Cawifre
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2·9 days agoEach book has a compartmentalized story that concludes. Book 2 occurs a good number of decades after Book 1. Book 3 occurs at more-or-less the same time as Book 2, but elsewhere.
There are 3 more books I haven’t started, but so far I haven’t even had a character repeat across books: very disconnected.
Genuinely a good whodunit in a space opera setting.
The procedure changes for the following two books (I’m on 3 of 6, so I can’t yet speak on the back half), but the overall theme of mystery twists revealed throughout the plot leading into the climax seems to hold.
That must be the compound they use to launch the expeditions to the Sun. I want to say it was Venus, but Mercury would be closer.
I’m reading the third book, The Uplift War, right now. Wild settings, all three.
That depends entirely on the specific application you are using, but I can’t remember ever coming across a messenger that did not disappear the dots if nothing has been typed in the past several moments.
Probably referencing this or something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1ctuz4w/the_recommended_section_in_start_menu_is_actually/
11·1 month agoWiser than Lembot, who asked.
That is, unfortunately, beyond my power.
3·1 month ago“Counter-podcast podcast” is a hell of a mood
There was also Lilo & Stitch that has that whole sequence that needed to be redrawn with a spaceship-over-rural theme instead of a plane-over-urban theme.
He’s giving the people what they want.
32·2 months agoYou tell me. What is the job of a high ranking military officer?
Edit: I’m tired of this. You are way out of line, and you won’t directly address your own statements without redirection. I’m out.
Please, please can you directly acknowldge the problem in your original assertion that more of the current military staff in Africa should be black because they are black. This isn’t about making all systems more fair. This is about whether or not it is appropriate to concentrate black personnel in Africa. I assert it is not appropriate, nor would it be appropriate to send other personnel into other theaters based on their racial geographic origin. That has huge “go back where you came from” energy.
Advancing through the ranks is a different issue. There are problems there that need to be addressed, and such changes would be expected to bring a shift in demographics among different military roles over some period of time.
None of that changes the current military roster. You just can’t send the black guy to Africa for the color of his skin. If you had a ratio of 50:50 black guys to white guys in command, and we ignore other demographics for a thought experiment, then it would be obviously weird and racial if a crew of five commanders in Africa were white. That is not the case. It would be weird and racist if three of the current commanders in Africa were black because that is an obvious skew of the commander statistics.
Your argument about demographic spreads in the military looking racist right now is valid. We should address those demographic skews directly, not insist that people are deployed in ways to offset those demographics. Picking the fewer black commanders we have and sending them to Africa specifically because they are black is insane. I shouldn’t even need to type that.
Okay, sure. You do understand that the vast majority of African Americans have been rooted families for generations now? I can’t underline enough how fucked up it would be to send someone to Africa because they have dark skin. That is a verbatim echo of all sorts of internal American racism.
I’m addressing that very specific point.
A different and likely more damning bit of racism perhaps.
The argument is that if you have 99 white guys and 1 black guy in your pool of people, then the choice to specifically send that single black guy to Africa is a bit messed up. You probably should have more black guys in the people pool, and that surely points to some racial bias in the hiring process, but the decision on how to deploy those people is a different decision that can be racist or not all on its own.
Quicksilver is the same as mercury though
Amazing! That’s exactly it!
I would be confident just based on the summary, but I remember that minigame where you pilot the boat in the harbor.
LockPickingLawyer, maybe?