Very hot. Which hotel was this if you don’t mind me asking?

Idiot selects idiot for critical governmental role that they will immediately fuck up with catastrophic effects. More at 11.

This is the best answer because all of these other fictional places can be replicated with 100% accuracy using Culture tech.

Not pictured: The dynamic and eternal back-and-forth in the comments section of that article where Wikipedia purist nerds do battle with Wikipedia’s cadre of silly gooses.

Purists hate that “cetacean” is used here and feel that the silly gooses are diluting the information on Wikipedia for a pun. They also complain that visitors to that page will be confused by the term, and that it will cause the social credit of Wikipedia as a whole to wane in the eyes of the world.

The gooses want the purist nerds to take a chill pill. I’m with the gooses. If the purists knew how often scribes in ancient times doodled pointless things like mounted snail combat and wildly exaggerated dick drawings on illuminated manuscripts then I’d presume they’d be okay with allowing a minor joke like this one, but I guess you can’t please everyone.

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

Coffee would have made me an apostate too. Damn, I love coffee. Live and drink, friend.

Hey, that guy is hogging all the happiness! Get him!

If pulling forward into an empty parking space in front of your car is gay, then I guess you’d better start calling me Elton John. What the actual fuck?

that phone bigger then he goddam he

It makes grim sense from a business perspective. All coffee has a unique flavor, but all burned coffee tastes the same. Burning all the coffee ensures a similar flavor profile at any Starbucks in the US. The fact that the flavor is bad is entirely beside the point.

I’m lucky enough to be in an area with a ton of local coffee roasters, so I’m never that far from a good cup. But even before coffee became an addiction for me, I didn’t like Starbucks coffee. The plain coffee is too burned and doesn’t taste good, and the mixed coffee drinks are too sweetened to cover up the burned flavor of the coffee. These days if I can’t get to a local coffee place, I’ll just go to an AM/PM or 7-11 as they’ll have better coffee than Starbucks.

Highly recommend this game. It got better once they started allowing you to quicksave and checkpoint your progress at towns/outposts. Prepare to die. A lot. Live and drink, friend.

I’m really glad you found something that helps you out. I think a lot of doctors these days have been so overworked in general that they can’t take the time with patients to break down their situation and look at everything from all angles. I hope things continue to improve for you!

“Milady, I have shown mine lute to you. Prithee respond.”

That was really neat. The artist showed a lot of improvement over the years. I was almost convinced they had moved to photography until I zoomed in.

Out of all the BS about this orange baby flooding our collective intakes every single second of every single day, this bit of “light treason” coming to light earlier might not have been as impactful as it could be when the election draws nigh.

Hopefully the Harris campaign seizes on this and beats him like a pinata with it for the next month. American Presidents should not provide aid and succor to their geopolitical enemies.

Legacy admission students aren’t usually that quiet about it. In my college experience, a lot of them will tell you of their legacy stars with zero prompting. I don’t think that penalty will inhibit universities at all.

Instead, start cracking down on collegiate sports for colleges that break the law. UCs and CSUs will comply with this if you write the law so that college athletes are prohibited from playing ranked sports with other colleges until all legacy admissions are banned and anyone who got in via legacy is kicked out. But of course Newsom would never do that - it’s catastrophically unpopular! He can’t stand being the tiniest bit unpopular, he’s gonna try to be President someday! Screw that guy.

This is what AI should be used for. There’s another great article on the same site about using AI to find qanats too which was fascinating.

https://gizmodo.com/cold-war-spy-photos-reveal-ancient-subterranean-aqueducts-2000500005

Whenever anyone asks me what fictional universe I want to live in, I say the Culture universe. Hands down the best sci-fi universe to live in as a regular humanoid. It’s a post-scarcity galactic paradise where if I ever get bored, I can plug into a Matrix-style simulation of any other fictional universe that’s 100% real to my senses. Or I’ll take any of a number of drugs that a gland in my brain can generate at will for shiggles. The possibilities are limitless.

I’ll take a shot at this if you first explain what commonalities you see between this guy and Harris. I’m interested to see why you think they’re at all similar.