If you don’t test for it, it WILL rear its ugly head again.

It doesn’t HAVE to be that intelligent life is its own doom, but it does seem increasingly likely.

You have nothing to be ashamed of. Ep III has some issues, but it is still amazing and one of the most important movies. I have it in my top 2.

Breakthrough Starshot project is working towards accelerating a probe close to 20% of C. That’s a significant fraction of C in these terms.

Even if we could get to .25 C, that would be 80 years for the probe to get there, and then 20 more for the data to come back.

But yes, that is still VERY close.

Unless you were early eighties baby and introduced to BBS at a remarkably young age like me. Oregon Trail generation FTW.

Correct!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrharctia_isabella

Great times!

Introducing my daughter to Trek this year, just wrapped up S4 of DS9 a few weeks ago and S3 of Voyager the week after.

We have a few more months of golden age Trek… soaking it in.

Dunno. I was going off common wisdom I’d heard over the years about people over salting their food as they get older.

Mayo clinic says yes though.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/expert-answers/loss-of-taste-and-smell/faq-20058455

People also tend to add more seasoning (particularly salt) as they get older and their senses dull.

Same. Could use a reread. What a great book.

Red rocket, standing by.

"What is grief if not love perservering?’

Thank you. It’s hard, but it’s worth it.

Had to say goodbye to my cat this weekend.

The past month or so, he’d become very demanding for attention in the middle of the day, crawling all over the desk and nibbling at my hands if they were typing or using the mouse rather than loving on him.

Every day at almost the same time. And I gave him what he wanted every time.

My Monday would certainly be better if he was still doing it.

Perhaps your award was the friends you made all along…

If you’re still using live journal in 2024, you should win SOMETHING.

And the next sentence is ‘That is a lie.’

Is this calling the claim of his bad couch loving a lie, or his previous sentence where he denied it?

With how it’s worded, it could even imply that he did reach completion, just that he was too selfish to help the couch get there.

Hey guys! I think I found Jaime Pressly’s account!