Rhaedas

The wiki for the rings Rings of Uranus is an incredible read, even if you don’t understand a lot of the science. Each ring is different and unique, and very small compared to the other planets’ ring.

Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.

It was fun to learn how things work, and when things worked as planned (finally). It’s when they didn’t work that got annoying and frustrating, and with assembly language with basically no error codes or any help, it was just…nope, that wasn’t right. Maybe followed by cycling the computer off and on because it locked up. Still have my old Mapping the Commodore 64 book on the shelf. Huge resource.

I understood your point fine. I indeed started out with first Commodore BASIC and then into 6502, all using the manuals because there wasn’t much else of a source back then.

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

Reported, or total? That’s the funny thing, people who live off tips already are giving themselves a bit of a tax break by fudging numbers, so this isn’t as big of a deal as it seems. And maybe I found the catch - to get people who have these jobs to report their full income, and then when it’s exposed they get more than they’ve claimed, come after them. Yeah, that’s a bit conspiratorial…but everything else seems to be aimed at the commons and how they are the problem.

Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you’re talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.

Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it’s underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.

It’s worse than that. Kids aren’t born into this world racist, sexist, and hating, they get taught that either from exposure to it or directly. Of course they see other kids are different to them, but they’re fine with that until adults teach them otherwise.

Ask someone who is supporting all this anti-DEI stuff what DEI stands for. They either won’t have a clue, or if they do, you’ve found yourself a bigot who is find with oppressing others.

I question the math, or maybe the physics. If it only took that much gas to get a calf to the Sun (the most difficult target) then why the hell aren’t we a spacefaring civilization yet?

Yes, in looking at the link that’s a simple change in velocity of something already in space in Earth orbit, not getting it INTO space.

Individual creatures do have their own traits that make them differ from the rest. They aren’t robots following the exact same instruction for every stimulus. That being said, personality implies a sense of agency or self-awareness, and I don’t think they have that. Humans have a built in desire to anthropomorphize anything that begins to resemble something human-like, it’s in our brain.

That money goes straight back to Treasury.

There it is. “Why are they doing this?” Right there.

Best reply.

Why wouldn’t they give an example of what they are talking about?

Isn’t that now “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”?

You’re correct in that it’s not as sharp, but it still poses problems with getting into seals and lungs and sticking to everything. Plus it’s very toxic, probably the bigger concern for living there.

“I hate moon dust. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”

“I hate Mars dust too.”

It’s actually a huge problem to solve before any rational long term settlement occurs in these places. The stuff is pretty bad.

– Trump response when asked about how the tariff situation was going.

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.'”

“Now that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.”