Endymion_Mallorn

Good question! Typically they get listed as fantasy because the magic isn’t manmade. Most definitions of science fiction require a human to have created the unrealistic element - or an extraterrestrial lifeform who is roughly analogous to a person. It’s not just that magic is present, but that it was derived from supernatural sources and not by human actions.

Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.

Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.

Ah, you’ve read Heinlein and Lovecraft.

Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?

Uh-huh. The error was that they were caught doing it.

Weird but also romantic. At least it was her deceased husband’s heart, and not her living husband’s?

That’s a perspective on Mary Shelley that I hadn’t considered. But she was reasonably well-adjusted and popular. And yes I do consider Frankenstein to be the first English science fiction.

Never heard of that tool. Thank you for sharing it!

Hence why it has to be a huge, concerted effort. Quantity has a quality all its own.

Unfortunately, the only way to “take back” the spaces you’re talking about is to go back to them and start flooding the channels. You’d have to bring enough people to overwhelm the current tones. Across MeWe, Facebook, Xwitter, you name it, you would have to go back and bring your voice to overwhelm what you perceive as other tones.

Jinkies

Big guy like that must have BIG guts.

Sorry, old terminology strikes again. I call any thin portable computer without an ODD or FDD a netbook; because all the damn things are good for is getting on the Internet. My actual laptop, I’ve had to do physical modding to the case to give it an ODD (and it still uses a USB port because of laziness).

Very much the opposite. The only broken USB port I’ve ever had was a USB-C port for a netbook charger.

My NDS plug (and 3DS plug) stays in so firmly I’ve had to tug on it. Are we living in Bizarro-land from each other?

Lucky you. My experience has been the opposite.

Find me a USB-C that doesn’t fall out. Every Micro-USB male plug that I’ve used has those two notches at the bottom that hold it in place. Every device I’ve had with USB-C, I have to treat it like it’s super delicate while it charges.

That’s correct, and the fact that Apple caved from the 8-Pin Lightning connector to USB-C is one of many, many reasons I won’t be buying anything Apple again, even second-hand. The lack of a headphone jack is just one more thing that made me certain of it. If I could find a micro-USB device with a headphone jack that serves as a phone, a pager, a calculator, and an audio (various formats - MP2A,MP3A,MP4A,WAV, FLAC, OGG, WMA, etc.) player, all my problems would be solved. I have looked into featurephones, I think I’m going to be moving in that direction next time I upgrade.

I don’t see what the issue is here. They don’t want to be treated as a utility, but if they stay in New York, they’ll be regulated as a utility. They’ve dealt with it as a phone provider, and choose not to engage in the regulatory environment being put in front of them. It’s a totally reasonable choice for a business to walk away from a market if the cost of doing business would exceed the profits made.