I’m 6’1", and I don’t see the top of my fridge in any meaningful way.

I remember talking to a woman who was like 6’5". She said when she went to visit other couples, she’d often hear the woman yelp when they realized she could see the tops of the fridge and stuff, where lots of people don’t dust.

There was a radio show back in the day that did a segment called “What did Jesse Jackson say.” They’d play a clip of him talking, then people would call in trying to understand/guess what he said (they used official transcripts as the basis). Sometimes they’re go ages with all the guesses being wrong.

Yes, though most of them use the chickens that are close to their sell-by date, so not a lot of loss,.

I live alone now, and I get less motivated to cook for just myself, but today I felt like I needed to eat healthy. I got a rotisserie chicken and made a nice sandwich with it, pulled most of the meat off the bone and put it in the fridge, then simmered the carcase with celery, onions, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, and salt until it was reduced way down. Strained that into a container, and tomorrow I’ll make chicken soup with that, some more of the veggies, and some little potatoes I have leftover. I’ll have several meals with a few cheap ingredients. Super cost effective, healthy, and delicious.

Doesn’t look like you’ll be affected for that. If I’m understanding the release right, it’s only needed if you’re trying to access age restricted content or to get messages from people you might not know. I use it the way you do, and it doesn’t look like that’s impacted.

Doesn’t look like this will affect everyone. From the release:

• Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting.
• Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
• Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users.
• Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know.
• Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.

I don’t use any of those.

How can he show damages when all the other presidents released theirs?

I would desperately love for companies to lose big on LLMs. The vast majority of users just don’t seem worth the huge energy costs. I do think there are a number of worthwhile ML applications that could make the world better, but I have little faith that they’ll be allowed to unless they generate big profits.

Surprised she refused to answer - it’s not like she’s reluctant to flat out lie most of the time.

Let us know what you think after you’ve read it.

Which of the standalones did you like the best?

Of the ones I’ve read, I’d have to say Service Model. It was just so fun - much lighter than most of the others though. Shroud was a little more meaty, and I really liked it. Another fresh take on alien life. The one I liked the least was City of Last Chances. It wasn’t bad, but it was weaker than his other books.

I completely agree with everything you said. I was okay with the leviathan threat being less noticeable though because they were in an outlying land that doesn’t have as much direct threat from them, and because the story took place out of season.

I just feel like his stories are really well crafted, which is the main thing for me.

I finally got around to reading your list, at least a lot of it. Pretty interesting. I’ve read the vast majority of the SF on the list, though not everything (many of them I read before I started keeping the notes in this thread). We have similar takes on a lot of them, but not all. For instance, I really didn’t care did 3 Body Problem.

As for your most recent, The Deep Sky, I did enjoy it, but there were elements that I thought were terrible. The whole notion of all the crew having to get pregnant seemed completely ridiculous and makes no sense: what difference do nine months make when you’re taking about generations? The technology seemed awfully primitive considering the time it was set. My notes are on one of my above-linked lists.

You might also want to look at the Locus Awards.

Yeah, mystery isn’t my normal genre either, but as you said, these are great.

I also start with Hugo and nebula nominees and winners to populate my reading list, so found these that way as well.

Just looked that one up. Apparently that one is firmly fantasy, but looks interesting - maybe I’ll add it to the list. I pull things off the list faster than I add to it anyway.

Nice, I missed that one

I have a friend who had the license plate “ALEPH NUL” which I thought was good nerd humor.