This is fair

A motorbike. I’ve had a few close calls in a car, I don’t think it would have worked out well on a motorbike.

Well, I think Einstein was a genius but much of his work was built on Minkowski spacetime, so the conclusions about relativity could have been reached at some point when physicists were starting to work with it. I am in no expert position to judge this, but new developments in science do genuinely build on new insights, and Minkowski built the mathematical and theoretical platform that was evidently available to physicists like Einstein.

Fantastic, I thereby absolve chairs of their duty like most of the people here.

It doesn’t surprise me that marketers figured out that people going through a break up is an audience to profit from.

And it doesn’t work on water.

Making coffee like a barista is infinitely more satisfying. A combined coffee machine: grinder and pressured hot water is bound to be cheaper than a fully automated one. You can push the grains down yourself, and make the coffee as strong or weak as you like.

Damn right! You don’t need therapy to disconnect from people, unless they were a focal part of your life.

I don’t judge beautiful smart people outwardly, but by their actions and behaviour. For example, beautiful and shrewd woman who rises to be a principal in a school, speaks loudly on the phone when a quiet accountant is talking to me, hangs out with her ‘friend’ (colleague) the majority of the time, proceeds to make a student drop a subject discreetly without informing the subject teacher, and attempts to make me cover a class with a ‘polite’ request that didn’t give the option of ‘No’. It’s only been one month!

Depends on who you are as a person. I used to gravitate back to my exes so they broke it off and swore off communication. This is indeed one of my largest vices, and I am glad they nipped it in the bud.

Life is ever changing, they are out there as a person who is not entirely who they were before, so I needn’t run into them or be a part of their life again.

He was never going to get plugged back into the matrix without the machines replacing all the nerve wires and plugs in his body, and moreover, to get placed in a pod without endangering the Nebuchadnezzar (remember Neo was picked up covertly from the icky pool after being released). Sure, in revolutions Neo and Trinity sailed across the farms without interception but that was at high speed.

Cypher was essentially groomed by the agents, and was guaranteed the high life of the top 1% of the world. Nobody else could guarantee that. There was no incentive to be open with his crew (and he would’ve been banished from access to the matrix, sent to work in drugery in Zion).

A movie for Hyperion would work, but Endymion is perfectly built for a TV series.

To be honest, I don’t think I would be able to stomach the few chapters of the ending of End of Endymion. It’s forever etched in my mind.

It sounds like a play on ‘love’. I see why this trope is often used in Japanese media.

No account on reddit so it has a popup to make an account. More often than not, if you are not touching the close button accurately, touching any part of the screen immediately sends you to the signup page. Another reason why I barely touch that website anymore.

Being a non-American, zero clue. Seems he was more useful to the regime dead rather than alive.

I find it interesting you call it Jesuit programming.

Some of the greatest scientists from India were evidently religious but they were also extremely scientific. I guess monotheistic dogma does run counter to multifaceted scientific evidence.

That said, there’s still a lot of Christian scientists who do not discard of evidence. It’s just that OP is talking to the wrong people.

I’m a freefall sleeper so even no pillow works, otherwise a pilloe has to be flat and manoeuvred under my chest to stop my neck bending.

Freefall sleepers may have a slightly lower life expectancy but I’m like ‘meh’. Sleeping is nearly half my life.

I see it as ‘This is our house but lovemaking needs to happen elsewhere. The child moves out at 18 and does whatever they want.’ Of course, the child prior to 18 needs to understand consent and the use of contraception.

It’s a pretty good movie, might watch it again.