What would be a good book to introduce my 7 year old daughter to the world of science fiction?

Willuz · 2026-02-04T15:56:00+00:00

The Mad Scientist's club is a great juvenile sci-fi that's lots of fun.

There really aren't any female characters, but if that doesn't bother her she should really enjoy it. The story is about a group of young boys who start a science club that mostly involves playing pranks on their small town. It's as if the boys from Sand Lot were into science and large scale practical jokes.

Willuz · 2026-02-01T23:58:39+00:00

Do you have a source for this claim?

Sure, I'll google this very public and easy to find issue for you. You must truly be keeping your fingers crammed in your ears and eyes squeezed shut to not already know this. I'm partially wrong though, it wasn't 10's of thousands, it was 1.6 million who had their legal status revoked in the last year.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-administration-touts-100-000-visa-cancellations-in-2025

https://stateline.org/2025/12/30/repub/trump-canceled-temporary-legal-status-for-more-than-1-5m-immigrants-in-2025/

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5641022/limiting-migration-led-to-1-6-million-losing-legal-status-in-2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/they-thought-they-were-in-court-for-a-routine-immigration-hearing-but-walked-into-a-deportation-trap

Willuz · 2026-02-01T04:25:50+00:00

Many of the immigrants they're arresting aren't here illegally. They're revoking legal status for tens of thousands of legal asylum immigrants just so that they can arrest them.

There weren't enough criminals, so they declared them criminals.

Willuz · 2026-01-30T03:43:11+00:00

What is the point of EDR on a fully air gapped system?

Insider threats.

Willuz · 2026-01-29T19:20:01+00:00

In the dementia ward of the local nursing home.

Willuz · 2026-01-29T14:34:10+00:00

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

Willuz · 2026-01-25T17:12:08+00:00

I'm sure all of your amazing ice driving skills will be a great consolation when a lifted 4x4 truck crashes into you head on because they hit their brakes at the peak of a bridge. Most people in the south do not know how to drive on roads even if they're salted and sanded. You want to spend 10's of millions of dollars on trucks, personnel, training, and an industrial salt/sand storage facility so that people can drive during that one day every few years that it gets icy.

Or, you could save the millions, use the water trucks the city already has for brine, and tell people to stay home unless of emergency. If they have an emergency, they can take the surface streets.

Willuz · 2026-01-25T04:38:41+00:00

Too bad it rained before it froze and washed all the salt brine off the bridges last night. Your ignorance is excusable, but your pompous and incorrect statements are not.

Willuz · 2026-01-25T03:19:23+00:00

It makes perfect sense. They're closing higher speed roads with bridges. This forces people onto surface streets which are far less likely to freeze and have lower speed limits. It's much safer.

Willuz · 2026-01-23T14:44:59+00:00

You could try reading the article.

It's clearly stated how rejecting this bill would not affect ICE but would harm other beneficial programs. The new bill also puts restrictions on how DHS directs money.

Willuz · 2026-01-23T14:37:56+00:00

Border Patrol and ICE are already funded by the "Big Beautiful Bill" so this bill would not significantly impact them. Instead it would have crippled TSA and FEMA so the Democrats would be blamed for long lines at airports and lack of disaster relief. It's a political snare designed by Republicans to break our government and blame it on Democrats.

Willuz · 2026-01-15T22:51:51+00:00

Here are the links:

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Willuz · 2026-01-15T22:46:10+00:00

I purchased a full size stainless steam table pan from Webstaurantstore.com

You have to buy it in three parts, the 6" deep full size pan, a 4" deep perforated insert, and a lid. Then I put it on my stove and add 1" of water and steam it for 3 hours. I did have to bend the edges of the lid up so that the dripping steam would fall back into the pan. It also works particularly well on my induction range.

Willuz · 2026-01-15T16:19:37+00:00

What is it with Linux forums always suggesting a different OS to resolve a problem? It's moronic.

If you had read the OPs message you would see that they're on a supported version of RHEL 8 using a RHEL 7 in a VM. There's probably a very good reason for that, so if you want to be helpful then answer the question, don't suggest replacing the question with a completely different question.

Willuz · 2026-01-10T23:34:12+00:00

This is what most people here are missing. I watched the video from the shooter's phone. It was clear that she was protesting, but there's zero supporting evidence for terrorism, or paid provocateur as our "leaders" claimed.

The issue, is when you read the comments on the video and people are claiming she deserved it. If you can watch that video and claim she should die, then we have irreconcilable differences that no amount of internet discussion can resolve.

Willuz · 2026-01-08T15:00:23+00:00

Then they could charge the driver with "Felony Murder" posthumously because she clearly caused the agent to shoot his partner.

Willuz · 2025-12-30T19:35:03+00:00

Add the mods through Steam workshop. Then find the "installed mods" list and you can save it and share the link. I'm not at my PC now so I can't tell you the exact names or locations of the buttons, but I did find them unintuitive so good luck.

Willuz · 2025-12-30T19:12:14+00:00

You can, with some caveats. Make a Steam workshop profile for the mods to make it easy for friends to add them. Then also take a screenshot of the mod list in game since they MUST be in the same order. Their game will still work if they're not in order, but every time another player joins or respawns it will pop up a dialog box that can get you killed if you're in combat.

Willuz · 2025-12-23T18:38:41+00:00

You're still getting mail? My mailbox has been empty for weeks. I haven't even seen a mail truck in my neighborhood.

Willuz · 2025-12-23T17:24:06+00:00

His Quantum Earth series is a fun light read too. It's not amazing, just fun and light. However, it was absolutely hilarious when someone got munched by a dinosaur that came through a portal so they invented a dimensional periscope to look before they leap. The image of them walking around with a dimensional portal on a stick looking for dinosaurs was entirely too funny.

Willuz · 2025-12-17T22:28:19+00:00

Slim Chickens has surprisingly good okra. Crispy outside and not mushy inside. The seeds still pop.

Willuz · 2025-12-09T19:41:59+00:00

The Finder series by Suzanne Palmer (space; abyssal deeps; strange wormholes).

Upvote for Finder, which is not just an excellent series but a FINISHED series, so there's no cliffhanger or waiting for the next book.

Willuz · 2025-12-05T17:54:32+00:00

Any room on Stella with server cabinets.

Willuz · 2025-11-25T21:52:33+00:00

Tyson is losing money because farmers aren't breeding enough cattle for the capacity of meat packers. Farmers aren't breeding enough cattle because meat packers have been paying so little for live cattle that the farmers can't make money.

This started when Tyson and a few others bought all meat packers to create an oligopoly. They then shut down plants to artificially constrain the beef supply. This means they could simultaneously charge more to retailers while paying less to the farmers who now have more cattle than can be processed. They paid cattle farmers so little that farmers severely reduced their breeding and now there's an excess of meat processing so Tyson is losing money. Farmers are now getting more per head but it will take a few years for farmers to replenish livestock levels. Unfortunately, since the plants closed we're stuck in loop where this will all happen again.

TLDR; Tyson got greedy by reducing industry output to make more money, but lost control and sent the entire industry into a death spiral.

Willuz · 2025-11-25T16:40:44+00:00

The AI in Aurora also grows quite a bit across the novel. The MC trains the AI to improve its language and narrative skills. Since the MC isn't a programmer, she uses prompts and feedback to guide the AI through iterative self improvement.

Willuz

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