I'm from a country in western Europe, and our pharmacies are running low. My dad was told several times over the last months that they're out of stock and he should come back next week. Sure, the price here might be okay, but Pharma seems to prefer selling it more expensively elsewhere.
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When the CEO let everybody work from home except for a female junior dev on my team. Not sure whether it was because she's female or an immigrant, but the two of us had other jobs within a month. Fuck these powertripping CEOs.
Olauncher - very minimal, no distractions. Shows the app's full name instead of icons, handfull of links on the main page, the rest can be found in the app drawer in a long list of app names.
Edit: just saw the mention here of mlauncher, an open source fork. Making the switch now 🙂
Now onto an answer: I'm really into the soft sci-fi of the Strugatsky brothers. Definitely Maybe is such a great read. As for more popular works, I did enjoy Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir a few months ago.
Not an answer to your question, but I came across this lemmy instance focused on literature. Seems they're still new, so not many communities yet, but you might have some luck there too!
https://literature.cafe - seems !fiction@literature.cafe is the most relevant community, but they really should open up a separate sci-fi community!
I came across this quote in the book I'm currently reading, Until the End of Time by Brian Greene. It doesn't really go into what makes a great story, but rather what prevents a story from being great:
For a concept to grab hold of our attention with enough force that we remember it and transmit it to others, the concept must be sufficiently novel to offer surprise but not so outrageous that we immediately deem it ridiculous. Invisible people? Sure, so long as invisibility is the only counterintuitive feature. A river that answers calculus problems by singing them to the theme of MAS*H? Silly, and so is dismissed by most everyone and quickly forgotten. Aligning with the larger-than-life themes of mythic tales, the protagonists we encounter are larger than life but minimally counterintuitive constructs of the human imagination. No surprise that these protagonists have physical forms, thought processes, and even personality profiles that, at the very least, are thoroughly familiar, even if their powers exceed expectations based on anything we have ever encountered.
They are wasted within years, broken bodies and souls who need years to get healthy again
And then there's Keith Richards...
Hell yea! Subscribed!
It's very underwhelming. I loved the old ones, but this just feels awkward. I'm already sure this won't have one percent of the hours I spent on Streets of Rage 4.
Funny that google is one of the patrons :) Looks like a great solution though, thanks!
Ex-banker president targets banks... Now that'd be quite an unexpecred headline! Shame it'll never be.