alternating Line. PHAT, pretty hot and attractive. 50% of any time a Q is involved.

I assumed two equal patients since the mile high club doesn’t require a pilot in the room

I’ve been looking at Neven, but have no idea if they’re as big as they seem or if they’re any more durable than Knockaround.

I like Knockaround’s styles, specifically the Fast Lanes for being somewhere between a classic Rayban and a square aviator, but I keep ending up with scratched lenses. They do have a one-time warranty, but I’m not sure the extent of replacement due to wording. Only tried it once directly through customer service before I realized there’s an actual policy. I took much better care and even ordered more (different colors), but they still wear out. Daily wear, rotate through ~6 pairs. Get about 2 years out of them. I guess that’s fine, but my old sunglasses weren’t so consumable. Maybe I just not familiar with the longevity of mirrored coatings. They’re ~$35usd each and sales are frequent. The custom shop is neat.

My android shows a history of notifications. Not sure what the retention period is. It does add conveniece by allowing me to check dismissed notifications. It allows some monitoring about the type, content, and frequency of notifications as well as control to block them.

It certainly now appears the convenience isn’t worth the loss of privacy, though.

Yes, but unfortunately, there’s not always an alternative left to use. If you can’t jump devices, then commercial breaks are just how it is. It’s one thing to complain that there’s no new workaround, but instead, you decried the platform for presenting the one (currently) reliable solution. That is why the platform is jumping on you.

If there’s no solution to your device, then the only solution is a new device. At some point, it made sense for me to switch out my Chromecast (gen 1? puck) and go with a dedicated media pc. Now the Chromecast lives in the garage to stream music uninterrupted while I can still watch YouTube tutorials

Yes they do. The internet is a loud minority on both ends. The majority is silent because they don’t give a shit about the politics of the CEO or privacy or reasonable expectations about their mobility appliance. It’s just an appliance. The more cool things it claims to do, the more it sells because the people buying NEW want it to look new.

This thread is full of “I don’t buy new, but here’s what new cars should do”. No, I don’t buy new either.

Sounds like you got a month out of it. Hopefully the hours are worth it

The guest with the birthday was Dakota Fanning. I only really know because of the meme, of sorts, that connects 9/11 to the downfall of DeGeneres. 9/11, my chemical romance, twilight, 50 shades, Fanning’s rise, Degenres’ downfall

I appreciate your outlook and empathy. I think I’m smart. I know I ignore certain things and probably look stupid. But you are absolutely right that you can’t know what exact information they’re working with as the basis for decisions/statements/opinions. Being able to identify some base misconception can bring about resolution so fast. I still have sudden realizations that uproot some belief I had based on some bullshit my dad said decades ago. If you never had reason to question it, it doesn’t enter the critical reasoning part of your head.

Only example off the top of my head is he once said tetanus was, effectively, caused by dogs urinating on rusty metal. I was probably under 10, who am I to question? Well, tetanus is such a rare topic that I never thought about. Working under rusty cars from my teens onward? Not a problem, dogs aren’t peeing up into my car. Well, a friend mentioned he’d was updating his tetanus shot around 30 since he also works on rusty cars. “Wait, any rusty metal?” it was a dolly-zoom moment. Turns out, any source material that’s contaminated while puncturing skin can do it. It just happens to often be lost nails or broken glass. But I carried that belief for like 25 years.

They don’t skip from the 3rd to the 5th, do they? I didn’t say US independence Day. The 4th happens to be a Saturday this year

How so?

My roku/vizio made it seem impossible to proceed without a connection and account. The workarounds I found online vary by model. I caved to avoid a fight. Even after a later reset, I couldn’t figure out how to bypass it. I tried disconnecting it from wifi through the tv but it kept forcing me to connect it again, or else it wouldn’t proceed. However, I changed the wifi password later and it was surprisingly quiet about it. It constantly flashes the power light when on now, but a little tape keeps it in check.