The younger generation discovering TUIs has been amusing.

I'm getting 503 errors.

There are other establishments they track...

Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon is reporting below average traffic.

The nearby sports bar, Crystal City Sports Pub is reporting below average traffic.

The closest open Papa Johns is reporting slightly above average traffic.

Man, if people are even ordering from Papa John’s, you know things must be bad.

The danger is mechanical, not chemical. Think small sharp needles that you can breathe in.

Chemically it's just silicates. So you can melt it at high temperatures or do various other processes to get rid of it.

I'm not sure what they actually do.

No tolerance for people trying to live in the country without going through the legal process.

Public policy discussions always get boiled down to some simple wording that isn't strictly accurate.

Literally no tolerance? I always figured that like everything else, there’s a cost/benefit analysis to be done, and you try and tweak enforcement levels to the point where it gives decent results without costing the earth. No law is enforced with literally no tolerance in practice.

Legal immigration is also under heavy scrutiny with the "no open borders" folks. It is not as simple and law-abiding as you make it out to be.

In the spirit of brining down the level of intellectual sophistication here, I have a few recommendations I've enjoyed.

- All 18 Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson

- The first 5 Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart. UnArcana Stars (book 6) went in a direction that made the government look extremely incompetent.

- Jacques McKeown series by Yahtzee Croshaw

- Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

- Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor

What's truly infuriating is how awful the tagging on Audible is. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is tagged sci-fi.

You would not believe how bad publisher data is. I run a book website, and Dune is often tagged nonfiction in the data we get from publishers. I don't think they know how to use the BISAC system the industry uses (https://bisg.org/page/BISACEdition). With Dune, they were marking it "AI," which is a nonfiction-only category.

Just one small example...

Plus Dune, somewhat famously, doesn't have any AI in it.

The prequel books (if any such books exist), feature AI in order to showcase why the original does not.

Andy Weir does a tight well placed adventure better than most.

I can see that you wouldn't like him if you're more into characters than plot, but that's not what everyone wants.

Interestingly, that was due to the top editor at a major sci fi publisher being really into psychics.

It's likely that they didn't have the rights to use the original fonts or icons.

And yet they advertise: "Chicago Bitmap Font: Pixel-perfect rendering of the classic Mac font"

It's a bitmap font, so someone took some screenshots and used those. Typefaces can't be copyrighted.