Sure. Just a few years ago the LitRPG genre effectively didn't exist. There are a handful of things we could point to that can be retroactively placed in the genre, but it wasn't really a distinct thing until maybe 10 years ago and it didn't really take off until just the last few.

It is indeed essential that you are capable of performing the job I need done if you want me to hire you to do the job I need done.

If you want to go start your own business, then by all means. You don't need to prove to yourself that you're capable. You probably will have to prove to your customers and business partners that you are though.

Tornados occasionally suck up fish and can drop them many miles away in large quantities.

Because it's a tremendously stupid recommendation, at least for people living in the US.

I'm practically a best case scenario person when it comes to this sort of thing, living a mere 5 miles or so from work, and even I couldn't trade my vehicle in for an ebike.

For most of the year temperatures here are either in excess of 90 to 100 degrees, or well below freezing. Even if you're comfortable with a lengthy ride in the heat, around half the year is simply too cold to ride something like that comfortably.. and about a third of the year is too cold to ride safely.

"There was no possibility of achieving the mission."

• JAXA, after sending destruct command to the rocket's upper stage.

Yeah, I'm fairly skeptical of this. I get the feeling they conducted this poll in a library or something. Most of their numbers seem reasonable, but hardly anyone uses libraries anymore. I read a whole heck of a lot of books, but even I don't bother with the library. I don't think I know a single person who does, and the last time I heard someone even mention going to the library was in college more than a decade ago.

To be honest, as someone who plays a heck of a lot of games and has been single for many years..

I can't think of a single save file I wouldn't happily trade for a relationship with someone I like. Heck, take em all.

Maybe I just don't get that attached to progress in a video game, but at the end of the day I really don't value them all that much.

So, we have to adjust our expectations to match reality? Just, settle for the way things are and live with it? Nothing can ever be improved. This is just how life is?

I'll never understand why the rest of the world doesn't do it the same way. That order is literally how we say the date. We don't say the day followed by the month. It's January 31st, not 31st January.

I'd guess it's a language thing, but other English speaking countries also do it strangely, so it can't be that.

Yup. That was the one. The engine killed a few characters off after an accident during a test.

That.. sort of sounds like the plot to an alternate history novel I read years ago, not the actual history.

20 years. That's the standard answer for any question to which the actual answer is.. there is no way of knowing because the technologies involved aren't even visible on our tech tree yet, and we don't even know if they're even there at all.

That's not necessarily possible though. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth because its smaller by a large margin. The Earth would eventually tidally lock to the Moon as well, but our Sun will destroy both the Earth and Moon long before that ever happens.

Two similarly sized bodies would take longer to lock to one another than the Moon did to the Earth, but less time than it'd take the Earth to lock to the Moon. I've no idea how long that'd actually take though, or if it'd be within the lifespan of the average star similar to the Sun.

It is fairly widely accepted to have been the safer of the two shuttle designs. The issues that the US shuttles ran into were addressed in the design of the Buran. The Buran didn't have debris from its own launch vehicle raining down on top of it for example.

The only reason they discontinued the program was because of the expense, and because they didn't really have a use for it. It was the smart call, though the smarter call would have been to never make it in the first place. The Shuttle probably set US space exploration back by decades, marvel (albeit flawed) of engineering that it was.

High enough to be on the Moon I'd guess.

I dunno. I think that still sends a message. It says, I'm homeless and I needed to make your stairwell into my bathroom. Have a nice day.

To be honest, that's more or less the message animals are sending each other too. This is my bathroom now. Stay away.

Looks like they're only a quarter of the way there.

Is that where all our trash is coming from? Our future selves have invented time travel, and they're dumping all their trash into the past?

Indeed. Our truck drivers write down everything they do in their log. How many miles, how much weight, how many minutes.. all of it.

At the end of every day I have to aggregate all of it into a daily summary, which then gets aggregated into a monthly summary. That data is then used in conjunction with our fuel usage data in order to get a refund for a percentage of the money spent on fuel. Fuel prices contain a lot of taxes, many of which are only applicable for on road usage. Since our trucks spend a lot of time running while not on the road (warming up, unloading, loading.. etc) we're able to get some of that money back.

You also occasionally get a driver that comes in complaining that he's being given far more work than everyone else, and we can use that data to quickly see how much each person is accomplishing and in how much time, and determine if there is any truth to the matter.

Yeah, as with any heavily modded games it can take awhile to figure out which ones you want to use and then figure out how to make them all work together.

Hardest part for me is the body/facial animation mods, coupled with the alien races that have their own body types.. or clothing/armor mods that don't always fit a modded body shape.

The new DLC also recently stirred the pot a bit, leaving lots of mods in need of an update. Many are working again, but last I played some were still unavailable.

Rimworld ftw.

Powerleveling your doctor by repeated impregnation and abortion, at least in the new DLC. Or there's organ harvesting. If all else fails, simply go for the two for one deal and have someone whack a prisoner within an inch of their life (melee skill xp), then bandage them up repeatedly for the medical xp. Doctors have such varied means of advancement available to them.

Those things are so incredibly dangerous. The slightest thing goes wrong (heck, even if it just loses power for any reason) and you're slamming shoulder first into the ground at relatively high speeds.

Their design leads to inherently more dangerous falls than something like roller blades or a skateboard. You don't continue in a mostly forward direction and roll, instead you tilt forward and then just splat into the ground.

It's annoying, but the internet seems to have been taken over by potheads these days. Anything containing the words CBD, cannabis, hemp, or the number 420 is just inexplicably fawned over.