I gotta side with the gym here. Sure you can push the limits if your membmembership, but if you get caught you can’t really go running to the media claiming you’re being discriminated against. And definitely don’t go asking people you don’t know to swipe you in, the article has him describing how he was describing stuff inside to someone to prove he had a membership so they would swipe him in, and implies that it was because he struggles to find his swipe tag in his bag.
No one really gave examples, but hard sci fi works within our understanding of physics. It’s realistic, e.g. when people go to space they put on a space suit, climb into a rocket, and launch like how they would in real life.
Soft sci fi can ignore physics. Think of star trek or star wars, where the ship gently lifts off the ground and flies up into space, no gforce issues and no trouble just chilling in the sky without falling to earth. Their ship has gravity in space, they can turn sharply and no one feels it, and if they want go go somewhere far away they just warp there. Ships often run on magic crystals. None of that is realistic based on our current physics knowledge, so it’s soft sci fi not hard sci fi.
Oh for sure. There’s a massive grey area in the middle.
I guess Three Body builds on our physics knowledge, with assumptions about new things being discovered, where as Star Wars ignores it.
Some stuff that happens later in the series (the books) does seem to be pretty much fantasy, but it doesn’t have people warp across the galaxy with no time relativity issues so it’s probably closer to hard sci fi than soft.
I’d guess they don’t actually want to sell you a desk. They are probably in the business of selling hundreds of desks for offices, and this is their way of keeping out the small purchases that they aren’t targeting.
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
I’m not sure why but I found this article hilarious, or at least its existance. Council’s thing breaks. They will get someone to look at it ASAP. Thank you for reading.
I remember this opening, which I don’t normally remember much but apparently I remember a clocktower in small town Taranaki opening. That it was almost 30 years ago is also a little scary.
I’m sure it will be fine. But it is nearly 30 years old so maybe don’t bet on it being around for too long.
I tried to find info about others, but a glockenspiel is a musical instrument and I think the clock things are named after the Rathaus-Glockenspiel, so I’m not sure how to search for others and work out an average life span 😆
I suspect it’s because Europe and the US have far more people! And of course if there aren’t many people, then others don’t join because there’s never anyone online, and it’s a compounding problem.
Maybe play games that don’t rely on ping so much, so you can play with the Europeans and Americans?
Man fights cancellation of 24-hour gym membership for ‘loitering’ after he stayed the night (www.rnz.co.nz)
How long is too long to spend in a 24-hour gym? Can you do too much squatting?...
trapped! (mander.xyz)
Nothing but truth (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Stratford-revered glockenspiel stops working (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
kids are gowing up faster and faster (mander.xyz)
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!...