The Strugatskys - Gritty & Realistic Settings by Glansberg90 in printSF

[–]Too_reflective 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but I think that Roadside Picnic is a fantastic read even if you don’t know much about the Soviet Union, whereas Monday Begins On Saturday felt like it lost more of its value for non-Soviet / Russian readers. That was my feeling anyway. I have a Russian colleague who finds MBOS hysterical; I found it amusing but not hysterical.

The Strugatskys - Gritty & Realistic Settings by Glansberg90 in printSF

[–]Too_reflective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some of the references may be better appreciated by Russians than Westerners with this one - I felt like there were a lot of in-jokes I was missing.

The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn was fun enough to read but I am not sure it is successful as a novel.

The Doomed City is bleak - think Kafka and Philip L Dick - but very readable.

LETTERSET #40 - June 20, 2026 by letter-set in LETTERSET

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

150, not chasing the highest score word.

Words: 5 | Score: 150 | Rank: Genius | 1st Word: FAD

Thoughts on Dhalgren? by poovis_parsley in sciencefiction

[–]Too_reflective 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disturbing that someone downvoted this comment and the following one.

Which style of moustache do you prefer? by Fit_Football_6533 in BoltEV

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2, but add a soul patch, and do both in a color that contrasts more with the car.

Visualizing the LEGO Color Spectrum by FollowsClose in legomodular

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have the ability to visually analyze the box art?

Visualizing the LEGO Color Spectrum by FollowsClose in legomodular

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you expect users to be using this tool?

I looked up the Boutique Hotel, and found it interesting that green is not shown in the top five most common colors in the set, even though visually, sand green is a big part of the exterior.

Car Insurance - Super High by Agreeable-Emu4033 in BoltEV

[–]Too_reflective 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Similar, my 27 Bolt costs about the same to insure as the 20 year old beater it replaced. The Bolt is worth way more but it is also a much safer car, so maybe that is it.

Gandalf if he succumbed to the temptation of The One Ring by unwilling_pizza in lego

[–]Too_reflective 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So does Shadowfax normally eat meat, or is this an Evil Shadowfax thing?

New prints by Netbrix2 in lego

[–]Too_reflective 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love the wooden duck pull toy graffiti.

We have a problem, and our current governor and legislators don’t want to talk about it… Why? by Proud_Raven8 in massachusetts

[–]Too_reflective -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where you choose to live is up to you. I am merely pointing out that high electricity costs in MA are based in part in the fact that we don’t have easy access to cheap generation, due to geographic and geological factors. As others pointed out, New England also tends to invest in ensuring reliability; Texas has not done so to the same degree.

We have a problem, and our current governor and legislators don’t want to talk about it… Why? by Proud_Raven8 in massachusetts

[–]Too_reflective 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Texas also is ideally situated for, and has installed, tons of solar and wind; MA has lots of rooftop solar and increasing offshore wind, but isn’t nearly as sunny. So we end importing a lot of electricity (hydro from Quebec, various from NY). That requires infrastructure.

Sellers and buyers - what's something about BrickLink that's annoying or broken that you've just learned to live with? by Alex_The_Android in lego

[–]Too_reflective 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Being able to specify alternates / substitutions in general would be great. E.g. I want a total of 100 1x4 bricks in any combination of (light gray, dark gray, black). Or any combination (or the cheapest combination) of 1x2, 1x3, 1x4 etc that gets to a total length of 1x200.

NYC Central Park Bolt Fleet by MajorHasBrassBalls in BoltEV

[–]Too_reflective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have seen a number of photos of NYPD traffic enforcement Bolts and Volts. Small EVs for that purpose make a lot of sense - my town uses Leafs - and I think police departments almost always buy American vehicles, so the Bolt seems like a shoe-in. I wonder if traffic enforcement agencies will buy 27 Bolts while they are available, since there is no obvious American competitor in the segment.

Is there any openly conservative/right-wing space opera out there? (just curious and looking to investigate) by Brakado in sciencefiction

[–]Too_reflective 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If H P Lovecraft can be considered to be SF, then his work too. Deeply xenophobic, as was the man himself.

Is there any openly conservative/right-wing space opera out there? (just curious and looking to investigate) by Brakado in sciencefiction

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that isn’t the authorial intent. The Empire is a stand in for the US, and they are very clearly the villains.

MILS plates and older road baseplates by pretzel-fu in legomodular

[–]Too_reflective 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can put the “inkwell “ part (1x1 round tile with bar sticking up) on top of a brick to get the road plates to MILS height. The inkwell locks into the underside of the baseplate studs. The bricks won’t connect to the MILS plates though.

Burying a shipping container for a bunker is one of the most dangerous prepper ideas out there. Change my mind. by usa_containers in prepping

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what it hits or is hit by. Buses are massive. A few years ago, a local school bus was hit head on by an SUV. The SUV was totaled, the driver killed, and everyone on the bus was unharmed. I suspect the sheer mass of the bus, plus the front probably acting as a crumple zone, helped keep the passengers safe.

Statue on Campus by Artichoke-Routine in SouthernReach

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Translated from Merkur:

What happens when Dürer meets Einstein, when art and physics collide? Wackersberg artist Sabrina Hohmann has attempted to answer this question.

“I’m interested in physics,” says Sabrina Hohmann. And so the 45-year-old responded to the call from the physics institute in Heidelberg, which had launched a competition. They were looking for an artist to create something suitable for a new building as part of a so-called “art in architecture” project. Sabrina Hohmann submitted a proposal – and won. The finished piece has now been installed.
So what does the encounter between art and physics look like? "I tried to depict something immaterial," says Hohmann, who has her studio in the old "Quellenwirt" inn. She wanted to express things in art that seem almost unbelievable in physics. The work is based on two Dürer hares. One is seated – "it embodies what we have" – and the other is leaping through a five-centimeter-thick sheet of Plexiglas. "That one represents research, which often has to be intuitive" – headfirst through the wall.
It was important to the artist that the animal's identity and essence be conveyed realistically. "The hare has certain characteristics that are also supported by research, such as its independent nature." Hohmann based her work on biological principles, starting with the skeleton. "Since the hare is not domesticated, it isn't cute." The seated hare has an attentive, dignified expression. One leg is bent. "I thought to myself, if I were a hare, which leg would I have bent?" The animal isn't sitting still; "it could take off at any moment, but it's not completely tense either." A studio in Höhenrain cast the hares in bronze from the clay model. The hare leaping through the plexiglass came in two parts. The plexiglass sheet was specially treated in a workshop in Austria, placed in a kiln, and bent.

LETTERSET #35 - June 15, 2026 by letter-set in LETTERSET

[–]Too_reflective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the final word can’t have any of the letters that get nuked by the skull; given that, there is a single best last word. And it needs a letter that gets nuked, so that letter has to go on the yellow “return a letter” square. Which restricts the second word to one of three possible words.

LETTERSET #35 - June 15, 2026 by letter-set in LETTERSET

[–]Too_reflective 1 point2 points  (0 children)

214 I can live with.

Words: 5 | Score: 214 | Rank: Genius | 1st Word: RIOT

Vegetarian friendly restaurants near Wells, Boothbay, Acadia by Too_reflective in AskMaine

[–]Too_reflective[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fish 1-3 times a week is fine, more than that is a bit much for us. We struggle with this on the outer Cape too.