Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.
The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn’t recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.
It happened about a month ago or more, along with a number of other tattooed Venezuelans.
To be fair, all shower heads I have ever bought came with clear instructions on removing the flow restrictor.
Same here. I wasn’t even using a 3rd party app, just left because of the shitty behavior. Uninstalled the app and never logged in again. I was on Reddit daily, I’m on Lemmy daily now.
If I delegate someone to do something and they fuck up majorly, I expect to be the first to know.
Romanian living in the US. I call clătite “crepes” and American pancakes “pancakes”. That way everyone knows what I’m talking about.
Also, don’t call plăcintă “pie”, or you’re setting people up for disappointment (it doesn’t matter that it’s good, their brain was ready for pie and got something else).
Their story is that she was already deported before they got the order.
My vacuum would pass that test… why is a Tesla worse at this?
Maybe the two vampire hands were the problem.
None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.
Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).
I don’t even understand how a boycott would be illegal. It’s illegal to not buy products from a certain company? How can you tell if a person is not buying because they’re boycotting or because they never had the intention of buying in the first place?
Private company banning hate speech: “omg, what about my free speech?”
Government banning use of certain words and calling protests illegal: “finally rooting out waste, fraud and abuse!”
I understand what he is saying. It kinda looks like one at first glance, because contributions from current workers go first to pay current retirees.
But that’s how private insurance and retirement plans work too. The only difference is that private ones also benefit some rich CEOs at the top who have a vested interest to not distribute the funds.
I think there are enough voters, but not with the current FPTP and electoral college system. In my native country people vote for their candidates in a first round, then the top three candidates (by popular vote) go into the second round and people vote again between those three. That way people are not afraid to cast their vote to their actual first choice like in the US (“if I vote for this 3rd party, I’m just helping the party I don’t like to beat the other party I don’t like that much either but it’s not as bad as the first one”).
It replaces the current “create 10 jobs” visa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
We don’t need to, but I noticed at one point that he’s mostly seeing female leads. We read a bunch of the books in your list, many others we avoided because they’re no longer in line with current times (and they’re not old enough to understand the historical context), and a bunch of them are not for their age yet.
Upwork publishes which skills are most in demand on the platform every year: https://www.upwork.com/resources/in-demand-jobs-and-skills
That should be a good starting point. See which of those you’re interested in and can be learned online.