SARGEx117
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- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
I know I don’t have the skills to drive one (at least not yet lol) but those things are engineering marvels.
I’ve always wanted to see one invert at speed to see if their downforce really is enough.
I can’t imagine all the materials sciences that go on behind the scenes.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
I’ll take F1 over Nascar any day.
Disclaimer: I’ve never sat down to watch either, but if the choices are “turn left” or “winding, twisting course” I think I’m going with the one that has more variety.
- Comment on UAW preparing the US for a general strike in 2028 1 year ago:
What are they going to do, throw the entire working population in jail?
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Oh, for sure they made tons of mistakes, I just thought of that one as the most glaringly obvious “framing issue”. I’ve seen all the episodes as aired and as on DVD, with commentary and special features, because I’m a super nerd, and given your pfp and the fact you know how they framed it tells me you know a thing or two yourself!
If I remember correctly, they framed it for wide-screen knowing that in the future it could be put out in other formats than TV, so wanted widescreen from the start. Bts footage shows the framing boxes for tv/wide on the monitors.
I love catching mistakes and weird choices in my shows. For instance: in Firefly, Alan Tudyk is pretending to hold the controls of Serenity because they couldn’t have him up in the normal spot for framing reasons.
But yeah, I’m actually rewatching SGA now and their weird focus issues (and let’s be honest, terrible backgrounds) are especially bad in season 1.
- Comment on But I wanted to be somebody famous! 1 year ago:
I do local theater, and people don’t understand how correct you are.
Holy shit, Nevin, nobody gives a flying fuck that you have a degree, your line reading is flat as fuck. No I don’t care you starred in Hamlet during your community college days.
- Comment on What happens when people die with metal on or on them? 1 year ago:
I also did not think it was clear.
Honestly my first thought was “is this a religious question like do your braces go with you to heaven/hell or something?”
- Comment on peak storytelling 1 year ago:
I wanted to believe it was printer paper and not an actual book, but that curve on the right and the yellowish tint don’t give me hope…
- Comment on peak storytelling 1 year ago:
But sir… It’s not eyeing.
Wait, shit. Let me start over…
- Comment on IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29B in back taxes 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Is there a Lower Decks community? 1 year ago:
She was absolutely between a rock and a hard place. You have a responsibility to get everyone home, but you can’t just dive straight in and strong arm your way to get there as fast as possible, both because that’s a shitty thing to do and because you’ll likely face consequences at the very least by starfleet when you get home, maybe by delta species who don’t like what you’re doing.
Honestly I don’t know a single person who has a negative thing to say about Janeway, except maybe she was too restrained sometimes.
How many of the crew, especially the Maquis, had nothing to return to and could have settled on one of the worlds they encountered? That said it’s a completely foreign society whose complications and nuances you couldn’t possibly be able to comprehend in the few weeks Voyager is within range.
Seska? I’m not aware of a crew member with that name. There was a Cardassian spy on board one of the ships, but… She’s no longer a concern.
- Comment on Is there a Lower Decks community? 1 year ago:
100% agree with Voyager. I think Picard would handle things with more restraint, and probably would have taken an additional few years to get home, but really it’s “exploration… with a twist”
I don’t know if we would have gotten protosalamander babies in tng, but then again we got sub rosa so…
- Comment on Is there a Lower Decks community? 1 year ago:
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said, EXCEPT that they’re not that different. I think most of the shows have a very unique tone, especially when you go from TNG to DS9, but unless I’m mistaken DS9 was intended to be “different”.
Maybe a few of the new ones are pretty similar, that’s for sure. But the older ones? Nah.
But I’m not looking for an echo of what I just said, so by all means if anyone wants to disagree with me, by all means! I don’t get a chance to talk about trek outside of the internet and I’d love to hear other takes on them.
- Comment on Is there a Lower Decks community? 1 year ago:
For now, given the size of the user base? Yes.
Will it be forever?
I pray to the Black Mountain Koala, NO.
With a fairly small amount of people, splitting up the fanbase seems counterproductive.
Besides, us lower-decker gotta stick together, unless it’s delta shift (who really think Enterprise was the peak)
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
Honestly I don’t see how it could be LOWER. I have a very dim view of the US Healthcare system, particularly where insurance companies are concerned.
