… He was literally working class. The literal definition of the proletariat. He was exactly proletariat. Earning more or less money is not the distinguishing characteristic.

Missing the dip before the meeting where you have to prepare for the meeting.

Yesz M class includes having tolerable gravity. There are many things that make a class M planet, which is why they are so rare. In some sci-fi universes there are other species that populate other types of planets that are rarely interacted with because there is not direct competition or benefits.

Plus there’s an old adage by J Paul Getty, “If you own the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the banks problem.”

Similarly everyone you owe money to is now invested in your success.

Here’s my retcon. The science of inertial dampeners are such that you have to be precisely aligned perpendicular to galactic north for maximum effectiveness.

I think many stories hand-wave this by only interacting with “M” class planets unless the story is helped by adding the additional complexity.

Not a comment on the story, but that dude is wide.

I don’t see what you mean. The left axis is a measurement of cost per gram of protein. The bottom gives you a measurement of density. So anything lower on the chart is cheap for what you get and then the further right you go the smaller the portion required to consume to get that amount of protein.

This excited me, until I saw all the reviews about crashes. Hope that gets fixed.

Pretty sure that with a permissive license you can just change the license of future versions as you want. Ex. v1 MIT license with thousanda.of contributors, v2 Commercial license with contributions from anyone who agrees to contribute to the new version and license. (Anyone can fork v1 and start their own licensed project)

Probably the same kind of people that support prison rape because the victims are criminals.

Love the series. All the actors are so great in it

The tears of Conservatives

Not really like anything you mentioned, but Hinamatsuri is one of the funniest I’ve read and I think everyone should read it.

Edit: also Def One Punch Man, Murata’s redraw

I call this being bookish, pronounced “bockish”

It is common and correct to always refer to former Presidents as President, they generally only say former if it clears up ambiguity.

Not powerless, but the fear of Trump (IMO a founded fear) is that he would abuse the office and be permitted to do so by his party members in Congress. I understand that people want Biden to do the same thing (for a real and good cause) but that would also be the end of American democracy.

“No fair! They’re politically motivated to (checks notes) fulfil their duty to inform the public about my political motivation too … usher in a dark age for America.”

Apparently you missed the part where he is a leading voice in a drive to deal with climate change and calls it an existential threat to humanity, uses the powers available him to pursue research and proposes monumental investments to deal with it. Do those investments line up with every one of your points, maybe not, but I’m certain that far more informed individuals than we will be in the rooms to debate which are more deserving and workable. But all of that is entirely dependent on legislative action. It is simple to do a cursory search of White House press releases to see what executive actions the Biden administration has taken, and they are not few.