The Dreaming

Who is that on the right?

…And then they built the super collider.

Thank you, you’ve been a great audience.

how woke has almost become a seal of approval at this point

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Woke basically means having empathy. More specifically I’d say it’s trying to make things less unfair for groups that aren’t treated fairly.

No wonder the conservatives treat it like an insult.

This incident will be reported.

The Moon, Beautiful
The Sun, Even more beautiful

Oh, yeah.

Personally I’d like to see no sales taxes (at any level of government) on anything intended to be ingested, injected, or otherwise absorbed by a body (not limited to human!) - in other words food and medicine, including for pets, in any of the states that have sales taxes.

(I’d be ok with an exception (left taxable) for recreational drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, but that’s debatable too.)

I assume most people who would buy an electric SUV would buy a gasoline SUV and not a smaller electric car if the eSUV isn’t available/affordable

This is fixed now.

When that one breaks there’s a good chance you can replace just the broken part.

I’d say that the one that’s written is the ‘true’ timeline in the story the same way that the reality we experience is the only one that matters.

What would happen is entirely your responsibility as the author of the scenario.

Some options may be more “realistic” than others, but since the existence of a working time machine is already beyond what seems to be feasible physics (requiring ridiculous amounts and density of negative energy for example, where not even any has been shown to be possible to make) the scenario becomes soft sci-fi, or in other words magic, and that means it’s up to the writer to make up the rules.

Here is a post I found with many of the options you can choose from.

Even knowing that everything happens every way in some other branch of the wave function (other universes) doesn’t really affect our own little section of it. There’s no communications or travel, so other universes if they exist have the same meaning to us as if they don’t. Except in time travel stories like this.

Besides, the same “irrelevance” of decisions and events comes free with even one single universe given that it’s deterministic - as physics seems to be. (Yeah there’s quantum randomness, but random doesn’t help either)

That said I still believe in free will and the importance of decisions. I just think it has to be defined so weakly that it still works in a deterministic universe. (So I have free will, but so do dice and pocket calculators.)

You didn’t use this driver. It’s not involved with reading discs or writing ISOs, only a specific floppy like mode available (not required) on certain combinations of drive and disc type.

Yeah, I was about to say I’m in America and most of the fast food involves oil and deep fried food.

What about the swamp, island, and mountain bison?

Canned black olives are my favorite, followed by the pickle chips, and then regular pickles, which I’m not sure if funny-name-I’ve-never-seen-before is or if those are the weird sweet ones.

That day has not yet come.

The only area I know well is the NW corner of the USA, but there is indeed public transit. I can’t say how it compares to even other parts of the US, let alone other countries, but I can say that in the urban and suburban areas it’s generally possible to walk or bike to a bus stop and with some transfers, get within a walkable or bicycle-able distance of where you are going. Some rural areas have a system called “dial-a-ride” which are basically on-demand small buses if I understand correctly. Similar systems exist for people with disabilities in the urban areas also.

Besides buses there are also ferries, and local train systems (light rail) which connect neighborhoods and cities in the same major metropolitan area. Trains between major metros (such as between states) also exist, but typically it’s just not worth it: If you aren’t going to just drive it by car, then flying is both faster and cheaper than the train, and flying isn’t cheap.

There are also commuter trains between the downtowns of major (nearby) cities separate from the light rail, but I’ve never actually tried that myself.

Not everyone knows the keyboard shortcut though. I bet you can find people hunting for it using the mouse every time.