Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series.

Just a breathtaking setting that begins with the first hundred settlers and traces the intrigue, terraforming, conflicts, and dreams of the colonists. It’s a sweeping epic written on a human scale.

It started as a fake psychiatry scam, but when Hubbard realized there were laws regulating medicine he switched it over to being a religion where there aren’t any of those pesky regulations or ethical oversight.

Right? They were awesome.

Minestrone or Italian wedding soup are both pretty chunky.

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Yamaha makes the best guitar for the money.

The instrument I probably play the most is a nylon string Yamaha with a great dual pickup/mic that I got for $100 at a pawn shop. It has some cosmetic wear, but that’s a bonus in my opinion.

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Get some canned chilis in adobo; that sauce adds a nice smoky flavor.

Also if you want to thicken it up, crumble some tortilla chips into it.

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Here is an excellent book on the topic if you’re interested.

The cables are extra long so they have plenty of slack, too.

That’s depressingly common in modern times.

It’s easier if you live near a city with lots of people, but going to meetup.com or similar will show you lots of communities that are eager to get more people involved.

It is always easier to stay home so sometimes I need to make myself go out and be social, but consistency is key. Showing up every week to a meetup will root you in a community more that once every couple months.

Find an IRL community that means something to you. You have to feel like you belong somewhere, and people need a support group to help when they’re down. You can’t feel happy if you’re lonely.

I’d never seen this community before. Subscribed!

I’m terrible at keyboards, but I do like to play with 'em.

Yeah, there’s no use in speed-running Reddit.

Let’s make our own thing.

I wish instead that people would post in the general communities first, then spin off into a new community if there is interest.

Like, we don’t need a whole community for the new Dragon Age game or whatever, but we do have a games community that would benefit from the post. Then if there are 20 Dragon Age posts every day it could obviously support it’s own community.

Fate of Atlantis is a cannon story to me. I never saw the two new movies, so that’s the end of the franchise for me, unless the new game is any good.

Make sure you look up a healthy diet for your bird; most parrots need fresh veggies daily. It can take some time to get them used to it, but it’s well worth the effort to have a healthy bird.

If it is a pellet/seed mix, you should likely change it out daily along with the water.

I’m currently using a trick on my Windows 11 work machine to get the old UI for file explorer by going through the control panel and going up a directory.

I’ll be so pissed the day they strip it out, because their new design language is ridiculously slow and terrible for the sake of “cleanliness.”

It’s a riff on an old meme.

It’s actually illegal to cut those off.