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The extension you are looking for is "Sponsorblock". It crowd sources timestamps to auto-skip intros, ad-reads, credits, etc and is pretty customizable.

Delta-V was great, but I was disappointed by the bland characters and storytelling of it's sequel Critical Mass. It's easily Daniel Suarez's weakest novel.

The first of his books I read is "Kill Decision" which has more than held up in it's predictions of drone warfare and AI advancements. Based on the accuracy of his predictions from this book, and Daemon too, I'm bullish on space mining!

It's too bad that none of these reforms have succeeded. English has become the Lingua Franca due to the influence of the British Empire and American culture, along with it's ability to incorporate loanwords, but not because of it's spelling. Helping my kids learn how to read struck me by how insane English spelling really is.

I recently found out that Theodore Roosevelt had signed an executive order to adopt new spelling rules from the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, but backtracked when the press began mocking it. If it had been a better organized release it could have succeeded but now it's a cautionary tale.

The future timeline extends out forever, if humanity is going to continue to primarily use an English-rooted language we need to make intentional improvements or we will be stuck with increased entropy, see the introduction of emoji's into text for example.

I am looking forward to your attempt!

I have an acre of forest and I spend time removing invasive species like buckthorn and wild mustard to keep the forest healthy. It can be really challenging to discriminate between native and invasive plants without a lot of experience and plant identifying apps like iNaturalist. I would love to be able to sweep my phone around and have it highlight invasive plants live. Is anyone working on something like this? The technology already works in images of a single plant, I just need to identify multiple plants in one frame, and ideally live video.

I won! That's it, the lottery is worth playing if only I can repeat this performance IRL.

I won the $340,000,000 Powerball Grand Prize after buying 11,651,310 $2 tickets leaving me with a grand total of $319,781,766 in earnings ($27.45 per ticket).