Zorque
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- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 2 days ago:
There’s that one episode where she relives the trauma of losing her first child.
- Comment on What are some examples of some of the most well-known and watched TV series at the time that been forgotten culturally? 2 weeks ago:
Dallas was the one that took place in Texas, since it started a few years earlier that’s probably why people think of it first when confronted with the idea of late night soaps. Especially with the sharks they jumped in later seasons.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Being beholden to laws and having laws enforced are not the same thing, unfortunately.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, all landlords are completely sane and never nefarious at all. Complete mistake on my part, I apologize.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
And not be attached to your security deposit.
- Comment on Judge Orders Elections Board to Certify Democrat’s Victory in Contested N.C. Race 3 weeks ago:
Well there was this one presidential election…
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'About Us' page locked behind a paywall 4 weeks ago:
If it were labeled a trial account, not a free account, I might agree. But i think it’s more for harvesting contact details and hoping for a paid subscription down the line.
- Comment on ‘Star Wars’ Series in the Works From ‘Lost’ Boss Carlton Cuse, Son Nick Cuse 5 weeks ago:
Lindelof is the perfect choice for another overwrought melodrama with poor character development, but I think we have more than enough of that already.
- Comment on ‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole” 5 weeks ago:
Well, you’re a mean one.
- Comment on Daredevil: Born Again Showrunner Officially Announces Season 2 Premiere Date for March 2026 5 weeks ago:
So… 100-400 episode seasons aired four times a week year round?
- Comment on Daredevil: Born Again Showrunner Officially Announces Season 2 Premiere Date for March 2026 5 weeks ago:
I remember a five month gap between 26 episode seasons. Usually a good time to catch reruns of the episodes you missed.
Unless you’re talking about kids cartoons, in which you’d have 50-200 episode seasons that aired twice a week year round.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
TNG, Devil’s Due
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
There was that one episode where they tried to save a planet from Satan. I dont think the planet was technically pre-warp, though, especially since there were federation scientists/engineers on the planet working with the population.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
Weren’t they working against the prime directive? Otherwise they wouldn’t have beamed them back down after beaming them up. They had to trick the ferengi into leaving of their own accord… well the accord of the mob burning them in a pyre, but still.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
a lot of industries will no longer have the incentive to be innovative or creative as using other’s ideas is much cheaper
That’s already what they do, it’s just those people are on their payroll. Industries don’t create, they absorb and proliferate.
- Comment on Walter Emanuel Jones reacts to Black and Yellow Power Rangers casting comments 1 month ago:
Wasn’t Black Lightning or something on Superfriends in like the 60s?
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 1 month ago:
How many X-Men movies do you think there are?
- Comment on Never trust coworkers 1 month ago:
DIY painting
- Comment on Skill issue 2 months ago:
Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 2 months ago:
No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.
They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.
I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 2 months ago:
Maybe one day you’ll decide to have one with someone else instead of the voices in your head :)
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 2 months ago:
You’re right! The man can say he works hard for years and you dismiss it as entirely as just luck instead of mostly luck.
No one is saying luck isn’t the deciding factor here, we’re just saying there’s also a limited measure of hard work. It’s not all just one thing. There is a very precious few who just keep falling into luck over and over again, but they’re in the extreme minority of even the successful. The majority of them put in some hard work.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 2 months ago:
No, it’s definitely both. Luck is going to be the larger factor on that level of success, but there’s still a large portion of hard work that went into it.
We want to dismiss the successful as just being born under the right star, but a large portion of it is still hard work. They get disproportionately rewarded for that hard work, and often they have to do less and less hard work as time goes on… but there was hard work involved, whether we want to admit it or not.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
People haven’t turned out. Voter participation is abyssmal. Just because you personally have not seen universal and positive change from your own vote immediately does not mean it can never ever work.
Voter participation is low because dipshits like you keep saying “See? Your life hasn’t irrevocably changed because of this one election! There’s no point in doing the absolute bare minimum! Better to sit at home and complain about how everything is broken and hope that someone else does something radical and meaningful about it!”
Maybe stop treating everything like a winner-take-all competition and realize that we won’t see effective long term change except through repeated concerted effort where you keep showing up. Even if you see setbacks. We might actually achieve something.
But I guess if you’d rather give up because you haven’t gotten what you want immediately, that’s entirely up to you.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
You’re right! The system sucks!
The problem is, if you don’t do anything but complain about it, at best it stays the same. More likely it gets worse.
But sure, fine, you’re mildly inconvenienced. That’s totally an intelligent and rational reason to sit on your ass and complain rather than doing something about it.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
Hard to when people decide they’d rather stand on principle than actually act.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
Apparantly you also have 0 desire to see effective change unless it’s exactly as you want it, because you refuse to participate on principal.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
Then you can watch as things don’t change because of your stubborn pride.
You can declare a party to vote in an election and remain philosophically independent, that’s always been allowed.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
I think coming at it from the angle of “doing the same thing over and over” is incredibly disingenuous.
Voter participation is abysmally low. Local elections in my area have a turnout of 10%. And that’s a high. If people actually showed up, that’d be something different.
Instead of pushing “do nothing and hope things change”, which is what we’ve been doing for decades, maybe we should have change and show the fuck up.