I liked them. The arc of the first two is over. You get more details about the Shrike, but if you’ve gone years without reading further, I can’t imagine it’s that pressing.
If you reach a point where you’re looking for sci fi, and don’t have another obvious choice, go for it you’ll probably like them. But I wouldn’t recommend shifting them above anything in your backlog. Hyperion and Fall off Hyperion really are the stars here.
Fall of Hyperion is a good stopping point. I liked 3 and 4 as well, but they’re doing their own thing. I tend to think of it as two separate pairs rather than as a single 4 book series.
I can’t really visualize things in general. Due to that, if you tell me it’s muddy that’s most of the information I get. My brain won’t automatically try to put mud on the horses or add other details.
Here the specifics help a lot and I have a better sense of the muddy day for it.
AI aside, different voices may be immersion breaking. I tend to avoid audiobooks with more than a single narrator.
You’ll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59
Or just start ordinals with 0th for years 0-99
This is standard in US-style carrot cakes
It’s not simply a reading comprehension thing with bullet points. If your questions require research on my end having them already structured in bullets does a few things to help with that process.
The asker’s bullet structure gives something to mimic. You can even put your answers directly below the question, so the asker can be reminded of their own questions.
The bullets also help skimming, if I need to see which item id is needed next it’s easier to do so without losing my place.
Bullet grammar structure also allows for much terser sentences. If I need to reread your question it’s easier if I don’t have to ignore a bunch of words that don’t substantively alter the meaning.
Do I need any of these? No. Could I put the questions into bullets myself for the reply? Sure. But it’s easier to spend more time and effort on answering your questions if you save me a few steps.
You don’t give up your right to vote by moving abroad. Your vote in state and local politics is lost. How much of a real impact that has depends on where you live.
This assumes voting continues to function more or less as it has in the past.
We also check to see if the word that popped into our heads actually rhymes by saying it out loud. Actual validation steps we can take is a bigger difference than being a little more robust.
We also have non-list based methods like breaking the word down into smaller chunks to try to build up hopefully more novel rhymes. I imagine professionals have even more tools, given the complexity of more modern rhyme schemes.
Even in fairly sensible states and for egg freezing, they may want you to jump through hoops.
As part of the process my significant other apparently had to either tell them I didn’t exist, or they’d want to talk to me for permission to freeze her eggs. Even if we were married, they’re her eggs not mine. It’s completely inappropriate to need to talk to me.
It’s not uncommon to mention the president who started an agency in little blurbs describing their history. Like with the Environmental Protection Agency & Nixon.
Even your first painting in the series was recognizably him. You’re right about the expression, although I sure can’t point to what tiny detail doesn’t match.
Regardless, you’ve made great progress and I hope you keep sharing with us!
At the same time it’s the map’s job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there’s an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.
Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn’t make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.
At least that’s from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.
Switzerland is in Schengen, but didn’t join until 2004.
Is that a Vermin Supreme reference?
The weird thing is, equity and inclusion aside: it looks like diversity is a good tiebreaker when you try to measure this.
So even if it were a zero sum game, the right candidate is unlikely to be the one who resembles your current team.
You can also stitch them with ffmpeg if a CLI is more your speed
I tear up at most movies. It’s not a sad movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once holds the current record for most cries.
Generally if a movie doesn’t make me tear up at least once that’s a bad sign. At the same time I don’t gravitate towards tearjerkers, they can feel emotionally manipulative and heavy handed.
I almost never cry for TV shows or books.