Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials books. Hyperion (first 2 are best buy i love all 4 in the series). Read some of the classics like Philip k dick “do androids dream of electric sheep” and robert heinland’s “stranger in a strange land” isaac asimov’s “i robot” books and foundation series are excellent too.

Older kindles can still have ebooks transfered directly to them via usb cable

The news organizations that exist eight paywalls are things like info wars, fox and oan. People who’ve gravitated to those free sites have gotten us to the mess we’re in now.

Mac culkin and Corey Feldman have both talked about MJ positively many times in the past few years.

Under-represented but absolutely fire is Toum.

You could use the nylons to hold filtration material.

Soda cans are lined with plastic. Water bottles are only plastic. Im amazed you are able to use the internet

All addiction is a problem. Hyper- focusing on porn addiction without any objective data on how much addiction of porn is occuring in teenagers and then trying to clumsily legislate away porn in response is bad governance.

If porn addiction is occuring at the same rate as gambling addiction, alcholoism and drug addicition then the problem is not likely to be any of those things individually but likely to be something else.

The new lemmy nsfw instance is fedinsfw.app there might be a !nsfwmemes@fedisnfw.app but i haven’t checked yet

They’re relying more and more on AI coding.

What’s wild is that they’ve decided to keep “monkey jesus” for its cultural significance. The painting could be professionally restored but it will remain that way forever

They are heavy and move quickly. All it takes is one shove or trip of an unsuspecting person that falls and cracks their head.

School budgets are tied to property taxes for the district the schools serve.

Not enough users.

I always felt that the most compelling argument that we did it was that faking it was too risky. If America faked it and the USSR went up and found no evidence that America got up there then that would have been impossible for America’s position on the global stage. Remember the Apollo missions happened during the Cold War. Irrefutable proof that America pretended to go to the moon would have been deeply damaging to idea that the might of capitalism was greater than the communists.

America left lots of stuff up on the moon with the idea that someday someone would go back up and see it.

It’s also not really a big deal if your friend doesn’t believe we went to the moon. What is their ignorance harming, really? They’re another cog in the great machine of capital and neither their intelligence nor wisdom is required to keep it spinning

There are indeed. I think at least 1 mission laid out 3 reflectors in a triangle so the distance to the moon could be calculated?

Maybe read a book or two besides ones written by fox news personalities or published by tpusa

You don’t need to get shitfaced at a bar. 1 drink per hour is under the legal limit for driving. I find it’s enough to loosen up and if you politely decline further drinks nobody will bother you. And if they’re pushy order a sprite with a twist on the rocks. So it looks like you’re drinking alcohol but really you’re staying sober

I was 16 on 9/11. I remember watching john Ashcroft the Friday before talking about how the Pentagon couldn’t account for billions of dollars. Then i wake up on Monday morning to the planes hitting the towers.

I stopped trusting the government sometime around there

Seriously. He took a normal size bite for someone who doesn’t want to get messy. The internet is acting like he needs to take a tv commercial sized mega bite to oversell how good the burger is.

Dude is clearly just a tidy awkward human and the internet is convinced that means the food is bad