Loved that book. Also, reminds me of the last time I bought a vacuum cleaner and for months afterward I kept getting personalized ads for more vacuums. Like they thought I was a vacuum cleaner collector now. I just needed the one!!
As a reader I honestly find the second example more compelling. It's real.
The desire is the only qualification you need, but also the only one you can't fake. Persistence trumps skill every time. As an unpublished author struggling with my own manuscript, your post is quite reassuring!
One of the greatest SFF authors to ever do it! It's so nice to hear people still discovering her work.
Scary potential for a super El Niño this year.
Astronauts are extremely well educated and good at their jobs. They value accomplishing their mission above all, and as it turns out, that usually requires cooperation among a diverse group of people. Competence is woke.
The scientists and engineers who work on projects like this are just joyful, diverse, cooperative people in general. Many of the most skilled workers at NASA could make more money in the private sector, they choose not to do so because they love what they do.
I believe the post was sarcasm.
The idea of AI being a "collaborative editor" is so funny to me, because how can an AI really collaborate in the truest sense of the word? I think writers would be better served making writer friends and forming critique groups if they want feedback or editing help! Collaborate with actual ppl!
Fair enough, I actually agree with you here. It's unfortunate that the Moon landing happened in the atmosphere of the Cold War, and couldn't have been pursued for more noble reasons.
The idea that robotic tech could have been moved forward by 20 years if Apollo focused on that is laughable. If it could have been done, the military would have (DARPA has a much bigger budget than NASA, and has been working on military applications of robotics since 60s as well...).
The technology possible in the 1960s would not have allowed meaningful robotic exploration of the Moon, it just wasn't there yet. Look at the Mars rovers for comparison, limited in many ways compared to manned missions (but still great for a planet we can't visit), and those happened much later!
I hear you, though ultimately NASA is a really small fraction of the budget. The fact is we could fund everything you mentioned, and still do space exploration, if we spent less money on bombing foreign countries and maintaining the largest military in the world. NASA costs peanuts in comparison.
Set a small goal. One little sketch, or write a paragraph or two. You can do it. It's like a muscle, it takes time to build, but it does get easier.
That's not at all what the actor said, but you clearly have an axe to grind about this. Good luck, bro. Be mad forever.
This is a braindead comment to make about a show where so much screen time was spent on the main character's heterosexual romance plot.
As someone who has found your reporting on these Supreme Court decisions really helpful and illuminating, I'm sorry to hear this. Totally understand your decision, though. Thanks for all your hard work!
Keep it up! I'm about 8000 words from the end of a novel first draft myself. I need to fix a lot of mistakes and inconsistencies, but I keep reminding myself that's what the second draft is for. You're doing great to get so close to the finish line!
He's like a fish swimming in the ocean who can't see the water. He doesn't think his own worldview is political. Politics are just the beliefs of other people.
For real. The "action sequences" in old school Trek are mostly just the camera shaking while the cast awkwardly pretends to fall over. And that's usually just a couple minutes of the episode, the vast majority of the run-time was always dialogue.
"short-term fluctuation" 🤣
We'll see about that.
That's fair, I was thinking more about Speaker for the Dead and some of the later books, but admittedly I haven't read any of them since I was a child. I might have a very different opinion now, but for obvious reasons I feel zero desire to ever re-read them!
Writers who don't seem to understand the implications of their own stories always amuse me. Reminds me of Orson Scott Card in a way...
Arguing with the Chair of the A.M.A. Board is not a good look. You are "journalists" (theoretically, not always in practice), not doctors. How the fuck do y'all sleep at night? For shame.
Why would you want to give Neil Gaiman any more money and attention for those stories, though? So he can hire more nannies to assault? You sound like a petulant child, maybe you need a nanny yourself.
Those same people are probably mad now that Ciri will be the main protagonist of The Witcher 4. You better take the opportunity to tell them, "It's okay bro, I'm sure you can still play as her Dad now and then." lol
Sounds like you're on the right track. That's farther than most people who want to write a novel will ever get. Just keep working at it.
Language evolves, you know? It's a colloquial phrase, but one that's commonly understood. You should go shout at clouds or something. It would be a better use of your time.
Polymarket bet for "Will Jesus Christ return before 2027?"
I had never actually been to Polymarket until the other day. After seeing so many articles about it, I got curious and this was one of the first "bets" I saw. These degenerate gamblers are not serious people.
Polymarket bet for "Will Jesus Christ return before 2027?"
So you're saying there's a chance...