@Bix A cabinent of crackpots.

Psycho-ceramics.

@LnzyHou @HopeSeeker @gemswinc

To be clear, I'm no reading snob that seeks out only works approved in literary circles.

I just like reading. When I feel like meat and potatoes, I will go for something heavy and highbrow, but when I feel like chocolate and cotton candy, I seek out things as base as military scifi.

I just like reading. I used to read a lot of non-fiction too, but not so much these last 4 years as I am more interested in the entertainment aspect lately.

@gemswinc The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is pretty linear.

@Mathias

I would think it was just an accident of poor fermentation based on having tasted cheap wines>

@gemswinc

Meh, linear is just one way to tell a story, and it's probably not even how you live actual life. I mean how often have you been doing something that reminded you of a prior experiece, and that whole mini-past-experience played out in your own head.

Beyond that, shifts in perpective from character to character can tell a fuller tale if the telling seems genuine and honest, and all of these devices can be useful creating suspense or a sense of epiphany.

@Pennyformythoughts

Guten nacht.

@joycereynoldsward

night, sleep well.

@elmaxx

If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger,,,

unless it cripples you for life, so not then.

@cornered This is what happens when you lay somebody like me off without a good backup plan.

The movie "Blitz" looks like it might be very good.

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN

You were a mall rat?

@peterquirk I'm sure if the findings hold up, they're not going away.

What is going away is their publication. One of the things you gotta do--and it sucks balls, IMO--in research is publish.

Publishing and patent awards are job security for researchers. Getting your paper yanked is the opposite of job security.

@peterquirk

Yeah, get that. But the 400lb gorilla that prices everybody else out is AWS whose only substantial competition is Azure , a 100 pound chimp.

Some liberals, it seems, are still looking for somebody to blame amongst their tribe for Trump getting elected. The circular firing squad continues.

Meanwhile, the main thing that swept Trump--a convicted criminal no less--back into future office was "the economy" the voters tell us.

Basically, "Food price too high vote other party", the same thing we see costing incumbent parties across democratic nations regardless of their ideological leanings.

@peterquirk

huh, one acronym: AWS?

Microsoft Azure has a much smaller market presence than AWS.

@MakerWerks

Kim Jong Un accuses US of having the same policy it has had post-WWII and post-Korean-war.

@wolfwoman You can block devices.

@wolfwoman

If she has your wifi pw, yes that is possible. lol. Tello has plans advertised for 6 bucks a month.

@wolfwoman Verizon is too expensive.

I am paying just under 40 bucks a month for xfinity mobile, limited data over cell.

@wolfwoman You might just want a cheap plan with your phone then. Unless you are planning on using it a limited timespan.