n9d was not very memorable for me so I think I probably agree with your taste overall. if you’re really only going to read one more then I would make sure not to skip The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. I think Ghostwritten is one of his earliest books and I think it really shows.

It’s really really interesting to imagine a different order to read these stories when you think about which little overlaps you would or would not be able to appreciate.

One of my favorite things about his books is that all his gimmicks with the overlapping characters and the horologist stuff doesn’t really matter all that much if the story is just otherwise also extremely well-written. so the “gimmicks” really do feel like a bonus and not like the main point.

I have loved all of David Mitchell’s books but Cloud Atlas was the perfect one that I started with that made me want to see everything else he read. I just love the structure of it so so much.

OP seems to be Korean which makes me extra curious because Koreans have interesting ideas about AC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

This is what me and my partner say to each other when we drink good coffee.

My understanding of hard water is just that there’s more calcium and magnesium ions than would otherwise be present in softer water. The varying degrees of hardness would just be the varying concentrations of these ions.

The way you experience as a human (as opposed to measuring this with a water probe) is that soap will form a complex with these ions and maybe precipitate out a little soap scum, and this reaction will happen at the same time as the reaction which complexes with any oils or dirt so it’ll effectively be wasting some of your soap and you will have to use more soap.

So you’ll be shampooing your hair and you’ll use the same amount as you used back in the soft water city and you’ll be thinking “I used the same amount of shampoo as I always do so why does my hair still feel oily?”

I have one of those articulated segmented hose things on my shower head so you can pick it up and move it around while it’s spraying and the whole thing gets all covered in limescale super fast because the hard water evaporates and precipates out the magnesium and calcium as calcite or aragonite crystals. I had never seen this happen so fast and it ruins the hose so often that I thought I was dealing with excessively hard water.

This doesn’t really fit with my understanding of what hard water is and I’m very concerned.

The place I live now has hard water that is way different from what I grew up with, but it just means that I have to use a lot more soap to clean any oils off my skin or hair, and every faucet gets a ton of lime buildup obnoxiously fast.

The actual message doesn’t have anything to do with any facts about what he said, it’s more just that he thinks it’s a “really big bomb” to drop.

The actual message is just “I am turning against this guy in a way that I think is a big deal so anyone who has more loyalty to me than him should know that you have to pick a side now.”

It’s a really big bomb for Donald Trump to see that Elon is taking staking a position.

oh cool, I can see that it’s similar Borderlands by the screenshots, and I can see that it’s like Star Citizen because it’s not actually released yet and they’re taking money for early access.

It’sail good man, just go with the flow.

Can you just use a web driver with Selenium or something to get the permalinks the way a human would and then scrub them that way? It’s not efficient but it’s only really a one-time use tool anyway so if it works then it works.

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🎵life is unfaiiir. 🎶

If you have a bunch of motorcycles going in a line and you ride another motorcycle on top of that line like a conveyor belt then you will be going twice as fast as the highest speed the single motorcycle could go.

I will always remember the moment when I realized all the “Got Milk?” posters in my elementary and middle school cafeterias were industry propaganda.

I think the original luddites would mostly agree with you. They didn’t destroy machines because they hated machines, they destroyed machines because it was the only way to affect the people who were accumulating the wealth and power that was previously allowing the luddites to feed themselves.

Your argument seems to be"don’t hate the technology, hate the oppressors and the impressive system instead" which is the same stance the non-moddern luddites had.

Your bot couldn’t decide if it was quoting the questions marks or quoting what was inside the quotation marks so it compromised and only replicated the closing quotation mark.

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This is my favorite one lol.

It bothers me that no one acknowledged that this can still be logically true. Of course if most people’s ADHD goes away in childhood then it doesn’t really logically mean anything to ask “most people you know with ADHD” because by definition, you will only be asking the subset of people for whom that isn’t true.

You can’t really survey the people for whom ADHD went away in childhood by asking all the people you know with ADHD because the people who would confirm the psychologist’s claim are not going to be included in that survey.

It’s actually called the “clockmakers four” or “watchmakers four.” it’s a thing.