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- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 4 days ago:
Trek has always been this way. In TNG, Data takes over the Enterprise singlehandedly to go see his dad. In the Darmok episode, they just beam Picard away. There are Q episodes. There’s the spinning disk metaphor for drugs episode.
Maybe it’s not the most reasonable on every single plot point, but it also spans a wide range of topics, genres, level of seriousness, etc. The point of Measure of a Man isn’t that the full legal system of the Federation is explained in a consistent way. The point of Darmok isn’t to do an audit of the security system.
If you can’t get past the points that are less than perfect to get to the points that are important, it may not be the show for you. Maybe try watching a few with the idea of looking for what’s important instead of trying to find what’s wrong and see how that goes.
- Comment on Reproductive strategy 4 days ago:
They also vibrate.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
Touche
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
Typically all horses have no money. What would a horse even do with it anyway. And they don’t even have pockets to put in it.
- Comment on Hang in there (there are still a few twigs left) 1 week ago:
You’re very important to the plot of Twin Peaks
- Comment on The 10 P.M. Dinner Is a Spanish Tradition. Are People Giving It Up? 1 week ago:
Spain held fast to the practice even as experts debated whether it was a drag on the economy, producing a work force that was more tired and less productive than it could be.
Spain, your culture is getting in the way of wealth consolidation. Get rid of it. /s
- Comment on What is my purpose? 2 weeks ago:
The ant: I am the apex of a line of ancestors that gave me both a purpose and the ability to fulfill it. I could not ask for a more perfect existence.
- Comment on Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper ousted 3 weeks ago:
“A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store,” [Facewatch] said.
They can’t even admit it was wrong. What was correct about misidentifying someone?
- Comment on What are y'all's opinions on the Fitbit Air? 1 month ago:
In addition to the privacy stuff, there’s also the inevitable rug pull: killedbygoogle.com
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 1 month ago:
The thing the Pinto was famous for, its fuel tank being in the rear and exploring, only killed 27 people according to the NHTSA. So pretty low bar.
- Comment on Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates 2 months ago:
Not sure I understand, but isn’t it pretty much the case with super PACs already? The article only mentions the difference in advertising rates.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
X-Men style sentinels?
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
Huh, so it is. I’d been thinking of using the idea for a Champions campaign for how an Iron Man knock off got his money.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
Villain idea: guy who shorts stocks of insurance companies before destroying things they insure.
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 2 months ago:
They do have nice leaves.
- Comment on How can maladaptive daydreamers possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 2 months ago:
You don’t have to force yourself to watch movies you don’t enjoy because all the cool kids do it.
That being said, lots of those types of movies have tons of things to pay attention to in terms of direction, acting, set, framing, all the technical actions like panning, zoom, tracking. If you learn that “language” then there’s a ton of interesting things in any given scene. Do you enjoy that sort of thing?
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 3 months ago:
That’s not even enough for a ballroom.
- Comment on The Time Being 3 months ago:
Interesting, I process time being as a set idiomatic phrase rather than a modifier+ so there’s no need for emphasis on one part or the other. And time being as similar to human being wouldn’t get emphasis unless it was contrasting with a different kind of being. But I also think we’re muddying different types of stress, namely word stress vs prosodic stress. I think your reading has to do with the latter but your example is about the former.
- Comment on The Time Being 3 months ago:
Do you pronounce being and being differently?
- Comment on The Time Being 3 months ago:
Jeremy Bearimy.
- Comment on Mint 3 months ago:
There’s no accounting for taste. Some people eat canned fiddleheads. There’s gotta be someone out there that just loves the stuff.
- Comment on Mint 3 months ago:
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 4 months ago:
Practically another lifetime.
- Comment on Doctors’ union drops opposition to Cass review of NHS gender healthcare 4 months ago:
This Cass Review? Damn.
Unfortunately, the Review repeatedly misuses data and violates its own evidentiary standards by resting many conclusions on speculation. Many of its statements and the conduct of the York SRs reveal profound misunderstandings of the evidence base and the clinical issues at hand. The Review also subverts widely accepted processes for development of clinical recommendations and repeats spurious, debunked claims about transgender identity and gender dysphoria. These errors conflict with well-established norms of clinical research and evidence-based healthcare. Further, these errors raise serious concern about the scientific integrity of critical elements of the report’s process and recommendations.
- Comment on Double Plug Experiment 4 months ago:
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 5 months ago:
GoT invented it. There’s no such thing as Edipus or Electra. And definitely nothing in the years between. /s obv
- Comment on What's in a name? 5 months ago:
It can grow well in hardiness zones 2-11. There’s only 13 of those. Odds are in my favor. Maybe they just mean it doesn’t keep well in the fridge or something. Or they’ve got a black thumb.
- Comment on What's in a name? 5 months ago:
I couldn’t get rid of huge bushes of it last time it got into the garden. It survived drought, insects weren’t interested in it, and it grew back after being cut down. How much more stable could it be?
- Comment on Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends 5 months ago:
It was raining, but those were cats and dogs.
