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Is this AI written? I'm pretty sure The Thief Lord doesn't have a mysterious disease amywhere

A bit of a long shot but is it maybe one of The Seven Fabulous Wonders series by Katherine Roberts, maybe the Colossus Crisis?

I thought they were all side-lit? Which is functionally the same imo but technically different

You should be able to, but US non-car infrastructure is so abysmal that there's a strong chance you can't safely unfortunately

Hell a roof rack on my 20 year old 3 series and a ton of rope has moved sofas, plywood and pallets, and one memorable trip 5 bikes

And help one of the 5 benefits they listed?

I'm a huge Martha Wells fan but I actually find Murderbot to be one of her weaker series. Granted I only read the first two, but I just couldn't get into it and enjoy it like I have with her other works

They don't make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can't

US funding for basic research--the type that will lead to the truly paradigm-shifting breakthroughs--has also been in decline for 50+ years as a proportion of GDP. While bureacracy could be an obstacle, the much larger one is insufficient resources to fund a lot of moonshots that may fizzle or may result in 'zero to one's innovation, as the author states

I have an aeropress and have only ever used a metal filter with it! I've had normal paper filtered aeropress coffee and I can't taste the difference

I mean they very obviously aren't failing in droves, Disney for instance has been increasing their profit every year except 2020 for the last while.

I don't have specific papers but a lot of research into the origins of life on this planet go into that kind of thing! I know there have been interesting findings into using clay imprints for self replication, for instance