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- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 days ago:
It’s been a while, so may be slightly off with some of this but: There’s someone mocking another person in the very first scene of the first episode. Characters continue to mock each other throughout the rest of the episode. When that happened with Barclay on the Enterprise it was a big enough deal that they spent a whole episode dealing with it. Someone’s drunk on the job, another person is selling weapons (in a post scarcity society which doesn’t make sense even, and the excuse is that bureaucracy is too slow which sets up conflict), the captain has people tattling on each other. It’s like the characters are all assholes that hate management and management feels the same.
- Comment on have some standards 1 week ago:
Hardcore!
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 2 weeks ago:
No, you don’t get it, haven’t be hit, or don’t cycle. Drivers not paying attention can be deadly. Even if being inattentive to a cyclist when it’s a light bump weren’t a biggie (it is. Any time you hit somebody with a vehicle that weighs over a ton on the lighter end, it’s a big deal), doing it at speed is without questions. I think the second cyclist isn’t that extreme in that the not paying attention puts people at risk regardless of the current situation and can arguably be treated as the same root cause. People are dumb and if they haven’t figured out they need to pay attention while in a vehicle, they should be made uncomfortable. Their level of discomfort shouldn’t be placed above the safety of others.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
A friend got me to try an episode of Lower Decks and it felt so cynical to me. To explain why I wasn’t interested in watching more, we watched Darmok and Measure of a Man. Trek was very aspirational back then.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s aurally transmitted.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
Meetings on a Saturday? Intolerable ass is correct.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
The next step in security after passkeys is passLees, named after the first person to be implanted, Leigh Lee. Now MFA will require access to something you are, something you have, and someone you know.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 weeks ago:
Seems like it’s specifically browser based ones. DNS based ones like piholes are still on the menu.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 17th 4 weeks ago:
Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant. Enjoying it, but feels a bit sparse.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 4 weeks ago:
Individualistic solutions to systemic problems have zero chance of working.
- Comment on Stupid oven mounts 4 weeks ago:
Order the parts, get told they’re on backorder for 3 months, finally get told they don’t make the part anymore.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
Because of the swift and gluttonous bone eating camel slug that has infected almost all camels, many of the camel bones have yet to be discovered. Psychics have been used to fill in where science has failed, though with new methods both for combatting the slugs and looking inside of live camels on the horizon, many are eager to discover the remaining bones.
- Comment on Sounds good I'm in 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, yes, you are correct. There’s usually a stink made whenever fahrenheit is used so I was just being playful with that.
- Comment on Sounds good I'm in 5 weeks ago:
Oops, forgot the extra $ for $$_°, the double dollar degree. The other one is the more widely accepted Euro degree, though some prefer degrees sterling, £_°.
- Comment on Sounds good I'm in 5 weeks ago:
I still stand in front of the oven for a moment after taking stuff out of it when it’s over $90°/€32° but I get popsicle toes at $76°/€24°.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
))<>((
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
From the textbook The New Old Sexuality: A Cross Cultural Look at Kink
Achieving orgasm through pain has several phases shown as wave-like peaks in this image. The phases are known as the Western Pain (WP), Trough of Shift (ToS), Western Orgasm (WO), Refractory Trough (RT), Eastern Pain (EP), Trough of Ascendance (TA), and Eastern Orgasm (EO, also known colloquially as the And-gasm). Research into new phases tentatively called the Northern Orgasm (or exclusive or-gasm) is ongoing but requires pain beyond what stupid Donna on the ethics committee is willing to approve.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 10th 5 weeks ago:
Too much Shogun Showdown.
DLC came out for Chained Echoes and I started that only to realize I needed a refresher on some of the characters and the plot. Once that’s done, I’m looking forward starting it for reals.
- Comment on Discuss: 1 month ago:
Did you know you can upload files using birds, too?
- Comment on Discuss: 1 month ago:
HUP received. Reloading birb configuration files. - Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 1 month ago:
Hello, Mr Yakamoto. How are those tank tops working out?
- Comment on savannah 1 month ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on savannah 1 month ago:
What’s the reference? I tried thinking of songs that would fit but all I came up with was Toto’s Rosanna.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 months ago:
No, they were not directly involved and no, pimping minors was not proven in court. Money laundering and conspiracy to facilitate prostitution were the charges that stuck. In fact, prosecutors claiming they were involved in child sex trafficking caused a mistrial apnews.com/…/business-trials-3b1c9d3e59e90cd60764…
The point is not about what they did or didn’t do, it’s that if you try to go outside the system you get hammered.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 months ago:
That’s what Backpage tried to do when the cc processors pulled out. The owners of Backpage were at some point charged with money laundering among many many other crimes. The years of legal battles that started in 2018 drove one of them to suicide. Would not recommend.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Idiotectomies required the subject’s corporation for the best results. Hanneman’s (Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2017) breakthrough, illustrated here, uses bomb glasses to increase compliance. It is rare the fuse needs to be lit, but a lighter should be kept in plain view of the subject as both reminder and enforcement if necessary.
- Comment on What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves? 2 months ago:
Falcom spoiled me forever by offering a startup option to continue from last save that skips all the logos, intros, etc.
- Comment on Biomimicry 2 months ago:
It’s wild that the benefits of this outweigh the cost of making it enough to stick around.