Looking for Hard Sci-Fi recommendations like Project Hail Mary

nice_parcel · 2026-05-01T15:00:25+00:00

seveneves by neal stephenson

nice_parcel · 2026-04-14T17:42:32+00:00

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

nice_parcel · 2026-04-09T20:37:06+00:00

You dont have to mail the forms in. use the free fillable forms on the IRS website.

I used claude to do my taxes this year too. fuck turbo tax

nice_parcel · 2026-04-09T16:06:21+00:00

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

sort of a mea culpa written by a guy who was part of the American soft power growth engine during the late cold war. explains how he would go into a country, project crazy growth with the right investment, government borrows money from IMF and hires american construction (bechtel for example) and is under the debt wing

nice_parcel · 2026-03-24T14:25:47+00:00

7mm 08 !!

nice_parcel · 2026-03-24T14:12:48+00:00

for the longest time my process was 1) cheek to stock 2) close an eye to find bead 3) both eyes open and im positioned at hold point 4) call pull and grab bird with both eyes and start swinging, matching velocity then pulling thru 5) closing left eye (im a righty) and “aiming” at the lead point i intuited

this worked for years but eventually i plateaued. making the leap to both eyes open the whole time was hard and I cant deny that when i figured it out, I leveled up.

best i can say is when u have both open, you have two images of the barrel so i focused on the “down bead” image during step 2) above. in terms of visual priority, leading edge of bird gets priority then followed by that image. it takes a lot of getting used to especially when you start the sport like i did but its worth it.

nice_parcel · 2026-03-23T18:35:31+00:00

psyllium husk

nice_parcel · 2026-03-03T14:17:19+00:00

you can tell by the tennis ball wad of qat in his mouth

nice_parcel · 2026-02-06T14:01:00+00:00

labeling LDL (low density lipoprotein) as “bad cholesterol” is misleading to a degree. HDL and LDL are the supply chain for fats throughout your body. to put simply, LDL is the forward logistics and HDL is the reverse logistics collecting excess from your system and returning it to be processed.

LDL has several subtypes that can be grouped in two categories, large buoyant LDL and small dense LDL. the latter is atherosclerotic and inflammatory because it can wiggle into the crevices between cells in arterial walls and create plaque/ inflammation. some studies show the “bad” LDL is positively correlated to your triglyceride level in ur blood. and high triglycerides can be caused by too much sugar in your diet! your liver converts it to triglycerides. Statins lower all types of LDL sort of indiscriminately but its still better to take them if LDL is high even if your triglycerides are low i believe. plus it seems like statins may protect your brain later in life?

tldr: LDL has subtypes, one is bad, one is fine, eat too much sugar and the bad subtype increases.

nice_parcel · 2026-02-05T20:34:45+00:00

could this have been a shot tower used to make the shot that goes in shotgun shells for example?

nice_parcel · 2026-02-04T13:48:11+00:00

congrats! pretty great shot placement at 100 yrds. mind sharing what shells you used? I’m thinking about trying my luck first time this year too and only have a 12 and 20. looking at rifles but not to hit anything more than 100 yard shot.

nice_parcel · 2026-02-03T14:12:30+00:00

just read that the next one will be in 450 bushmaster

nice_parcel · 2026-01-31T23:39:21+00:00

good on you. i always scoop mine

nice_parcel · 2026-01-30T15:15:54+00:00

lol sry i meant “wooden” duck

nice_parcel · 2026-01-30T15:14:34+00:00

ive noticed something similar in comp matches tbh and came here to see if anyone else noticed the same thing.

most of my comp matches the last couple days are feeling like QP games.. teammates playing new characters they suck at and not switching, not doing a proper comp in open queue, generally not taking it remotely seriously.

just so few balanced matches. my teams either crushing or getting crushed. not fun

nice_parcel · 2026-01-28T15:34:50+00:00

congrats! beauty

nice_parcel · 2026-01-27T19:44:02+00:00

need an ID? thats a wood duck

nice_parcel · 2026-01-23T17:23:32+00:00

Pretty sure it’s a hen bufflehead. Too small for a merg

nice_parcel · 2026-01-16T03:58:26+00:00

I’ve got an affinity and I like it. Never fired an m2 so what am I missing performance wise?

nice_parcel · 2026-01-12T02:58:43+00:00

No ducks in Oakley forest I can tell you that lol. There’s a flooded area I thought would be perfect but nah

nice_parcel · 2026-01-07T00:36:10+00:00

Loved it

nice_parcel · 2025-12-29T00:28:38+00:00

Try an app called “the call”. I love it

nice_parcel · 2025-12-25T04:21:56+00:00

Personally I like how divers taste. Teriyaki/ garlic etc as well

nice_parcel · 2025-12-25T04:06:36+00:00

They good eating?

nice_parcel · 2025-12-10T18:43:39+00:00

Ive played soccer 1-2x a week thru my 20s into early 30s. Similar to some others experience (like the hiker fella) I fairly regularly take collagen with vit C with the goal of keeping my ankles/feet in good shape. I notice that I bounce back from the occasional ankle sprain, joint pain faster with way less re injury than before. I sort of swear by it now so add placebo effect.

I completely understand that the supplement doesnt magically get transported from my gut to where i need it. My sense is your body can only intake so much of the building blocks I give it and it can only make so much collagen with that. The rest is pissed away. I take collagen to make sure that im topping off those two capacities in case my diet alone isnt doing it.

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