I don’t know. You don’t have to be smart, or even brave to be an opportunistic slimeball. And it’s not like he has a track record of not being an opportunistic slimeball.

My condolences.

My 17 year old car is at almost 200k miles and I just dumped over $2k into it to keep it going to a quarter million miles to try and hold off having to buy something new.

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I’m old.

It’s so easy to read, worth starting over. If you read fast you’ll get through it all in a couple months.

Yeah it’s most definitely a space opera. There’s so much good science in there though.

The Expanse is a great at engineering read. Doubly so for a space opera. Lots of very legit science in the science fiction there.

I try and use less words to get a point across, but in no way do I blunt or soften the point I am trying to make.

Subbed. I really hope it takes off. The one thing I’m missing since I left Reddit is the good audio communities.

I actually think the post title and text were edited AFTER I responded which made me look like an idiot, but whatever.

Man I’m just getting killed for misreading stuff lately.

I don’t know but that’s a ground symbol like you would see on an electronics schematic.

I try to avoid it. I only buy there what I can’t find locally, or elsewhere on the internet, or anywhere at the price. At this point, I probably purchase less than an item a month from Amazon, and I’m still trying to cut that down.

I do this too, thankfully I work from home. No has to listen to me but my cat.

Well, I can’t take them with me…

Ummm it’s hard to do without giving up a wonderful 9-book, 7 or 8 novella plot, but I’ll do my best. It’s ultimately a space opera, but the ideas explored are well thought out and intriguing. I don’t think it really gets as deep into what you’re looking for as you’d like but it’s still a wonderful book series.

Future humans, in our solar system, lots of political intrigue between the powers of the UN (all of earth), the Martian Congressional Republic, and the Outer Planets Alliance (people of the asteroid belt, less of a govt, more of a political movement). Someone finds what might be alien life or alien technology (possibly sitting for a billion years in outlets solar system), and the rest is what happens to humans in the wake of that.

The tech itself gets into possible collective consciousness, planet-sized carbon crystal data storage and quantum entanglement. Along with things like worm hole technology and heavily bending (but not really breaking) the laws of physics.

It’s all written with VERY sound scientific thought behind every little nuance of the story and all the tech involved.

It’s not the hardest of sci-fi and ultimately there’s isn’t a ton in the narrative specifically about this, but there’s some really interesting stuff in The Expanse series (book, not show) that touches on this kind of thing.

The premise is really cool which is what interested me enough to read the first book (Startide Rising) which I enjoyed.

Future human race is entering a galactic civilization, where all the space-faring species were “uplifted” by a previous space-faring race. Uplifting essentially means educating, breeding, and enhancing species to the point of our intelligence. Humans in this universe have done this to dolphins and great apes. The other alien species in the series looks down on humans as no one knows who or even if humans were uplifted. The main characters in Startide Rising were humans, dolphins and one chimpanzee, all on a spaceship crashed on an alien world.

I would suggest at least giving the series a shot.

I don’t, of course. “Sir, this is a meme”

Weirdly, I am days fresh from a vasectomy.