Hey I don’t shit on your life–dont shit on mine!

She thanked me, btw

“We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”

I had never considered this before, but you’re absolutely right

Oh, Microsoft will still find a way to annoy them, mark my words

Jes. Jabsolutely.

Great just what I need, a good wanking off to PH being punishable by death for 2.2 petabytes of wasted genetic material

EDIT: I just found out each sperm contains about ~780MB of genetic information, so my first number (1.2TB was massively off)

I’m pretty sure a YouTube channel researched this one pretty thoroughly. Try checking out the Why Files. The entire channel is fascinating, intertwining, and informative.

What about women who don’t have any embryos stored, but have functioning ovaries? They should be claiming about 6 million dependents, right?

I trusted my government to protect my info, and now I have LifeLock for life because of several breaches on their part. If data is stored, it is virtually certain some portion of it will get leaked.

That’s an insult little dick energy

Sigh, unzips

ANOTHER series I just remembered and highly recommend is the Unincorporated Man series. I think there are 4-5 books in the series. Pretty good IMHO. Similar to The Expanse, it’s the Inners vs the Belters, and explores personal liberty and person hood from the perspective of owning “shares” of yourself like a company.

The conflict is awesome, and two military strategy geniuses duke it out in a Legends of the Galactic Heroes sort of way–one has all the resources and latest tech, the other is scrappy and has to deal with extreme resources shortages. Awesome story.

Wholeheartedly agree. I’ve read the first and second, and liked the first the most. Still planning to read the third eventually.

I also should mention I “read” them on audible, and the narrator was good too.

The only other one I’ve attempted to read by Niel Stephenson has been Cryptonomicon. It seemed to get way, way into the weeds and is over a thousand pages. It was in my 20’s that I attempted it and I only made it half way through.

His work is top tier and highly regarded by many as thoroughly researched.

Going to have to check this one out!

Seveneves is incredible, with the caveat that the last chapter of the book was almost handwavey with regards to the author’s conclusion of where humanity ended up. 10/10 otherwise.

Children of Time series goes over this a little bit, especially in the first book. Colonists end up waking up early due to a malfunction and end up falling into a devolving tribalistic race to the bottom on their journey to the planet.

EDIT: As for “hard” scifi, while I wouldn’t say this series is at the same level as The Martian or maybe The Expanse, it is pretty good with trying to keep things real, especially with regards to the human threads of the story.

Hogwarts via steam’s proton runs flawlessly.

Same. I’ve found Minneapolis to be fairly good too, but I only visit occasionally for work.

We as a species really lactate particular “live and let live” mindset