Why do the surgery that only has a 93% chance of success that will give the person use of their legs, that costs $250,000 when a $300 wheelchair will get them from A to B.
Given that I have had to wait MONTHS for an appointment before, and my primary care Dr I have to schedule 2 months in advance, when people complain that they’ll have to wait longer than a week to see a doctor I wonder who they fucked over to get Healthcare that quickly.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
gestures wildly at the world ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND?
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
What a long winded way to say “I am a piece of shit who likes to see others suffer, because feel I am superior.”
Either you stand to unfairly gain from the current system, or you’re an idiot who not only listens to companies like Walmart tell you about “welfare queens” but buys it hook line and sinker.
Or you’re a troll, I guess.
Because if you think what you pay in premiums is less than what you’d pay with properly managed universal healthcare, you’re simply stupid. Not ignorant, stupid. Unable or unwilling to learn.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
Next you’ll tell me ALL tea is sweet tea!
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
Did my union I joined when I got the job get me 15% more than the others already working there?
No.
Did I immediately get a little over 15% compared to similar job listing’s in the area, AND more than 18% more than my previous job?
Yes.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
When I get home, I’ll work on making a normal printable version!
I have a few hobby machines that do special things, so I have it scattered into a few files to make it go from one machine to the next.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
I’ve had to explain how tax brackets work to my parents multiple times. And my mother was a math substitute teacher for over a decade before quitting because educational work isn’t worth the bullshit for little pay.
I will always vote for increased education budgets.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
That made me physically recoil, “quarter of 8” just sounds so clunky.
99% of the time here, it’s just directly stating the time. Sometimes a Gen x will say “half past” or “quarter past” but not often anymore. I’ve never heard “quarter OF”
Your mom dun talk weird
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
My mother WORKS IN HEALTHCARE as the intermediary for the hospital network and the insurance companies.
She literally sees the Financials of people every fucking day.
And still she thinks socialized Healthcare would tank the entire US. I’ve shown charts, studies, anecdotal evidence out the wazoo (which is where anecdotal evidence usually comes from) But no, I can’t possibly be right about this, it would mean someone who got stabbed will have to wait on 600 people with the sniffles to be seen by a doctor in 6 months. Because I guess in socialized medicine, triage doesn’t exist? You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
Hmm. It’s been a thing for every union I’ve been a part of, but it makes sense it wouldn’t be ALL of them that do it. I’m sure some just simply aren’t large enough to do it like that.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
You’re literally partially making sure you still get PAID when shit happens.
Very good point, and I honestly wonder how common that knowledge even is.
Then again, almost all anti-union propaganda hinges on people not knowing enough about the subject to call it out. As with most propaganda.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
Don’t get me started on pop vs soda…
I say soda, wife says pop. We have a little exchange of “correcting” each other a couple times a month.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
Lived from Virginia to Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Michigan, also heard “can’t see the forest FOR the trees” which I always figures was a more colloquial change.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
Legit had someone from my last job start going on a break room tirade about how “those damn unions just want your money” but strangely had no rebuttal when asked why giving them 2% of your paycheck is a bad thing when they negotiated your RAISE to be 15% and your health benefits add up to an additional savings of around 20%.
I’m SO SORRY you’re getting extra money and healthcare rather than the NOTHING you had before.
- Comment on Requested a deletion over 2 months ago 1 year ago:
“Im an american (company)!”
“so go back to America”
revokes domain access to country
Could be a person at an airport, a shipping container in a port, or an internet packet traveling down a series of intercontinental tubes to an isp. Result is still the same.
To do business in another country, you have to play by their rules. Literally nobody else on the planet gives a shit if it’s “an American company”. Hell, not even most AMERICANS give that much of a shit.
- Comment on Gamer girl 1 year ago:
clink PICK UP THAT CAN.
- Comment on Record national strike wave swells as 300,000 hit the picket lines 1 year ago:
“noooooo but it’ll hurt the shareholders walletttttssssss… Wait, what do you have?”
me, holding the parts of my guillotine and a basket
“a smoothie”