There were some good tips in this podcast episode: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/1190725808/tackle-your-medical-debt-with-life-kit

Reminded me of Annihilation (the books go weird places)

That is not how you use a spinning wheel; it’s not even close. This is the equivalent of a painting showing someone using a computer by clicking the mouse with their foot, typing on an upside - down keyboard that isn’t plugged in, and with no monitor.

They wouldn’t be so popular if kids didn’t like them.

Thanks for posting this! I didn’t know about it and was just about to buy The Lost Cause.

The first time I joined a gym, they gave me a free orientation where one of the staff asked me what I was planning to do and showed me how to use the gym’s equipment to do that stuff. Results come from consistency, and consistency comes from goals, and even a short conversation can help set good goals that are achievable and that can support consistent behavior.

I also have a Pixel 2 XL! (Because I got it refurbed for $50…) But either way hi phone buddy!

It’s a tough role to cast, since the books never describe what Murderbot looks like at all, beyond “has a face” and “has short hair but no body hair” and “some organic parts on arms but not on legs”. And Murderbot can pass as human if someone doesn’t know what SecUnits look like. No indication of height, build, complexion, features, nothing. So anyone they cast is going to look wrong to a bunch of readers because their mental pictures can vary so widely.

Mine is somewhere between Gwendolyn Christie and Robocop. But I like Alexander Skarsgard and I’ll definitely watch this. He has a good “I am 100% done with everyone’s nonsense” expression, which is vital.

Me too, but the stupid humans keep doing stupid stuff.

The article said 3 times that Murderbot is an android; Murderbot is not an android, it’s a cyborg or construct (with both organic and inorganic parts). Geez.

Or Wheel of Time, where people started being able to do magic at the end of the 1st age because an AI figured out how to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic. (And then we didn’t need computers any more!)

It’s zapping the scientist that was standing next to it.

We had one at camp too! It was fun and I don’t remember any injuries. That was the early '90s, though, child safety was more ‘eh’.

Haha wow, that’s a horrible mental picture.

The only rated R movie we were allowed to watch was Demolition Man, which we had a tape of, so we watched it enough times for me to have fond feelings for Stallone.