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Book launch.
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It's the author's actual book, linked on her site. https://www.exocomics.com/book/
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Book launch.
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It's the author's actual book, linked on her site. https://www.exocomics.com/book/
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Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds?
The Children of Time books by Adrian Tchaikovsky have a lot of those themes. Half of the first book is about an ark ship sent out to find a habitable planet because earth is dying. It spans hundreds of years as key crew members go in and out of hyper sleep. Relationships and political factions form and dissolve as the ageing ship continues its mission to find a new home.
The second book focuses on a terraforming crew that was sent to another star system to prepare a planet for humans. However, the planet's ecology is so alien it proves very difficult to gain a foothold.
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Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True
Sounds like it will be competing with https://www.gaia.com/ . One time I met a girl at a bar and she told me I needed to watch some videos there to know the real her. I managed to watch a whole episode about the hollow moon. The next episode started talking about the lizard people that came to earth thousands of years ago. I decided I wasn't bored or horny enough to continue.
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Satanic Temple prepares to enter Florida schools as state moves to pass bill allowing chaplains to volunteer
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That's the point, right? At best this will shut down some poorly written legislation. If it doesn't, and the law gets changed to be explicitly Christian, then at least it's out in the open and no one can claim it's about protecting ALL religions.
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Every time... NSFW
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Looks like Re-Animator https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/?ref_=ext_shr
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Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes?
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. It felt like mostly nothing happened for 2 hours. There was some decent dialogue and a lot of references to 1950s and 60s Hollywood. There is some build up, but not much payoff until the last 20 minutes. Then everything goes off and you are reminded that this is a Tarantino film.
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Which one are you?
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The power setting makes the microwave cycle between ON and OFF at the given ratio. So at 50% power the microwave will only be heating for half of the cook time.
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Do the voices, DM!
The rogue I DM always asks where the brothel is. I just make up names and charge him gold for the stay.
While on the road the party stopped at a tavern in a small town. It was run by two sisters that were very friendly with the rogue and the paladin. The sisters led them downstairs and into their respective rooms. When their backs were turned the doppelgangers attacked!
The paladin's steed sensed he was in trouble and burst in the tavern and hoofed it to the cellar. The monk and wizard realized what was happening and begrudgingly put down their drinks to go help.
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Me irl
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Baby, I'm an Anarchist! by Against Me!
We don't get tired, we get even, by Pat the Bunny
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Born under the Arizona sign
They're actually more resistant to sun as long as it's "a dry heat".
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Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
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From the paper.
Ultrasounds accelerate extraction processes due to acoustic cavitation [8], [9]. When acoustic bubbles, also called inertial bubbles, collapse near solid materials, such as coffee grounds, they generate micro-jets with the force to fracture the cell walls of plant tissues, intensifying the extraction of the intracellular content [10].
Seems more involved than just aggressive stirring.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417724001330
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Why No One Will Get Fired Over ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
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Same. It's not a bad film. It is a fairly logical progression from the first movie. I was actually surprised it wasn't more fantastical. There were several points where they could have escalated to a city wide musical caper, but they kept it grounded.
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coffee rule
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That's just a French Press in denial.
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[Technology Connections] Don't overthink electric car charging (we should be doing it differently) [52:12]
I got my first EV about a month ago. I charge off a 120v 15a outlet at home and I've been fine. Yes, it would take 2 days to go from 0 to 100%, but that's not necessary. It only takes a few hours to charge the 6% I average per day.
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Why No One Will Get Fired Over ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
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The point is Joker escaping into familiar songs to cope with reality.
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'It's like being in Greece': The US neighbourhood where cars are banned
Fun fact: Tempe is named after The Vale of Tempe in Greece.
I visited Culdesac last year to see CityNerd and Urban Phoenix Project talk about urban development. It's a neat place. If it existed 10 years ago I would have liked to live there. Going car free in Phoenix is definitely a challenge but I'm glad some people are willing to try it.
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Three original movies are being released in theaters today
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And an extensive military career as a highly trained operative in every private and government special program.
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She bought $20k worth of scooters 3 years ago for her small business. Now, the City of Tempe is pumping the brakes.
Boyce-Jones was willing to pay the $8,814 application fee and $1.18 per scooter per day charge that came with the SATV permit, but there was a problem. The permit requires electric scooters to have GPS monitoring and data sharing capabilities as well as self-locking mechanisms.
That seems absurd. What other data needs to be shared? It's like the rules were written by a scooter startup.
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As Helldivers 2 struggles after the new update, Arrowhead's CEO promises fixes while also expressing disappointment in how it's performed.
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I've been happy with the update, but I also rarely use the flamethrower or incendiary breaker. I normally play on 7s and my friends that use the incendiary said they are mostly fine in groups, but soloing objectives is harder.
The flamethrower change made chargers harder... But I prefer rocket pods for them anyway.
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The karaoke bar is hyped up. You're next up and you have one job: kill the vibes. What song are you singing?
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I would be so hyped that someone is playing The Mountain Goats in public I would probably join in.