halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 15 hours ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 week ago:
That’s the same excuse as
“The Nazis genocide is so it’s fine if we genocide others”
- Comment on Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers | No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet 1 week ago:
It’s almost like the current supply is enough for the demand. Drilling doesn’t help if they aren’t able to refine and sell it.
The US already produces more than we need. This isn’t the 19670s anymore.
- Comment on _uck _e _n the a__ ton_ght 2 weeks ago:
The number of contestants that don’t start with the most common letters is surprisingly high.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 2 weeks ago:
At the expense of everyone’s privacy even if you don’t participate in the loot box economy, because you know the laws won’t be written for only if you access them it’ll be a blanket requirement. That’s not the way to get rid of loot boxes.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 weeks ago:
In the same vein… Maraschino cherries aren’t red, they are golden.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 3 weeks ago:
The greatest adversary of the US, literally in a cold war using space as a proxy for active fighting, with every reason to expose any lies… Were in on it.
If they believe that they’re a lost cause. They can go back to their tin foil hat.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 3 weeks ago:
It’s even simpler than that. The Soviet Union was the biggest US enemy at the time. They obviously would have tracked the flight from launch to landing. Why would they go along with a US conspiracy? Wouldn’t they be the first to say it was fake?
- Comment on I'm in! 3 weeks ago:
A reminder that’s exactly what Reagan did in California, with NRA support. The Black Panthers started to arm themselves and cop watch and that couldn’t be allowed clearly. California gun control really started with Reagan.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the very first episode literally having Harry and Paris in Quarks Bar, and talking to Quark on DS9 before Voyager heads to the Badlands.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine” 3 weeks ago:
First thing I thought was that the ship was going to be in Academy Mode because it was obviously landed and not in space, which we saw earlier seems to be able to simulate just about any scenario. Which would also explain why it was accepting commands from cadets without question.
- Comment on Interview: George Takei Talks Timeliness Of ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Doc; Wants To Return As Star Trek Admiral 4 weeks ago:
As much as I want this… It’s a complicated timeline, that would be right in the middle of all of the 90s trek shows.
- Comment on The Duality of Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
This is one of the points covered several times in The Witcher series. The monsters are doing their thing, and should really only be messed with when they interfere with humans.
- Comment on RIP 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile Russia and Belarus are banned from the Olympics because of the war in Ukraine. So the IOC already has an official stance with regards to the root issue. And it’s the side consistent with the athlete.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 5 weeks ago:
They won’t bother rekeying, but they normally are buying enough that different sets are inevitable even if they don’t actively try.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 5 weeks ago:
New locks usually tell you what key set they are on the package… So you can buy multiple of the same lock to rekey an entire house.
While the locks can be rekeyed to thousands of options, the prepackaged options will only be a few sets.
- Comment on Form over function 5 weeks ago:
Large vehicle suspension components scare the living hell out of me. Seen too many videos online.
- Comment on Form over function 5 weeks ago:
As a non-mechanic that watches various channels working on vehicle sin various states of use and repair… It seems that half of vehicle work seems to require hammers, and the other half a hammer should never be near. And knowing the difference is a mystical art form.
- Comment on Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, 0.02% of 65 Million is 1.3 Million possible errors.
And that’s just based on the raw population, that accuracy rating could be based on raw number of scans instead. A quick search shows Sainsbury’s serves 16 million customers a week. That’s 320,000 errors every week if the error rate is just raw scans as opposed to unique scans.
- Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike. 5 weeks ago:
That was included in the show, as so many other things are to get people talking about it, but a punch isn’t a particularly out of the ordinary bad day according to all of the nurses I know. Even those that work in private practices have had to deal with violence fairly regularly from patients and/or family members.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 month ago:
20+ years in various customer facing roles has shown me that customers rarely know what they’re talking about. And they are not capable of reading either. The size of any sign is inversely proportional to their ability to even notice it exists.
- Comment on its a 1999 nissan actually 1 month ago:
I miss my old 1992 Accord. Should have kept it instead of selling it when I got my 2012 Civic.
Even with the weird start issue, turns out it was probably just a bad clutch safety switch that somehow multiple mechanics missed… Had the exact same issue come up with the brand new Civic.
- Comment on Draw! 1 month ago:
I’ve had several NDAs that also cover disclosure of the other party. And those weren’t even for proper “work” as you’d generally define it.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
And build up like that is why you should limit artificial insecticides like that around your house as well. That build up happens to each animal up the food chain. Bug gets 1 insecticide, but the lizard eats a bunch of bugs. Lizard now has 100 insecticides, and gets eaten by a snake. Snake eats a dozen lizards, now we’re at 1200 insecticide. Owl eats a dozen snakes, 24000 insecticide in the owl.
Obviously this is simplified, but it gets the point across.
- Comment on It's my toxic trait 1 month ago:
Every time Mythical Chef Josh decides to regale everyone with a story from his childhood.
- Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have 1 month ago:
Yeah, but a specific type that we know doesn’t kill us.
Can’t say the same about that pizza.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
It’s probably more about large variances in temperature over a shorter period. If it’s already -36 today and been similarly cold recently then the trees are already frozen. There isn’t a risk from internal liquid water freezing and expanding.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
There’s a reason they focus so much on removing voters from the rolls, removing voting locations, making it illegal to provide water to those waiting in line (because they only have a handful of locations after removing them all) and making it just generally harder to vote across the board.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
Sorry to remind you that Republicans historically do better in the midterms because more of their voters show up regardless. That’s one of the things the racist old fucks love to do with their copious amount of free time. Watch Fox News and head on down to the voting booths.
For many, it’s likely the only thing they have to look forward to now that many of their families have abandoned them over this shit.
- Comment on Trump Confuses Iceland and Greenland in Davos Remarks 1 month ago:
Just waiting for someone to finally say “Okay grandpa, go lay down”, or “Let the adults talk for a while.”
Public humiliation, on a global scale, to his face.
