Something to be proud of I’m sure!

Once they went to the new planet and stuff it kinda lost focus.

This. And I remember starting to read the according books and it was much the same as in the show.

Not the person you asked, but I did, at least the first few seasons, meaning: I started to watch the show, then (I guess in a lull between seasons), I started reading the books. IMO the TV adaptation is true to the books and I enjoyed both immensely. It is, at least up to that point, one of the best TV shows ever for me.
But at some point I got bored; season 7 maybe? Does that correlate to book 7?

Last month read The Expanse first 3 books.

Oooh, I wish I could recreate that experience.

I meant it from the POV of 2021, so “wins again in 24”

Still on a retro roll, now re-reading the 3rd part of Ursula K Le Guin’s Earthsee I-dont-know-how-many-ology.

She’s an amazing author. Might seem a little too tree-hugging and esoteric sometimes, but her heroes always have both feet firmly planted on the ground yet also have weakness, make mistakes, and reflect upon them, and they always have a social worldview.

Her language is simple but has a deep, ancient and lyrical feel to it.

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While President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery altered by artificial intelligence, including demeaning and racist deepfakes, it is usually so over the top that the goal seems more about cartoonish mockery than outright deceit.

The photograph of Ms. Levy Armstrong was different. It ​h​as the hallmarks of brazen disinformation from the top level of government: smearing and humiliating one citizen in order to influence public opinion, while sending a warning to other critics to beware of crossing the administration.

Remember this when they say “libruls cant take a joke”

a misleading description of Ms. Levy Armstrong as a “far-left agitator”

lol, everybody who doesn’t lick The Don’s boots thrice gets that moniker.

Elon Musk was a trendsetter!

Big Oil, coal and other shit have been worming their way into US education for decades, spreading lies, esp. against climate and environmental action. I once listened to a long podcast about this, interviewing parents etc. It was very interesting, and very depressing.

In 2024, everything was already laid out for everybody to see clear as day - Trump1.0, MAGA’s behavior since 2021, Project 2025…

BTW, in 2016, both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz predicted Jan 6 21: “If he loses the next election, he won’t go willingly.”

Ever since Jan 6 21 it’s been crystal clear where this goes if he wins again.

You nailed it, except “huge generalization” is actually being generous. The article is simply wrong. The author is speaking esoteric technobabble:

The upgrade death spiral (…) happens because upgrading one component of your computer can unbalance the system.

It’s the sort of argument a husband might give his not tech savvy wife when she asks why he repeatedly needs to spend so much $$$ on something only he uses.

I think FOMO says it pretty well, or simply consumerism.

Now that hardware is getting more expensive again, this is really sending the wrong message.

And OP keeps doubling & tripling down despite basically every comment disagreeing. I think they wrote that article.

Aye.

And OP is doubling down.

Not sure what “future proof” means, but my PC still has its original case from Windows Vista times, has seen 2 mobo replacements, 1 PSU replacement, and I don’t even know how many hard drive / SSD additions / swaps. RAM extensions too. Used to have a GPU but after the 2nd mobo/CPU replacement I dropped it.

Different screens, keyboards, and mice.

None of this would have easily been possible on a laptop.

In a world where hardware is getting more expensive again you are really sending the wrong message here.

Not to speak of environmental impact & consumerism.

CPUs are the same with real performance needed a new chipset and motherboard. At that point you are replacing the whole system.

I find the quoted statement untrue. You still have all peripherals, including the screen, the PSU, and the case.

You can replace components as and when it becomes necessary.

You can add up hard drives, instead of replacing a smaller one with a larger one.

Desktop mobos are usually more upgradeable with RAM than laptops.

There’s probably more arguments that speak against the gist of this article.

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Iain M Banks’ GSVs are missing. Pretty sure they’d outsize most of what we’re seeing here. Not that that is what makes him a great scifi author.

tl;dr: tankies

A spin off the great documentary that has the cosmopolitan charm of an airline advertisment? I’m sitting on hot coals!

Srsly I thought she had slightly more intelligence than her husband, but apparently The Endgame Grift is infectious.