Looks like something out of Reign of Fire

Somehow this popped into my head when you said that.

Disclaimer: 90s throwback alert.

You’re constantly ahead of your time, without foresight. So you can’t seem to capitalize on it - oh well, money ain’t everything. You’ve got experiences no money can buy.

It would only be not ahead of its time only after we casually clone dinosaurs.

I was going to say The Mask

Why Anchorage??

“The more oil we use, the more ice we clear! The more ice we clear, the more oil to use! It’s a never ending cycle of win!”

Hey now, I wouldn’t say that. I’m a super-interested individual when it comes to physics, astronomy and the like and I feel like I have a decent grasp on the lay-versions of what we seem to know as of 2024. But I also know that I’m constantly on the hunt for new information, documentaries, etc. on the subject. Ain’t no way that “almost everyone” is putting nearly the same amount of time being interested in this subject matter. This isn’t pop culture (though maybe it should be😉).

Yes! About that aspect of turning either into space movement or time movement - everything is constantly moving, either in space or in time. I like to think of anything moving (which is everything) as having to plot itself on a X,Y chart where X is space and Y is time. If you trade all your movement/momentum so that you experience no time (like a photon of light for example), then you’re moving as fast as you possibly can in space. The less of that movement through space, the more you experience the rate of time.

That is truly a shame and a waste.

If I may ask, what was an example of a detail of that fulfilling life? And is it not possible to attain in this one?

Waits and waits but Nintendo won’t budge.

It’s funny, I just finished Atlas Shrugged and it’s crazy how Ayn Rand got it wrong about those who can “do” must also have the highest moral standards.

“Semper Fi guys,” Vance said, seeming to signpost his background as a Marine to get the hecklers to stop.

“Isn’t this a magic incantation that I can invoke anytime to clear me of ill will?”

And two years underwater only to have them for one month airborne.

I take almost 30 minutes to make 2 eggs some mornings, but they’re perfectly cooked and wonderful.

I would have said “mashed potato” for your first example.

One noodle/ a bowl of noodles. Or one bean, a bowl of beans.

But you wouldn’t say: one rice. You’d say one grain of rice. So it’s like rice is automatically a mass of many individual bits/grains of rice. Beans are not that way, they’re countable.

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I remember I was in 6th grade and the teacher made the class read a couple paragraphs of a book. She called on kids at random to read from their seat out loud for the whole class to hear, paragraph after paragraph. When it was my turn, the word “colonel” appeared, and it hadn’t been said yet in the book. Now, I had heard of a ker-nal before, but I never assumed it would be spelled that way, so when I saw this word I just thought it was something else.

I got to the word and read it out loud as cahl-uh-null and needless to say there was many a snickering to be heard. Luckily I’m not easily embarrassed so it was fine, but I thought it was odd (and still do) that people generally act like this word being said this way is a given.