Had a friend, super advanced in math/science. Basically finished high school in 2 years, went to university at 14/15, took computer engineering or some similar hard STEM program, was a teaching assistant tutoring people older than him, snuck into the university bars a few times showing his student ID while he was underage because how many people expect a 17 year old graduate student?

Anyways he became a pastor.

Yup. Polyester feels way better on my skin than cotton, especially if I sweat at all. Also easier to maintain. I won’t buy anything cotton these days.

I always do early voting. Usually no wait but unfortunately I picked a sunny weekend day to do it once, had to wait 15 minutes.

First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2

First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro

Imagine trying to squeeze toothpaste out of a tube but it’s almost empty vs almost full.

Your gut is meant to keep things moving along… If it doesn’t, it ain’t good.

Instant Pot.

Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.

X is just a vague term though. It’s also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the “formerly Twitter” is going to stick for quite a while.

It’s like naming a product “The Thing”. Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.

You’ll be perpetually behind the times. People tend to get set in their ways even by their 30s. You’ll constantly lag behind the trends, language, and tastes of the younger generation…

If you were the first to be immortal, you may not have the best version of immortality and it may render you incompatible with better, future types of immortality. Like magical regeneration that prevents you from getting a personality upload to a cyberbrain that is a million times faster and smarter than the squishy biological brain.

Removed by mod

Rich people want to get richer. Rich people can afford to bribe/wine and dine/trade favors with the select few who actually write the law.

That is all. Nobody enjoys paying taxes, but the rich are just the ones in a position to actually do something about it.

That really depends on the type of immortality you get. Brain upload to a cyborg body doesn’t get cancer.

That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.

Lol you people where it only gets dark at 1800 after DST ends

Far better than Silver Straighttime

Hello fellow human from Earth! Like yourself, I too was not stranded here. Would you like to form a social bond based on other common human facts that apply to us both?

I love mine. Hyundai Ioniq 5.

2 years so far and it’s been great. Wouldn’t ever go back to gas. I don’t even have a charger at home, but there is charging at work. I only need to charge it like 2 shifts per week, maybe 3 if I did a lot of driving, so it’s not hard to keep it topped off just from work. Every once in a while the work parking lot is so damn full every single day that I can’t charge there all week… So I have to suffer the inconvenience of… Going to a gas station and using their fast charger. Ugh.

Road trips take a bit more planning but I don’t go on many road trips anyway. One per year, at most.

Weekend mountain trips and camping/skiing is great, though.

I’m going to save the Powerwolf and Lord of the Lost until maybe the third date…

I basically fill in the details as the questions were asked. It could have been anything from a billiard ball on a pool table to a rubber ball on a dining room table. Anything unimportant is basically left “unfilled” or generic until it needs detail.

The person who pushed it was vaguely male, again no details unless the question is asked. They may as well have been a featureless mannequin.

Winrar

Not remake the entire shuttle, but to simply design a disposable rocket and build a hundred of those, instead of a space plane.