My refrigerator is full. :)

I literally keep checking all shop’s offers every single day in hopes I’ll find something relevant on a good price. Some stuff I bought were marked as on sale, but didn’t get the price. I don’t speak the local language to ask, and the last time this happened I tried to communicate, but they didn’t care, so eh. But me has a full refrigerator. Me happi. :3

    • queermunist she/herEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I guess hard sci-fi is just taking real things from the lab and then scaling it up by handwaving some of the problems with manufacture and deployment that come with going from the lab to the real world application. We can make carbon nanotubes right now in the lab, but we can’t make them longer than a few hundred milimeters. Handwave that away and you get space elevators.

      It’s still fictional science, though. Handwaving stuff like that isn’t very scientific 😏

    • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Ministery for the future is almost entirely real science (the fiction part is multiple governments actually funding climate action)

        • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          No shit, the entire book is the result of Robinson using his personal connections with the scientific community to try and envision a “what if after the first wet-bulb event everyone starts taking it seriously starting with India”.

          It’s a legit good book, I know you’re a bit burnt out on books lately, but if you like reading/listening it’s really well done (it also has Maoist comrades taking out billionaires).

          I can hook you up with files in your preferred format if you’re interested.

            • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Well, the reason it starts with India is because they are the first to experience a mass death event…

              They immediately start putting stuff in the atmosphere to slow down warming (they actually work with Pakistan in a climate solidarity thing iirc).

              • Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                “they actually work with Pakistan in a climate solidarity thing”

                Thank fuck a BJP fascist nationalist-type didn’t write this novel lmao

                • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Same guy as the Mars trilogy actually.

                  He did an interview with rev left radio and said “the only reason I didn’t write a book about 3rd worldist ecoterrorists saving the day by doing direct action is because I live a comfortable middle class life and that would inauthentic coming from a white American who would deservedly be a target”.