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There's a certain strain of thought that runs through my mind sometimes, that space is just too big and too empty to really be worth going into. Like the moon and Mars, maybe a couple other in-system planets, are the only things close enough for realistic human trips in lifetimes. And the trips so far have shown us that yes, those are just big balls of monotonous dirt. You ever kinda landed in that state of mind?

In spite of all that, I do still get excited about it, and really enjoyed following Artemis. Excited to see us (maybe, hopefully) land on the moon again soon. It's remarkable that humans are able to rise to that challenge, and I hope we don't ever entirely stop.

They didn't entirely miss the mark there. They publicly released the version after that and the world became worse. That certainly fits for some definition of 'dangerous', even tho it's probably not how they were thinking.

Pretty crazy, since they were already known for being slow. It's never bothered me, but ordering from them isn't great if you're in a hurry.

A friend of mine was telling me about this game the other day. I'm not a car guy, but driving around Japan does sound kinda fun. I'm out on the Xbox Series tho and doubt my PC could run it.

There's gotta be plenty of other games set in a semi-realistic Japan, right? I'd be curious to hear recs, racing or not.

For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.

It's so ingrained in conversational habits. I find myself really struggling for a greeting when I visit someone who I know is struggling or in pain. Like, I don't want to force them to think about how they're doing. But then I also don't know what else goes after that initial "Hey". v_v

I think there's definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it's nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.

But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.

Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I'll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don't have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that's built up over many years. And in general I've tried to be more of a 'bookmark it and close the tab already' kind of person lately.

It's all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I'll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It's also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they'll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.

I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.

The premise doesn't feel true for me. I'm in the US - Verne and Wells both seem well known generally. But that's highly anecdotal of course.

Looks to me like it's mostly paywalled.

Anyway, the maximalist web design trend that's popular there is really interesting. I like how low-techish it looks. Buy it's really hard to scan, especially when you're only sorta-kinda able to read the language anyway.

Been busy between work and family stuff lately, so this week I've mostly just been maintaining.

I second the recommendation for Dreaming Spanish. If you need help with a plan, here's one to get started with: Watch a video from this superbeginner playlist every day. You can watch on Youtube or you can sign up at their website for progress tracking, but watching on their site for free has some limitations.

You can get more info about how it works here or here. Now, they'll tell you that studying any other way isn't needed or is harmful. There's reasons and probably some truth to that, but I'm always weary of Youtube video makers telling me all I need to do is watch their Youtube videos for 8000 hours.

The other starting point I'd recommend is Language Transfer. Their method is cool, and assumes no knowledge coming in. Imo, starting your learning here is a good supplement to the other videos I mentioned. So as plans go, I think you'd do well to listen to one of these lessons each day in addition to a Dreaming Spanish video.

After you've got a sense of it built up, do grab a beginner's textbook and learn some grammar. Can't rec any, since I just learned with whatever we had in grade school. But imo there's value in it.