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Yes, I was a rather pretentious 12 year old. I think I picked all the books off a high school level recommended reading list because I thought it would impress the judges.
Yes, I was a rather pretentious 12 year old. I think I picked all the books off a high school level recommended reading list because I thought it would impress the judges.
Ugh! My younger brother did this and won the library reading contest, I was so mad. All the books he read were around 100-200 pages, I decided to read A Tale of Two Cities and a couple other books like it. It was an injustice I read twice the amount of pages he did.
Ehh, I do agree that dealing with different personalities is part of being human, and everyone has their own strengths, weaknesses and quirks. I would have to disagree that somewhat on the “no one is capable of measuring it” part. It seems to lean towards the “everyone is a little Autistic” saying, which is not scientifically accurate. Autism is something we can test for and while it’s something we still don’t understand completely, recently scientists have been able to identify which genes are responsible. So I think putting it on a level with a personality trait or gender identity is a bad comparison.
I have had a similar experience. Previously the only thing we had was a AT&T hot spot that got 10/2 in one specific window. Starlink has been a godsend allowing me to work from home. My job for the last two years has been remote tech support for manufacturing, where I have to regularly VPN into customers sites to help them get up and running again. With Starlink we get 140/15 average and only occasional drops during severe storms. But yes Musk is not a good person and we would switch to copper or fiber if it was available.
Yeah GRRM thinks too much of his characters, he wrote a match between Jaime Lannister and Rand Al’thor, and Jaime won. Absolutely ridiculous a guy who can wield magic that can burn people out of time vs a guy with a sword.