moopet
@moopet@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 6 days ago:
And this isn’t science!
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
Ko’Zeine,
None of that episode hinges on Darem being gay, though? What would have changed if he was straight? It’s not the plot. The plot is that he has responsibilities to his home world and has new found family with Star Fleet.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
Trek expresses gay people being normal. It’s explicitly not the plot. There’s no plot point about it. The plot is about kids (for a certain Steve McQueen value of “teenager”) being in school and battling Space Foes. I’m picking on “being gay” as a point because I imagine it’s what the people who cancelled the show had an issue with, but I could well be wrong.
There was no exploration of the things the right-wing hate in Academy. They just exist. There’s no ongoing plot about anyone’s sexuality, or if you think there is then it’s dwarfed by the same plot with other straight characters.
It sounds so much like saying you can’t have a gay character unless there’s an interesting moral plot point about why they’re gay. That’s not what Academy did.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
I agree completely with your point about the Orville. It was really well done.
I don’t agree with your assessment of New Trek, however. I know it’s all very variable and I don’t want to generalise, but even if we accept this:
Everything is presented in the first 10 seconds as “this is good, this is bad. Accept the message we are feeding you are you are a bad person.”
Then, I have to point out the obvious: if it’s so lacking in nuance, then yes, if you don’t accept it you are a bad person. For example, if it’s saying, “gay people are ok and normal”, there’s no subtlety to that because it’s not something anyone in the future will hopefully give a shit about. And if someone in their society did, then yes, they would be in the wrong. 100%.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
I’m going to add a little context for completeness.
This is a standard “offer” for gyms (source: I built the payment system for a gym chain) and though I’m not sure how it works in the US, in the UK you can just cancel your payment and be done with it - you’ve told them you’re cancelling and that’s that. They expect this and won’t even be annoyed.
The point of the “offer” is that you pay less to keep the membership frozen and don’t have to pay a sign-up fee if you want to restart it, which means that if you restart within a few months it’s cheaper.
It’s a trick, of course. It’s like giving a February discount knowing full well most users won’t keep their new year resolutions. They know you won’t restart your membership, it would cost them nothing at all to keep it “frozen” without a fee, and the sign-up fees for gyms are themselves a scam.
Fuck 'em. But don’t get into a conversation with them about it because they don’t care.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 1 month ago:
Probably more like Nintendo Game&Watches and their clones.
- Comment on Advertisements 1 month ago:
This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime). You’d install adblockers for real life… and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you’re about to cross the street.
- Comment on Advertisements 1 month ago:
My kid had assumed that the hideous intrusive ads were some form of malware attack.
She was spot on.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
- Comment on Annon was an oracle 2 months ago:
Nono, it’s old. We’ve had 359 more versions since then.
- Comment on The Library of Useless 3 months ago:
One of those is wrong. The rest are things I’m fairly sure nobody really believed even as a child.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 3 months ago:
I’ve just looked that up and it fixes everything!
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 3 months ago:
I refused to buy one for two reasons:
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the principle of me not having any money
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it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.
2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.
Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.
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- Comment on Amazing 4 months ago:
You’re right on all counts
- Comment on Amazing 4 months ago:
YYYY-mm-dd
- Comment on This would be terrible for my ad revenue 4 months ago:
God ** Racket
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 months ago:
I love the way any article which says remote work is good still has to use the word, “surprisingly” as often as possible. Nobody is surprised.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 5 months ago:
How did you write that umop apisdn?
- Comment on Fictional 5 months ago:
No no, ALL MATHS is done in base 10.
- Comment on Fictional 5 months ago:
All maths is done in base 10.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 months ago:
Tip: Peertube Companion is a good extension for directing you to duplicates of the video you’re trying to watch if it can be found elsewhere.
- Comment on historule 5 months ago:
Legendary.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 6 months ago:
It’s not very good, but it does have some really good moments, and some really good ideas mixed in with the less-good stuff. It’s worth watching. Just put your fingers in your ears and la-la-la through all the Klingon retconning and inappropriate pathos. There are moments where the emotional storyline are good, but they cry wolf too often.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 6 months ago:
Episodes 7 and 15 would’ve taken place on the holodeck.
- Comment on No brainer 6 months ago:
ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.
- Comment on No brainer 6 months ago:
I worked this out. If you teleport up and slightly forwards each time and can do it more than 10 times per second, you can hover and move forward at nearly an inch per second.
- Comment on No brainer 6 months ago:
Even if we decide that the teleport might not get you through doors, if you could spam it faster than (works out maths…) 10 times per second, they you could hover, or really slowly fly (about 0.8 inches per second horizontally)
- Comment on One Angry Man 7 months ago:
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- Comment on Be nice 8 months ago:
I’d buy that for a dollar.
