Might not be relatively popular, but the psionics of the novel/anime Shin Sekai Yori are central to the plot and are portrayed in a pretty interesting fashion.

Foundation is another (more traditional sci-fi) work which also focuses on psychic people as a central plot point. The book series and TV series are very different, but I’d say each explores the idea well.

For video games, Control is another one I haven’t seen mentioned yet. It’s based on the SCP collaborative fiction project. Exposure to objects of power awaken the protagonist’s (and other characters’) latent psychic abilities.

If it is accurate up to 2026, Wikipedia states that Earth has won a total of 21,675 medals in the modern Olympic games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table

Just to add context, there is a good book called All Yesterdays about how earlier assumptions of dinosaur appearances based on fossil records have been challenged over time by new evidence. A lot of the artists who have developed visual recreations of dinosaurs in the past were working under assumptions of what dinosaurs were supposed to look like. But skeletons alone aren’t always the best reference to use to base appearance off of, because soft tissue (lost to time) can often contain the most iconic aspects of a species.

So just to riff on that idea, the book contains a section called “All Todays” in which artists take modern animal skeletons we are familiar with and recreate them as if they were dinosaurs. So you end up with these gaunt creatures that are missing distinct features like ears, noses, fur/features, and coloration.

I’m pretty sure you even needed an account back when it was TESSource.

Sure, but there are data centers in more than just the US doing the same thing.

A lot of them are already “off the grid” in a sense, but they usually set up their own fossil fuel plants instead of renewables.

Honestly we just need legislation to start phasing out fossil fuels.

and a method of resource collection to get material to reprint itself.

That would probably be the hardest part. How do you take a rocket and have it be able to collect resources while on the move? Microscopic space dust probably wouldn’t be enough because it would be a mixture of random stuff. Anywhere with larger debris would likely destroy the thing immediately, and it can’t just land on a planet to take a break and build because there’s no guarantee it’d get fuel again to achieve escape velocity.

Maybe it could cling to an asteroid for a while, but even then there’s no guarantee that it would have the correct composition of materials needed to produce a copy. Not to mention just the difficulty of having to set up some sort of inbuilt foundry system that can make workable components out of raw materials without knowing what conditions you will even have.

On top of all that, you run into a potential issue similar to compression algorithms. If it can’t perfectly reproduce itself, it will end up with copies that are less and less capable of producing adequate copies themselves.

It’s the only part of me with an advanced degree. The rest is garbage.

Same. I feel like I need something else to look forward to just to keep me going. And it unfortunately ain’t Kingdom Hearts 4.

Well nobody else wants my underpaid but overeducated ass.

Law of Manifestation for mathematicians

1. Prove that you really want what you desire by thinking about it for 1 unit of time. If you feel emotional or at peace, you’ve proven it.

2. Assume it is true (and you have it) at moment a (Now)

3. Check that it is true at moment a+1 (the next moment)

4. If true, we are finished (Enjoy)

5. If not, a=a+1 and return to step 2.

Sounds like it’s time for a road trip. If not Slovakia, are they available anywhere in Austria, Czechia, or Poland?

Essentially (assuming that project moves forward) but the shinkansen lines in Japan have higher speeds than that.

They are in New Zealand, where the problem is worse than in Australia. New Zealand has zero native land predators. There are some birds of prey that can hunt invasive stoats and rats, but cats are effectively uncontested (with the exception of humans performing population control).

the British spelling maintains the “ium” suffix as with many other elements in the periodic table.

Lanthanum, molybdenum, platinum. It could be said aluminum follows the “-num” suffix used by other elements on the periodic table.

The British spelling, which is the same in many other countries and widely accepted as the correct spelling, predates the American spelling.

The British spelling was originally alumium, as written by Sir Humphry Davy. But this didn’t comply with the naming standard of alumina as its oxide. To include the n, he started writing it as aluminum, before the third spelling aluminium entered popular use in academic circles.

Source

There’s something in the water then, got it.

Aluminum came first, for what it’s worth. British publications just added the extra i because they thought it sounded fancier.

US has more regions with warm climates that birds live in year round. A lot of bird species only live in Canada half the year and then migrate south for winter.

Same with Oreos. “Double Stuff” is what the regular ones used to have.

Canada could also benefit from a shinkansen line or two. With population centers mostly along a straight line in the south, it would allow for rapid transit between major cities on dedicated passenger rail.