If it’s wakeup alarm, it takes about 5-10 minutes for my higher cognitive functions to get back online. If someone tells me something during this time, I most likely wil not remember it at all. And it doesn’t matter if I have slept 20 minutes or 10 hours, I’ll still be as groggy.
If there’s a loud sound in the middle of the night, it’s almost instantaneous.
Yep.
In one of the books he is on Earth without his shipmates and pretty quickly regresses back to sociopathic behaviour.
But he recognizes this and does not welcome it. After killing a stranger just to get access to gear he needs, Amos realizes that he is making the wrong choices and states: “I need to get back to my crew.”
He has an understanding of what is good and what is bad. He cannot understand why there are limitations to by which means “good” can be achieved. But he knows these limits do exist and should be respected, therefore he needs Naomi and Holden to lead him.
Russian doctrine of advancement on tactical level engagements seems like madness, but there is an effective method behind it.
First they send small groups of decently equipped fighters to seize a new patch of land. If/when these succeed, they instantly send in the diggers. These may not even have weapons, their only purpose is to dig foxholes and entrechments while the first wave holds the ground. Once the diggers have the first holes ready, they send second rate troops to hold the new positions and relieve the first wave to prepare for the next attack
And since they do not seem to care about casualties, this method works like a very slow meat grinder. Simply and effectively.
I read the entire Bible when I was a kid.
Atheism was the only possible path for me after that.
I share your opinion of Romulus.
The characters weren’t bad, I really liked the setting and how it managed to bind the original and Prometheus together. It’s a good Alien film and perhaps could’ve been even better, if they had just stuck with the horror tone instead of going full action in the third act. I got the feeling that the director/writer really wanted to blend the best parts of 1 and 2 into a single film.
Psycho Dad, no question.
Destroying the planet you are travelling to with a massive release of energy on arrival is one of the problems of Alcubierre warp drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
I’d say this is the most likely source of inspiration for the Elborean drive.
Yes, I mean to try running them with VM. The software I need are old and light, so there’s a good chance that my laptop can run them.
I installed Fedora last Friday and I have no regrets. Win11 was never an option for me, my laptop is “too old” and I have no desire to touch that horror in any
~10 years ago I had a Win7/Ubuntu dual boot laptop, but I dropped Ubuntu when I upgraded to SSD and needed all the space I could get. Ubuntu was OK, but there was something with the UI that just didn’t click with me. I meant to try other distros but never found the time, so I just stuck with Win10 until now.
I have several legacy software that I need, so I went with dual boot again. If I can get them to run smoothly on Fedora, I’ll do a complete clean install.
The only challenge in installing Fedora was Windows’ crappy partition manager, which would not let me minimize C: for more than 54MB. I did every trick I knew and learned a few new ones, nothing helped. Then I just flashed Gparted to a USB stick and it worked instantly.
After that everything went smoothly, with the exception that Fedora didn’t recognize my Bluetooth device at all. I’ll dig into that single issue tomorrow, I’m fairly certain that a fix can be found easily.
Nowadays, definitely.
But a few decades ago in my backwater country this was reality. It happened to me twice on different regions and one of my friends who also had long hair told me it had also happened to him. I only got pocket change, but still enough to buy a can of beer ;)
At the time we deduced that there had to have been some broadcast TV show which had given them this bizarre idea, since widespread Internet access was years away at the time.
But as if this was not enough, the wierdest heckling I got was when I walking the dog with my girlfriend and a group of guys about our age passed us and called us “fucking gay”. My girlfriend was feminine, pretty and I was very far from both.
It was a very, very strange time.
Without any hesitation.
I had long hair (blonde, very thick and curly) in my late teens. Back then men with long hair were pretty rare outside the larger cities, so I usually got a large variety of insults nearly every time I went to countryside.
Sometimes people would throw money at my feet and yelled “Go to a barber, freak!” I always thanked them out loud and then I picked the money up.
Free money is always nice.
My grandma made the best meatballs. She showed me how she made them and I have the exact recipe, but I just can’t get them taste the same.
“Deep in the land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring in secret, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to fuck them all.”
Our national broadcast company showed the execution live. I do not know why my parents allowed then 10 year old me watch it, but I remember it well.
My right pinky is severely bent at the topmost joint. It made learning the piano somewhat challenging, since the pinky sometimes “locks” itself if I try to extend my fingers too much. And if it does, I have to do a little wiggle movement to release it painlessly. If I try to force it, it makes a very loud snap and it hurts for a second.
Otherwise it has not affected my life in any way.
And I can make goose bumps / make my body hair rise up at will. It only lasts a few seconds every time, but it did make for a fun party trick when I was younger and a very hairy guy.
I did exactly this, quit after 15 years.
Lemmy has a tiny fraction users compared to Reddit, it took me a while to get used to the new rhythm of things here. But after a few weeks, I realized that this is actually much better for me.
In 2 years I have encountered only one troll. There’s a lot less content, yes, but I’ve learned that it’s still more than enough. I do miss some of the active niche hobby communities, but I fixed that by digging up my old hobby forum site profiles. The old school forums are just as active as they ever were and I don’t have to expose myself to Reddit’s neverending stream of garbage anymore.
The transition was actually pretty painless and I wouldn’t go back, even if they magically decided to clean the platform and restore the 3rd party apps. This is a smaller world and it fits me very well.
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IMHO, I vastly prefer the TOS Romulans. The TNG --> era Romulans with the bumpy foreheads and 80’s super-shoulderpaddings look just ridiculous. I remember reading that the network specifically wanted the TNG Romulans to have a distinct look from Vulcans, so that “the viewers won’t get confused who are the baddies”.
PIC had both Romulan incarnations and did a great job retconning this by just mentioning the “bumpy forehead northeners” out loud.
Movie/TNG Klingons were an unquestionable upgrade, though.
I found a rainproof outdoor jacket in mint condition and it fits perfectly. I paid 8€, shop price is ~120€.