Anyone know what you have to do to disconnect this connector? Pulling doesn’t work. I need to remove the control unit from my fan so I can replace the pull chain so I can turn it on in the heat.
Anyone know what you have to do to disconnect this connector? Pulling doesn’t work. I need to remove the control unit from my fan so I can replace the pull chain so I can turn it on in the heat.
All the celebrations of Superman as an icon of the immigrant experience as peak Americanness breeze too easily over the part where he replaces his heritage and relatives with native-born Americans who raise and acculturate him to the American way
Watching Shazam! (2019) at the bar the other night and the villain introduces himself by grabbing the protagonist (a kid magically transformed into an adult superhero), flying up to airliner height, and dropping him.
He’s all freaked out as he falls and closes his eyes before he hits only to open them and find he’s stopped like an inch off the ground and can fly.
And… would that work, invulnerability superpowers aside? Like he’s not in contact with the ground, but going from terminal velocity to 0 instantly at some point applies the same jerk to his body even if the point is one inch higher, right?
Wait, does the body only do its 2 scoop equivalent/day creatine production once I wake up? Cause I’ve twice for the first uh, 2 times, lately woken up and gotten a bit active before it, and if I stay awake for 30 mins the fatigue relieves a bit
A basic Kontextmaschine rule of thumb for predicting the future is expect a straight-line projection of no trend to hold for more than 7 years
You will notice how many good science fiction novels, however, are essentially “imagine this modern trend continuing on straight-line projection for 30-100 years”
Science fiction author David Brin said that the hardest type of SF to write is medium term 50-100 years in the future. Because for far future scifi you can make up any old thing and world build basically from scratch. For near future scifi, you’re just positing our current world with maybe one major change. But fifty years from now? *Some* things will have changed vastly, and some won’t have changed at all, and you’re likely to get which it is, wrong. Consider the authors in the sixties writing about the twenty-teens. They predict flying cars and basically the same telecommunications infrastructure.
Anyway, you should read his book “Earth” which is what the world looks like fifty years after the invention of the internet.
Where they’re batting black holes around the earth’s core with gravity lasers? I remember that one, one of my favorites, second only to John Varley’s Steel Beach
Slept late and skipped the coffee today, leading me to suspect it had been not just improving wakefulness but causing vasoconstriction that compensated for the blood pressure issues some
So this whole time I’ve been losing weight there’s one type of clothing item where I went up in size, and that’s boxers, because my developing waist and thigh muscles were making them tight
A basic Kontextmaschine rule of thumb for predicting the future is expect a straight-line projection of no trend to hold for more than 7 years
You will notice how many good science fiction novels, however, are essentially “imagine this modern trend continuing on straight-line projection for 30-100 years”
