You can try the Salvagers series by Alex White. It’s fun space fantasy that starts with A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe.

Another light read that is more space drama than space fantasy and has lower “stakes” is… a book whose name I’m blanking on and definitely won’t remember until I get home to look on my shelf for it.

How close to Fantasy as a genre do you mind getting, compared to Sci-Fi?

The Shepherd King series by Rachel Gillig

City of Brass series by S. A. Chakraborty

The Dark Gods series by Tara Sim

To be fair, Starbucks coffee kinda sucks.

https://lemmy.world/c/Football@lemm.ee really needs an active user base. It’s inherently international and applies to anyone in any country who loves football/soccer. There are so many things going on in the sport at all times of year, not just in season.

I miss /soccer and /MLS. The /soccer community was HUGELY international, so I got to learn all about leagues around the world.

I actually got bored with the beer subreddits. The beeradvocate ones were better. The local beer subreddits were useful for searches when I was on work travel, but that’s it. The beeradvocate ones are just as good.

It is viable. Still active in both the local forums and the trade forums. They removed whiskey from the trade forums, which lowered the trade activity a decent bit; but it is still active.

Or in windy weather, or with other helicopters around, or with bad thermals…

Helicopters are 35% more dangerous than planes, but that stat includes small aircraft, which are 10x more dangerous than jets. So they are WAY more dangerous than jets. By hour they are 85x more dangerous than cars, but comparing traveling similar distances they are 4x safer than cars.

Saying they’re only dangerous compared to any aircraft if poorly maintained is just incorrect.

How? By taxing the shit out of the wealthy.

There should be no billionaires. Period. If someone created something so insanely valuable that they actually earned a billion, then awesome for them. They can still have $999 million and be better off than 99.999% of the world. Most people who have over a billion got that money through screwing over people and exploitation. They don’t deserve to have more than a billion. Nobody needs more than a billion, and I can’t think of anyone who has actually earned it.

The next step is targeting the way wealthy people get wealthier. Tax assets instead above some number of millions instead of just income and capitol gains. Change the way corporate officers are paid and how boards of directors are made up of other corporate officers all voting for each other to get higher salaries. I’m not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

Finally, I would go after housing costs. I would ban corporations from owning single family housing and place a HUGE tax on individuals owning more than 3 homes (with moderate taxes on more than 1 home, then a higher tax on the 3rd home, then a ridiculous tax on the 4th). Limiting foreign ownership would also help out.

1. I’m not sure how much of their profit margin Apple would give up. It depends on how much phone sales slow down when prices go up. Is the cell phone market elastic or inelastic?

2. The labor is 2.5x more expensive than minimum wage. Do you think Apple will have minimum wage workers doing relatively skilled labor like soldering and assembling electronics? I’ll likely be more in the $15-$20/hour range before even looking at benefits. I don’t know how many person hours go into assembling a phone, but it’s not just a few. That alone would probably add a few hundred to every phone.

3. Like you said, the most expensive portion is not the labor, it’s the parts that are mostly sourced from China and Taiwan… which have huge tariffs in the scenario Trump is talking about.

Because he has other things he wants from an electronic voting system company.

Just wait until we start having it manufactured in a cheap labor market. The prices will plummet! It’ll likely be mostly fake, but that’s the price we pay for cheap antimatter.

If you just have the seat paired with a normal American toilet, I don’t think it does much. But the seat with the Toto toilet, which has FAR less water in the bowl when doing your business, is very effective when things don’t go off to the side or not fully underwater. It’s always annoyed me how much smellier toilets can be in Europe if you miss the deep but narrow “chute.”

I have a toilet seat that opens for me when I walk up, lights up the bowl for me, is heated, has an air filter for smells, a bidet and blow dryer, and closes when I leave. Might as well give it a pulse-ox and ECG while I’m at it.

Yes, they export a lot, but this would only be to one country. The US is likely their biggest trade partner by a large margin, but they could still trade with 176 other countries.

It will hurt them but not cripple them. The US gets SO MANY things from China that it would cripple our country. Every computer chip outside of the TSMC fabs, every junk toy, half our clothing, tons of car parts, everything sold at Harbor Freight and Home Depot, cell phones, etc. They’ll still be able to sell those to the rest of the world, but the US would have to switch up our entire global supply chain. It would take years to recover.

Oh stop that. He knows exactly what he’s doing. It’s a reverse pump and dump to make insiders more money, while also destabilizing the global economy to help Russia.

Hmm, a 30 minute old account with two posts about the same website that sells skins. Definitely not at all a shill.

This is a new woman fired for being a woman. The big news one was the Coast Guard who had a woman leading the entire force.

Rich people and corporations buy up all the houses to rent out to poor people or rich tourists. That creates a shortage of homes that are for sale for normal people to buy. It’s a false shortage. Banning corporations and foreign people from owning homes would solve a lot of it. Huge taxes for owning more than 3 homes would probably do the rest.