Joseph Delaney

How do you think recent events have impacted this take?

In the end, I think it is like real life. We never get to see how all of the stories end, but exit the stage in the middle of the action. And I think I can live with that.

As for somebody else finishing it? I suspect that is only going to come up when the rights are inherited. Think of Dune -- it was also incomplete but was a well known and popular IP so there was a market for finishing it.

That said, I think that we can be pretty confident that the series is never being finished. It's been 15 years and no plan that I have seen suggests the next book is the last one. It'd be remarkable if the pace picked up enough for a completion.

It ends on a clear cliffhanger that makes you really want to see what happens next. Just like George's books currently end on the assassination of Jon Snow. I think that this is just the risk of media properties, in general.

There has been a lot of discussion of somebody else finishing George R R Martin's "A song of Ice and Fire". Some people are very defensive of George, but it is true that it is not great when a piece of media is not finished. But that happens all of the time. Look at the Wheel of Time TV show.

What a timely clip

I have to say that the current uncertainty in the NIH’s long term trajectory has been a large hit to morale, both my own and my staff.

This is not a good thing

What an unexpected development!

You assume they get to discovery and are not pressured into an early settlement by adverse judicial rulings

When the courts rule for you the way they have been, it somewhat mitigates that risk

Happy 4th of July to everyone. Let's hope that the new year of the Republic brings only good news.

Al Gore was talking to them in 2020 or was that 2000?

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Professors Say They Need a Raise. They Probably Won’t Get One. Faculty salaries haven’t moved for over a decade, and draconian cuts to higher ed threaten to make things worse.

“After adjusting for inflation, many academic employees are still being paid less now than they were in 2019-2020 — before the pandemic. Faculty members have taken the biggest hit: Median salaries for staff are now 2.8% less; non-tenure-track faculty, 7.6% less; and tenure-track faculty, 10.2% less”

A thought provoking read

Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

Fun, scary -- kind of think it might be the latter

But a full company of ultramarines is cool. Happy gaming!!

Ah — fair enough. My bad 😀

I am not sure I can complain about any Ultramarine chapter, given my Roman history interest, and I am pretty sure that the Emperor's Spears are Ultramarines

No

Then I expect that lawsuit to go poorly

If this means Rome always has about a dozen active competent or semi-competent generals, plus reserves in the senate, it also makes the length of time before it experienced a proper coup less surprising. Everyone is replaceable

Isn’t Nazi going to be awfully close to opinion? Seems hard to imagine you get to actual malice here unless you think Musk has a strong argument not to be a public figure? But as both a CEO and a senior advisor who give press conferences that seems like a rough standard to meet??

It is really great to see you pushing public health in such a cool new way! Bravo

And how often can he do it? Could he mimic an Orc during the sack or is the bright light show required?

The plan is so bad, even without the logistics. With the abilities that the antagonist shows with elven soldiers and others in later episodes, an army filled with mental domination fodder is basically the last choice that you'd ever bring to deal with this issue.