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- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 3 days ago:
They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip’s death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it’s canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 4 days ago:
Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 6 days ago:
Unfortunately, Xena has got to go. There’s no phonetic difference with Z. Xavier might be your best bet, but that’s a tough one.
- Comment on A question for the ages 1 week ago:
This is already settled science.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 week ago:
I certainly didn’t mean to imply imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 week ago:
I did particularly like this:
“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.
Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 week ago:
That fat PP looks a little on the short side.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 week ago:
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 week ago:
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, Richard.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 weeks ago:
I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.
- Comment on Where is this located? Asking for a friend... 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked it up, but having spent a lot of time in Northeast Georgia, I’m guessing the odds are pretty high that the stress on that town name is on the first syllable.
- Comment on These used to popular 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 4 weeks ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 4 weeks ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uhm 5 weeks ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 1 month ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 1 month ago:
The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall… You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.
When you do it right, you get “how did they do that on a TV budget!?” When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Please select from the following:
[ ] Sir, this is a Wendy's... [ ] i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened. [ ] TL; DR [ ] <Homer returning to bushes>
Thank you for your consideration.
- Comment on I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some. 1 month ago:
I don’t remember exactly what I ordered, but it was from an independent shop and I think I picked the middle out of five options. I’m going to give it the full three weeks, but the narrow intermediate distance band, the swimmy effect on the near band when I move my head, and the dead zone in the lower corners are all very irritating.
The prescription itself seems spot on; it’s just how the progressive is laid out. It’s on me for not realizing that aren’t just sort of linear, but it is — well — mildly infuriating.
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- Comment on Just got this today. 'The Last Days of Magic' should be on one line. 1 month ago:
Fair enough. I think it’s also pretty annoying that Doctor Strange there looks like somebody just gave him a handful of ass pennies.
- Comment on Wow… Only in America… 1 month ago:
That is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 2 months ago:
Wow, Joanne just really hates everybody, doesn’t she?
- Comment on Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce 2 months ago:
Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 months ago:
Dennis Miller
- Comment on American ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the official US residence in Rome. Instead, he stays on his super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital 2 months ago:
And maybe even a reasonably sized staff of skilled and dedicated public servants who can help this and other burdensome tasks without being corrupted by the stream of grifters!
- Comment on Sad but true 2 months ago:
I kinda like this as a way to market based on the potential for affirmative defenses.
