SaltSong

@SaltSong@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than that, it seems fairly accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go on a field trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t an American who wrote “Foot Heads Arms Body.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go on a field trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “spied for,” and “spied with” are both options.

  “I spied them” is a legitimate sentence, but it doesn’t mean covert surveillance in that sentence, only to have seen then, generally through some difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the little guys.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We should be concerned about endangered moths. Hard enough to get people to care about other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Italy was a constitutional monarchy under fascist rule.

  And the US is, theoretically, a democracy, and if we aren’t under fascist rule, we will be soon enough. Fascism can spring from any form of government.

  your second paragraph is something only ignorant bootlickers say

  So you feel that Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump was as stable as any government needs too be? No improvement to be made there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason one has a constitutional monarchy is to try to split the difference, I think, and get the best parts of each system.

  But I’m with you. No kings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do none of you people have clothes pins? Or does that count as Neutral Good?

  Also, CG and CN need to be switched. There is no way the bottle hack counts as “good.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t choose such a system, I think, but I can’t say that tete aren’t at least a few half decent arguments for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A constitutional monarch may have a wide range of powers, depending on the constitution. It doesn’t automatically mean “powerless figurehead.”

  Given the way the US has been recently, I’m willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.

  Of course, there are plenty of arguments against such a leader, but the least of which is how much you have to stretch the word “training” to make it fit that sentence above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it hard to believe that it’s legal to buy a company, but not it’s contractual obligations. Seems line a hell of a loophole for getting out of things you don’t want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always just say “whoops, I read the question wrong,” particularly since the rest of your answer was right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a practicing attorney, can you explain to me what roll the judge and jury have in charging someone with a crime? I had always thought that was done long before they game into the picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did make a medical, in very limited numbers, but I’m using the TNG Science/Engineering tricorder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a Playmates TOS Tricorder off eBay.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice.

  I have one of the TNG versions, and I am partway through refitting it work lights and electronics. I may even finish, someday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to get this right.

  Step one is going to be working out vocabulary among yourselves before you start trying to teach it to us. I used to try to be correct, but the “correct” tends changed from person to person, group to group, and every six months or so.

  Once you’ve figured it out, let us old folks know, and most of us will, I hope, make the adjustment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie night is starting in a few minutes. We're watching Blue Velvet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I don’t want to be in violation of rule #2.

  Talk to you guys later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people don’t need a guide when using a chat bot that tells them how they should treat and interact with it.

  Then why are people always surprised to find out that chat bots will make shit up to answer their questions?

  People absolutely need a guide for using a chat bot, because people are idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pack of Beakers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If this isn’t 3AM, then nothing is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this “surrender to avoid being defeated,” or am I misunderstanding the case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like huge anime titties more than this guy, but I have the decency not to advertise the fact to my neighbors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the meaning, either. Temba, his arms wide?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.”

  And we want it to be the way we want it to be, and we are the ones who put money in your pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘BlackBerry’s Matt Johnson Eyed To Direct ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Movie For Hasbro Entertainment & Legendary – The Dish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the duck are they making a MTG movie instead of Transformers One 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: ‘Murderbot’ Would Hate You—But That’s Why You’ll Love It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, damn. I really liked this series of books.

  I can’t imagine it will make a good tv show. So much of it was the narrator talking to himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, let me explain what I meant by “at all.”

  If a brain-dead MAGA cultists mouthbreather might suspect that you are “one of them brown people,” (you’ll forgive me for not using a term more accurate to their actual speech patterns) then you might reconsider. If you’re white, by the standards of people who still fly Confederate flags, you might do ok.

  That said, I am given to understand that our immigration system is a nightmare, and expensive. I don’t know which nations might be easier or cheaper, but I recommend anywhere but here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re Arabic at all, it’s certainly unwise, and might be impossible to become an American citizen at this time.

  On the other hand, I believe Trump is selling citizenship cards for 5 million dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine needing to pay a licensing fee in order to use the alphabet? Or your telling of Jack up the Beanstalk being subject to copyright?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google To Allow Double Serving Ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, that’s a point, but I suspect that most people don’t know how to block them.

  And at work, I don’t have ad block of any kind. Rarely matters, but sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google To Allow Double Serving Ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, because we all know how effective it is to be hit with the same ad fifteen times an hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you guys heard this about Paramount⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Investigate” private companies for what? This sounds like the setup for the Un-White Activities commission.