@cstross This clip is the closest to what you're asking for I could find. https://youtu.be/0K9K1E56ksA?si=0W0rzM8WaMV1byAb

Well, I do read banned books

@isaackuo @nyrath @MeiLin @dashdsrdash I'm not a gold bug and I think hard currency is naturally deflationary.

I also think, at solar system scales, that banks, et al. would just volume lock your funds. If you're boosting from Mars to Encelladus the bank will tag your spacecraft id transmitter, transfer your balance to Titan, and put the account on hold till you arrive within a few Saturn diameters of your destination

@isaackuo @nyrath @MeiLin @dashdsrdash I've often thought that phosphorus would be the hot mineral commodity in space. Asteroids have it in small to trace quantities of iron nickel phosphide or magnesium sodium phosphate (Bennu). Any agriculture you want to do will be limited by the mass of phosphorus available to you. Fill your vault with ingots of one of those minerals and refine them into fertilizer as your food production expands.

@delong

You might enjoy David Fischer's _Albion's Seed_.

It talks about the 3 threads of early American identity: Puritans in New England, the Cavaliers in Virginia & points south, and the Quakers.

All of these were disrupted by the migration of the Borderers from the Scottish-English border, who eventually colonized Appalachia and would have been the forebears of the Hunters of Kentucky.

Scott Alexander has a pretty good review:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/

@strypey Romantic Historical fiction rather than Fantasy, but every major character is and remains a variation of wandering player.

https://www.amazon.com/Rope-Dancer-Roberta-Gellis/dp/0515085936

This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.

Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581

@fredrin Get well soon!

@isaackuo @SkipHuffman @mcv @nyrath

"not very long" in the context of stellar lifetimes would be .. a million years? More? Less?

@cstross

@fredrin I admit it's a different vibe from Piroko, but I still like it.

RIP Akira Toriyama. 😢

Dragon Ball and DBZ were an important part of my 10-15 years. Thank you for your abundant imagination, iconic character design, and distinctive vehicles.

Akira Toriyama was only 68.

@fredrin Brian Daley is one of my favorite authors! Sadly, he died a few years ago.

@Ailantd Near friction-less bearings on those wheels could make it work. Make sure your sailing on flat, dry, firm ground. Stear around swamps the way water sailers stear around reefs.

@ajroach42 I respectfully disagree. The network and it's nodes are at their best when they're invisible.

Read something, write something, watch something, search for something. Intent should be in you, whether you're on the net, in an analog library, or even out in the woods.

Got no intent? Exercise, sleep, or listen to your world until you have an intent to embrace.

@fredrin It is hard. :(

@fredrin

On the topic of feeling old, it looks like Megatokyo has outlasted E3
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/how-the-internet-killed-e3/

@kaliranya I've gotten used to reading a note here and there, "liking" or responding but mostly just consuming. Being part of a waterfall of interactions is tiring to even imagine.

Get your orange hands off Obamacare, Donald! And great ad, Joe! Watch the ad here: https://x.com/victorshi2020/status/1730308226686611548?s=46&t=V7VfS2X8f7Tb8bB5srchIg